Little Deaths & Letting Go
Dr. Steve Rissman, ND @StevenMRissman I’m amazed at what I learn from my second-grade son, who is lurrently studying landforms– plateaus, glaciers, volcanoes, oceans, etc. Specifically I was thinking about mountains. During my cycling class this morning, I had a vision of myself at the tip of the mountain. It’s quiet up there, still, and […]
Gratitude
Dr. Charley Cropley, N.D. This Thanksgiving, enjoy your freedom and power to be thankful. At 69, I am not one inch closer to satisfying desire or avoiding fear than at age 6. These have only changed form. It’s a loser’s game. Although I appear to be a stable man, fear of pain and poverty and insatiable […]
The Benghazi In Your Body
Dr. Charley Cropley, N.D. The causes of the violent destruction in Benghazi cannot be found if the investigation is limited to the time and locale of the bombing. Similarly, the Benghazis in your body—flu, IBS, MS, cancer, etc.—are not to be found with shortsighted diagnostics that assume the causes to be recent and local. Naturopathic diagnosis […]
Mind-body, a Functioning Whole
Dr. Charley Cropley, ND @CharleyCropley As we more thoroughly understand the inseparability of mind-body we will cease to question “if” our thoughts and feelings affect our physical health. We will come to recognize our thoughts and feelings and physical sensations, movements and functions as different expressions of our whole self. Never is any action performed […]
Your Advanced Eating Journal
Dr. Charley Cropley, ND @CharleyCropley Congratulations on your desire to learn even more about your relationship with food by keeping an advanced eating journal. As you progress with this study your journaling will focus more on you than on food; e.g. your energy level, internal dialogue, moods, friends, and hunger. All of these powerfully effect […]
Your Eating Journal
Dr. Charley Cropley, ND @CharleyCropley Congratulations on your desire to heal yourself. Keep in mind that you are learning to heal your illness by healing yourself. And to heal yourself requires that you understand yourself. Keeping an eating journal is one way to gain understanding about yourself. We will begin by observing primarily the quality […]
Heal Your Body by Talking to Yourself
Dr. Charley Cropley, ND @CharleyCropley Each of us longs deeply and authentically for a way to decrease our anxiety and misery. We constantly and incessantly yearn for some way to do good for ourselves. Even my patients steeped in self-hatred and self-loathing will readily acknowledge that their greatest longing is to be free of their […]
50 Shades of Emotional Disconnect
Dr. Moshe Daniel Block, ND, HMC Real healing involves pain-awareness Real healing, unlike popping a pill to take away the pain, involves recognizing pain, feeling pain, and moving through it to get to the other side. Our culture has a most self-defeating attribute in that we’ve been raised to do anything but feel our pain […]
Meditation: What are Thoughts?
Dr. Charley Cropley, ND @CharleyCropley Sit comfortably. Close your eyes. Relax body and mind in a natural way. Notice your breath and allow several calm, full breaths. Begin observing your mind while, at the same time, remaining conscious of your breathing. After several minutes deliberately imagine yourself doing whatever you might be doing in another […]
The Power of Meaning
Dr. Jodi Stanislaw, ND @DrJodyND “Life is inherently meaningless.” What was your reaction to that statement? Or I should say, what did your mind do with that statement? Agree? Or emphatically disagree? Make you confused? Or give you clarity? Or perhaps you responded with wonder as to why I would even say such a thing? […]