The Worst Is Over

At the University of Heidelberg, Germany, Yugoslav psychologist Ronald Grossarth-Maticek conducted a ten-year study on 1,300 Yugoslavs with no previous medical diagnosis. Based entirely on what he knew of their personalities and emotions, Grossarh-Maticek was able to predict their deaths from cancer (for those with repressed emotions and hopelessne

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou

Verbal First Aid is more than the words themselves. It embodies an attitude, a statement both literal and spiritual. It is a process we can witness in ourselves and a position we lovingly assume with the people around us. The words are the tools, but their power derives from awareness and love. It is born from a decision we make to participate in o

By focusing solely on external causes of disease, such as bacteria and viruses, science dissuaded us from exploring the reasons why one person exposed to a virus might not get sick.

Mind/body medicine, which includes psychoneuroimmunology, neurolinguistics and medical hypnosis, sees the human being as a complex network of energy. In her book The Quantum Self, physicist and philosopher Danah Zohar writes, “The mind/body duality in man is a reflection of the wave/particle duality, which underlies all that is. In this way, human

Ironically, this hero of heroes, this man of action, found that one of the ways he stayed calm was by spending a moment with the victim in silent meditation. Sometimes it took only a few seconds, other times a little longer. “It depends on the situation,” he explained. “With some victims, I will put my hands on them and do a little meditation, brea

In the American Journal of Health Promotion, Dr. Wallerstein (1992) makes the case that a sense of powerlessness or “the lack of control over one’s destiny emerges as a broad-based risk factor for disease.”

Reminding people of times in which they were happier, stronger, more loving can bring those times into the present and, with them, some of the qualities they may have forgotten they had. When you encounter someone suffering emotional or physical distress, and you can facilitate a positive age regression, you can begin to use Verbal First Aid in rem

We are the only known species who dies on schedule: more people die on Monday between 8 and 9 in the morning than at any other time and day of the week. Why is that? Could it have anything to do with the stress of going to work? And how do we explain the data showing how death peaks in Christians the day after Christmas and in Chinese people the da