The Worst Is Over

Verbal First Aid is safe and simple. It is not meant to take the place of good medicine, but rather to make good medicine better. You can benefit by learning these basic steps toward effective healing communication: how to generate rapport that begins the communication; how to give suggestions for pain relief that actually stimulate the body to pro

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

“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

The late Corbin Harney, a Western Shoshone Nation Spiritual Leader, was world renowned for his activism in defense of the future of the Mother Earth. Asked about mind/body wisdom, he explained that simply using an herb or a pharmaceutical part of an herb is not nearly as effective as using the herbs backed with a belief system. “If you’re going to

The separation of mind and body, while it can be traced back to the ancient Greeks, is most often laid at the doorstep of the 17th century philosopher Rene Descartes. Since the Roman Catholic Church claimed man as its domain, Descartes and the church struck a deal: science became anatomy, the mechanical functions of the body, divorced from any invo

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

However, Gary left the hospital suffering from unexpected depression, all the more mysterious given the success of the operation. Under hypnosis it emerged that his unconscious mind had registered the moment in the operation when the doctor gave up and left the room. For this patient, healing involved shifting his unconscious mind from the memory t

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

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