Quit Trying to Change Yourself
Quit Trying to Change Yourself Compare the simple splendor of a rose in bloom with the tensions and restlessness of your daily life. The Rose The rose is perfectly content to be itself. There is not the slightest urge to be a peach blossom or a daffodil or a bird. It...
Beware Reductionism!
The reductionist model that is based in scientific materialism is so ingrained in our culture, that I bet you don't see it in all the places it exists. All too often patients ask me what herb or homeopathic remedy is for "x" disease. That is reductionist thinking at...
Down the road at 80 mph
Being with the scenery as it passed by the windows on the way to California and back: One terrain transitions into the next, always surprising with what comes next. The moon sets, the sky is clear in Arizona. Clouds appear as California immerses us. Both the clouds...
Show Up for a Great Life
Show Up for a Great Life Do you feel like your life is too busy and it’s hard to find time for what is most important to you? For example, if you decided to start a new health regime . . . did you actually start it? How long did you keep it up? Let's look at what led...
Get Vitamin D from the Sun today!
Get Vitamin D from the Sun today! Yes, unless there is cloud cover, today (March 6th) is the first day this year that the sun is high enough above my location in Cottonwood, AZ so that the rays that initiate the production of vitamin d in my skin will do so...
Senior Art Show Remembered
Senior Art Show Remembered February 29 - this is technically the 10th anniversary of my senior art show at Cardinal Stritch College in Milwaukee, WI. Because it was on leap day, it was actually 40 years ago on a Sunday. Entrance to the Art Show Artist and her art...
Popular Pain Relievers
Popular Pain Relievers Pain is a signal given by the body for attention to that part feeling the pain. It is the warning signal that something should be investigated. By shutting off the warning signal with a pain reliever, we have short-circuited healing because we...
Disease or Disease-Condition?
Disease or Disease-Condition? "there are no specific diseases: there are specific disease-conditions." - Florence Nightingale Notes on Nursing, after her long experience of observation What's the difference? What does it matter? It makes all the difference in the...
Vitamin D3 – a mass experiment?
Vitamin D3 - a mass experiment? When nearly all patients who come to me are concerned about their vitamin D levels and are taking thousands of units a day, I have to wonder what new fad has swept the health field and what we will discover years into this mass...
2016 . . . make it the happiest
Is it time to make your New Years Resolutions and set your goals for the coming year? If you said NO!, this post is for you. If you said YES, this post is especially for you. The average person makes the same New Years resolution year after year after year. Why?...