Healing Arts Report
Practices for an Evolving Life
They Don't Tell You How
“You need to love yourself more.” “You shouldn’t feel that way.” “Always put other people first. Don’t be selfish.” The one thing that is missing from all this good advice is telling you HOW to do it. We introduce you to practical tools using your own character traits to support you in creating practical answers to those questions. Read more here.
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Two memoirs tell about times of extreme personal growth in the author’s life. Sunny Side Up is a window into the early 70s when certain young adults were searching for a way to head off society’s path bent on materialism. The Transparent Feather tells of a dying author passing the torch of writing to her new friend cum student.
Mission
You can love yourself and other people as well. At Healing Arts Report we explore fulfilling personal development that at the same time serves to create the shift to a peaceful new world paradigm.
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” ―C.G. Jung
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What is Education? Part II
What is Education? Part II (continued from Part I) Bennett’s course was designed to educate the students with skills that would make them able to make uncompromising observations and then significantly strengthen themselves to work for the common good, not only for personal gain. He did this through an emphasis on several techniques: Self-Observation, Practical ...read more
What is Education? Part I
In 1972-73, I attended a ten-month residential course designed by the English philosopher/physicist, J.G. Bennett. His school allowed about one hundred students, including me, to experience his educational philosophy and learn first-hand by living it how it differed from the education most of us had growing up. According to Bennett, there are two ineffective prevailing ...read more
The Fitness Protection Program
I’ve surprised myself with a new activity. That’s the part I like about my propensity for becoming distracted. I never would have gone looking for exercising in a swimming pool. Exercising?!! Worse yet, in water?!! I’d even tried it once when visiting a friend. She took me to her gym that had a huge pool ...read more
Who Do You Go To For Help?
Recently an acquaintance wanted to know who I would recommend if they were seeking help. After I named a couple of our peers the person asked her real question, “Who do you go to?” My choices are so personal I can’t imagine that anyone I know would find my favorite advisors useful for them. Nor ...read more
Meditation–The Challenge of Being Inwardly Still
It’s been my practice lately to wash, eat breakfast, and then, before getting into my intentional mental gymnastics of the day, to sit for a short time to meditate, doing nothing. Lately, I’ve been having a lot of trouble sitting quietly. This morning before entering my studio I decided to go outside in the now-settled ...read more
3 Alternative Resources For Cancer Patients
Many patients are looking for supportive therapies because the conventional system treating them is so impersonal and not geared to providing daily support. Patients find themselves isolated from resources that could give them nutritional, meditative, spiritual, and medically integrated or alternative choices. Here are three organizations that provide supplementary or alternative suggestions from respected, experienced, ...read more
Grab Yourself A Moment Of Peace
Just saying the word meditation often calls forth an image of exotic monks sitting perfectly still forever. This image is daunting. In our world of constant movement and sound, too many people cannot imagine such emptiness or what it could accomplish. And even those of us who have experienced the peace it brings, just forget ...read more