Energy Healing

Reflections on Spiritual Healing #1

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More and more people are turning to spiritual healing to find relief from their pain and suffering that conventional, biologically-based medicine can not provide. In his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, Paramahansa Yogananda, a self-realized master, explains that there are two main roots of all physical and mental diseases that are imperceptible to most people:
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Sex, Spirituality and Psychiatry

Sex, Spiritual Growth, and Psychiatry

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Freud believed that people suffer as they try to manage the tension between good and evil, noble and selfish intentions, fulfilling social norms versus indulging sexual desires and fantasies.  Freud saw that these personal inner conflicts were the roots of the guilt complexes that lead to mental disorder. Did Sigmund Freud read the Bhagavad Gita,
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Newest DSM

The Newest DSM*

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The Newest DSM*: Deliberately Seeking Mental Health A colorful, informative and humorous view into the causes of mental disturbance and the symptoms they produce… recommends some effective treatments, too.  (Older DSM books say very little about causes & treatments.)  Perfect waiting room fare for the office of a health professional, and a heart-warming, fun self-help manual!  19
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Shunryu Suzuki Roshi-Abbot of SF Zen Center

Mental Heath, Wellness, and Spirit

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Why am I so passionate about integrative mental health and how did I get to be an expert? It’s very personal, but it’s also about all of us, and the conditions of life today. It’s the reason I feel stable and deeply happy—and may be the reason you can reach that place as well. Shunryu
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