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Is it Psychosis or a Spiritual Emergency?

Posted on July 12, 2019 by Emma Bragdon 2 Comments

Spiritual Emergency vis a vis Psychosis A “spiritual emergency” is often confused with a psychotic episode. Both are intense. Both can have dramatic ups and downs. One minute a person feels elated and inspired. The next minute they feel triggered and distressed. It can be scary and disorienting. Is it a Binary? People think, “It’s

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Change the Field: Change Matter

Posted on March 27, 2019 by Emma Bragdon

Mystics have always said this reality is an illusion. To dissect this idea, we first need to look at what reality is, or rather, what it is generally accepted to be. Your Energy Field Holds the Key Many people who have a disease in their body think they have to change the particular disease to make some “thing” like

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Epic Numbers on Anti-Depressants Today: Withdrawal Advice

Posted on March 7, 2019 by admin

Long-term prescription rates for antidepressants in the United States and Britain have doubled over the past decade, with similar trends in other Western countries. More than 15 million Americans have taken the medications for at least five years, a rate that has almost more than tripled since 2000, according to a New York Times analysis

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Mental Health Under Trump

Posted on February 27, 2019 by Emma Bragdon

Mental Health in America Under Trump Research shows that stress levels are the highest in our memory — actually higher than any time since World War I. If you think of all the crises that have happened in that time period, we are actually in a worse state. We know that anxiety levels are 70

Posted in Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health anxiety, anxiety levels, depression, mental health, Trump, USA mental health

Energy Work: Why?

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Emma Bragdon

Energy Work Promotes Health “There is now substantial medical evidence that vibrations can have profound effects on the human body. Given that matter is really a wave structure of space this is hardly surprising.”–Geoff Haselhurst Practitioners in various modalities choose to integrate energy healing into their work because of the ubiquitous nature of energy as root cause of

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The Real Cause of the Depression Epidemic

Posted on December 3, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

The Root Cause of Depression When I [Johann Hari] interviewed social scientists all over the world – from São Paulo to Sydney, from Los Angeles to London – I started to see an unexpected picture emerge. We all know that every human being has basic physical needs: for food, for water, for shelter, for clean

Posted in Depression, Mental Health antidepressant, depression, mental health, mental illness

Transgenerational Healing & Epigenetics

Posted on November 18, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

Epigenetic Memories are Passed Down 14 Successive Generations, Game-Changing Research Reveals Author: GreenMedInfo Research Group The past of our ancestors lives on through us: Groundbreaking research illustrates how parental experience is not only epigenetically imprinted onto offspring, but onto an unprecedented number of future generations. Rather than occurring over the elongated time scale of millions of

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Psychiatry and Spirituality

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

Contentment with Your Religious Belief Impacts Mental Health Psychiatric disorders involve pathological changes in consciousness, thinking, emotions and behavior, which compromise social performance, with impairments in quality of life. Understanding the phenomenology of mental disorders is still a major challenge for science. The biological model in which thought and all mental life is the result of

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Resources for Tapering and Withdrawal

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Emma Bragdon 2 Comments

Withdrawal from Psychiatric Medication … New resources for those looking for information about tapering and how to deal with withdrawal from psychiatric medications. Laura Delano (in photo above) has created a wonderful resource in the Inner Compass Initiative (https://www.theinnercompass.org/), a website for anyone interested in learning important facts about taking psychiatric medications or choosing to

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The Questionnaire Measurement of Spiritual Emergency

Posted on July 31, 2018 by Emma Bragdon 1 Comment

Measuring Spiritual Emergency Measuring Spiritual Emergency has not been very well defined by numerous authors. Monika Goretski, PhD., has written one of the most informative and well-respected articles published on this theme. She reviews the questionnaire she developed and used in the following article published in 2009. Monika was specifically interested in the difference between

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