Category Archives: Awakening & Medicine

Spirituality & Medicine

A bead of mercury

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Michaela

A beautiful talk by Cynthia Bourgeault on centering prayer. This talk is very much in line with my own personal experience of the biological functionality of letting go.

Posted in Awakening & Medicine, Teacher & Teachings | Tagged Centering prayer, prayer | 1 Comment

Honor the gift

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Michaela

Ian Mc Gilchrist talks about the natural and cultural history of the divided brain and why we tend base everything on what we – believe – to know.

Posted in Awakening & Medicine, Breaking the mould, Make new from old, Wisdom & Method | Tagged Brain, Division, Hemisphere, intuitive mind, knowing, rational mind, unknowing | Leave a comment

A conscious mind

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Michaela

Prof Antonio Damasio on how the brain creates our sense of self ?

Posted in Awakening & Medicine | Tagged Consciousness, mind, Neuroscience | 4 Comments

Mental Health

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Michaela

Dr. Daniel Siegel on how he mind uses the brain to create itself

Posted in Awakening & Medicine | Tagged Mental Health, Neuroscience, psychiatry | 2 Comments

By BENEDICT CAREY Are you one of us? The patient wanted to know, and her therapist — Marsha M. Linehan of the University of Washington, creator of a treatment used worldwide for severely suicidal people — had a ready answer. It was … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakening & Medicine, The world we live in Now | Tagged Awakening and Health, Marsha M. Linehan, Mental disorder, Mental Health, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness | 1 Comment

God knows where I am

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Michaela

A griping article about a patient who rejects her diagnosis, refused all psychiatric medication and drifted to the edge of society. God Knows where I am

Posted in Awakening & Medicine, Room to Read | Tagged Mental Health | 4 Comments

Childhood and Health

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Michaela

How you treat a child, the child will treat the world… An article about the connection between childhood trauma and disease: The Poverty Clinic and the Children’s Wellbeing Manifesto Parenting for a Peaceful World

Posted in Awakening & Medicine, Toaster & Fridge | Tagged Childhood Trauma, Stress and disease | Leave a comment

Means of Life (7)

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Michaela

“Means of Life” is an inter-disciplinary approach to how everything is connected and to pin-point the difference between what we need and what we want. Addiction to food may be the reason for many chronic disturbances and diseases. We said … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakening & Medicine, Means of Life, Michaela on Medicine | Tagged Chronic stress, Eating, Food, Holistic health, Metabolic syndrome, Spirituality and Medicine, Stress and disease | Leave a comment

Means of Life (5)

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Michaela

In many ways, food has become an obsession in our society. As we have established, food intake is regulated by the bodily functions of hunger and satiety, as well as influenced by appetite, that is an indicator which type of … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakening & Medicine, Means of Life, Michaela on Medicine | Tagged Ayurveda, Eating, Energy, Food, Health, Physical body | Leave a comment

Means of Life (3)

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Michaela

I am currently preparing a lecture how chronic stress and symptoms and diseases of the digestive system are related. So this is the real-life background for contemplating about food, digestion and the innate wisdom of our bodies. Why do we … Continue reading →