Category: Wellness

by Marcia Pickands
I usually start Healer Trainees out with the exercises from my book The Psychic Self Defense Personal Training Manual (Weiser, 1997). These are a few of the exercises that I work with. It will seem like a lot of work at first, and indeed it is. However, this training is designed to strengthen […]

by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
I am happy to report I have a new favorite meditation CD that I’ve been chanting to, and it is included with the new release, Tibetan Sound Healing by lama and Bön meditation master Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.
The Bön people are the indigenous people of Tibet, with one of the world’s oldest […]

by Tom Kenyon, MA
9 CD set, $99.00
Sounds True, 2006
I’ve been giving my brain quite a work-out since discovering the concept of “psychoacoustic immersion” with Tom Kenyon’s The Ultimate Brain, a 9 CD series that — at $99 — isn’t an inexpensive purchase, but is a whole […]

By C. Pierce Salguero
Findhorn Press, 2006
143 pp., $19.95
Thailand, in relation to health, has been in the news recently as part of the phenomenon of medical tourism: patients from the west traveling there to obtain treatments at a fraction of the price that one would pay, say, in the United States. However, […]

By Michele Germain, LCSW
When I first received The Jill Principle from Llewellyn Publications to review, I thought it was a change from the usual material they published. After all, this was in the “self-help/relationships” genre, and Llewellyn specializes in the New Age market. However, just a little way into reading the book, I […]

by Linda Drake
It was the first full week of September when my friend, Marione, passed away — and through a meaningful coincidence, I received this book for review. One look at the title, Reaching Through the Veil to Heal, was that was all I needed to drop my previous plans and immerse myself in […]

By Cissi Williams

The Well-Being Handbook: An A-Z Guide to Holistic Healing is a gem of a book to consult to maintain good health, and also if dis-ease has already manifested. Its author, Cissi Williams, is a registered Osteopath, Cranial Osteopath and Naturopath, and she provides a wealth of information so that one can take […]

by Rose Rosetree
How best can you protect yourself from zealots who insist on making your religious life their business? Many a glorious spiritual seeker has been told that he’s going to Hell. Bossy! Remember, nobody at Earth School has the right to interfere in the life of anyone else. (Exceptions are raising a child to […]

By Gabrielle Lichterman
Polka Dot Press/Adams Media 2005
282 pp., $14.95

Veteran women’s health writer Gabrielle Lichterman is onto something here – it’s called Hormonology, and her book is described as a daily horoscope for your hormones. Meaning that by reading one of the 28 chapters this book is divided into (one for each day of a […]

by Deb Shapiro

In Your Body Speaks Your Mind: Decoding the Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Messages That Underlie Illness, author Deb Shapiro teaches the reader how to interpret the body’s “language of symptoms.” I was relieved to see, right at the start of Chapter One: “Illness is real. Accidents happen. Medicine can […]

by Ivy Larson

Seven years ago I ate like most Americans. In other words, overly-processed foods took center stage in my diet. I liked to eat goodies such as pop-tarts for breakfast, pretzels and soda for a snack and fast food for lunch. Dinner was hit or miss and could sometimes be as atrocious as sugary […]

by Shawn Messonnier, DVM
One of the more common behavior problems for which I am consulted involves anxiety-related issues in dogs and cats. The problems range from simply being anxious when going to the doctor’s office or grooming shop, and thunderstorm phobias, all the way to severe separation anxiety. While behavior modification is very important in […]