Archive for October, 2010
Cover Design Continued
Thursday, October 28th, 2010The Energetic dimension of the body interacts with the denser dimensions through the meridians of Chinese medicine, the subtle centers of the energy body called chakras, and the aura – an energy field permeating and surrounding
the physical body. The aura can interact with subtle presences in the environment such as […]
Life is Like a Tapestry Woven Through Time
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010As suggested by the design on the cover of the book- Big Heart Healing,
human life is like a tapestry woven through time, a complex evolving pattern made up of colored threads representing the Physical, Personal, Relational,
Karmic, Energetic and Transcendent dimensions of existence. Virtually
every imaginable kind of damage to these threads […]
A Note to the Reader of Big Heart Healing
Thursday, October 21st, 2010I recommend that all readers begin with Chapter One. After that, youhave several options. If you are a general reader who can relate personallyto the experience of trauma and abuse, you may find it most inspiring and rewarding to go directly to Part Three and read about Ken’s healing first, using the […]
Multidimensional Resolution
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010Before he could accept his wholeness, Ken had to work for many months, passing painfully through all his resistances to the Transcendent realm. Behind each resistance lurked yet another Psychological or Energetic block that had to be brought into the light of awareness and dissolved. Ken was a warrior, persevering with this grueling struggle until […]
Appreciation for Genpo Roshi
Friday, October 15th, 2010Appreciation for Genpo Roshi
I credit the Zen lineage and Genpo Roshi’s example with inspiring in me the courage to be willing to drop preconceived ideas over and over again and stay open to the challenge of the unknown. The process of throwing out assumptions and starting over has become the only […]
How the Book Big Heart Healing is Organized
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010How the Book Big Heart Healing is Organized:
Both to tell Ken’s story and use it to address a huge range of experience most effectively, I have presented the material in a form called the arch structure. Parts One and Five function as the two foundation stones of the arch and are […]
Theoretical and practical questions
Monday, October 11th, 2010Theoretical and practical questions to be addressed in
Big Heart Healing A Multidimensional Approach to Trauma and Abuse:
(1) How do we describe the nature of the different
threads that weave together to produce the complex
tapestry of human experience?
(2) How do traumatic experiences rend or distort the
pattern of this fabric by fraying, […]
A Multidimensional Model
Thursday, October 7th, 2010In the pages of Big Heart Healing, a simple model and set of practical principles will be proposed as a general guide for integrative healing of emotional trauma. While other cases will be used as examples to illustrate certain points, the central focus of study will be Ken’s treatment, which involved […]
The Story of Ken
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010The Story of Ken
You will read in Big Heart Healing about a complex integrative healing journey that I was very fortunate to share and guide, a journey that brought every phase of my training and experience into focus on a single patient. Ken suffered almost unimaginably severe abuse in his childhood […]
Big Heart Healing a Multidimensional Approach to Trauma and Abuse
Friday, October 1st, 2010The entire book - Big Heart Healing a Multidimensional Approach to Trauma and Abuse is based on my own clinical and spiritual experience, not academic research. Do not expect to find scholarly references, not even in the description of my multidimensional model. I will make no attempt to compare or […]