Tips on dealing with a loss Talk about how you're feeling with others.

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After you get through some of the anger and denial, it's normal to try to pretend things are like they used to be. If someone you love has died, you may play memories over and over in your mind. You may also feel the presence of your loved one, think

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What is grief? Grief is a normal, healthy response to loss. One of the greatest losses that can occur is the death of someone you love. Other losses include the loss of your health or the health of someone you care about, or the end of an important

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As many as 1 out of every 3 people who have a heart attack report feeling depressed. Women, people who have been depressed before, and people who feel alone and without social or emotional support are at a higher risk for feeling depressed after a he

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Being is the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death. However, Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that

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A beggar had been sitting by the side of a road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked by. “Spare some change?” mumbled the beggar, mechanically holding out his old baseball cap. “I have nothing to give you,” said th

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Like a staged play, your life is being acted out while you learn to be loving and true to your highest nature. You may not realize it, but we all create storylines based on how we see ourselves and how we interpret each experience. Once we create our

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There's a bigger You who is your constant companion and who sees the overview. This "Observer" Self is who you really are, a wise Self who can think clearly beyond all the twists and turns you travel in your ordinary life. We've not been ta

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It will come as a surprise to many that a randomized, double-blind study, published in a mainstream medical journal, demonstrated that prayer had a profound, statistically significant healing effect on hospitalized heart patients. I first learned abo

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How can you use this encouraging information in your own healing process? There are many books available on affirmations and visualization; You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay and Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain are among the best known. Lik

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As Bernie Siegel, M.D., notes in Love, Medicine and Miracles medical statistics can lead both doctors and patients to assume the worst, at a time when hope is essential. Though the statistical odds may be 99 to 1 against recovery from a particular se

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Larry Dossey's journey of transition from mainstream physician to holistic medical philosopher was something he had no way of predicting, and still finds to be something of a mystery. The first in his Texas family to graduate high school, Dossey say

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This article is taken from Dr. Larry Dossey's remarks at the July 17, 1996 workshop "Spirituality, Healing, and the Soul," part of the Center's series The Healing Force of Nature. Dr. Dossey serves on the Board of Advisors for the Center. H

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Man comes out of unity into diversity, The ego appears, has to be recognized, Then transcended and return to Unity In a higher octave of consciousness.1         --Karlfried Graf von Durckheim Illness can be o

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And God said, "Let us make man in our image, After our likeness."         Genesis 1:26 It is a wonder-filled experience to deliver a baby. At first there is a limp, seemingly lifeless form. Then,

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SIG: Ev, since we are collaborating on a book, I think it would be of interest to our readers to know why we felt we should write the book. I have no desire to write a book just to be writing a book. But I feel there's a real need for a book that bri

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ESP as we have defined and studied it may not be the way it actually functions. It is impossible to separate the various ESP modalities from each other. An instance of presumed telepathy actually could be clairsentience, where the intuitive person is

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Recently, I was asked to speak at the Nashville Path & Pen Writers Conference. My topic was originally "Writing as a Spiritual Practice," but the more I thought about it the more it made sense to add "-And Spiritual Practice as a W

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. is one of a kind. She has been widely recognized as one of the foremost authorities in the field of death, dying and transition for over 20 years. It might well be said that she invented this field as an area of legitimate

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Raymond Moody is a scholar and a joyful soul. He first attained widespread recognition with the publication in the mid-1970's of Life After Life, his best-selling work on the near-death experience (NDE). He has pursued this subject in his subsequent

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Imagine that the time has now come when the energy in your body is no longer sufficient to allow you to participate in the world. You can no longer continue your former work, or earn the money you used to earn. You are lying in bed wit you new car pa

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It is from these remarkable people that we have learned that the work of the dying is to let go of self-protective control. To open, to live fully in the present moment, to accept the richness of each moment with an open heart, with a mind that does

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In a recent survey, four out of five people said they would prefer to die at home, yet in practice, four out of five people die in institutions. To die at home is to die in the midst of life, in the midst of love. Many of the people we have taken hom

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Try this experiment: Think of the worst possible insult you can imagine, then suppose that you arrive home to find your living space broken into and that message scrawled across your wall. You would experience -- involuntarily -- a state of mind that

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We are taught to make ourselves substantial, to take on certain roles and play them with utmost seriousness, to be responsible members of society. The dying teach us that we must live more lightly, take ourselves less seriously, accept our own imperm

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Very few of the people we see are well prepared for their deaths, and no wonder. We are taught to keep thoughts of death out of our consciousness, ignore illness, to do our best to disguise the natural changes of aging. We grow up believing -- and te

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Many people think that if they came down with a fatal illness, they'd react by grabbing a giant bottle of whiskey and an attractive sexual partner and spending their remaining time at the nearest warm beach. But in working with thousands of dying peo

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What you're about to learn may be more important than you'd ever imagine. New research has provided key insights that may help prevent a devastating disease that destroys quality of life. Dr. Robert P. Friedland and colleagues of Case Western Reser

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Scientists have known for years that major and minor life stresses interfere with immune function and contribute to disease. Stressful life events increase your susceptibility to several types of infections, from the common cold to tuberculosis, and

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