Bonnie | March 31, 2010
I had a comment on my Power of Naming Disease Post which made me think. Diana said that in Chinese Medicine, they don’t name the disease as a disease but rather use terms associated with nature. In other words, I don’t get a cold in Chinese Medical theory, I get a Wind Heat External Pathogenic [...]
Bonnie | March 29, 2010
I have been listening to the debates about the health care bill. I am appalled by the hatred. It’s not a great bill. It is more health insurance reform. I don’t like having to pay more to large corporations that have far too much power in our lives. However, this bill does have the ability [...]
Bonnie | March 25, 2010
Currently, I am reading a book called, The Ascent of Humanity. In it, the author talks about language as a way of separating us from nature, but also how we think that to label things allows us power over them. It is as if, the author postulates, that by naming something we can control it. [...]
Bonnie | March 22, 2010
Naturally Knocked Up has a guest blogger who has a brilliant post called Sterilizing Life. Among other things, the blogger says, “And then it started to dawn on me. We’re a culture that is afraid of life and its consequent messiness. We’re scared of yucky things. As a society, we have learned to kill everything [...]
Bonnie | March 21, 2010
On another blog, they were talking about working towards health in the world. I firmly believe that is a direction we need to go. They summarized their post by saying, “There is no peace without health.” I have to consider–what kind of peace? World peace? Personal peace? Many people with chronic conditions find peace even [...]
Bonnie | March 17, 2010
This week I met a woman who is a nutritionist and she’s very into the energetics of food. An interesting discussion happened. She does research. Of course, it is difficult to research energetics. Asking very specific questions is one issue. Talking about the energetics and health value aspects of food it occurred to me that [...]
Bonnie | March 15, 2010
I have been in the process of changes in my life in the last year or so. I keep getting stuck. Suddenly it was like something let go and there are all these opportunities. When we are ready for the changes we need to make, the world looks different. It is a far less stuck [...]
Bonnie | March 10, 2010
Transformational healing can only be done at a certain pace. It can’t go that quickly. Transformation takes time. Only so much can be taken in. Everyone seems to want to be “fixed” now. Rather, in transformation, we are changed. We are not “fixed” in healing, rather we are changed. We transform. Transformation is not a [...]
Bonnie | March 8, 2010
I went to a workshop on shamanism this weekend. I was fortunate to have a lovely talk with a woman who does shamanism and is also a Western medical practitioner. We discussed the role of illness in our world. I talked about wanting to write about why sickness is wrong. Why do we think sickness [...]
Bonnie | March 5, 2010
Sick people, chronically sick people are often told that they have some underlying reason for their illness. It’s as if it is their fault. It has become some what fashionable then to try to delve into our own subconscious and remove those blocks to allow us to heal. I had a cat with a chronic [...]
