CORRECTION CANADA DAY COLORING CONTEST pe | approach to well-being : Paradox And Healing - Medicine, Mythology and Transformation, years of metaphysical research, a” i re by Michael Greenwood and Peter Nunn, Publ. by Meridian practice and experience. __ ynaid * Example Only House, Dist..by Gordon Soules, 246 pp., soft-cover “The truth is that healing im- won ge Me - Actual coupon plies wholeness, and wholeness ran Sunday, Y INTENTION as teacher, writer, therapeutic implies the totality of perspectives. June 2, 1992 MeDonalds restaurant on ¢ counsellor and workshop leader is to encourage When we refuse to embrace all s points of view, illness is the | pt | our dignity as more open, loving, human beings. reverberation which brings us [_ Servers’ a winnor In the interest of our shifting a Re ” back to the truth.” ee froma paradigm of unsatisfying Bravo, Greenwood and Nunn! 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LOOKS AT BOCKS — Robert Aiken writes a column, news| oo 2? Drs. Michael Greenwood and * “Heavens Above,” for the North aN © ‘ j Cana aA [ ) Peter Nunn are conventionally Shore News. ee trained Canadian physicians, the same. Greenwood and Nunn _ authors of Paradox And Healing - know that at the root of Medicine, Mythelugy and everything, all is one. Transformation, who point out You may well be astonished by that we only get better when we some of the insights this book/tool stop trying to “get better.‘ for transformation provides. This is a must-read, a synthesis “Energy medicine forces us to of their years of meaningful expe- deal with new concepts which rience, working with patients suf- contradict many of ourcherished . fering from chronic pain or illness, beliefs. That a doctor do nothing ; and their own personal life expe- at all, that patients be their own 2 physicians, or that the patientand § / rience of unresolved trauma and pain. Many patients find their way _—_ disease are one, are ideas that at to them at the Meridian Holistic first glance may seem absurd...”’ “ , m Be Health Centre in Victoria because In a chapter on denial they write & a they have exhausted the - that some psychologists, such as ’ . im ay ie ’ possibilities of the conventional Shelly Taylor, author of Positive #- medical system. lusions, argue ‘‘that a certain = Itis clear from this lucid 246- amount of self-deception is an at- : . “ page work, beautifully illustrated tribute of a healthy psyche.” ba : by Miles Lowry, that this pair of In one of my favorite chapters, rs = Docs (pun intended) fully appre- Accidents and Metaphysics, they - . ciate the capabilities of modern opine, ‘One of the ideas which : medicine. seems to permeate ‘New Age’ But the downside of the techno- _ thinking is the notion that ‘we at- . ; logical marvels, they eloquently tract that which occurs to us.’ 7 Z —— 7 Has someone really made a point out, is that people all too Nothing is more irritating to the often give up responsibility for average scientific mind than that , Poe j . ; , their own well-being and place particular ‘causal’ explanation of : A” ; : difference in your life? their complete trust in a medical events It seems that the ib “ P ; : . Do you kriow an unsung hero system which is incapable of deal- | metaphysician wishes to ascribe fe y c QTINGS . . . ss ing with the very real irrational causality where no causality can ‘ ALVIN deserving of some recognition? and emotional characteristics of exist. What's more, the ideaseems jj gine ; : * na if you do the North Shore News would their illness. to lay the blame with us for the ‘ in ° They inform us that, in fact, 20% disagreeable events in our lives. It like ta honor them in a special feature of all illness is inadvertently caus- is bad enough to have an accident : section. . ed by doctors attempting to treat or to get ill. if we must accept that g e ao _ conditions that are simply not we somehow attracted our misfor- & Write a letter describing someone treatable by conventional means. _ tunes, we have to add guilt to the : _ who lives or works on the North Greenwood and Nunn fully ex- burden of sickness and pain.” . ; : "Shere who has done something for plain the holistic approach to They then go on to make plain, g y ee ; ' well-being and its impact on the “Laying blame is notthe intent of a you, your family, or your business. It patient-doctor relationship, indeed such a belief. Instead, it suggestsa_ - Z : can be something small or something onthe whole concept of conven- _—‘ restoration of the sense of personal Z big. . tional medicine. Using myths in powerwhich an accident, if seen ‘ Z EEE se their traditional role as teaching as a ‘victimizing’ necessarily a a it could be a letter describing your tools, what we have here is a removes. This sense of personal : “EB tandlady who allowed you to live'rent- deeply heartfelt advocacy of the responsibility, in the sense of , free for a month after a car accident profound power of holistic think- power, not blame, is the fuel o. a ; ing and its enormous importance the transformational journey. If we q left you unable to work for a time. to us all \ could step back and observe the a , _ a _ As | point out in my own work, igh ambient stress we all carry, it Or it could be about that co-worker who so.oftan-brings you a Gup of tea during a _ in order to participate in the heal would be easy to understand the : busy-work day. _ ing process, one must bein rela-' —_ reasoning behind the ‘attraction’ ease send your letters, to Pamela Lang, Editorial Department, North Shore tionship: with the self, with principle of metaphysics.” (My italics.) 1139 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver V7M 2H4. Or fax to Pamela Lang at ‘another human being, with the © — ° : ‘News i ity, ve learned from 31 pedi) cosmos a in reality, afl on ; 965-3227 or 985-1435. . \ — a | & Your own name, address and phone number should be included and the name Friends of the Library .: and phone number of the person you are writing about. . Book sale! |] wn." 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