By Bill Hale, Jeff Nichols, and Celia Coates My attention was caught years ago by a friend’s explanation of the purpose for introducing speakers before they address an audience. He said an introduction was more than an opening ritual of praise, it was about offering information that allows us to decide whether the speaker is…
Category: Elmer Green
Alan Arkin’s Mind
By Celia Coates March 26th is Alan Arkin’s birthday and this year he will turn 87. It’s a wonderful chance to celebrate the book he published in 2018: OUT OF MY MIND (Not Quite a Memoir). He has lived a life filled with creativity as an actor and director. It is easy to remember the…
Lessons for Hard Times
By Celia Coates This question arrived in a recent e-mail: “As a healing professional, have you noticed your clients growing more stressed and anxious in recent years? If so, the numbers back up your observation. According to a report released by the American Psychiatric Association in May 2018, levels of anxiety among American adults have…
How To Send (and Receive) Love
By Celia Coates At the end of last week’s post, Love, Healing, and Dr. Gladys, I said I’d publish a post about how to send healing love to another person. Then, as I sat down to write, the title quickly changed to include receiving as well as sending love. They are two sides of the…
What About The Infinite?
By Celia Coates At a conference in 2008 Elmer Green said, “There is only one really important question: What is our relationship to the Infinite?” If you already know about Elmer Green and why someone might want to pay attention to his views, skip this next paragraph – Elmer was born on October 10, 1917…
Tough Hope
By Celia Coates When people think about hope they often remember Emily Dickinson’s lines about “the thing with feathers.” Our times demand a kind of hope that is stronger and more active than,“ the little Bird that kept so many warm.” I’d call this more forceful form, Tough Hope – like the Tough Love that is…
From Abundance to Selfishness
By Celia Coates In 1998 an Ann Landers column mentioned a cycle of rise and fall in history. It really caught my attention and I mentioned it to Elmer Green who thought it was entertaining. That’s a word he often used in response to something that he thought was useful, intriguing, and not foolish. I…
Elmer Green and Al Sharpton
By Celia Coates Both Elmer Green, a pioneer in clinical biofeedback, and Al Sharpton, “The Rev,” have given the same wonderful advice, “Just keep going.” Elmer gave me that advice years ago when I was puzzled about where I was going with studying subtle energies. He was helpful to many, many people – at first…
Elmer Green On Steadying Your Mind
Fifteen years ago, on February 1, 2003, Elmer began a letter with, “Greetings from Lakewood Hills,” (his neighborhood in Kansas) and then he wrote, “One heavy-duty personal task that we have nowadays is to counter the feeling that we are powerless in world affairs because individually we have only one voice. I learned from The…
About Biofeedback and ADHD
“I know a kid with ADHD – how can we get Jean’s biofeedback light sculpture?” Questions like that came from last week’s post about the life of Jean Millay and her wonderful story about using the device she developed with Timothy Scully to change the life of a boy who had been unable to be…
Elmer Green and Vision Dreams
By Celia Coates Elmer Green had what he called “vision dreams” which were both dreams and visions. They were views of another level of reality. Many years ago he dreamed about a friend, a guy who worked with him as the foreman of a group at Minneapolis Honeywell that was manufacturing telescopes for the Army….
Elmer Green on States of Consciousness
By Celia Coates Elmer Green taught that we have “two minds” – a this-side consciousness and an other-side consciousness. On this side we tune in to our material world and with our other-side mind we connect with the non-material realm. The brain and the physical body manufacture a concrete reality and, although it is real,…