By Brian Luke Seaward Several years ago, while attending a conference on mind-body-spirit healing, I slipped into a breakout session on trauma and cellular memory. The speaker shared a story of one of his patients that had everyone on the edge of their seats, including me. He described a woman who, as a child, had…
Category: Healing
Hating the Sinner …
By Celia Coates Hating someone has become very easy. Especially here, in America, these are times of political turmoil and everyone is picking a side to line up with. Battle lines have formed and the strong feelings that rev us up to fight have taken over. It begins with fear and anger and then our…
Seeking, Sharing, Finding Balance – and Giving Thanks
By Celia Coates with Ken Cohen Many years ago, I had a chance to meet and talk with Leon Secatero in New Mexico. He called himself a “Navajo sheepherder” and, although that was true, it left out a great deal of who he was. He taught me a fine lesson: he had been speaking to…
Ancient Wisdom for 2024
(From Celia) In 2002 the Elders of the Hopi Nation in Oraibi, Arizona sent out a message that I read and kept. It felt like important wisdom then and it feels even more important this week. The Hopi Elders Speak – You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour. Now you…
How Old Are You ?
By Genevieve Lewis Paulson From Celia: This might have been a discouraging time if you are around 80, or even older. A blaring judgment that we are “too old” has landed harshly on many of us. But, what’s true? How are people in their last decades really doing? What does the research say? It has…
Sound and …. Quiet
There has been a lot of noise in the last couple of weeks here in America. Some voices have been shouting with anger and violence while some have been shouting with joy and caring. When Molly Frederick sent me a poem she had written, I welcomed the peaceful sounds of quiet. Here is that poem:…
Good Vibes Can Change Our World
by Celia Coates “Prominent designer channels a chic, organic vibe in a new, bayside abode.” That’s what appeared recently in slick marketing magazine. I am not interested in living in an abode. What about you? But I am very interested in “vibes” – vibrations. We’ve been hearing about vibrations for decades (even centuries) but “vibes”…
The Power of Community
By Celia Coates My sister Judy, who has a fine sense of humor, sent me a gift subscription to HARPER’S BAZAAR, a very glossy women’s fashion magazine. High fashion is near the bottom of my list of interests, although this banner statement on one of the articles did catch my eye, “Spring’s BOLDEST LOOKS play…
Learning About Love
by Celia Coates In the last WINN, the one about love and the meaning of life, I wrote that we need to begin with loving ourselves and that that would be a subject for a future post. It surprised me when the future arrived quickly and became this week and this post. I’ve been clearing…
Of Brain and Mind
By Brian Luke Seaward A few years ago, I was invited to participate in a study of the effects of Cranio-Sacral Therapy on stress and relaxation. My first day in the lab I was fitted with a skull cap with countless electrodes ready to record my brain’s electrical activity. Once fitted, I lay down and…
Becoming Beacons of Light
By Gretchen Krivoshia It has always been the time to cultivate loving kindness but given the turmoil in our world, it is needed now more than ever. We need to do what we can to increase compassion and caring – for ourselves and others – to become the beacons of light that we are capable…
Healing With Nature
By Brian Luke Seaward When the winds blows, this is my medicine. When it rains, this is my medicine. When it hails, this is my medicine. When the skies clear after a storm, this is my medicine. -Native American Prayer One semester, while serving on the faculty of the American University, I invited a Lakota…