ByJoan Jacobs
Scientific findings prove that beliefs significantly affect the development and prevention of health conditions and also determine the effect of related treatments. In 2012, The Medical School at Wisconsin University published findings of a research that took 8 years to complete. These findings overruled previous understandings regarding the health related effects of beliefs. At the…
ByJoan Jacobs
There is something very misleading and incomplete in the concept that thought creates reality. Not that this statement is incorrect, but at the fundamental level, reality is created by processes much more extensive and complex than just thought. The main power of the popularity that this concept has seen in the past few years is…
ByJulia Chi
I was born a Christian… By this I mean I was born into a Christian family, and therefore grew up with the stories from the bible in the Old Testament, and the ones in the New Testament about the life of Jesus Christ… I belonged to a lively church group from the age of thirteen…
ByGiora Carmi
Here is an intervention from outside. I spoke with my friend Shirley. We have been talking every morning for a few years now, to help each other evolve. Only lately we have reduced our conversations to four times a week. This morning, as I described to her what I felt she instructed me to go…
ByJoan Jacobs
Self-love is a big issue in spiritual awakening and healing processes and yet so many people experience such vast and all-encompassing self-condemnation, some to the degree of complete emotional and functional paralysis. Given the bio-chemical connection between emotions and the body, it’s only logical that feeling good about yourself supports the body, and negative feelings…
ByGiora Carmi
I did this at night. I woke up with so much pain and could not sleep. A few days beforeI came back from the hospital. A kidney stone had taken me there, but while there it was found that I had a clogged artery on the heart’s wall, which was resolved immediately. But something else…
ByGiora Carmi
This will be a short entry. I have placed myself in the public’s eye, saying that in this blog I am going to show you how I cure myself from a terrible chronic pain in my foot. This is what I am doing and will do. I want to show that there is a connection…
ByJoan Jacobs
For decades, philosophers, mystics, psychologists and healers have been claiming that the reason we fail to achieve our goals lies inside us. Although that statement may still cause controversy in certain circles and, even if in practicality, it isn’t as all-encompassing as it sounds, scientific research verifies that the influence we have over our lives…
ByJoan Jacobs
Having addressed many cases in which past emotional trauma was a main cause of disease, I have been faced many times with what I call “The Forgiveness Dilemma”. Transformational approaches, as well as healing and spiritual practices, value forgiveness as a means of cleansing the inner environment of negative emotional sediments and, as such, an…
ByJoan Jacobs
One of the most common questions I’m asked by most of my clients and many of my students is whether developing the Self conflicts with or jeopardizes family, relationships and other social connections. I find the question intriguing because it addresses a much more complex issue than most of those asking actually realize.To begin with,…
ByJoan Jacobs
Scientific research demonstrates that belief in a treatment method has a direct affect on the probability for its success. These findings apply to all types of healing methods and approaches. Given the immense power of belief, following are 5 of the more common beliefs that can sabotage even the most effective and promising healing protocol….
ByJoan Jacobs
“Listening to oneself” is a popular idiomatic phrase, typical of the “New Age” arena. Many spiritual, healing and transformational approaches perpetuate the need to “listen to ourselves” without necessarily explaining what that means or how it’s done. When asked to listen, most people expect to hear voices. You sit down to meditate, pulling your full…