Art Therapy

Uses art-making processes to engage emotional and psychological issues. Both the physical act of making and the image/content of the work can express and heal trauma and visualize desired outcomes. Oftentimes creating art allows a much more direct access than words to uncomfortable feelings, memories and ideas.

(See also: Art Therapy, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

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Expressive arts: The use of visual art, crafts, song, dance, movement and other forms of expression to foster personal insights and to access one’s inner healing resources. Instructors help clients break free of rigid, habitual thoughts or patterns in order to discover increased mental understanding, physical awareness and/or greater mobility.

(See also: Expressive arts, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

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Lymphasizing (The Art of Lymphatic System Activation, The Art of Lymphasizing, The Fine Art of Lymphasizing, The Science of Lymphasizing): Healing system originated by chemist and lymphologist Dr. C. Samuel West, author of The Golden Seven Plus One.

According to the system's theory, the human body is essentially a confluence of electrical fields, and health, strength, and endurance depend on the structural integrity of the energy currents that run through it. Advocates of Lymphasizing include clairvoyant naturopath William J. Walks Sacred Martin, of Detroit, Michigan, and acupuncturist Philip L. Gruber, a teacher of Sacred Geometrical Healing.

(See also: Lymphasizing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

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Indian dance cannot be isolated from the art of literature, painting sculpture and music. Indian dance has a unique body of myths and legend to support the view that the art occupied a central place in the society and religion of the people of India.

The dance styles of Traditional Indian Dance are known as Bharathanatiyam, KathaKali , Kuchipodi , Manipuri, Orrissi and Kathak of each evolved it's own individual vocabulary of movement. Indian Dance is a spiritual practice and a "collaboration with God".

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Art is a collaboration between God and man, raising him to the exclusive band of creators and taking him deeply within and around his handiwork. It is a unique result of a unique temperament with its beauty derived from mutable disconcern of his environment. Leela Ganapathy, retired Professor of Arts, share her vivid knowledge about the Indian Arts and Dance are recognised as a bridge between the divine and our day to day life and our society.

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One of the participants at the Oneness Festival share his personal experiences of the Oneness Festival that took place February 16-22 2004 in India. This article give you an idea of what happens at the Oneness Festivals that take place twice annualy outside the village of Varadepalyam 90 km North of Madras/Chennai in India.

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Acupunture is the Chinese healing art that can be dated back at least two thousand years. Some authorities maintain that acupuncture has been practiced in China for even four thousand years.
On the most basic of levels, acupuncture can be described as the insertion of very fine into the skin at specific acupuncture points in order to influence the functioning of the body.

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Tai Chi Chuan was derived from Taoism. The most important practice of Taoism was concerned with tranquility of mind and improvement of temperament. At the end of the Sung Dynasty a Taoist by the name of Cheung San Fung, in order to find one suitable martial art for the Taoist, often observed the habits of long- lived animals such as turtles and cranes. After many years of study, he, at last, created Tai Chi Chuan.

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Presentation of the Spiritual Reatreats in The Golden City.

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Asclepius (Greek Ἀσκλήπιος also rendered Aesculapius in Latin and transliterated Asklepios) was the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek mythology, according to which he was born a mortal but was given immortality as the constellation Ophiuchus after his death. His name means "cut up," and (perhaps incidentially) shares a root with the word scalpel. He represents the healing aspect of the medical arts, while his daughters Hygieia, Me ...

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Therapy (in Greek: θεραπεία) or treatment is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a diagnosis. Some therapeutic methodologies from Western medicine, Eastern medicine (especially traditional Chinese medicine), and alternative health care include: acupuncture adventure therapy agoratherapy aromatherapy art therapy colour therapy crystal healing Dianetics diversional therapy hyperbaric oxy ...

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Scarification is not a precise art; there are many variables, such as skin type, depth of the cut, and how the wound is treated while healing, that make the outcome somewhat unpredictable. The body creates the scar, not the artist; it is important to keep in mind that a method that works well on one person may not work so well on another. Also, the scars tend to spread a bit as they heal, so scarifications are usually relatively simple designs -- small details can easily ...

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Scarification, Scarification - History, Scarification - Reasons, Scarification - Methods, Scarification - Branding, Scarification - Cutting, Scarification - Abrasion, Scarification - Healing, Scarification - Dangers/Cautions

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A holistic approach to healing recognizes that the emotional, mental, spiritual and physical elements of each person comprise a system, and attempts to treat the whole person, concentrating on the cause of the illness as well as symptoms. This approach often focuses on traditional (i.e. non-allopathic) medicinal arts. Examples of such holistic therapies include Acupuncture, Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Indian Head Massage, Reiki, and Reflexology, to name just a few. S ...

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Holism, Holism - Holism in sociology, Holism - Responses to holism, Holism - Holism in science, Holism - Holistic healing

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The early Polynesian settlers (from the Marquesas, or Tahiti, or both) brought their own form of massage, and like a canoe plant, it evolved to become something uniquely Hawaiian. It was practiced by everyone, from child to chief. After American missionaries arrived in 1820 and converted many in the Kingdom of Hawaii to Christianity, traditional healing arts were scorned as heathen and primitive. Various laws prohibited "heathen" worship and any related Native Hawaiian healing practices. Lomilomi as part of medical practice went underground. But lomilomi as restorative massage remained popular not only among the Hawa ...

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Lomilomi massage, Lomilomi massage - History of lomilomi, Lomilomi massage - Lomilomi in modern Hawaii, Lomilomi massage - Sources, Lomilomi massage - External link

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Trojan War - Telephus. When the Greeks left for the war, they accidentally stopped in Mysia, ruled by King Telephus. In the battle, Achilles wounded Telephus, who killed Thersander. The wound would not heal and Telephus asked an oracle who claimed "he that wounded shall heal". Telephus went to Aulis, and either pretended to be a beggar, asking Achilles to help heal his wound, or kidnapped Orestes and held him for ransom, demanding the wound be healed. Achilles refused, claiming to have no medical knowledge ...

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Trojan War, Trojan War - Background, Trojan War - Peleus and Thetis the apple and the judgment, Trojan War - The elopement of Helen, Trojan War - The marshalling of the forces, Trojan War - The War, Trojan War - Telephus, Trojan War - Philoctetes, Trojan War - Arrival, Trojan War - The death of Achilles, Trojan War - Achilles' armour/death of Ajax, Trojan War - Diomedes, Trojan War - The Trojan Horse, Trojan War - The aftermath, Trojan War - The Trojan War in art, Trojan War - Participants, Trojan War - Armies on the Greek side Achaeans, Trojan War - Armies on the Trojan side, Trojan War - Participants on the Greek side, Trojan War - Participants on the Trojan side, Trojan War - Participant/killer, Trojan War - Unknown side, Trojan War - Cultural References, Trojan War - In film

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When aromatherapy is used for the treatment or prevention of disease, a precise knowledge of the bioactivity and synergy of the essential oils used, knowledge of the dosage and duration of application, as well as, naturally, a medical diagnosis, are required. In the Anglo-Saxon world, even among "natural" practitioners like herbalists or naturopaths, aromatherapy is regarded more as an art form than a valid healing science. At best, it is viewed as a complementary and seldom the only treatment prescribed. On the continent, especially in Fran ...

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Aromatherapy, Aromatherapy - Materials, Aromatherapy - Theory, Aromatherapy - Application, Aromatherapy - Therapeutic effects, Aromatherapy - Criticism

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Pirandello's art arises out of a climate of profound historical and cultural disappointment. The wound cause by the betrayal of Il Risorgimento was never definitively healed in the soul of the writer. He added to a sense of diffuse disillusionment in Italy at the end of the 19th century a southern disdain for the politics of the newly united Italy with regard to the problems of the south. Pirandello adapted the title of a discourse by F. Brunetière La Banqueroute de science to describe this attitude which he felt toward the Ri ...

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Luigi Pirandello, Luigi Pirandello - Biography, Luigi Pirandello - The Novels, Luigi Pirandello - Works

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Rush believed that Americans should enshrine the right to medical freedom in their Constitution, much as the right to freedom of religion is expressly guaranteed in that document. Rush is reported to have argued that "Unless we put Medical Freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship . . . to restrict the art of healing to one class of men, and deny equal privilege to others, will be to constitute the Bastille of Medical Science. All such laws are un-American and despoti ...

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Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Rush - Constitutional Ideas, Benjamin Rush - Corps of Discovery, Benjamin Rush - Religious views and vision, Benjamin Rush - Controversial theories, Benjamin Rush - Contributions to Medicine

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Different manifestations occur at each stage of the disease. Syphilis - Primary syphilis. Primary syphilis is manifested after an incubation period of 10-90 days (the average is 21 days) with a primary sore. During the initial incubation period, individuals are asymptomatic. The sore, called a chancre, is a firm, painless skin ulceration localized at the point of initial exposure to the bacterium, often on the penis, vagina or rectum. Local lymph node swelling can occur. The primary lesion may persist for 4 to 6 weeks and then heal spontaneously. ...

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Syphilis, Syphilis - History, Syphilis - Stages of syphilis, Syphilis - Primary syphilis, Syphilis - Secondary syphilis, Syphilis - Tertiary syphilis, Syphilis - Latent syphilis, Syphilis - Congenital syphilis, Syphilis - Testing, Syphilis - Treatment, Syphilis - Syphilis in art and literature

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Art by Bill Sienkiewicz This story is about several mentally unbalanced people who are brought together on a quest to save Delirium from herself. It's possible at the end of this story that Delirium is somewhat healed in some fundamental way. ...

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Endless Nights, Endless Nights - Chapter 1: Death - Death and Venice, Endless Nights - Chapter 2: Desire - What I've tasted of Desire, Endless Nights - Chapter 3: Dream - The Heart of a Star, Endless Nights - Chapter 4: Despair - Fifteen Portraits of Despair, Endless Nights - Chapter 5: Delirium - Going Inside, Endless Nights - Chapter 6: Destruction - On the Peninsula, Endless Nights - Chapter 7: Destiny - Endless Nights

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