A Radicle: Plant medicine heals more than just people

A Radicle: Plant medicine heals more than just people: We often discuss how effective plants can be at supporting and gently bringing human beings back to a state of "wellness" (meaning that res...

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Continuing the journey towards the Heartwood.

2012....
New post~
Here is to New Beginnings~

For the next nine months I will be continuing the journey towards the Heartwood.
Moving towards health involves many paths, many manifestations, and it occurs on many levels.
My vehicle for health has been of late, massage therapy training, hot stone, moving into foot reflexology and spa facials.

I met with a nutritionist. I am going to take food as medicine even further. 

Creative manifestation towards understanding and meaning is vital in order to keep growing. I have been exploring my roots by immersing myself into the world of healing plants and herbs. I come from a long line of herbalists from Czechoslovakia. I healing through the interaction with healing plants. 

I am on a path which is unfolding and revealing great wisdom. For the next nine months, I will like to take the reader on a journey of plants and their healing powers.

I am enrolled in a 9 month Handcrafted Herbalism course, here in Forestville, Ca.

I will be identifying, growing, harvesting, and making herbal medicine from the medicinal plants growing in Sonoma County. I want to share this what I learn with you through photos, stories, myths, recipes,  plant information and other lovely info how making your own medicine. Please join me on this journey...let's see what we can medicine we can make !

Health Education: An Integral Path from Apathy to Service

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Health Education: An Integral Path from Apathy to Service

By

Carol Roselle

MA Integrative Final Project

HHE5610.1

John F. Kennedy University

Spring 2011

Abstract

This paper presents a model that outlines an integral path to human flourishing derived from ancient Eastern mind body practices namely, Buddhism and Yoga Nidra. Addressing health educators, the author outlines a model called the Invitation, a series of mind body practices and mindful contemplations. These practices are aids to psychospiritual development as it pertains to integral health. The paper claims that psychospiritual flourishing is a form of activism. The author supports the claim by exploring the relationship between activism, health, spiritual development and psychoneuroimmunology. The paper does this by providing an overview of contemporary activists and their works, psychospiritual development and psychoneuroimmunology (PNI). By providing various scientific studies the author investigates spiritual practices and how it impacts the interaction between psychological processes, the nervous and immune systems of the human body. The model is comprised of two limbs. The first includes contemplation of six spiritual qualities namely: generosity, goodness, patience, strength, concentration and wisdom adapted from the Bodhisattva Path from Mahayana Buddhism. The second part of the paper explores different aspects of Yoga Nidra specifically: sensorial, breath body, emotional, and cognition and their role in developing altruism.