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The Anglo-Saxons are German tribes that emigrated from northern Europe in the Middle Ages for the island of Great Britain. Their history spans seven, culture-rich centuries from the fifth century to the 12th century. During the reign of King Alfred in the latter half of the eighth century, he inspires learning and literacy like no other king before him. With …
Thank you, Giver of Life, for all the life that was brought here before we arrived in this world. I thank Grandfather Sun for giving us our shadows because our shadows are direct representations of our ancestors who have gone before us. And, they follow us everywhere we go. They protect us. They guide us. So we thank Grandfather Sun …
Seven Key Principles of Ancient Hawaiian Healing Every culture has its own approach to living and healing. No matter your culture or ethnic background, you too will discover that your family genealogy had ancient techniques to support the whole of the person – body, mind and spirit. Before there were physicians, hospitals and healthcare professionals, there were healers. You can journey …
As Arizona Public Media (APM) reported in 2015, Native American healing traditions are embraced by treatment facilities of a wide variety–drug rehabilitation, domestic violence, abuse and trauma centers, and more. As the APM “Native Healing” video describes, “[m]ore and more mental health and substance abuse treatment facilities are turning to traditional American Indian ceremonies and practices, yet researchers are still …
Nearly a millennium-and-a-half after the cultivation of corn in Mesoamerica, around 1,200 BCE, the Olmec civilization is founded. This thriving society gives rise to the first cities and evidence shows advanced surgical procedures such as trephination (to treat a wide range of ills such as epileptic seizure, brain swelling and blunt trauma to the head). The fall of Olmec leads …
In the yoga tradition, your body bases its fulfilling your healing and wellness maintenance needs on the use of a conceptual framework called chakras. Chakras have a long history within Hinduism and Buddhism with varying degrees of similarity to what is commonly understood of chakras in modernity. Chakras can be understood today in integrative medicine as metaphors for the energetic …
In Western medicine, we consider the human body an open system, says Dr. B. M. Hegde, Indian medical scientist, educationist, and author, and Editor-in-Chief of the medical journal, Journal of the Science of Healing Outcomes. But, he tells the audience in his 2016 TEDx MITE talk, “Ayurveda Over Western Medicines,” that the human body is a closed system. All it …
If you have a chance to step back in time, one of the best places in the United States is located in Williamsburg, Virginia. Williamsburg offers a glimpse of the early start to colonization and of how we provided healing and healthcare before the American Revolution. If you visited the apothecary, you would have a chance to comprehend life before …
In the 1984 hit film, The Karate Kid, Daniel LaRusso (played by Ralph Macchio) is injured in his fight against Johnny Lawrence (played by William Zabka). He’s brought back to the locker room and he’s lying supine in pain with the sage Karate master, Mr. Miyagi (played by Pat Morita and gaining him a nomination for the Academy Award for …
Harmony and balance are the hallmarks of health and wellness of our biological systems. The ancient Japanese understood this and developed healing practices that attempted to bring order when disharmony and imbalance, in the manifestations of stress, anxiety, and disease, affected people. One such ancient healing practice out of Japan is Jin Shin Jyutsu, an art designed to help release …
