Registration Open for GWish Summer Institute: Mindful, Compassionate Care for the Dying

 

Registration Open for GWish Summer Institute

Focus on practical ways to integrate spirituality and compassion into healthcare.

Faculty Speakers are leaders in spiritual care, professionalism and compassion. They include:

Joan Halifax Roshi, PhD;

Robert D. Orr, MD, CM;

Tracy Balboni, MD, MPH;

Nisha Money, MD, MPH, ABIHM;

David Addiss, MD, MPH;

Patricia Fosarelli, MD, DMin;

Rev. George F. Handzo, BCC, CSBB;

Christina M. Puchalski, MD, FACP; and others.

 

 

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An awesome end of life care resources website!

DYING, SURVIVING, AND AGING WITH GRACE

I did a google search for the phrase: prayers for the dying.  The Great Adventure, I site that I started years ago, is doing very well there, but I found the above site and  it is TERRIFIC.  I really admire the work that Pat McNees is doing. Of course I had to pick up a copy of her book!

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Caregiver Revolution at the Tuscon Festival of Books!

Here’s our friend and Gateways Books and Tapes publisher Iven Lourie at the Tuscon festival last weekend. Photo by Kathleen Dreier – Esens Photography. Thanks guys!

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Spiritual Healing Techniques

Healing Techniques  as taught by Paramhansa Yogananda

swami yogananda healing techniques

Convert yourself into a divine battery, sending out through your hands divine healing rays whenever and wherever they may be needed.

Then your hands, charged with divine power, will throw healing rays into your patient’s heart and brain. Thus his seeds of ignorance will be destroyed, and he will smile with the health of God-love.

–Paramhansa Yogananda

AUM Prayer

After meditation, draw the energy to the arms and hands. Rub the hands together briskly, then raise them above your head.

Visualize the person you wish to heal. Chant AUM mentally or aloud three times, deeply concentrating on God’s blessings flowing through your hands.

Do this for as long as you feel to.

Prayer to Divine Mother

You may also pray thus:

Divine Mother, Thou art omnipresent. Thou art in all Thy children. Thou art in (the name of the person). Manifest Thy healing presence in his (her) body, mind and soul.

Rub the palms of your hands together briskly, then hold up your hands and chant AUM three times, sending healing energy to that person.

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True and Original Definition of Hospice

“You matter to the last moment of your life, and we will do all we can, not only to help you die peacefully, but to live until you die.”
-Dame Cicely Saunders

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Tai Chi Helps Ease Parkinson’s Symptoms

A new study provides promising results for Parkinson’s patients…now they have a great reason to practice tai chi!

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