Tag: healing

• The Teacher’s Task

  

  The snow is slowly receding, a process that will be accelerated by the rain and seasonal temperatures expected during the next few days. Most days now are marked by well below freezing nights and sunny days with temperatures in the mid-forties, Fahrenheit. When the sun shines warm and bright, the sap is likely to flow…

  Michael Watson PhD

  March 26, 2017

  First Nations, Healing, Shamanism, spirituality, Teaching

  ceremony, healing, Shamanism, teaching

• Vernal Equinox 2017

  The weather has turned more seasonable while remaining on the chilly side. The storm managed a good 30 inches of snow, the second most ever recorded in a single tempest here. Now the mid-March sun creates a rich tapestry of light and shadow across the snow-covered forested landscape.

  Michael Watson PhD

  March 19, 2017

  Ecopsychology, spirituality

  equinox, healing, Social Change

• Jung Drops in for Tea

  A sunny, frigid, late winter day. Later this week the temperatures will moderate and there will likely be a sap run. I’ve taken to avoiding news feeds in the evening, and try to limit my intake of news during the day; I also spend too much time fact checking. Anyway, the sheer volume of hatred…

  Michael Watson PhD

  March 5, 2017

  Arts, Psychotherapy, Social issues, spirituality

  dark times, healing, Jung, psychotherapy

• Cracking Open the Mind and Heart

  

  March has arrived, rainy and warm, rather more like April. More March-like is the stiff and gusty breeze, whipping the conifers and threatening to send hats and recycling careening down the street. Like the March wind, events can clear the cobwebs from our minds and thaw the icy bits from our hearts, allowing our minds…

  Michael Watson PhD

  March 1, 2017

  First Nations, Healing, Psychotherapy, Shamanism, spirituality

  healing, Indigenous, psychotherapy, Shamanism, Vera Wabegijig