Tag: healing

• The Good Road

  This way of Balance and Beauty requires much of those who would walk it. Yet it offers many rewards, and the possibility of profound healing for self, other, and Earth. It is a Good road.

  Michael Watson PhD

  November 25, 2011

  Psychotherapy, Shamanism

  darkness, healing, light, trauma

• Water Is Rising:Dreaming the Renewal of the Sacred Hoop

  The cast radiated caring, openheartedness, and sincerity. Through the instrument of the show, they offered us, the audience, a glimpse into their lives and culture, lives centered on the sea, singing, and dancing. They also offered a dream of a healed, caring, humane world. They cast no stones, demonstrated no animosity, occupied only the stage…

  Michael Watson PhD

  November 20, 2011

  Arts, First Nations, Sacred Lands, Social issues

  healing, Sacred Hoop, Water Is Rising

• 14 Peruvian Shamans Murdered in Amazonia

  This blog is dedicated to healers and the healing of individuals, families, communities, nations, and Mother Earth. More often than I like, I also report on harm done in the world. I do so because I believe naming injustice and brutality is part of bringing healing to the victims of such violence. Friday night marked…

  Michael Watson PhD

  October 9, 2011

  First Nations, Social issues

  healing, murder, Peru, shamans, Yom Kippur

• To Heal Is to Own One’s Own Identity

  Healing, at it’s best,contests the definitions and deletions of self imposed by others from without, and supports the development of a more home grown, autonomous sense of group and individual self.

  Michael Watson PhD

  October 2, 2011

  Healing, Psychotherapy

  colonialism, definitions of self, disability, healing, Native American