I will review research showing that love can transform disease and dis-ease. While no one would wish to be ill, when illness comes to us, we can transform our experience of it into a series of lessons that promote inner growth. I will show you how you can invite more healing love into your life, and will include experiential components in this lecture. . Psychotherapy As a wholistic psychiatrist I find that the combination of spiritual healing with psychotherapy is far more effective than either treatment alone. Psychotherapy may raise issues that are hard to deal with.
Healing can lessen anxieties and painful emotions surrounding such issues.
Psychotherapy helps to integrate these emotions, along with their associated traumatic memories, and to develop better ways of coping with stress. Most of us have had intuitive awarenesses of something far vaster and wiser than ourselves. We may call it God, Buddha, Allah, Christ, the Goddess, or simply feel it as an Infinite Source of energy, love, or all-knowing consciousness. This awareness might come during prayer or meditation, through communing with nature, in moments of ecstasy or of pain and dire distress. I will share various ways of experiencing and exploring your connection with this Infinite Source through descriptions of experiences, stories, and simple experiential exercises.