Simplifying the Road to Wholeness
by Nancy Stewart Ging
Category: Psychology

Here is a formula for living which simplifies the challenging human condition. While simple, this formula has depth and texture which inspires and enlarges us. This book serves as a bridge between two different ways of thinking about ourselves and others. It simply synthesizes something the author calls "the Energy Paradigm" WITH the standard, conventionally held world view of "medical model" psychology and psychiatry. Larry Dossey, M.D., author of HEALING BEYOND THE BODY, HEALING WORDS, and REINVENTING MEDICINE said of this Nancy Ging and her first book: "SIMPLIFYING THE ROAD TO WHOLENESS" is full of insights into integrating body, mind, and spirit, and an entry into the medicine of the future. Nancy Ging is a compassionate, skillful, and trustworthy guide." The author shares original theoretical material that can help the reader look with new eyes at the daunting dilemma of living as a human being. Life can be simplified as we recognize that we live in two Realities (one is spacious, the other more dense) and the two Realities have different "laws," there are two kinds of physics (Newtonian and Quantum Physics) and we have two brain-hemispheres (Yin and Yang) which interpret the two Realities for us. Reality is changing, and so must self-help books and the helping-professions. Without drowning the baby in the bath water, this book allows the reader to hear and hold helpful ways conventionally trained clinicians have thought about their clients AND, within the other hand, hold another Reality. The other Reality is the world view of the many holistically inclined practitioners. It is the paradigm of the millions of people addressing their spirituality and opening to ponder the mysterious realm. Both hands, both realities, are worthy of respect and each reality reflects aspects of the whole of life. Have you noticed the word "energy" creeping into the collective vocabulary of our culture as we´ve entered the New Millennium? The perspective that everything is energy-in-motion and that everything is interconnected has long been the perspective of mystics and people of the Earth-honoring cultures of earlier civilizations. In recent years, the world view of those mystical and spiritual healers has also been embraced by a growing number of holistic healers -- energy workers/body-workers and a new breed of energy-sensitive psychotherapists -- and by a great many people who are awakening to another dimension of who they really are. The era of energy speake is upon us and a shift in consciousness is occurring. This isn´t a time to throw out the model from which we´ve been operating while embracing the new paradigm. It is a time to dance back and forth on a bridge which marries together two complementary opposites realities. A new era is dawning and this visionary author has written about ways we can expand into wholesome self-love thereby doing our part to brighten the collective consciousness of humanity. At the very least, this book can help an individual to know their own wholeness and experience it on a regular basis. The partnership of the old paradigm of science which we have been taught in school AND the emerging new paradigm or "energy paradigm" gives the reader a new synthesis out of which to find balance. Life is a balancing act! Within the fulcrum point where divergent realities meet, balance and wholeness is found. The human heart is this fulcrum point, the wellspring and fountain where a Unified Self can be found. The author shows and tells. She shares some of her own life´s challenges and celebrations, tragedies and triumphs, and she teaches us that miracles of growth and healing happen at the place where the spaciousness of Spirit begins to encounter the more concrete, material reality of form and structure. This is a book for helping oneself find the wholeness which already exists for each of us in the reality