Helen came with a classic anniversary syndrome. At the age of 48 her mother developed a cancerous brain tumour and died six months later. The first warning sign of the tumour was a persistent occipital pain on the right side.
On her 48th birthday Helen developed a persistent pain on the right side of her occiput. Her doctor ordered various tests all which proved negative but the pain persisted and her fear was growing.
A Japanese woman practiced Zen at the beginning of the 20th century. Her daughter told me about it. The mother was diagnosed as having a serious illness, and the medical science of lthe time gave her only a few months to live. When she was told, she went to see her Zen teacher in Yokohama. When he heard about it he just remarked, "Well you may be missed for up to three years after your death, but after that no one will remember you at all." She was taken aback, and pleaded, "I'm going to die. Can't you help me?" He jumped up, took her by the shoulders and pushed her out the door. "If you're going to die, die quick!" he said, and slammed the sliding doors together behind her.
Elizabeth had been a client for a couple of years and we had worked on a number of significant issues with her body all of which had come to a satisfactory conclusion so at the end of the session I said to her that she did not need to see me anymore as she was doing so well. I thought no more about until I had a phone call from her about five days later saying that she was just coming out of hospital and asking if she could come see me, so in a mild state of shock I said, “Of course, you can come right around.
A teacher of one of the philosophical schools of Buddhism, a very learned man, said to Bukko*, 'I know the holy texts. How is that they do not have this freedom of realisation?' Bukko replied, 'The seeds have been planted; the seeds are there, but the ground is in such a state that they do not strike, they do not germinate. You must dig up all your prejudices and clear the ground of your fixed ideas, and then the seeds will germinate.'
*(Buddha - light, the Chinese monk Tsu Yuen who was one of the 13th century Buddhist teachers who brought Zen to Japan)
Geoffrey's story is simple....cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma initially to be precise. He had undergone both chemotherapy and radiation treatment that had not been successful and the cancer was spreading. The final treatment option was a bone marrow transplant which he did not want as he had a plan, a very simple plan. He was going to die. In the meantime he was going to travel with friends in a camper van accross Europe until he was too ill to continue; then he would come home and die. He told me he thought he would have about 6 months of travelling and that he would be dead within the year. He was just 19 years old.
I have patients - Doctors have clients. For many decades it has always been the position that allopathic doctors treat patients and that alternative healers of any kind have clients. It is my contention that this is completely inaccurate.
The roots of the word "patient" come from the Latin patientia,- 'suffering', from the verb pati. Before the advent of the modern pharmaceutical drug interventions the reality was that anyone experiencing an illness or disease had to patiently undergo or "suffer" the experience until the doctor, healer or nature could effect a change. That change might be a resolution - a cure and , of course, in many cases there was no cure in which case the poor patient would die.
Helen came with a classic anniversary syndrome. At the age of 48 her mother developed a cancerous brain tumour and died six months later. The first warning sign of the tumour was a persistent occipital pain on the right side.
On her 48th birthday Helen developed a persistent pain on the right side of her occiput. Her doctor ordered various tests all which proved negative but the pain persisted and her fear was growing.
A Japanese woman practiced Zen at the beginning of the 20th century. Her daughter told me about it. The mother was diagnosed as having a serious illness, and the medical science of lthe time gave her only a few months to live. When she was told, she went to see her Zen teacher in Yokohama. When he heard about it he just remarked, "Well you may be missed for up to three years after your death, but after that no one will remember you at all." She was taken aback, and pleaded, "I'm going to die. Can't you help me?" He jumped up, took her by the shoulders and pushed her out the door. "If you're going to die, die quick!" he said, and slammed the sliding doors together behind her.
Elizabeth had been a client for a couple of years and we had worked on a number of significant issues with her body all of which had come to a satisfactory conclusion so at the end of the session I said to her that she did not need to see me anymore as she was doing so well. I thought no more about until I had a phone call from her about five days later saying that she was just coming out of hospital and asking if she could come see me, so in a mild state of shock I said, “Of course, you can come right around.
A teacher of one of the philosophical schools of Buddhism, a very learned man, said to Bukko*, 'I know the holy texts. How is that they do not have this freedom of realisation?' Bukko replied, 'The seeds have been planted; the seeds are there, but the ground is in such a state that they do not strike, they do not germinate. You must dig up all your prejudices and clear the ground of your fixed ideas, and then the seeds will germinate.'
*(Buddha - light, the Chinese monk Tsu Yuen who was one of the 13th century Buddhist teachers who brought Zen to Japan)
Geoffrey's story is simple....cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma initially to be precise. He had undergone both chemotherapy and radiation treatment that had not been successful and the cancer was spreading. The final treatment option was a bone marrow transplant which he did not want as he had a plan, a very simple plan. He was going to die. In the meantime he was going to travel with friends in a camper van accross Europe until he was too ill to continue; then he would come home and die. He told me he thought he would have about 6 months of travelling and that he would be dead within the year. He was just 19 years old.
I have patients - Doctors have clients. For many decades it has always been the position that allopathic doctors treat patients and that alternative healers of any kind have clients. It is my contention that this is completely inaccurate.
The roots of the word "patient" come from the Latin patientia,- 'suffering', from the verb pati. Before the advent of the modern pharmaceutical drug interventions the reality was that anyone experiencing an illness or disease had to patiently undergo or "suffer" the experience until the doctor, healer or nature could effect a change. That change might be a resolution - a cure and , of course, in many cases there was no cure in which case the poor patient would die.
Helen came with a classic anniversary syndrome. At the age of 48 her mother developed a cancerous brain tumour and died six months later. The first warning sign of the tumour was a persistent occipital pain on the right side.
On her 48th birthday Helen developed a persistent pain on the right side of her occiput. Her doctor ordered various tests all which proved negative but the pain persisted and her fear was growing.
A Japanese woman practiced Zen at the beginning of the 20th century. Her daughter told me about it. The mother was diagnosed as having a serious illness, and the medical science of lthe time gave her only a few months to live. When she was told, she went to see her Zen teacher in Yokohama. When he heard about it he just remarked, "Well you may be missed for up to three years after your death, but after that no one will remember you at all." She was taken aback, and pleaded, "I'm going to die. Can't you help me?" He jumped up, took her by the shoulders and pushed her out the door. "If you're going to die, die quick!" he said, and slammed the sliding doors together behind her.
Elizabeth had been a client for a couple of years and we had worked on a number of significant issues with her body all of which had come to a satisfactory conclusion so at the end of the session I said to her that she did not need to see me anymore as she was doing so well. I thought no more about until I had a phone call from her about five days later saying that she was just coming out of hospital and asking if she could come see me, so in a mild state of shock I said, “Of course, you can come right around.
A teacher of one of the philosophical schools of Buddhism, a very learned man, said to Bukko*, 'I know the holy texts. How is that they do not have this freedom of realisation?' Bukko replied, 'The seeds have been planted; the seeds are there, but the ground is in such a state that they do not strike, they do not germinate. You must dig up all your prejudices and clear the ground of your fixed ideas, and then the seeds will germinate.'
*(Buddha - light, the Chinese monk Tsu Yuen who was one of the 13th century Buddhist teachers who brought Zen to Japan)
Geoffrey's story is simple....cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma initially to be precise. He had undergone both chemotherapy and radiation treatment that had not been successful and the cancer was spreading. The final treatment option was a bone marrow transplant which he did not want as he had a plan, a very simple plan. He was going to die. In the meantime he was going to travel with friends in a camper van accross Europe until he was too ill to continue; then he would come home and die. He told me he thought he would have about 6 months of travelling and that he would be dead within the year. He was just 19 years old.
I have patients - Doctors have clients. For many decades it has always been the position that allopathic doctors treat patients and that alternative healers of any kind have clients. It is my contention that this is completely inaccurate.
The roots of the word "patient" come from the Latin patientia,- 'suffering', from the verb pati. Before the advent of the modern pharmaceutical drug interventions the reality was that anyone experiencing an illness or disease had to patiently undergo or "suffer" the experience until the doctor, healer or nature could effect a change. That change might be a resolution - a cure and , of course, in many cases there was no cure in which case the poor patient would die.
Helen came with a classic anniversary syndrome. At the age of 48 her mother developed a cancerous brain tumour and died six months later. The first warning sign of the tumour was a persistent occipital pain on the right side.
On her 48th birthday Helen developed a persistent pain on the right side of her occiput. Her doctor ordered various tests all which proved negative but the pain persisted and her fear was growing.
A Japanese woman practiced Zen at the beginning of the 20th century. Her daughter told me about it. The mother was diagnosed as having a serious illness, and the medical science of lthe time gave her only a few months to live. When she was told, she went to see her Zen teacher in Yokohama. When he heard about it he just remarked, "Well you may be missed for up to three years after your death, but after that no one will remember you at all." She was taken aback, and pleaded, "I'm going to die. Can't you help me?" He jumped up, took her by the shoulders and pushed her out the door. "If you're going to die, die quick!" he said, and slammed the sliding doors together behind her.
Elizabeth had been a client for a couple of years and we had worked on a number of significant issues with her body all of which had come to a satisfactory conclusion so at the end of the session I said to her that she did not need to see me anymore as she was doing so well. I thought no more about until I had a phone call from her about five days later saying that she was just coming out of hospital and asking if she could come see me, so in a mild state of shock I said, “Of course, you can come right around.
A teacher of one of the philosophical schools of Buddhism, a very learned man, said to Bukko*, 'I know the holy texts. How is that they do not have this freedom of realisation?' Bukko replied, 'The seeds have been planted; the seeds are there, but the ground is in such a state that they do not strike, they do not germinate. You must dig up all your prejudices and clear the ground of your fixed ideas, and then the seeds will germinate.'
*(Buddha - light, the Chinese monk Tsu Yuen who was one of the 13th century Buddhist teachers who brought Zen to Japan)
Geoffrey's story is simple....cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma initially to be precise. He had undergone both chemotherapy and radiation treatment that had not been successful and the cancer was spreading. The final treatment option was a bone marrow transplant which he did not want as he had a plan, a very simple plan. He was going to die. In the meantime he was going to travel with friends in a camper van accross Europe until he was too ill to continue; then he would come home and die. He told me he thought he would have about 6 months of travelling and that he would be dead within the year. He was just 19 years old.
I have patients - Doctors have clients. For many decades it has always been the position that allopathic doctors treat patients and that alternative healers of any kind have clients. It is my contention that this is completely inaccurate.
The roots of the word "patient" come from the Latin patientia,- 'suffering', from the verb pati. Before the advent of the modern pharmaceutical drug interventions the reality was that anyone experiencing an illness or disease had to patiently undergo or "suffer" the experience until the doctor, healer or nature could effect a change. That change might be a resolution - a cure and , of course, in many cases there was no cure in which case the poor patient would die.
Helen came with a classic anniversary syndrome. At the age of 48 her mother developed a cancerous brain tumour and died six months later. The first warning sign of the tumour was a persistent occipital pain on the right side.
On her 48th birthday Helen developed a persistent pain on the right side of her occiput. Her doctor ordered various tests all which proved negative but the pain persisted and her fear was growing.
A Japanese woman practiced Zen at the beginning of the 20th century. Her daughter told me about it. The mother was diagnosed as having a serious illness, and the medical science of lthe time gave her only a few months to live. When she was told, she went to see her Zen teacher in Yokohama. When he heard about it he just remarked, "Well you may be missed for up to three years after your death, but after that no one will remember you at all." She was taken aback, and pleaded, "I'm going to die. Can't you help me?" He jumped up, took her by the shoulders and pushed her out the door. "If you're going to die, die quick!" he said, and slammed the sliding doors together behind her.
Elizabeth had been a client for a couple of years and we had worked on a number of significant issues with her body all of which had come to a satisfactory conclusion so at the end of the session I said to her that she did not need to see me anymore as she was doing so well. I thought no more about until I had a phone call from her about five days later saying that she was just coming out of hospital and asking if she could come see me, so in a mild state of shock I said, “Of course, you can come right around.
A teacher of one of the philosophical schools of Buddhism, a very learned man, said to Bukko*, 'I know the holy texts. How is that they do not have this freedom of realisation?' Bukko replied, 'The seeds have been planted; the seeds are there, but the ground is in such a state that they do not strike, they do not germinate. You must dig up all your prejudices and clear the ground of your fixed ideas, and then the seeds will germinate.'
*(Buddha - light, the Chinese monk Tsu Yuen who was one of the 13th century Buddhist teachers who brought Zen to Japan)
Geoffrey's story is simple....cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma initially to be precise. He had undergone both chemotherapy and radiation treatment that had not been successful and the cancer was spreading. The final treatment option was a bone marrow transplant which he did not want as he had a plan, a very simple plan. He was going to die. In the meantime he was going to travel with friends in a camper van accross Europe until he was too ill to continue; then he would come home and die. He told me he thought he would have about 6 months of travelling and that he would be dead within the year. He was just 19 years old.
I have patients - Doctors have clients. For many decades it has always been the position that allopathic doctors treat patients and that alternative healers of any kind have clients. It is my contention that this is completely inaccurate.
The roots of the word "patient" come from the Latin patientia,- 'suffering', from the verb pati. Before the advent of the modern pharmaceutical drug interventions the reality was that anyone experiencing an illness or disease had to patiently undergo or "suffer" the experience until the doctor, healer or nature could effect a change. That change might be a resolution - a cure and , of course, in many cases there was no cure in which case the poor patient would die.
Helen came with a classic anniversary syndrome. At the age of 48 her mother developed a cancerous brain tumour and died six months later. The first warning sign of the tumour was a persistent occipital pain on the right side.
On her 48th birthday Helen developed a persistent pain on the right side of her occiput. Her doctor ordered various tests all which proved negative but the pain persisted and her fear was growing.
A Japanese woman practiced Zen at the beginning of the 20th century. Her daughter told me about it. The mother was diagnosed as having a serious illness, and the medical science of lthe time gave her only a few months to live. When she was told, she went to see her Zen teacher in Yokohama. When he heard about it he just remarked, "Well you may be missed for up to three years after your death, but after that no one will remember you at all." She was taken aback, and pleaded, "I'm going to die. Can't you help me?" He jumped up, took her by the shoulders and pushed her out the door. "If you're going to die, die quick!" he said, and slammed the sliding doors together behind her.
Elizabeth had been a client for a couple of years and we had worked on a number of significant issues with her body all of which had come to a satisfactory conclusion so at the end of the session I said to her that she did not need to see me anymore as she was doing so well. I thought no more about until I had a phone call from her about five days later saying that she was just coming out of hospital and asking if she could come see me, so in a mild state of shock I said, “Of course, you can come right around.
A teacher of one of the philosophical schools of Buddhism, a very learned man, said to Bukko*, 'I know the holy texts. How is that they do not have this freedom of realisation?' Bukko replied, 'The seeds have been planted; the seeds are there, but the ground is in such a state that they do not strike, they do not germinate. You must dig up all your prejudices and clear the ground of your fixed ideas, and then the seeds will germinate.'
*(Buddha - light, the Chinese monk Tsu Yuen who was one of the 13th century Buddhist teachers who brought Zen to Japan)
Geoffrey's story is simple....cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma initially to be precise. He had undergone both chemotherapy and radiation treatment that had not been successful and the cancer was spreading. The final treatment option was a bone marrow transplant which he did not want as he had a plan, a very simple plan. He was going to die. In the meantime he was going to travel with friends in a camper van accross Europe until he was too ill to continue; then he would come home and die. He told me he thought he would have about 6 months of travelling and that he would be dead within the year. He was just 19 years old.
I have patients - Doctors have clients. For many decades it has always been the position that allopathic doctors treat patients and that alternative healers of any kind have clients. It is my contention that this is completely inaccurate.
The roots of the word "patient" come from the Latin patientia,- 'suffering', from the verb pati. Before the advent of the modern pharmaceutical drug interventions the reality was that anyone experiencing an illness or disease had to patiently undergo or "suffer" the experience until the doctor, healer or nature could effect a change. That change might be a resolution - a cure and , of course, in many cases there was no cure in which case the poor patient would die.
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