Holistic

[Guest guest]

I haven't been checking the list for a while and was interested to

see the discussion that has ensued between the " scientists " and

the " new agers " .

I have a practice in Jerusalem, Israel, of both and

Healing - and seemingly can't really exist in harmony with myself. I

have to say, without sounding conceited, that I was one of the most

serious students in my class, after having a Masters in History and

changing professions. And the more I treat with ,

the more I realize just how important our role is to be as

professional as can be. My practice is very succesful, and while a

practitioner MUST be knowledgable of as much as one can - self

development - in my understanding is the key to being a

practitioner and not only how much he or she knows.

Healing on all levels , is an art, not only a science. And

devleoping skills that go beyond textbook medicine of any type is

the only thing, in my humble opinion, that distinguishes between a

truly capable practitioner, or not.

Although one can say that diagnosing of the tongue can be

scientific, the pulse, which is understood only through other senses

that can't be tested, is one of the clues that we are different. How

many of us have felt a pulse and intuited the diagnosis, rather than

broken it up into slippery, wiry, or floating? That doesn't mean

that we have to be unprofessional because we can't be described

through the standards of Western Medicine.We can speak one language

that is understandable for those who don't speak our own , but why

would we give up the beautiful side of a medicine that takes into

account nature, the seasons , and most of all the emotional state of

the person lying in front of us.

 

It might just be that living in Jerusalem, where little makes sense,

requires a different type of practitioner. But my gut (or my

intuition) tells me that as we grow as a profession - we're going to

need practitioners of spirit and not only of science (as in my book

they are incorporated in each other....). And also, in my book,

which it seems to me needs publishing (first it has to be written -

jest...), spirit and secular do not oppose each other, for even in

the secular world there is inspiration...

 

Lucy Blaser

Jerusalem, Israel