Futurehealth - Futurehealth Newsletter of December 19, 2010

By Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Hearing Voices and Seeing Visions: What to do?
Once upon a time, in most of the world's societies, hearing voices and seeing visions was honored and desired. In contemporary, modern culture it has become the one symptom that allows an immediate diagnosis of a psychotic disorder. In this essay, I write about the downside of pathologizing voices, while still acknowledging that many people suffer enormously from voices and negative visions. I describe how to be healing.

By Rob Kall
Lewis Mehl-Madrona Using Story to Heal in Psychiatry

By Todd Kashdan
The Problem with Happiness
Asked what is the fundamental objective of life, the vast majority of people answer quickly and definitively -- happiness. Their lives are organized around trying to be happy. Sounds good, right? Sounds even better when you read about the scientific benefits linked to happiness.

By Rob Kall
John Taylor Gatto, author Dumbing Us Down and Weapons of Mass Instruction

a wide ranging discussion on the problems with the American Education system, or as Gatto clarifies-- compulsory schooling, which is not the same as education.

By Rob Kall
Rae Tattenbaum; Enabling Optimal Performance in Kids, Performers... and spiritual approaches and integration

we cover a lot of ground-- ADD ADHD kids, optimal performance for performers... spiritual approaches and integration

By Rob Kall
Robert Thatcher Advances in Understanding the Brain, Z-Score Neurofeedback, Why EEG is More Important than ever

in a wide ranging interview, Dr. Bob Thatcher shares some early neurofeedback and qEEG history, some visions of the future and summarizes some of the insights billions in brain research have yielded.

By Vidya Bolz
Trauma, Health and Neurofeedback
summary of Dr. Robert Scaer's excellent video on his work on trauma and how it is stored in neural networks

By Lynda Thompson
Asperger Syndrome or ADHD
The traits of someone with Asperger Syndrome overlap with ADHD in terms of poor attention and impulsive behaviour so these children are often diagnosed as ADHD.

By Rob Kall
Lynda Thompson; ADD, Autistic Spectrum, Asperger Syndrome

discussion of neurofeedback and biofeedback for ADD, ADHD, Aspergers, Autism, autistic spectrum disorders

By Hyla Cass
Are Cell Phones and Wi-Fi Hazardous to Your Health?
The latest form of environmental pollution -- and one that industry, government and wireless consumers don't like to acknowledge -- may be the most devastating threat to health yet: electromagnetic fields (EMFs).

By Rob Kall
Stress Check Biofeedback Card on Doctor OZ show

The Stress Check Biofeedback card was used on the Doctor Oz show today, as a tool for tracking stress level. Video and transcript.

By Joan Brunwasser
"Life in the Balance, A Physician's Memoir of Life, Love and Loss with Parkinson's Disease and Dementia"

The neural pathways are disorganized, like some fantastically complex highway system with overpasses and intersections,on-ramps and exit ramps,all leading nowhere.A thought forms, it gets sent down the pike, only to get lost in some cul-de-sac where it spins like a whirling dervish.Sometimes the thoughts will finally spin out of the cul-de-sac and find expression; often,they simply spin themselves out like a spent whirlwind.

By Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Cancer and Coyote Magic in Woodstock
I reflect upon the stories people create to explain their cancer and how some of these stories can be used to make them suffer even further. I wrote about Sarah, a woman with lung cancer who attended a workshop I co-led with my friend, Peter Blum. Sarah suffered enormously from believing that if she did everything "right", she would get well and her cancer would go away. It wasn't. Therefore, she was bad. What do we do?

By press release
Army looking at Biofeedback, Yoga, Acupuncture to Treat Pain

The task force visited 28 military, Veterans Affairs and civilian medical centers between October and January to observe treatment capabilities and best practices.

By Rob Kall
Rick Hanson; Co-author; Buddha's Brain;The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, love and wisdom

a great interview with the co-author of a very extraordinary, must read book.

Textbook of Neurofeedback, EEG Biofeedback, qEEG and Brain Self Regulation
e-book by Rob Kall and Joe Kamiya with 26 chapters

By Rob Kall
Robert Whitaker author Anatomy of An Epidemic; How Psychiatry Failed and Betrayed America, killing 1000s, Disabling Millions

The history of modern psychiatry is a horror story. Long term studies of psychiatric drugs show they not only don't work, they destroy lives or even shorten them by decades. This is based on data and facts

By Judith Acosta
Beyond Biofeedback: How Words Can Help Children Heal
Children learn who they are in the world via an organic form of biofeedback. Everything we say and do communicates and that communication is received by them not only cognitively but, perhaps more importantly, physiologically and genetically.

By Joan Brunwasser
John Robbins on "The New Good Life - Living Better Than Ever In an Age of Less"

One of the reasons I wrote my latest book is to provide people with simple, easy and inexpensive suggestions on how to raise their quality of life while lowering their cost of living, and at the same time lowering their ecological footprint. Learning to live with respect for ourselves and the whole earth community is no easy task in a culture that has become as out of balance as ours has.

By Warren Davies
What is Happiness?
How would you define happiness? Is it an emotion? A state of mind? A decision? Is it a reaction to things that happen to us, like pain, or is it something we can create

By Hyla Cass
Nutrients to Unplug and Recharge Your Body and Mind
Stress seems inevitable, and takes its toll on our health and well-being. Do you recognize any of these signs?

By David Siever
The Use of Audio-Visual Entrainment for the Treatment of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
A review of the research regarding audio-visual entrainment for the treatment of ADD/ADHD.

By Dr. Clare Albright
Have You Been Told that Your Pain is All in Your Head?
This article discusses how the brain can store the message of pain after an injury has already healed in the body.

By Jon Rhodes
So What Is Hypnosis?
This article attempts to explain what hypnosis is.

By Joan Brunwasser
Documentary film OPERATION: Emotional Freedom offers "The Answer" for treating veterans with PTSD

This is the first feature-length documentary on energy psychology and along with featuring many of the preeminent practitioners in EP including Gary Craig, the founder of EFT and Carol Look, PhD the film is being sold and shown worldwide in over 30 countries. On July 21st the film was included in a presentation to the House of Representatives Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

By Joan Brunwasser
Omega Institute's Elizabeth Lesser on "Broken Open" and Personal Transformation

The hardest aspect of memoir is that it involves writing about not only oneself, but also about the people in one's life. My children, my parents, my husband, my ex-husband, my friends: none of them asked to be characters in my book. I am sure I caused discomfort for some of the folks in my life. But I did it for a reason that I still feel clear and good about.

By Rob Kall
Stephen Sideroff, Ph.D. Neurofeedback and Reslience, Addiction, Sports Psychology, Chronic Pain and more

Neurofeedback, addiction, resilience, Pain, Sports Psychology and more discussed.

By Siegfried Othmer, Ph.D.
Who Owns Self-Regulation?

We are moving into an age where people are taking responsibility for their own well-being, and that by now includes the domain of most psychopharmacological agents. It will most certainly also include the self-regulation technologies.