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The Next Phase

I now have my own medical practice. I am open for business and eager to help people heal and get healthy. I am going to try to write about my experiences helping people as my way to help myself understand what exactly healing is and how it can be facilitated.

It seems the standard medical world is excited and recharged by the amazing possibilities that are arising out of all the new technological innovations that are now here and are definitely coming soon. Smart phones seem destined to revolutionize medical delivery with the incredible things that can be accomplished with our own personal computers that we carry in our pockets or purses. Our homes stand to become mini intensive care units if that is needed and medicine will continue to expand its power outside the hospital and clinic. I am truly grateful to this new progress(which gave me a healing that literally brought me back to life) and am excited to witness the revolutionary forces that are shaping our lives. The possibilities are mind-blowing.

While I am excited to witness this "wild ride", what I wish to focus on and be is an "old-time" doctor with a black bag whose main tools are my ears, my heart and my creativity. I plan to(and have started) helping people get well with a simple strategy. I listen hard for the pearls in their story and guide them to see their situation with new eyes. I do not forsake the technology that is now available. To the contrary, we have an unparalleled opportunity to know what is happening in the body and visualize the structure and function of any system and I want that information. With that knowledge, we(the patient and I) can venture forth toward healing, transformation and well-being. The technology gives us a picture and from here we can usher in changes that bring health. New perceptions, new beliefs, new approaches can unlock the blocks and barriers that have kept us down and made us weak and ill. There is a world of possibility out there that we can tap into. Technology shows us the current state; changing our beliefs can bring a new(and often) a better state.

My coming blogs will detail the stories I have been fortunate enough to witness. Of course, the names will be changed but the stories are real. Healing can happen and I want to talk about it.

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