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Beauty from the Inside

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This is my great friend Paul Brenner MD, PhD. I worked with him at the San Diego Cancer Center.  He is the definition of connection and openness. He shares my passion for caring for people in groups with the goal of expressing thoughts and feelings as a pathway to health and healing

 http://www.standup2cancer.org/blog/view/you_are_not_your_cancer

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Kim said…
I really loved this post. It is amazing to me how much our identity is shaped the status of our health. How do we feel ok when it can feel unsafe in our bodies?
April 23, 2013 at 5:13 PM
B'tina said…
The Pando Health Group is an insightful and timely concept for today's health care model. We need more innovative physicians like Dr Kalina who care about the whole person.
April 24, 2013 at 7:50 AM
Mark Kalina, MD said…
Feeling safe in the midst of illness is a true and very real challenge which we all will feel at some point in our ride through life. It is at these most challenging times that the "internal" practices are SO crucial. Prayer, meditation, Xi Gong all have helped people I have known and cared for. Having a relationship with this "inner" world prior to illness helps a lot. Connecting with the "pelvic brain" takes us out of the chaotic craziness of the cranial brain and into a space of deeper awareness. All these practices take us to a faith and connection that just does not evolve out of thinking.
April 24, 2013 at 9:04 AM
Mark Kalina, MD said…
Our health care delivery system (and our world, in general) need radical shifts in consciousness. THere is So much work to be done but SO many great people to do it.
April 24, 2013 at 9:07 AM
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