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Finding your space: Anatomical reasoning and our relationship to realism
There are at least three ways, maybe even many more, to approach the practice of massage--as healthcare profession, as self-expression, and as business. Of course, no one approaches it exclusively one...
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What is biopsychosocial massage?
Several other people have contributed greatly to my thoughts on the topic of biopsychosocial massage, and a really profound discussion along those lines is currently going on in a social media group...
View ArticleAvoiding the perception of impropriety (#6/31)
Since my massage practice at the Refugee Clinic involved working with many clients who did not speak English, and since translators weren't always available, I took a course on medical translation, in...
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Are you mandated? (#23/31)
I always looked forward to my trip over the bridge to see my client, Mrs. Ford, in her skilled nursing facility in West Seattle. Mrs. Ford had a long history of smoking before the stroke that took...
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Looking into the abyss (#26/31)
It's not easy to face the realization of having been misled. And the misleading does not have to be intentional; it could have been done with the best intentions in the world. But those good...
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Reality bites (#28/31)
Or, as the Buddha famously put it: Life means that suffering exists. An important question is what do you do about that suffering? We all are confronted with that question, because no one escapes...
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Massage in a biopsychosocial model (#29/31)
Psychosocial and cognitive approaches don't require that you become a clinical psychologist but that you have a broad concept of the influence of those factors and that you account for them in your...
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Denying reality is not a sustainable choice anymore, and the only real question is whether we'll make the change in time to make use of these new opportunities, or whether our process will make us too...
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Sometimes evidence shows that the old ways actually are the best
While cherry-picking--the act of suppressing evidence that doesn't support our own particular biases--is something to be avoided, berry-picking, on the other hand--carrying out our searches for...
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What Seth said
Seth Godin writes, on the natural human tendency to deny facts we don't like: The problem with Orwellian talking heads, agitprop, faux news and Ballmer-like posturing is that they take away a...
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Why you may want to know this While the statistics on domestic violence vary widely, we know at the very least that it is a large and underreported worldwide problem. It doesn't respect class,...
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Biopsychosocial massage (BPSM): A new lineage
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed...
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Who owns BPSM?
That's an excellent question.Diane Jacobs, talking about dermoneuromodulation (DNM)--a practice that she has developed, and that we'll talk more about here later--answered that intellectual property...
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Massage in a biopsychosocial model
[reposted from Massage in a biopsychosocial model (#29/31)] Psychosocial and cognitive approaches don't require that you become a clinical psychologist but that you have a broad concept of the...
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Skillful discernment and the principle of non-contradiction: Knowing how to...
Many of us who attended junior high or high school in the United States had to read and analyze "The Road Not Taken", a poem published in 1916 by Robert Frost. It reads: 1. The Road Not Taken TWO...
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