Posts by Carl Greer
A Healing Message from Nature
Spending time in nature offers many health benefits. It reduces your amount of stress hormones, bathes you in sunlight that raises your vitamin D levels, and seems to reduce the risk of developing nearsightedness. Some physicians are even prescribing nature walks for their patients, as a USA Today article points out. Nature seems to recalibrate us, bringing us…
Read MoreEnergy Healing and Nature
Many different wisdom traditions have recognized that natural spaces can affect people’s energy in particular ways. Are you sensitive enough to recognize the subtle changes in energy as you walk from one area to another, such as across a meadow or along a beach? Can you identify spots that have healing powers? If not, you…
Read MoreYou Can Change the Story of Your Health
Our stories are the way we understand our experiences. Just as you have a story of your life, you have a story of your health. What is it? “I just want my health problems fixed so I can get back to my old life”? Or perhaps “I don’t have time to eat right, get enough…
Read MoreAyni and Spirit
In the Quechua language, there is a word, ayni, which means reciprocity. Having ayni with Spirit, the creative force that expresses love to us means two-way communication and a mutual partnership. Do you know what you want from Spirit, and what Spirit wants from you? How do you communicate to Spirit? And how does Spirit…
Read MoreWhen Your Spending Habits Aren’t Working for You
The beginning of a new year holds the promise of reinvention, retooling, and rejuvenation, and we eagerly anticipate that this year will be different and better. We vow to change old habits that are no longer working for us. Soon, however, we find ourselves stuck again in the old patterns. If your spending habits are…
Read More7 Keys to Dream Interpretation
Have you ever wondered what a dream means, or are you worried that a frightening dream could be a warning you don’t understand? Dreams can be amusing, intriguing, or disturbing. They can always be educational if you are willing to work with them and learn from them. Using techniques from shamanism, Jungian psychology, and my…
Read MoreA Time to Imagine
Is it a time to imagine what you might create for yourself? When planning, planting, and cultivating something new–such as a relationship, a career, or a project–we naturally want to avoid difficulties. Yet we also want to enjoy a bountiful harvest that lasts a long time. Therefore, we imagine, we plant, and we persevere, hoping to bring…
Read MoreHow I Think About Giving on the Street
When it comes to our stories, most of us want to think of ourselves as people who are supportive of others. How much of your story involves giving to those in your community who are less fortunate? Many people don’t often ask this question of themselves until a stranger asks them for money. In that…
Read MoreWriting a New Story of Health: A Review of Breast Cancer, A Soul Journey by Patricia Greer
Cancer comes unbidden, an intrusion that evokes fear and brings disruption. How do we coexist with it? Even if it goes into remission or is “cured,” how do we live with the energetic residue that it leaves? While cancer is a powerful force, those affected by it also have power: the power to choose how they…
Read MoreChange the Story of Your Health
A physician may have the persona of a wise healer, all-knowing about what to do to be healthy. Yet, the shadow for her might be failure to acknowledge her own unhealthiness and to practice what she preaches. A man could be a critic of the lifestyle choices of others and an expert in what to…
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