Martini Pundit » mental and spiritual health http://www.martinipundit.com Opinions Shaken not Stirred Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:52:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Healing Power of Peace http://www.martinipundit.com/mental-and-spiritual-health/the-healing-power-of-peace http://www.martinipundit.com/mental-and-spiritual-health/the-healing-power-of-peace#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:49:14 +0000 admin http://www.martinipundit.com/?p=42 We, chiropractors, are a peaceful group as are most holistic practitioners. Doctors of Chiropractic and others involved in an alternative approach to health recognize that a peaceful environment is essential for treating our patients effectively,  and peacefulness  within our patients is an essential condition for healing.

Achieving that vital healing environment of peace,  both internally and externally, is not always easy, especially in the world as it is today. It does seem that the world, particularly in the past eight or nine years, has become ever more divisive, chaotic, and violent. And, until recently, the United States, which had for so many years held an honorable place on the world stage, had joined in the fray — pointing fingers at “otherness” and enemies, giving outline and substance to an axis of evil, and isolating our country in arrogance and xenophobia.

And so, today, I want to celebrate along with you the awe-inspiring significance that our President, Barack Obama, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. It fills me with hope that the coming years will bring a more readily achievable external peace and a more easily experienced peace within.  Let the healing begin. Cheers!

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]]> http://www.martinipundit.com/mental-and-spiritual-health/the-healing-power-of-peace/feed 1 Let's Take a Time Out http://www.martinipundit.com/mental-and-spiritual-health/lets-take-a-time-out http://www.martinipundit.com/mental-and-spiritual-health/lets-take-a-time-out#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:41:20 +0000 admin http://www.martinipundit.com/?p=27 Just thinking out loud here, but not so loud that you can’t hear me. Rather, I offer a quiet, oral meditation on civility. It seems to me that, today, people are shouting in the extreme, and not to be heard necessarily (not like the futile voice-raising one does when talking to someone who speaks a different language), but more in an effort to drown out opposing voices. In this way, neither “pro” or “con” is heard. We have, indeed, become “extremely” uncivil to one another. The offense of the words, “You lie!” shouted in the midst of the recent Presidential address to Congress was, and continues to be, offensive not because “you lie,” was a lie, but because it was so completely uncivil. After all, not only does our Congress have rules of order to insure civil behavior, but it has, no doubt, been lied to many times, most recently by the most recently-former president.

I believe that it is time for all of us in this country to take a deep breath, close our eyes, quiet our minds, and just let go. Really. Just let go it all go — all the anger, all the thoughts of “those others,” all the thoughts of our needing to be right, and just let it all go, and be… be still… be quiet… just be.  It would be like a collective “time out.” And, just for a moment, our childish tantrums would cease. And, who knows what inner clarity might occur in that moment; what answers might arise? After all, when the king in the old fable scoured the earth to find the  “loudest sound in the world” as a birthday gift for his daughter, did he not ultimately find that it was silence?

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