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B'SD 18 Adar, 5777 It's been a powerful 48 hours since I wrote my most recent blogpost. I wrapped up my writing of the speech I'll be giving in May. Barring unforeseen miracles, I doubt that I'll change any of the words by then.
Though I'm a professional writer, I prefer to have my public presentation work reviewed by colleagues before I make my comments to an audience. Personal remarks are not impartial, as most of my writing would be. That can be a problem. So, yesterday, I sent the document with my speech to a few medical and mental health professionals. I asked them to critique my work so I could improve on it and make sure that my points were clearly made. Responses were favorable. One stood out from the rest: "Your experiences are so moving, and your personality so optimistic and unflackable [sic] despite the difficulties, it's no wonder that you have the ability to inspire. "Your piece inspired me to look at my own life. I've never broken a bone, so it wasn't as easy for me to see the hand of shamayim (heaven) giving me a such clear sign. Still, the hand of Shamayim is there, obviously. "I asked myself, what were my most difficult trials for? Because I too have had very difficult health trials, only different ones. Baruch Hashem (thank GOD), resolved. "I believe that these trials were for growth, maturation, and self definition. Who am I? How can I compensate? (Compensation is not only a cover for weakness, it is also an exercise in strength in of itself.) How should I approach this situation and others like it, in order to be more rather than less as a result of this trial? What can I do with my life to make it a life best lived? "I think of Young, who, after developing a new philosophy and methodology for the treatment of mental illness, fell into a psychotic period for a number of years. Fully aware that he was psychotic (which is unusual in of itself) he studied himself while psychotic. Then he came out from his mental illness. That subsequent period after his mental illness was to become most productive period of his life. "I also think that throughout my life I have had deep desires in my heart that I didn't know how to vocalize, for which I had no idea how they would be realized. Then Hashem (GOD) made them happen. I look back and I see that the things that I wanted the most, the things my heart prayed for without my mouth praying, were the things that Hashem gave me and keeps giving me. "So for me, most of what I see coming out of shamayim in my life, is not "stay away from this or that" (although surely those things are in the halacha - ED: Jewish law) but rather a deep chesed (kindness) that just keeps coming. Anyway, keep writing and keep inspiring!" I plan to share the speech with you after it's been spoken to my audience in May.
OK, back to your regular programming.
I wish you an inspirational day!
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B'SD 16 Adar, 5777 Life has been quite busy this past week, hence my silence on the blog. Let's catch up a bit, OK? The Purim holiday was fun and blessedly free of violence against Israel's Jews (people tried to murder us, but failed). A patient representative of the hospital which follows my post-surgical vision progress called this week. We discussed the findings of some months-long tests on my optic nerves and overall vision. His astonishing news is material that's perfect for the presentation that I plan to make at the Whole Health Forum this May. Stand by for updates. We have some BIG Medical Miracles to ponder!
YOCHEVED GOLANI--FOSTERING MEDICAL MIRACLES
Yocheved Golani recovered from blindness even though medical experts had told it it would be impossible. Prayer, right eating and a lot of focused effort taught Yocheved Golani's medical team many healing lessons. She is the author of doctor-recommended, "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge." Today, as a life coach for people with health challenges, Yocheved's primary tools are intuition and the Enneagram. Her ability to hone in on peoples’ precise issues makes Yocheved a popular source of problem-solving insights. She is certified in counseling skills and spiritual chaplaincy, and helps people face end-of-life issues. As a journalist and former Health Information Management professional (medical coder), she is aware of innovative medical and cost-cutting global resources to help clients across the globe. Workshop: Fostering Medical Miracles: Yocheved will share tried and true techniques for opening yourself to the miracles waiting to reach you. They exist, the supply cannot run out, and all that those miracles need is for you to be willing to accept them. Join this class to learn how. Yocheved will share mantras for inviting positive change, teach skills for inviting positive miracles into your lives, and invite you to be open to the healing gifts that GOD will bestow upon you. Not much is guaranteed in life, but this workshop can help you to promote positive, healing change in your life. http://www.linkedin.com/in/yochevedgolaniink Wednesday, May 24th, 10:30-11:30 a.m, Main Hall See Full Program
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B'SD 12 Tevet, 5777 Last year I was among the featured speakers at The Whole Health Forum. A fact-filled, international get-together of people experienced in Alternative, Western, plus Complementary healing strategies and successes, it was a fun experience for everyone who participated in the event. Board-certified doctors, alternative healers and people who'd healed or improved their health somehow were part of the crowd. We educated our audiences who dined on delicous whole foods between sessions. I'd like to you to help me to "spread the word about the Whole Health Forum" coming up this spring! Who knows? Maybe we can meet each other there.
UPDATE: The Whole Health Forum is a five day educational gathering for health-minded English speakers in Israel. This is a place to regain and maintain optimal health. Join us in a relaxing, informative gathering in the beautiful Judean hills just outside Jerusalem in Even Sapir from Sunday, May 21st to Friday May 26. Choose from cutting edge holistic workshops with doctors, rabbis, healers, and therapists during each of seven daily time periods. Enjoy perfectly healthy vegan kosher food and create lifetime friendships.
Enjoy early bird discounts until February 1st. Stay on site, in a nearby BnB, or commute. Volunteers and teachers come for half price.
Contact us by mail or call Sheldon at 052-706-5002. Visitwww.TheRiceHouse.comfor full details.
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B'SD 21 Iyar, 5776 We're in the Hebrew month of Iyar. The word is an acronym for the Hebrew phrase "Ani HaShem Rofekha," I am GOD Your healer.
What better time to address health issues?
Please share your thoughts about the article I wrote regarding that Whole Health Forum which I'd blogged about previously. It was quite a ground-breaking event!
Ginat and Sheldon Rice presented Israel’s first-ever Whole Health Forum this past May 15 through 20th. The event for health-conscious English-speakers was held at the ecological Essene Farm in Even Sapir, outside Jerusalem. An international gathering of alternative/complementary healing practitioners, the forum included workshops about exercise, homeopathy, herbology, frequency meditation, reflexology plus other natural healing techniques. Panel discussions and other dynamic opportunities for healing let participants learn and make new friendships as they learned to improve their health. Board-certified doctors were among the presenters and participants.
Audience members at Wednesday night’s panel discussion about healing learned that doctors used to decide on the course of treatment for patients, considering it to be merciful to withhold “Your condition can be fatal” information that could upset already distraught people. One panel member mentioned that he learned the truth in a library book. Another mentioned her agony after learning that her doctors had been ordered to convince her that she had a psychological disorder rather than a fatal diagnosis, so that she’d die calmly on psychiatric medication. “Calm? I suffered pain and debilitating problems and almost died from medical neglect while being verbally abused, denied the chance to recover by accessing other forms of therapy! Attempting to force a death sentence on me wasn’t mercy, it was cruelty.” The audience also learned of the medical world’s evolving “care versus cure” perspective. It distracts patients from realizing that western medicine can’t cure some problems. It is transforming medical “care” into “maintenance” rather than “recovery,” and still resisting documented evidence of natural healing techniques.
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B'SD 11 Iyar, 5776 Last night I addressed the Whole Health Forum audience as one of several people presenting a panel discussion about healing. My opening remarks appear below. I was gratified that they were well-received and delighted to learn that some listeners have read
In 2005 I was diagnosed with a benign, skull-based tumor that blinded and almost killed me. GOD, the surgeon, my friends and specific alternative healing strategies helped me to see again. We made medical history. Life lessons were involved. So was my sense of humor.
I wrote this book because I wanted to do people a favor by alerting them to healing possibilities and cutting-edge medical developments, sharing spiritual insights, and letting readers know of world wide organizations willing to pay part or all of your specific medical expenses. EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge shares many ideas, one of which can be explained this way:
Viktor Frankl said "When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves." I'd like to add, "When you’re going through hell, look for the exit. Or create one."
All of us are here to heal. It might be physically, emotionally, mentally and/or spiritually. As you move through the throngs of people and exhibits, you feel an energy coursing through and around you. Use it. Memorize it. Cradle it. That energy can motivate you when you're feeling drained, clueless, and hopeless long after the event.
As we move through our healing experiences, we grow in insights, compassion for ourselves and others. We recognize the need for developing a support network of friends, relatives, acquaintances, plus medical and complementary healing practitioners. We learn not to assume, but to observe, to wonder, to be in awe. Respect, on many different levels, becomes one with our identities. The universe is filled with answers. It beckons us, challenges us to grow, even as we hardly realize that we are growing during our agony. That is Av HaRakhamim, the Compassionate GOD, Rofeh Cholim, the Healer, at work.
Accept the invitation. Fulfill your destiny as a spiritual creature. Let wonder fill your soul. Let the wonder heal you. The adventure is a gift from GOD, though it sometimes feels like a punishment. It's not. It is a path. Humanity tends to berate itself. But HaShem's nature, so to speak, is to forgive. Take Her/His lead. Go, find yourself in the universe, with every bit of your pain, doubt and fear. Access the healing powers that GOD put there. The goal is to grow your soul. Open your eyes, your mind, your gut and your heart to healing possibilities. Learn to laugh again. Find the love that awaits you. GOD put it there.
Other speakers on the panel then presented their stories. One is a board-certified surgeon who'd cured himself of Rheumatoid Arthritis with a macrobiotic diet. He decried the limited worldview of his western medicine colleagues who denied that connection of food to health. He briefly described actual vignettes of how doctors deny, ridicule or ignore documented evidence of healing fostered with vegan, vegetarian or macrobiotic diets, plus evidence that organic food promotes health better than adulterated non-organic food. The saddest story was about a patient who'd recovered from agonizingly painful and debilitating Crohn's Disease with a macrobiotic diet. Her gastroenterologist insulted her intelligence by insisting that food has no impact on the digestive system, that it was the medicine he'd prescribed which had cured her. He did not reply when the woman laid out her unused medication before him. Food is irrelevant to health. Such a stance is no better than believing that the sun does not cause sunshine. Other panelists chimed in with proof that adulterated food filled with herbicides, pesticides, preservatives, and other noxious chemicals undermine human health, and that their own deadly types of cancer abated due to improved diets. I remarked that when I asked the director of a cutting-edge cancer treatment center why his facility is being built, he responded that "Cancer rates are growing. Lifestyles are responsible for that." I responded with a request that he save lives and money by making Public Service Announcements. He could tell the public that synthetic hygiene products, excessive sun exposure, adulterated food stripped of nutrition but filled with poison and other avoidable causes of cancer be eliminated from public consumption. He gave me a demeaning look as if to say "You sweet dumb idiot." Then he said, "The public will never understand or accept that." I disagree. Do you need to be told that you'll sicken and probably die if you eat rat poison? Raw sewage? Spoiled meat? The group also discussed the medical world's tendency to withhold information from patients, believing that it's merciful to refrain from informing people that they might die or are dying and that it is "only" appropriate to share such news closer to the prognosticated date of death, when symptoms can no longer be denied. THAT is a demeaning point of view. It robs people of the opportunity to handle their own affairs, to save their own lives or at least try to. Worse, it is a lofty excuse for pulling off a crime. If doctors cannot deal with the emotional ramifications of dealing with sad, frightened patients, then medical schools ought to teach necessary lessons. And arrogant practitioners should leave the "healing" profession that they undermine. I pray that knowledgeable people will hold Getting to Know You events that foster educational interactions with medical professionals, alternative/complementary healing professionals and survivors who ended their agony by changing their eating patterns and other lifestyle factors, and went on to live more pleasant, productive lives for the effort. Change usually comes slowly, hence a need to make and to expect gradual changes. But... ... as death rates rise from the poisoned food supply, a need to alert the public that eating just might be a suicidal activity becomes imperative. May blessings come your way. Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. Learn techniques for changing your menu sensibly and with a sense of humor. Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
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B'SD 26 Nisan 5776 Excitement is building around the natural healing world as the week for The Whole Health Forum in Israel nears.
I plan to spend all of Wednesday May 18th on site, before I participate in the panel discussion about healing that night. I hope to meet you there! This a record-setting event for Israel with worldwide experts in natural healing gathering together to interact with the public. BRING YOUR QUESTIONS! Click on www.WholeHealthForum.evolero.com for information.
You can meet and speak with natural healers from around the world, and other interesting people while you're there. Click on the book cover to learn some of the miraculous healing possibilities I'll speak of! Buy your copy today!
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B'SD 3 Adar 1, 5776 It's the first week of Adar 1 (the Jewish calendar holds TWO - 2 - months of Adar this year) and the joyous month is already filling with happiness for me. Ginat Rice of Whole Health Forum has invited me to speak as part of a panel discussion about healing at the Whole Health Forum fair scheduled for Wednesday May 18. I'll be appearing on the approximately 8PM-9:30PM panel. Ginat will be leading the discussion by asking each panel member to briefly tell our individual story and then to answer questions that she or the audience raises. Here are details about the weeklong event, from one of my facebook pages:
Shalom, The Rice House is pleased to announce the first ever “Whole Health Forum,” an educational gathering for health conscious English speakers in Israel. Our vision is a gathering of friends devoted to a large life of joy and learning.
From Sunday, May 15th to to Friday May 20 over 65 speakers will present workshops each day ranging from body movement, cooking classes, presentations by medical professionals, happiness training, voice therapy, herbology, homeopathy, EFT, reflexology, and so much more.
We will gather in the beautiful Judean hills at the Essene Farm in Even Sapir near the Hadassah hospital in Ein Kerem.
Accommodations are either in hay bale guest houses with 6 to a cabin, or for a reduced price in your own tent or on provided mattresses indoors or out. There are also BnB options nearby, from simple to luxurious.
Internationally-trained natural foods chefs will present three top-quality meals a day of kosher, gluten-free, macrobiotic creations. Private therapeutic sessions will be available all week and vendors will offer their wares and services.
We are offering discounts for work-study helpers in the area of kitchen and dining room, tech support, drivers, and more. You may register to attend the Whole Health Forum with early bird discounts until February 29: • at www.WholeHealthForum.evolero.com • by contacting us at shelgin@gmail.com • or by phone: 052-365-0004 or 052-706-5002
I'll update you about any schedule changes. Oh - if you're interested in knowing why I was invited, here's the explanation in brief. I had sent the following (excerpted) message to Ginat. It resulted in that invitation mentioned above:
... My EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge print and E- book http://tinyurl.com/mycrisis-bookbook has sold worldwide since the first edition came out in 2009. The updated version became available in 2011. The 3rd updated edition is in preparation. The books explain how I went from blind to sighted following a benign brain tumor that crushed my optic and other nerves.
Doctors despaired that I would ever see again. I turned to the natural healing arts, and thrilled to the miracles that followed. One of them is my ever-lowered prescription for glasses. I'm now wearing the 21st pair prescribed since 2006. Each set of glasses is weaker than the last! I see better over time. My overall health rivals that of a woman half my age.
I'm certified in counseling skills by Refuah Institute and an experienced public speaker. If you'd like to have me speak about Empowering Your Coping Mechanisms, I'd be pleased to participate in the May 15-20 gathering for English speakers...
Now you know why you or someone you care about need to read - and to heed - the laugh-out-loud life lessons, and more serious matters, in
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