3 X 5's: Index Card Wisdom from Best of Books

ENERGY HEALING EXPERIMENTS Gary Schwartz (2007). The Energy Healing Experiments: Science                                           Reveals Our Natural Power to Heal. Schwartz is a PhD professor at the University of Arizona Tucson (at the time of this writing) who conducted several experiments to test "energy healing" with highlights as follows: we can detect the presence of others by their electromagnetic field we can detect the intention of others  healers can increase the health of stress induced ecoli in test tubes healers can change the ph of water without touching it some sounds, light, and electromagnetic devices can be used for healing high scores on science, low scores on application expect the last chapter which focuses on some general healing ideas that we can all do including: [paraphrased from p. 219] sit still, close eyes, extend palms facing forward, invite un...

Mediumship Lauren Robertson (2017). The Medium in Manolos: A Life-affirming                                            Guide to Modern Mediumship. Robertson narrates how she began "readings" for others with angel cards at the age of 16 and then stumbled into mediumship in the basement of a pub... She presents mediumship as a service to help others overcome their fear of death and heal their relationships by connecting them with those who have died and are now in "Spirit." There are many "activations" throughout the book designed to assist one in self-care, insight, growth, and mediumship. One of these activations is summarized below. Sitting in the Power meditation begins with igniting a flame of light at one's solar plexus, allowing the light to spread throughout the inside of the body with each in-breath, then popping the light beyond the surface of the body, gradually extendi...

 NOTICE Andy Andrews (2009). The Noticer . A story...Jones is an old brown man with white hair and blue eyes that appears to people when they are in great need. He uses questions and sprinkles wisdom to facilitate  positive transformation.  Each chapter presents a different character(s) with a problem that Jones is able to assist with. The theme running through all of the chapters is NOTICING , getting perspective on  "problems." Some of the particular wisdom includes:  1)focus on gratitude for whatever you focus on increases, 2)all people are either in crisis, coming out of crisis, or headed for crisis so if you're in crisis now, that's ok, it's normal,  3)we need to learn to speak the love language of others for them to feel loved--animal analogies apply to people: dogs love praise (words of affirmation), cats love touch (all forms of touch), canaries want someone to listen to them sing (quality time), and goldfish want to be fed and have their bowl clean...