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...

  TIME Steve Taylor (2009). Making time: Why time seems to pass at                                              different speeds and how to control it. T he first part of the book covers the 5 laws of psychological time (pp 1-182) while the shorter second part discusses methods for changing our perception of the speed of time , making it either faster or slower. The methods to change time include external methods (which Taylor suggests we don't really need if we are adept at the internal methods) and internal methods of mindfulness and meditation which are described below.  My opinion: clock time is an artificial human invention while nature time is a cyclical recurring rhythm that we need align with...all things grow/mature by their own nature with the seasons...in some sense we remain the same, in another sense we evolve...what we ultimately evolve into is an...

TIC TAC TOE Melinda H. Connor (2014). Resonance Modulation: Biofield Basics. There are warnings at the beginning of the book: content not meant for general public, only those enrolled in the Resonance Modulation Program through EarthSongs Holistic Health: https://earthsongs.com/  There are many instructions related to reading and balancing the human biofield (the area beyond the physical body), but without the proper context from the workshop and the guidance of a teacher, the instructions are not useful, except the last practice i found in the book on "unsticking trauma" described below. Unsticking trauma....create a large (8 x 8 inch) tic tac toe like grid with X's in each of the squares, have the person look at each X while thinking about the trauma, one square at a time. While they are gazing at a given X in a square, one should muscle test the arm (have them extend their arm horizontally and tell them to keep their arm rigid while you push down on the top of their ...

  NEROCYCLING Caroline Leaf (2021). Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess: 5 Simple,                                      Scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety,                                             Stress, and Toxic Thinking. Leaf is a neuroscientist with a clinical practice and has 38 years of research behind her method of coping with stresses of all kinds, including acute trauma, called neurocycling. She presents research of a clinical trial that shows, compared to the control, that neurocycling is good for our cells, brain activity, mental health and various blood markers--she goes into considerable detail on these later points for those interested. Suffice it to say that neurocycling is good for one's brain and health (physical and psychological). In ...

  FREQUENCY SPECIFIC MICROCURRENT Carolyn McMakin (2017). The resonance effect:                                                                            How frequency  specific microcurrent is                                                changing medicine. McMakin is a persuasive story teller, describing how she discovered a list of frequencies (electrical pulses per second measured as hertz) associated with particular health conditions based on Harry Van Gelder's frequencies who apparently found them with a medical machine (according to one science/skeptic website this machine was created by Abrams in 1922 and is a medical hoax, upon opening it, all wires and no con...