Silence is not always consent (#25/31)
Many times, on the Internet, people assume that if someone states something, and no one contradicts that statement, then everyone agrees with what is said. Sometimes that's true--and sometimes, the...
View ArticleLooking into the abyss (#26/31)
It's not easy to face the realization of having been misled. And the misleading does not have to be intentional; it could have been done with the best intentions in the world. But those good...
View ArticleCampbell 2012: Skin cancer education among MTs (#27/31)
I can't really say much about the article itself until I get to the University later this week, and can get behind the paywall, but the abstract certainly served its purpose--it alerted me that this...
View ArticleMassage in a biopsychosocial model (#29/31)
Psychosocial and cognitive approaches don't require that you become a clinical psychologist but that you have a broad concept of the influence of those factors and that you account for them in your...
View ArticleThe Seven Deadly Sins of Ralph Stephens
Hmmm--that title sounds like I'm accusing Ralph Stephens of committing seven deadly sins. :) But the more precise and accurate title, "The Seven Deadly Sins of Massage Education In The Way It Is...
View ArticleNo blame, no shame: How we got here is not as important as finding ways to...
The world has shifted out from under us. And although we're not the only ones it's happened to, that's cold comfort as we have to go through the disruption that shift causes us. That disruption can...
View ArticleWhat Seth said
Denying reality is not a sustainable choice anymore, and the only real question is whether we'll make the change in time to make use of these new opportunities, or whether our process will make us too...
View ArticleSometimes evidence shows that the old ways actually are the best
While cherry-picking--the act of suppressing evidence that doesn't support our own particular biases--is something to be avoided, berry-picking, on the other hand--carrying out our searches for...
View ArticleWhat Seth said
Seth Godin writes, on the natural human tendency to deny facts we don't like: The problem with Orwellian talking heads, agitprop, faux news and Ballmer-like posturing is that they take away a...
View ArticleCommitment in the therapeutic encounter: You can have anything you want, but...
It's a lovely idea to think that there are no limits, and that we can have everything we want. Certainly, a massive part of the US advertising industry is dedicated to selling that dream, precisely...
View ArticleBiopsychosocial massage (BPSM): A new lineage
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed...
View ArticleWho owns BPSM?
That's an excellent question.Diane Jacobs, talking about dermoneuromodulation (DNM)--a practice that she has developed, and that we'll talk more about here later--answered that intellectual property...
View ArticleHistory and historiography of massage through research journal articles: Knox...
I'd like to thank PubMed Central (PMC) for their policy of providing their articles open access and freely available online.Knox LC. THE RELATIONSHIP OF MASSAGE TO METASTASIS IN MALIGNANT TUMORS. Ann...
View ArticleMassage in a biopsychosocial model
[reposted from Massage in a biopsychosocial model (#29/31)] Psychosocial and cognitive approaches don't require that you become a clinical psychologist but that you have a broad concept of the...
View ArticleSkillful discernment and the principle of non-contradiction: Knowing how to...
Many of us who attended junior high or high school in the United States had to read and analyze "The Road Not Taken", a poem published in 1916 by Robert Frost. It reads: 1. The Road Not Taken TWO...
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