HEALING THROUGH UNITY (Volume 3)

September 1999 - June 2000

Summary of Contents

 Volume 3, Issue #1 - September, 1999

• Innate Miracles - by Martin Minney

• Ten Rules for Health - by Linda Kavelin Popov

• Uses of Hot and Cold Water - by Bill Sims

• Setting Our Own Course With Goals - by Frances Mezei

• Laughter Room - a new and regular feature for Volume Three

• Six Types of Healing - Type Five - by Dr. Orval Minney

• Spiritual Health Habits

• A View of the Spiritual Health Habits - by Dr. Dan Boyle

• A Response to the Spiritual Health Habits - By Dr. William Saunders

• Letters

• Requesting Assistance From Our Readers - a couple’s request for assistance for their 12-year-old daughter

 Volume 3, Issue #2 - October, 1999

• Thoughtfulness - A Lesson by ‘Abdu'l-Bahá
• The Exchange - Answers to the September, 1999 question: “What are your views of the Spiritual Health Habits? Do you have any suggestions or addictions to build on the Spiritual Health Habits?
• Craniosacral Therapy - by Lynn Ascrizzi
• Responses to the Six Types of Healing - by Suzi Esser and Pati Wolfgang
• Reiki Treatment -  Lynn from Germany
• Bahá’í Writings - “Friends Will Become Physicians”
• “Assisting the Traumatized Soul” - by Phyllis K. Peterson
• Laughter Room
• Health Habits

Volume 3, Issue #3 - November, 1999

• The Spiritual Life of Man - by Dorothy Baker, “From Copper to Gold.”
• Healing - Poem - taken from “Below the Surface” by Anne Spencer Parry and Marjorie Pizer
• The Exchange - Answers to the October, 1999 question about the issues of wealth.
• Six Types of Healing - Type Six - by Orval Minney
• Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet - by Elaine Gottschall
• A Response on Different Issues covered in the Newsletter - By Dr. Bernhard Koppold
• Aromatherapy: A Beginning - by Galya Gunderson
• Laughter Room
• Health Habits

Volume 3, Issue #4 - December, 1999

• Detachment From This World - from “Trustee of the Merciful” by Adib Taherzadeh
• The Exchange - Answers to the November, 1999 question: “There are many references in the Bahá’í Writings about detachment from all save God. What is your understanding of this? How can we be detached and live a spiritual life in this world? What kind of things do you think can turn us away from God?
• Stress Mastery in Changing Times  - by Robin S. Sharma, taken from “Sharma Leadership Report.”
• A Response about Skilled Physicians - by Annette Cox
• Laughter Room - excerpts from an article called “Comic Relief” from magazine “Country Living’s Healthy Living.”
• Health Habits
• Letters
• Community - poem by Starhawk, “Dreaming in the Dark.”

 Volume 3, Issue #5 - January, 2000

• The Piano
• The Exchange - Answers to the December, 1999 question: “How can music, poetry, dance and the arts be used as a healing media? How can these mediums be applied in our everyday lives?
• “The Ground I Walk” - by Neda Najibi
• Exploring Our Creativity - by Frances Mezei
• A Response on Detachment From All Save God - by Hannah Rishel
• Laughter Room - ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Laughter Through the Eyes of the Early Believers in America
• Bahá’í Health Agency of South Africa Faces a Big Challenge Today - by Roya Shams
• Announcements

 Volume 3, Issue #6 - Feburary, 2000

• Dedication - to Hand of the Cause Amatu’l-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum
• A Letter From May Maxwell to Agnes Alexander
• The Exchange - Question: “The Bahá’í teachings repeatedly emphasize that the best would be to combine material and spiritual healing when treating illnesses. What is your understanding of this? What experiences, results, and stories have you had when using both physical and spiritual treatments?
• Spiritual Tools for our Health - by Frances Mezei
• Even Science Supports Prayer - article taken from Archives of Internal Medicine, 1999
• A Creative Idea!- Health and Healing pamphlet developed by Aghdas Javis
• The Laughter Room - Wisdom of the Trees (poem)
• Arts In Action - audio-recording of prayers for children, ‘Tender Seedlings” by Jena Taghvai

 Volume 3, Issue #7 - March, 2000

• Special Tribute to Ruhiyyih Khanum - 1) Ruhiyyih Khanum’s visit to Papua New Guinea, 2) Ruhiyyih Khanum assists a sick family in Latin American country, 3) Ruhiyyih Khanum’s story about her father’s illness
• The Exchange - Question: “Many of us struggle with different forms of addiction such as: shopping, alcohol, narcotics, smoking, food, gambling, etc. What are your suggestions to assist us to overcome our specific addictions which may cause us pain and frustrations? How were you able to make the decision to deal with it and to make the right choices to change your life?
• Some Thoughts on Addiction from “The Seat of the Soul” - by Gary Zuhav
• Caffeine: How to Taper or Get Off It - taken from Dr. Christine Northrup’s “Health Wisdom for Women”
• The Laughter Room - excerpts from the book “Are you Happy?” by Dennis Wholey.
• Fasting

Volume 3, Issue #8 - April, 2000

• The Blind Bus Passenger - a story
• The Exchange - Question: “Some of us are challenged by living with severe physical limitations, illnesses or disabilities. How did you make the adjustment to make your environment and situation more pleasant to deal with your condition? What kind of care and comfort have you discovered to assist you?
• A Woman's Courage - by Anna May Kinney
• Sacred Writings to Overcome our Limitations
• Everyone is Differently Abled - words and music by Lorriane Bayes, Danny Deardoff, Dee Dickinson
• Clara and Hyde Dunn Memorial Lecture on Health for All: The Challenge
• The Laughter Room - notes taken from “The Laughter Prescription,” by Dr. Lawrence Peter
• Letter to the Editor - by Kim Bowen-Kerby regarding the article on “Caffeine: How to Taper or Get off it” printed in the March, 2000 issue

Supplement - “A Bahá’í Perspective of Disability" - prepared by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United Kingdom. 

Volume 3, Issue #9 - May, 2000

• ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’ís Use of Natural Remedies - taken from “The Revelation Of Bahá’u’lláh, Volume 3
• Editor's Note Regarding the Focus of this Issue - note about the April 200 question: “I would like some articles on the ‘proper diet” for either ill people or for those that are well. There is much conflict out there on this subject and each doctor has a different idea. Just a fruit/vegetable diet is not enough for healing on the material plane....Are they any suggestions to this important subject?”
• Optimal Nutrition for Optimal Health - from “Encyclopedia of Natural Healing”, pp. 112 - 114
• Nutrition: Guidance from the Bahá’í Writings
• Tablet to a Physician  - by Bahá’u’lláh, ‘Star of the West’, Vol. 13, No. 9, p. 152
• Suggested Reading - books on healthy diet, nutrients, vitamins and herbs
• Living Past 100 - from “Life” magazine

Volume 3, Issue 10 - June, 2000

• New Millennium, New Healing Attitudes - by Zoltan Rona, from journal ‘alive’, issue #207, January 2000
• The Exchange - Question: A reader requested information about hepatitis C.
• A Response on Addiction - by Justice St Rain
• Finding Your Joy - by Frances Mezei
• Announcement
• Health Habits
• A Letter From the Editor - summary of the third year of the newsletter.
• A Message to all the Children and Youth