Sexual Intimacy
Lovely music and imagery support the voices of Dr. Miller and his wife,
Sandra Miller, as they provide gentle, compassionate guidance for
opening your heart and body to the beauty of loving. Learn first to
love and touch yourself from within, then to share that sensitive
intimacy with another.
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"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
- Gibran
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Healing Our Planet
Discover how you can make a difference through passion, compassion and
love. In your heart is the future of our planet; learn how to empower
your mental imagery to serve your most deeply held values. Experience
the wisdom of the ages wedded to cutting-edge mind-body and peak
performance technology.
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"In love practice only this, letting each other go, letting each other go. Holding on comes easily, we don't need to learn it. Holding on comes easily, we don't need to learn. Practice letting go, letting go, letting go, letting go." - Rilke
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Serenity Prayer
All behaviors are based on decisions made by the deeper mind. Use this
beautiful tape every day, while you drive, to choose your wisest
behavior. You will hear affirmations to enable you to access the
serenity to accept what you cannot change, and the courage to confront
and change what you can change.
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"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love, and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."
- Krishnamurti
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Rainbow Butterfly
For these two deeply relaxing guided meditations, Dr. Miller is
accompanied by the exquisite harp of Georgia Kelly. In fact, Georgia's
rise from obscurity to become one of the world's most honored harpists
and peace activists, with the coaching assistance of Dr. Miller, was
the inspiration for this program.
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"We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear."
- Elizabeth Kubler Ross
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Inner Child Healing
A truly beautiful and powerful work of art, perhaps the most relaxing
tape of all. There are no challenges on this tape; it is a pure
invitation to come and be taken care of, a chance for your inner child
to be honored and loved, as it deserves to be. Dr. Miller and Margot
Forrest gently guide you to relax deeply. Your inner child is then
invited forth to hear the words of healing and love spoken by Dr.
Miller's 11-year-old daughter, Aeron, with background music composed
and performed by Dr. Miller. Part B features a Heart-to-Heart talk on
the true meaning and value of the child part of you that dwells within.
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"Where there is love, there is life." - Gandhi
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Deep Healing (book)
Dr. Miller's humor, compassion and clinical experience in the hands-on
healing of mind, body, emotion and spirit shines through in revealing
personal vignettes, thought-provoking fables and profound quotes from
wise teachers of all times. Fascinating and illuminating, yet at the
same time remarkably user-friendly and entertaining, Deep Healing is
for everyone, lay person and health professional alike, who is
interested in healing themselves and others.
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"Well . . . Th-Th-That's All Folks"
until our exciting next issue . . .
Peace and Love,
EM
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Dear friends,
As I put the finishing touches on my article for this special edition of Healing Times, I am looking out at a beautiful scene of fresh white snow, and enjoying the love of my family.
With
our electrical power out, we will eat dinner to the flicker of
candlelight, and enjoy the gift of each other - laughing, playing,
loving, and teasing - instead of checking our email and updating our
Facebook profiles.
So, if my Valentine is a little late in reaching you, rest assured that it was not late in its inception - blame it on the power lines.
Today our focus will be on Love, at the personal level and at the collective level, for personal love is concentrated universal love. Many of the ideas presented here are explored more fully in my new book, Our Culture On The Couch due to be available by the end of this month.
So, be well, and remember, those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
In love and peace,
Emmett Miller MD
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A Global Valentine's Day Wish
Valentine's Day is upon us - that annual "Hallmark holiday" when hearts and flowers abound - and woe be unto the swain who forgets to get a Valentine's Day present or at least a card or box of candy for his sweetie. In exploring the roots of this holiday, however, we find more violence than sentimental silliness.
St. Valentine is believed to have been a Christian priest in Rome, back in the second century A.D., when Rome was at war. It seems the emperor Claudius felt that soldiers who were not married were better fighters.
The priests were ordered, therefore, not to perform marriages on soldiers in the Roman legions. In the most popular version of the story, St. Valentine, because of the sacred esteem in which he held human love, especially between a man and a woman, felt it would be wrong to deny them this sacrament. When he felt marriages were appropriate, he secretly joined couples in holy matrimony, and in other ways helped Christians. He was rewarded by being tortured and executed.
This little history is interesting in many respects, especially when one considers the global situation we face. It seems the human race has some sort of suicidal urge that causes us to break into warring camps, rather than to join our gifts and talents to support what we hold in common.
I think our legendary St. Valentine faced a fundamental existential challenge. If we think of war as a kind of ultimate model of violence, and if we see the extraordinary connection that takes place in the hearts, minds and souls of a love-struck couple as a model of pure love, then what St. Valentine faced was basically a conflict between behaving in a way that supported pure love, or in a way that supported ultimate Violence. (If he denied marriage to a couple in love, he was supporting Claudius' violence.)
Embracing a New Paradigm
In my book, Culture on the Couch: Seven Steps to Global Healing, I assert that a major factor in the formation of the deeply flawed world we now confront has been dependence on an Old Paradigm of Violence. What the world needs now is a New Paradigm of Love.
In my analysis, the diseases and illnesses we endure derive primarily from the use of the Old Paradigm - which focuses on differences among people rather than similarities. The Old Paradigm perspective is of black and white, good and evil, us and them.
Our Culture of Violence
We see the Old Paradigm of violence (both emotional and physical) in action every day. We see it in on the news, at work, and even in those brief moments when we say or do unkind things to friends, family, coworkers and total strangers.
We also see it in the institutionalized violence of our society. Yes, we have an African-American president, but a huge segment of the African-American community still remains "unemancipated" from the prejudice, poverty and lack of opportunity created by centuries of Old Paradigm thinking. And we see it in the pathetic living conditions of the Native Americans that have survived the genocide that marked our country' s birth, and in the abuse of women, elders, children, and nearly every minority.
We see Old Paradigm thinking wreak havoc all the way up to the level of wars between nations and ideologies driven by the belief that their differences - rather than their common best interests - are so important that they send their sons and daughters to kill and be killed rather than consider the loving wisdom of the New Paradigm of love and acceptance.
Room for Both
Despite the atrocities committed under the aegis of the Old Paradigm, there is no need to entirely eliminate the Old Paradigm; when used appropriately, it can serve a useful purpose. Instead, the goal is to incorporate the New Paradigm into our way of thinking without abandoning the useful (and often necessary) aspects of the Old Paradigm.
Naturally, the Either-Or mindset sees a conflict between the two paradigms, imagining the two are somehow in opposition. In fact, what we have is a systemic type of relationship, one in which the Old Paradigm is simply a part, a special case, of the New Paradigm - just as Newtonian physics is part of Einsteinian quantum mechanics.
Literally, you can't have one without the other. So, the idea is not so much to replace our usual way of thinking, as it is to expand it - to broaden our options and horizons.
The key to our survival is to become proficient in using both paradigms. We must be capable of differentiation, anger, self-defense, and sometimes even aggression - but we also must know how and when to use the Both-And approach. The Serenity Prayer provides perhaps the simplest and wisest guidance for choosing:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
Which brings us back to Valentine's Day
We can respond to this holiday using the Old Paradigm by ignoring it because it is a blatant commercial exploitation of a sacred holiday for lovers - or we can follow the rules and avoid domestic discord.
Of course, many people will have a wonderful Valentine's Day spending money and mindlessly engaging in traditional romantic rituals. More power to them.
However, for those of us wishing to transcend the Old Paradigm - without giving it up - we can honor St. Valentine's sacrifice by celebrating the deeper meanings of Love.
The New Paradigm of wholeness allows you to celebrate - or not celebrate - Valentine's Day the way that is most meaningful to you and your partner. Honor the old traditions or ignore them. Start new traditions uniquely you. Express your love - to those that will be nurtured by it.
Suggested Meditation for the Day
Valentine's Day gives us an opportunity to go through the basic steps of healing. Take a moment and become present. Be aware.
Be aware of who you really are. Tap into your inner wisdom.
Decide if you should just accommodate the status quo or whether you should actually use the martyrdom of St. Valentine as an inspiration for growth in a positive direction, in the direction of love.
You might, for example imagine a group of Roman soldiers coming back from a battle, scarred and freshly wounded, with blood and death on their swords. Having suffered and served their duty, imagine the reunions of these warriors had when they returned to the arms of the women who had feared them dead.
It doesn't matter whether or not these couples were consecrated in marriage by St. Valentine.The point here is that we honor St. Valentine, because he honored the essence of love although it led to his death.
And as you attune to the spirit that produced St. Valentine's willingness to die for love - you might honor, as well, those others who have done the same, including Gandhi, King, Moses, Jesus and others who faced virtual certain death acting on their beliefs. Take this opportunity to celebrate the power and beauty of Love and Truth.
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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall--Think of it, ALWAYS." Mohandas Gandhi
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Doctors in Heaven
Two doctors and an HMO manager died and lined up at the pearly gates for admission to heaven. St. Peter asked them to identify themselves.
One doctor stepped forward and said: "I was a pediatric spine surgeon and helped kids overcome their deformities."
St. Peter said, "You can enter."
The second doctor said: "I was a holistic family physician, and through my loving guidance many lives were guided to health and wellness.?
was a psychiatrist. I helped people rehabilitate themselves." St. Peter also invited him in.
The third applicant stepped forward and said: "I was an HMO manager. I helped people get cost-effective health care."
St. Peter said, "You can come in too."
But as the HMO manager walked by, St. Peter added, "You can stay three days. After that you can go to hell."
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Upcoming Events in 2009
A Call to Action
NevadaCountyUnites.com
Moved to Late April
Date To Be Announced
Grass Valley Veterans' Memorial Building
Awaken the Healer Within
April 4th, 2009
Marriott Hotel
San Mateo, CA
Sponsored by Healing Journeys
Click here to find out more and to register.
Awakening the Healer Within
August 1, 2009
Providence Cancer Center at Souther Auditorium
Portland, OR
Co-Sponsored by Healing Journeys and Providence Cancer Center
Click here to find out more and to register.
Deep Healing - The Essence of Mind/Body Healing
August 14th - 16th, 2009
Esalen Institute
Big Sur, CA
Click here to find out more and to register.
If you would like to have Dr. Miller do a workshop, conduct a training session or speak at an event, please email DrMiller@DrMiller.com.
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Announcements:
Celebrating Peace in Nevada County
PeaceArt is an organization that is asking each of us to express the peace within us in through art. All art forms are accepted drawing, painting, poetry, writing of any kind, weaving, quilting, knitting, basket weaving, dancing, songs, acting, etc. We simply ask that you create your art peace remembering the peace within you and through your art you express that peace within to share with others. As each of us shares our peace with each other it could just become infectious and spread throughout the planet. No harm in doing just that.
We are participating in some upcoming events by bringing fabric markers and flags so that everyone can take a moment and create a flag about their own inner peace.
Peace Singing for Peace, Friday February 13
Where: Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains 246 S. Church Street, Grass Valley
When: Friday, February 13, 2009
Time: 5:30 to 8:00 pm
Gather the Women
Women Leading the Way: Generation to Generation
When: March 8, 2009
Time: 1PM - 5 PM
Where: Veterans Hall, Grass Valley
Peace Art will be displaying the PeaceArt flags we have been making over the past 9months.
Outer Expression of Inner Peace
Sponsored by PeaceArt Nevada County
When: April 13th through the 15th
Where: The Center for the Arts, Grassvalley
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Parting Shots
Hundreds Attend Global Warming Protest....
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Contact Info
Emmett Miller, MD
DrMiller.com
DrMiller@DrMiller.com
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