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- The Genesis of Music - by Submitted on Feb 20, 2019 from John DiamondA very fine musician and composer tells me that her earliest memories are of singing songs with her mother. These memories go back to before she was two years old. She also says that her family tells her that from the day she was born her mother was always singing to her. For hours her mother ...
Views: 1131(1 vote) - A Note on the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2019 from John DiamondIn the world of Nature there is no RDA. What is it then? It is just an artificial system devised by technological man to reassure us after he has defiled and destroyed the nutritional qualities of the products of Nature. The RDA exists not for the good of mankind but for the food refiners ...
Views: 853(1 vote) - The Homing Thought - by Submitted on Feb 06, 2019 from John DiamondWhen I was a youngster growing up in Australia, I often went surfing at the Sydney beaches. Whenever there was a big wave coming, my friends and I would dive for the sand at the bottom of the water and hold on to that sand with our fingertips. The wave would pass over, and we would come up to ...
Views: 963(1 vote) - An Understanding of Holistic Medicine - by Submitted on Feb 05, 2019 from John DiamondUntil I first came to America I had never seen the northern sky. In Australia I was quite able to identify the constellations, but in America I couldn’t. I searched and searched for Orion’s belt, and in the end it was pointed out to me. After that I was able to find it easily. Now, we must ...
Views: 811(1 vote) - A New Perspective in Medicine - by Submitted on Jan 24, 2019 from John Diamond“Medicus curat Natura sanat” — the doctor helps Nature heal. The healing force of Nature has been called by many names, for example, Hippocrates called it the Vis Medicatrix Naturae and Paracelsus called it the Archaeus. The doctor’s role is to assist this force as best he can to help the ...
Views: 851(1 vote) - The Doctor-Poet - by Submitted on Jan 16, 2019 from John DiamondHe is the true and only doctor. — Emerson, The Poet Looking at all those who have come to me for help, I long ago came to the conclusion that there was only one word to describe their real problem. And I arrived at this not by just looking at them, but by looking into them – deeply. And ...
Views: 1128(1 vote) - Treatment or Therapy? - by Submitted on Dec 24, 2018 from John DiamondThere is a most important difference between treatment and therapy. Treat, from the Latin tractare, means “to act or behave in a specified manner toward,” for example, to treat one’s guests with courtesy. By extension, it means to give medical aid, for example, treating appendicitis by ...
Views: 755(1 vote) - Two Dentists and Their Appliances - by Submitted on Dec 21, 2018 from John DiamondIn 1975, Dr. George Goodheart mentioned a dentist, Dr. Willie May of Albuquerque, New Mexico who was achieving cures for many systemic diseases. I decided to study with him. I remember him well: a wiry man, mercurial, always active. Filled with passion and enthusiasm. Utterly, utterly ...
Views: 2144(3 votes) - The First Time I Took Vitamin E - by Submitted on Dec 19, 2018 from John DiamondI remember very distinctly the occasion on which I took my first vitamin E capsule. I was staying at the house of a friend and I went into his bathroom. There on the shelf before my eyes was a bottle of vitamin E capsules. This was the first time I had ever seen it. I had recently read some ...
Views: 780(1 vote) - "You'll Be Better: The Story of Applied Kinesiology" - Dr. Diamond's Foreword - by Submitted on Dec 18, 2018 from John DiamondI wrote these comments on Applied Kinesiology back in 1975, some two years after meeting and studying with George Goodheart, D.C., the humanitarian healing genius. I was honored – and still am – that some years later he chose my remarks as the introduction to his You’ll Be Better: The Story ...
Views: 1189(2 votes) - The Third Side of the Triangle - by Submitted on May 13, 2010 from John DiamondThe following is taken from The Work of John Diamond, M.D. and Applied Kinesiology, printed with permission © John Diamond, M.D., 2001 I first became aware of Dr. Goodheart’s work, Applied Kinesiology, back in 1973 after I had already been practicing as a psychiatrist for many years. From the ...
Views: 4329(2 votes) - An Attempt At Destroying My Creative Writing - by Submitted on May 13, 2010 from John DiamondCopyright © 2009 John Diamond M.D. My writing creativity was destroyed when I was eleven years old. My father had enrolled me at the same small grammar school where he had been a pupil, and where he became a "dux," which is a top honors student. The headmaster and teacher was the same man who ...
Views: 1530(2 votes) - The Benefits of Community Outreach Music Programs (COMPs) on the Teaching of Musical Instruments - by Submitted on May 13, 2010 from John Diamond© Peter Muir 2005 No part of this article may be repoduced without the consent of the author. In this paper I explore that the notion, based on my own teaching practice, that regular attendance on Community Outreach Music Programs (COMPs) by music students can be of great benefit to the ...
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