National Injured Warrior Alliance (NIWA)-- Recovery-Restoration-Resilience Individual Health Care Plan & Daily Routine
Self-Care Outline
Gerald W. Vest, LISW/LMT UNM Tricare Provider
Introduction
As Chinese medicine is described by Bill Moyers in "Healing and the Mind: "...it is ... Views: 1235
NASW New Mexico State Conference Workshop-Serving Injured Warriors by Gerald Vest
National Injured Warrior Alliance (NIWA) - Serving Injured Warriors, Vets & Families with Integrative Health Practices.
Feb. 22, 2012, 1:30-5:00pm – “Welcome Home with Daryl Worley – our returning warriors ... Views: 2198
While maintaining mindfulness and conscious awareness of our breath, can our experience with nature be witnessed as our Being and with our True Nature?
Perhaps, one of the most important questions we can ask ourselves and others--What is Happening--Physically, Mentally, Emotionally, ... Views: 1701
National Integrative Health Services Alliance, With Injured Warriors, Vets, and Their Families -- A Transitional Community Health, Wellness, Aftercare & Continuing Care Services Program
Gerald Vest, ACSW/LISW/LMT
Integrative Health Coordinator/Trainer
575.524.2379 or 575.640.0193 ... Views: 1731
Breathing may be one of our most important guides readily accessible and available to us every moment of our life. Tarthang Tulku Rimpoche, author, teacher and Founder of the Nyingma Institute, describes breathing as our most effective means for healing, interacting and supporting our whole ... Views: 1723
Mission Statement:
The Fort Bliss Restoration and Restoration Resilience Center restores optimal functioning and battle-readiness to neurophysiologically, psychologically, and spiritually challenged post-deployment Soldiers and their families
using integrated state-of of-the-art treatment ... Views: 2579
PTSD occurs when a person has experienced, witnessed, or has been confronted with a traumatic event, which involved actual or threatened death or serious physical injury to themselves or others. At which point they responded with intense fear, horror or helplessness. These diagnostic criteria ... Views: 2595
"If you're a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom (O1F) or Operation Enduring Freedom(OEF), we welcome you home and sincerely thank you for the time you served. Words can't convey the deep appreciation that we and other Americans across the country have for your valor, commitment, and hard work. ... Views: 2799
Sharing a Personal Experience
Meditation and developing an Open Mind helps us relax, enjoy our experience of living, relating, and relieves our stress, anxiety and depression.
In this brief article, I am introducing some thoughts and observations about my meditation practice as a living ... Views: 1731
"Above all else, it seems to me that it is our role as human beings always to join learning to loving-kindness. Learning to learn, learning to love, and to be kind are so closely interconnected and so profoundly interwoven, especially with the sense of touch, it would greatly help toward our ... Views: 3575
Scientific inquiry, research investigation, "finding out," and the like, all have their beginnings in the explorativeness of the child, a neotenous trait of supreme value, which is a never-failing mark of the active mind and the youthful spirit." (Ashley Montagu, _Growing Young_)
I have been ... Views: 1109
Jun 2007 @ 21:56
Serious Probems Continue in MH -
"Simply understanding 'reasons' for our fears in an attempt to control them only strikes at the symptoms, not the cause. The real source of fear lies in our minds--adding more thoughts and concepts only supports the pattern of fear. We need ... Views: 2212