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girijad83, February 17, 2006
Reviewer: girijad83
from India
HumanMedia.org podcast by David Freudberg is a weekly radio program featuring articles from www.humanmedia.org's audio pieces, of which one can order personal CD's. This self-development podcast features talks of the things in life that make us stressed, and explanations concerning how to relieve that stress. It features speakers like David Allen who explains the feeling of being 'overloaded', and medical professor Herbert Benson, who teaches simple relaxation techniques. The podcast focuses on the issues of 'overwhelming overwork', which leaves little time for relaxation and recreation. It tries to change this in our lives to make it more creative and happy.
The audio quality of the podcast is good and the narration is clear. This is a great podcast to de-stress yourself. Another advantage is that the podcast tends to be short and deliver precisely the things one needs to listen to in order to change his or her perceptions.
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Neale Donald Walsch
Author: David Freudberg
Sun, Jan 15, 2012
"They are speaking what they believe and they truly believe that the only way to succeed in politics is to be beholden to special interests. What is needed is someone in politics who doesn't believe that." -Neale Donald Walsch Neale Donald Walsch of Ashland, OR, best-selling author of "Conversations With God", travels the United States declaring that it really is possible for our political system to be honest and also says we can and must elevate our political culture, starting with principled cantidates willing to lose. Complete program length: 29 minutes
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Moments of Truth with Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen
Author: David Freudberg
Sat, Jan 14, 2012
"We might have a pain in our gut, a pain in our head, a pain in our back. I mean, those are very common places in which the body says 'stress'. That we are feeling badly about some major aspect of everyday life and it hurts us, but instead of being in touch with our feelings, [we] try not to feel the conflict... Well, we don't get away with that. When we are in conflict over how we are living our lives, some part of us is going to be in pain if we don't acknowledge it ourselves, and that part is often the body and so we have these headaches, tension headaches, we have back problems, our digestion, our appetite, our sleep patterns are not very good, and they're all initially just symptoms." --Jean Shinoda Bolen, MDJungian analyst and author of "Close to the Bone: Life Threatening Illness as a Soul Journey" Best-selling author Jean Shinoda Bolen, based in San Francisco, explores the "moments of truth" patients may encounter when experiencing dire illness or other medical conditions. She explores the complex roots of sickness, from personal emotional conflicts to diet, environmental factors and genetic predisposition. And however illness arises, it presents the patient with an opportunity to step back and observe personal patterns of thinking and living, we might otherwise avoid looking at. An eye-opening and thought-provoking discussion with a leading thinker in this field. Total Time: 29 minutes
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Will to Live (CD 2)
Author: David Freudberg
Sat, Jan 7, 2012
At the Wellness Community, a free program with centers located in more than twenty U.S. cities, cancer patients find a powerful connection in supportive dialogues with other patients who "understand." Identification with others who share your experience is profoundly liberating. We hear how people face -- and counter -- the natural fears associated with a diagnosis that is potentially life-threatening. The health dangers of allowing panic to go unchecked are considered as well. Also, a physician and best-selling author counsels cancer patients about the importance of maintaining a strong will to live. With Drs. Michael States, David Spiegel, Ann Webster, Malcolm Schultz, Rachel Naomi Remen and others. (2 parts, 1 hour total) "I was very angry and very frightened. And this has acted like a volcano in my life. It's just opened up so many issues for me to explore. So I'm one of those people who talks about cancer as being a gift." -- Cancer support group member Programs in This Series: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [Overview] Free Materials: [Excerpts] [Short Subjects] [Print] Purchase Entire Series for $24.95with Bonus Relaxation Exercise CD Complete program length: ~1 hour
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Frances Moore Lappe
Author: David Freudberg
Mon, Jan 2, 2012
"I was just absolutely swept away. I thought: Oh my gosh! If people only knew that hunger is needless, hunger is human-made, that we would all do something." -- Frances Moore Lappe More than thirty years after publication of her breakthrough best-selling book "Diet for a Small Planet," Frances Moore Lappe is still committed to helping us understand hidden connections -- between the foods we choose to eat, the earth on which they're grown, and the fact that today more than eight-hundred million people go hungry in our world. In this fascinating episode of Humankind, Lappe tells of her world journey to visit with citizen activists from Brazil to France to Kenya who are implementing new ways for food to be healthy, eco-friendly and generously available. The material is drawn in part from her new book, "Hope's Edge" co-authored with her daughter Anna Lappe. Complete program length: 29 minutes
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Loretta La Roche
Author: David Freudberg
Sun, Jan 1, 2012
"Many people are prophets in their own time. They are already projecting a way to suffer next week or the week after: Well, it rained this week; God knows what's going to happen next -- we're probably going to have a blizzard or a tornado. We'll be swept away!" --Loretta La Roche People complain so much about stress that it makes Loretta LaRoche... stressed out. Enjoy a half-hour with this popular comedian and stress management teacher who helps us find ways to lighten up! Famous for her PBS specials including "The Joy of Stress" and her book "Life is Short: Wear Your Party Pants," Loretta is a delightful exponent of finding the humor in life's inevitable challenges. She says we must watch our tendency to "catastrophize" and "awfulize," especially when circumstances are not extreme. And you'll smile when she pokes fun at how easily we can make ourselves out to be martyrs. Complete program length: 29 minutes
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Reverend Ray Hammond
Author: David Freudberg
Sun, Dec 25, 2011
What motivated an emergency room physician to leave his practice to become a minister? Why do young people in the inner city feel the need to carry weapons, and what are the underlying problems that lead to violence among urban youth? How can one reach out to troubled at-risk youths in their community, and what is necessary to become a positive role model for them? What can we do to heal the divisions that often occur inside a community? "It's the rare person who heals all by themselves. It's usually a community process." --Reverend Ray Hammond On this Episode of Humankind with David Freudberg, you'll meet Reverend Ray Hammond, an emergency room physician turned minister, who now leads an urban church and speaks of the need to come together and reach out to heal inner city youth threatened by poverty and violence. Hammond, a gifted child from Philadelphia, graduated from Harvard Medical School at the age of 23. After establishing a career in medicine, he felt called to become a minister in 1992. He is Pastor at the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Boston, where he tries to play a positive role in the lives of young people. Hammond discusses why he left medicine and how his experience of healing people opened his eyes to the underlying emotional and spiritual problems that oftentimes cause people in the community to be sick. The question for Hammond is essential: how do we heal our young people and our communities? For the answer he stresses the three R's: renewal, reconnect, and responsibility. You need to have hope and show that you care, by establishing and maintaining contact with young people, and show that you are willing to learn from them, and at the same time to do your part to support the community. A thought-provoking look at healing, community, and coming together on Humankind. Complete program length: 29 minutes
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Holistic Nurses
Author: David Freudberg
Sat, Dec 24, 2011
"To me, the technical care is important. It would be malpractice to not give good technical care. But it is 10 percent of what we're there for. The other 90 percent is helping patients to get that in a way that taps into natural healing capacities, for people to feel heard, and for people to get some basic skills to be able to get through this experience." --Eileen Stuart-Shor , Ph.D., APRNCollege of Nursing and Health Sciences, Univ. Of Massachusetts We hear from a variety of nurses about the stresses they face in today's quick-paced medical setting -- and how they struggle to find the time needed to treat the whole person. Caring for the "whole person" is a bedrock tenet of holistic nursing. It views the human spirit as a potent healing force in coping with disease. As observed by British nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale, "nature alone heals." In this program we hear the story of a Chicago-area nurse who herself has battled breast cancer and explored various complementary medicine techniques to augment her own ability to heal while also receiving mainstream treatment. We also hear insights from thoughtful nursing researchers and practitioners.
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Barely Getting By: Stories of America's Working Poor
Author: David Freudberg
Sat, Dec 17, 2011
"If we don't do something about the tens of millions of families who are just getting by, or not getting by at all, we will continue to have a society that becomes more and more uneven, more and more unequal, and in a sense, more and more unstable." --Prof. Barry BluestoneNortheastern University In a country as wealthy as the United States, "working poor" should be a contradiction in terms. But tens of millions of Americans fall into that category -- affecting a growing population of children. Despite their toil, many of the working poor are broke. Frequently they lack health insurance. If a child gets sick, if they lose their job, if a spouse leaves, it can swiftly spell a financial emergency. They sometimes choose between food and rent or between medicine and heat. What's it like for people in low-paying fulltime jobs, with no savings, falling behind on their bills, sometimes lining up at food pantries, even shelters? And how does this affect the rest of society? In this documentary, we listen to a former police officer, a hospital worker, a nursing home assistant and others who are barely getting by. And we hear the insights of David K. Shipler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Working Poor," Dr. Nancy Cauthen, of Columbia University's National Center for Children in Poverty, Beth Shulman, author of "The Betrayal of Work," policy researcher Gordon Berlin of MDRC, Northeastern University labor analyst Barry Bluestone and others. More information can be found at the sites below:Hunger In AmericaIncome Inequality
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The Science of Gratitude
Author: David Freudberg
Sun, Dec 11, 2011
"Psychologists tell us that the tendency to look on the dark side, what's known as the negativity bias, just pervades our consciousness, and how we interpret our lives, and ourselves, and the world around us. And so we need to gain control over our consciousness. And one way to do that is through the practice of developing gratitude, whether that comes through a gratitude journal, whether it comes through other thoughts and cognitions by which we can replace the non-grateful thoughts." --Robert A. Emmons, Univ. of California professor of psychology Gratitude has been called "the most pleasant of virtues and the most virtuous of pleasures." As the blinders of pessimmism are lifted, new possibilities come into view. Now, psychologists are uncovering many benefits from the systematic cultivation of gratitude, from emotional well-being to enhanced physical health. This program features author Catherine Price -- who has battled her own cynicism to find gratitude -- and Prof. Robert Emmons, a Univ. of California/Davis professor of positive psychology and author of "Thanks." Although it is often a spontaneous impulse, feeling grateful is also a complex phenomenon that plays a critical role in human happiness. But it can require a conscious choice, for which positive psychologists have devised concrete exercises, such as maintaining a gratitude journal and stopping to savor wonderful things in everyday life. More information can be found at the site below:Four Ways to Give Thanks by Catherine Davis
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Reclaiming the Holidays
Author: David Freudberg
Sat, Dec 10, 2011
""Well, I'm very fortunate that my family is not a big consumer-manic family and so what we do for the gift-giving is everybody draws one name and you give one gift and we have a limit of twenty-five dollars. So I have to buy one gift maximum of twenty-five dollars and that's it. I can completely ignore all the junk mail that comes advertising things, I can ignore the long lines at the store. I've just opted out of the whole consumer frenzy."" -- Annie Leonard, author, The Story of Stuff "Give the gift of time. It's not that hard. One year I gave my wife gourmet dinners once a month. Other times you say, 'We're going to ride the subways together.' Or, 'You've got Saturday mornings off for the next month. Don't worry about the house. Don't worry about the kids. I'll take responsibility for them.' Find a way that you can either use your time, or give somebody back some time that they haven't had. And this is an extraordinarily precious gift, because we don't have enough of it, usually." -- Patrick O'Reilly, advocate of "alternative giving" The social and economic pressure to approach the December holidays as a breathless buying spree is enormous. But so is the environmental toll from the millions and millions of well-intentioned gifts that are manufactured, used and thrown away. This program explores other ways of showing our affection to the people we care about, from handmade gifts, to "coupons" for personal favors (like cooking a meal for a loved one or helping them with computer needs), to giving charity in their name. Lifting our holiday celebration from the orgy of merchandising, we may deepen the quality of family connection at this special time of year. It also may bring us closer to the original intent and meaning of these festive occasions. Complete program length: 29 Minutes
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