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Metaphysical boundary collapse
One of massage's biggest culture wars at present arises out of the dispute between monistic and dualisticphilosophies. It has implications for how we practice with clients, and how we teach our...
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Finding your space: Anatomical reasoning and our relationship to realism
There are at least three ways, maybe even many more, to approach the practice of massage--as healthcare profession, as self-expression, and as business. Of course, no one approaches it exclusively one...
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What is biopsychosocial massage?
Several other people have contributed greatly to my thoughts on the topic of biopsychosocial massage, and a really profound discussion along those lines is currently going on in a social media group...
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Clinical reasoning: Deduction, induction, and abduction, part 1 (#4/31)
You may have been introduced to logic and reasoning in your previous education--different schools vary on whether they include it, and at what grade level they include it, if they do. If so, then some...
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Clinical reasoning: Deduction, induction, and abduction, part 2 (#5/31)
Rock climbing is a good metaphor for clinical reasoning and decision-making. If you go climbing, you can plan a route from the bottom to the top in advance, but when you are actually in the process of...
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Looking into the abyss (#26/31)
It's not easy to face the realization of having been misled. And the misleading does not have to be intentional; it could have been done with the best intentions in the world. But those good...
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Denying reality is not a sustainable choice anymore, and the only real question is whether we'll make the change in time to make use of these new opportunities, or whether our process will make us too...
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What Seth said
Seth Godin writes, on the natural human tendency to deny facts we don't like: The problem with Orwellian talking heads, agitprop, faux news and Ballmer-like posturing is that they take away a...
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Commitment in the therapeutic encounter: You can have anything you want, but...
It's a lovely idea to think that there are no limits, and that we can have everything we want. Certainly, a massive part of the US advertising industry is dedicated to selling that dream, precisely...
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Biopsychosocial massage (BPSM): A new lineage
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed...
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Who owns BPSM?
That's an excellent question.Diane Jacobs, talking about dermoneuromodulation (DNM)--a practice that she has developed, and that we'll talk more about here later--answered that intellectual property...
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