My body told me to rest: I got better by doing the opposite.

Glasgow Herald April 28 2008 by Martin Greig 

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I remember the morning. It is seared in my memory. It was a beautiful summer day, the first of my holiday. A world of possibilities lay ahead - only I was struggling to open my eyelids. Swinging a leg out of bed seemed like an effort. I looked at my alarm clock: 9.15am.

I showered and had breakfast. The tiredness hung over me like a storm cloud. My girlfriend phoned to make plans; I said I didn't feel up to doing much. I could feel my eyelids getting heavy again. I put down the phone and looked at the clock: 11am. I wanted to crawl back into bed.  read full article here

What is Mickel Therapy?

For My Options Magazine Australia
Issue 18 - April 2007

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Mickel Therapy - A Quantum Leap in Healing of Dis-ease

By Dr David Mickel and Dr Robert Bornstein

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Our experience has confirmed that each individual has the tools and intrinsic ability to correct the physical symptoms of chronic illness. We are not referring to healthy eating, “healthy” sleep habits, healthy activity and healthy breathing, all of which are vitally important to help to conserve and maintain your body’s resources.

Rather, we are describing the mounting evidence that emotional energy, which has been chronically mismanaged by internalization/suppression from early childhood through adulthood, leads to chronic disease states. We maintain that learning to manage this energy properly is the key to regaining control over a large spectrum of conditions to the extent of eliminating the symptoms altogether. read full article

What is Mickel Therapy?

By Kim Knight for Healthy Options Magazine

August 2006

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3 Steps to effective Emotional Communication

By Dr David Mickel, Founder of Mickel Therapy

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Frequently talking to people about emotive subjects can be difficult, often because we anticipate a defensive response, conflict of some kind or just that someone will end up with hurt feelings.

The 3 steps to effective emotional communication is a simple process for communicating your feelings while minimising the chance of evoking a defensive response in others.
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Chi Nei Tsang - Helping you to enjoy life

By Kim Knight for Health Options Magazine July 2007

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How long has it been since you experienced deep feelings of joy and inner peace? Perhaps too long? The truth is, we are designed to enjoy life. However, in our modern, fast-paced existence, it’s easy to forget that we are actually meant to feel good....read full article

Gut Instinct - what can our internal organs tell us about our state of mind?

For Fitness Life Magazine May 2007

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We've all heard about butterflies in the stomach, having a gut feeling or being sick with worry. However, far from being just quaint figures of speech, these sayings actually arise from a link between our gut and emotions....read full article

Chi Nei Tsang - Healing from Within

By Kim Knight for Rainbow News Magazine Sept 2006

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How many of us were trained or even allowed to really feel ? E-motions (energy in motion) bring us information if we are willing to experience them. Unfortunately, many of us are on auto-pilot to resist emotions rather than allow ourselves to ‘feel’, which results in emotional charges being stored by the body as a self-protective mechanism. Left unresolved, they may eventually experienced be as emotional, mental or physical symptoms (ie.pain)...

Just as much as our brain, our entire abdomen, in its rich complexity not yet completely explored by modern science, profoundly establishes our affective life. Our enteric brain in our abdomen shapes our emotions and, in return is affected by these emotions. With its battery of neurotransmitters, and other psychoactive endogenous substances, the health of the abdomen has the power to give birth to discouragement or enthusiasm, helplessness or pleasure, depression or fulfillment. Gifted with memory, our belly contains the archives of all our emotional life...read full article

Symptoms and Messages

by Gilles Marin for the NZ Charter Journal October 2006

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Most people come for treatments because they are ill, in pain, or experiencing symptoms of discomfort. Any truly wholistic approach to healing involves understanding pain and other symptoms not as problems to be fixed but as messages to pay attention to. Treatment needs to be wholistic, focusing on increasing people’s self-awareness, including the parts that are in pain and want to feel good as well as the parts that protect them from feeling pain. Such an approach brings about true healing rather than simply curing the symptoms... read full article

I had been unwell for several years, experiencing over that time what is commonly known as ‘M.E.’ or chronic fatigue, along with low thyroid function. I had tried over a hundred different therapies and although I was making progress, it was a slow journey and I just didn't seem to be getting to the bottom of things... read full article

The Six Conditions for healing

by Gilles Marin for Massage New Zealand Journal Spring 2006

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Just as much as our brain, our entire abdomen profoundly establishes our affective life. Our enteric - or second - brain in our abdomen, with its battery of neurotransmitters and gift of memory, contains the archives of all our emotional life. The ancient Chinese knew this. They associated anger, anxiety, fear, worry and sadness with different areas of the viscera.

Chi Nei Tsang, a precise massage technique for the internal organs, comes from the most ancient of Taoist traditions. It is a profoundly simple and yet highly efficient way to dissolve the negative energies which manifest as countless somatic pathologies as well as mental and emotional disorders.... read full article

The 'Guardian' and Resistance to Healing

by Gilles Marin from his book "Chi Nei Tsang - Healing from Within

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