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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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I want to thank the International Journal of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork for their open access policy permitting free use with proper attribution in noncommercial settings, which--along with the...
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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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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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Massage in a biopsychosocial model (#29/31)
Psychosocial and cognitive approaches don't require that you become a clinical psychologist but that you have a broad concept of the influence of those factors and that you account for them in your...
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What we are going to do in this course is this: for validated scientific anatomical knowledge, we are going to create and make openly available anatomical knowledge organization templates (KOTs),...
View ArticleWhat Seth said
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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Sometimes evidence shows that the old ways actually are the best
While cherry-picking--the act of suppressing evidence that doesn't support our own particular biases--is something to be avoided, berry-picking, on the other hand--carrying out our searches for...
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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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Massage in a biopsychosocial model
[reposted from Massage in a biopsychosocial model (#29/31)] Psychosocial and cognitive approaches don't require that you become a clinical psychologist but that you have a broad concept of the...
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