There are people who believe that our thoughts create our reality. I find that belief to be both simplistic and immature -- stemming from a desire to see ourselves as the center of the universe, as having total control over our environments. I do believe, however, that our perceptions and attitudes dynamically interact, or dance, with the many other forces at play in the universe at any given moment. To that end, I actively have been investigating where I may be ...

This morning I woke up thinking about emotional obstacles to natural pain relief. Why, I wondered, haven't I successfully been utilizing my bag o' tricks for healing? Namely...

• converting pain energy into raw energy, converting that raw energy into healing energy, then feeding that healing energy back into the place of pain - thus recycling pain to heal itself
• facilitating energetic communication (affirmations

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Once I discovered that dancing, above and beyond all else, could help me heal, I became very curious about why. Primarily, I wondered if the healing power of dance was the product of vibrations from music.

That in turn led me to become very curious about the potential of healing vibrations emanating from everything and everyone -- sky, trees, water, people. I started experimenting, seeing the world around me as one big, fat

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On numerous occasions, dance has put me in an altered mental state, or trance, through which I magically have transcended pain and disability. Still, I was blown away by how radically it altered the mental state of my aunt Mazal. Mazal was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in the 1920s -- somewhere in the middle of my dad's six older sisters and three older brothers. Following a violent upheaval in the 1940s, she and the ...

A couple of years ago, I discovered that I could "recycle" pain to heal itself: In a mental adaptation of the assembly-line model, I harnessed the raw energy of my pain, transformed it into healing energy, then sent that healing energy back into the pain source. Within seconds, the pain melted away -- leaving me feeling empowered, elated, and in awe. To my frustration, however, my ability to do a ...