by Sherri Carter, Supervising Editor for ATH

There is power in one, there really is! There’s also power when individuals come together for a common goal.  Here at ATH, we are a group of individuals who have come together to promote healing of mind, body, spirit and planet. YOU, the reader, are a very important part of this beautiful community. When we decided to move forward with building for our soon-to-be Online Learning Center, it only made sense to include YOU in the campaign...

Hypnotherapy

by Mari L. McCarthy

How acutely do you sense a lack of meaning in your life? It’s easy to get caught up in materialism and forget what you most want to do and be. 21st century existence leaves little room for the finer things. Yet losing touch with ideals ends up in pain...

Editor's Note from Barbara Lazarony: Would you say your life is meaningful, or is it more like you don’t think much about meaning? With today’s pressures, it’s hard enough to pay the bills; who has time for meaning? Yet without a feel for the value in your existence, you’ll falter and eventually fall. Use your journal to avoid such a fate!

Writing & Poetry Therapy

by Steven Handel

I’ve been studying psychology and self-improvement for a long time now. A lot of my research includes getting into the minds of happy and successful people (by asking questions and observing their behavior), and then trying to determine what it is that makes them the way they are...

Editor´s Note from Debbie Allen: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been shown to be effective for changing core beliefs that result in feeling better about oneself. The latest research on happiness takes it a step further in illuminating beliefs about life that can shift happiness. Here are five points that can create a major shift in personal happiness for anyone.

Psychotherapy

by Pauline Oliveros

Listening is a multi-dimensional dynamic process. Ways of listening are many fold. These ways of listening are based on experience, habit and training...

Editor's Note from Bernice Chu: Are we really listening to our surroundings? How can we each listen to heal ourselves and to inject some calmness into our busy lives? A most refreshing and poetic entry written by Pauline Oliveros.

Music Therapy & Sound Healing

by Steven Handel

Honesty is a huge part of self improvement and overcoming delusional thinking.

If we aren’t honest with ourselves then we can’t expect to learn and grow as individuals, because we aren’t willing to recognize reality for what it is...

Editor´s Note from Debbie Allen: Sometimes it takes a little bit of humility to remain honest with oneself and to keep learning and growing from the experiences that life offers. Here is a bit of wisdom to help you along the path.

Psychotherapy

Editor's Note from Mayu Kawata: Music can be the best medicine for everyone. We all are rhythmic beings after all. In this TEDxYouth Talks episode, Board-Certified Music Therapist Tim Ringgold shares his intimate and touching story of how music and people have a powerful relationship.

Music Therapy & Sound Healing

by Antoinette Morrison, MT-BC

I recently worked with a couple of non-verbal autistic boys who were having wonderful sessions. The very next day, I ran across an online article by Margaret A Fish, MS, CCC-SLP...

Editor's Note from Mayu Kawata: This article informs all effected about the possibility of speech in children with neurological impairments, as well as the root to speech itself.

Music Therapy & Sound Healing

by Jean Pollack, PhD

Many people seek comfort when experiencing upsetting emotions such as worry, sadness, boredom, unhappiness, discontent, or loneliness. Are you replacing an emotional need with food? Like a lover, food can be used to silence one’s loneliness, pain, or suffering...

Editor's Note from Karen Stabley: Are you replacing an emotional need with food? Sometimes people silence their feelings of loneliness, despair, or suffering by consuming. Consumption addictions include food, video games, shopping, alcohol, pornography, and other negative behaviors. In this article, Dr. Jean Pollack explains this frustrating cycle and how to recreate new networks.

Arts & Art Therapy