Extreme Parenting: Parenting Your Child with a Chronic Illness
Author: Sharon Dempsey
Extreme Parenting is a personal guide written to help parents of a child with a long-term illness, whether it be asthma, cancer, cystic fibrosis, or another chronic condition.
Parents of children with chronic illnesses experience 'extreme parenting', which challenges them to find their strengths and to push themselves physically and emotionally to get the best out of life for their children and themselves. This book provides practical advice on issues such as how to cope with hospitals and treatment, communicating with health professionals, advocating for children, as well as tips for family life and self-care. Each chapter concludes with accessible advice and action points.
Extreme Parenting is essential reading not just for parents looking after children with chronic illnesses, but also for health and other related professionals, offering insights into the challenges that these parents face on a day-to-day basis.
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Focusing the Whole Brain: Transforming Your Life with Hemispheric Synchronization
Author: Ronald Russell
Imagine a technique that would allow you to conduct your own explorations into consciousness. Imagine that this technique is safe, inexpensive, easy to use, and endlessly versatile. Imagine Hemi-Sync.
Invented by sound engineer Robert A. Monroe more than 30 years ago, Hemi-Sync uses audio technology to synchronize the functioning of the two hemispheres of the brain. For more than three decades, people have been finding more and more creative uses for it. So many uses, in fact, that it's time for an overview of various practical applications.
- assisting personal growth and development
- in medicine
- in psychiatry and psychotherapy
- with autistic children
- in nursing homes
- in sleep training
- in education
- and many more fields
Hemi-Sync appeals to professionals in many disciplines. Today trainers and workshop presenters in some twenty countries and individuals from fifty countries have traveled to attend courses employing Hemi-Sync at The Monroe Institute in Virginia. Countless more use Hemi-Sync CDs and tapes for specific purposes.
Focusing the Whole Brain provides a readable introduction to a whole new world of abilities greater than you ever thought possible.
Table of Contents:
| Foreword | ix | |
| The Way of Hemi-Sync | xi | |
| Introduction | xiii | |
| Personal Growth and Development | 1 | |
| Mind, Body, Spirit, and Hemi-Sync | 3 | |
| A Place for Me to Grow | 9 | |
| It Changes You... | 13 | |
| A New Perspective | 20 | |
| A Catalyst for Profound Personal Growth | 22 | |
| Challenging Autism with Hemi-Sync | 26 | |
| Hemi-Sync behind Bars | 31 | |
| Young Children | 33 | |
| Guidelines for Using Metamusic to Support Learning in Young Children | 35 | |
| Metamusic and the Child with Feeding Problems | 43 | |
| Hemi-Sync and Autistic Children | 52 | |
| Hemi-Sync As an Adjunct to Pediatric Physical Therapy | 61 | |
| Education and Learning | 67 | |
| Using Binaural Beats to Enhance Attention | 69 | |
| Facing the Learning Challenge | 75 | |
| Hemi-Sync in an Educational Program | 84 | |
| Hemi-Sync and the Self-Reflective Lover | 89 | |
| Medical | 99 | |
| Hemi-Sync in Medicine to Promote Patient Well-Being | 101 | |
| Support for Surgery | 110 | |
| Hemi-Sync and Reiki | 116 | |
| Preparing to Use Binaural Beat Sounds with Deaf Clients | 122 | |
| The Mind: Psychiatry and Psychotherapy | 125 | |
| Hemi-Sync in My Medical Psychiatric Practice | 127 | |
| Enhanced Intuitive Psychotherapy | 134 | |
| Hemi-Sync: A Healing of the Self | 142 | |
| Hemi-Sync and the Inner Therapist | 148 | |
| Use of Hemi-Sync to Reduce Levels of Depression for Alcohol-Dependent Patients | 153 | |
| Journey into Symbolism | 158 | |
| Sleep | 163 | |
| Hemi-Sync Intervention for Insomnia and Immune Dysfunction Syndromes | 165 | |
| Insomnia and Hemi-Sync | 173 | |
| Lucid Dreaming | 180 | |
| Nursing Homes | 183 | |
| Bridging the Communication Gap: Hemi-Sync in Nursing Homes | 185 | |
| Hemi-Sync As a Complementary Treatment with Long-Term Residents | 193 | |
| Work and Business | 201 | |
| Business Seminars and Hemi-Sync | 203 | |
| Team Development Strategies: Looking at the Frontier | 208 | |
| Waking ... Knowing | 213 | |
| Beyond the United States | 219 | |
| Hemi-Sync in Cyprus | 221 | |
| Hemi-Sync in Poland | 228 | |
| Hemi-Sync in Slovakia | 232 | |
| With a Scottish Accent | 240 | |
| Hemi-Sync in a Mexican Thunderstorm | 244 | |
| Animals | 249 | |
| Metamusic to Enhance Physical and Emotional Comfort in Animals | 251 | |
| Scientific and Technical | 261 | |
| Research on the Effects of Binaural Beats | 263 | |
| Consciousness, Hemi-Sync, and the Brain | 273 | |
| Pilot Exploration of CNS Electrophysiology of Hemi-Sync and Related Altered States of Consciousness | 281 | |
| Bob Monroe and TMI's Impact on Consciousness Literature | 286 | |
| Gallimaufry | 293 | |
| Healing by Retrieving the Shadow: The Work of Richard Werling | 295 | |
| The Magical Mix | 299 | |
| The Intersection of Synchronicity and a Thoughtball | 303 | |
| In-Home Training Series, Monroe Products, and Residential Courses | 309 | |
| Useful Books | 315 | |
| About the Editor | 317 |
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