On Holistic Community

Beatrice Lutterbeck, RN, MA

Let us keep hearts, minds and ears open to those things that cause us to reflect on the human condition, whether it be in San Francisco, Baghdad, New York, or Mars. If gay marriages are legalized, how might that change a our or a client's sense of self as a "wife" or as a "husband."  How does this change the "image" of wife and husband. How does the war in Baghdad, terrorism, and 9/11 change our sense of "safe place” in America? If the water found on Mars leads to discovery of previous life there, does that change our image of "Martians" from little green men to something else? When you get right down to it, anything that changes our perception of external reality will change our inner world visions, too.

Gardons nos couers, esprits et oreilles ouverts aux choses qui nous font riflechir sur la condition humaine, que cela soit ` San Francisco, Baghdad, New York, ou Mars. Si les marriages gay sont ligalizis, comment cela pourrait-il changer notre sens ou le sens de soi-mjme de notre client en tant que “femme” ou autant que “mari.?” Comment la guerre ` Bagdad, le terrorisme et 9/11 changent-ils nos sentiments de “lieu de security” en Amerique? Si leau qui a iti trouvie sur Mars mhne ` la dicouverte qu une vie anterieure y a existi, cela change-t-il notre image des “martiens” de petits hommes verts ` quelque chose dautre? Quand vous y reflechissez bien, tout chose qui change notre perception de la rialiti externe changera nos visions du monde interne, aussi.

Beatrice “Bea” Lutterbeck is a body-mind therapist trained in several holistic modalities. She is certified in Interactive Guided Imagery^sm, and is a Reiki Master and teacher. She is a massage therapist who trained at the School for Intuitive Massage and Healing. She has had additional training in Therapeutic Touch, Polarity Therapy and Pranic Healing. She is a Bodywork Therapist trained by the American Bodywork and Massage Professionals Association.

Bea was raised in southern California and earned her Master's Degree in French at UCLA in 1971. While studying in France, she became interested in the wide variety of natural, holistic approaches to health and healing commonly practiced in Europe. She returned to school in 1978 to become a registered nurse. Her belief that Western medicine often failed patients was reinforced during the years she worked in medical and radiation oncology. Intuitively, she understood that curing a disease does not always mean the patient is healed. You may reach Bea by E-mail reikirn@earthlink.net