Friday, December 1, 2023

Healing tools

Healing tools include the deft use of suggestion, confession, memory, ritual and medicines. Healers find ways to provide consolation and hope, enabling their wounded charges to engage with meaningful work and find purpose in life.

-From a July 7, 2023, Bruce Bower, Science News book review of Fires in the Dark by Kay Redfield Jamison


And also Happy December! 

From a December 13, 2017, Melissa Chan, Time article:

A member of the Haiminger Krampusgruppe dressed as the Krampus creature, an Austrian winter solstice ritual, lets himself be touched by onlookers prior to the annual Krampus night in Tyrol on Dec. 1, 2013. (Sean Gallup—Getty Images)
A member of the Haiminger Krampusgruppe dressed as the Krampus creature, an Austrian winter solstice ritual, lets himself be touched by onlookers prior to the annual Krampus night in Tyrol on Dec. 1, 2013.
 
Sean Gallup—Getty Images

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