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When a child is sick, parents need clear, reliable information to
help them take action quickly. This fully comprehensive guide to
child health and wellness, draws on anthroposophic medicine,
combining conventional treatments with complementary therapies. A
Waldorf Guide to Children's Health includes: -- Easy-to-access
guidance on first aid and medical emergencies -- How to recognise
the symptoms of many childhood illnesses such as chickenpox,
glandular fever and ear infections -- Suggestions on caring for
babies and toddlers, including detailed information on vaccination
-- How to relieve the effects of common conditions such as pain,
fever, vomiting, allergies and asthma -- Advice on coping with
serious disorders, including diabetes, chronic illnesses and
hospital stays Including current medical advice alongside
tried-and-tested tips, this book empowers parents to look beyond
the surface symptoms and better understand their child as a whole,
in body, soul and spirit. Based on the bestselling A Guide To Child
Health, this essential reference guide has been fully revised and
updated for today's parents.
In this concise summary and introduction, Michaela Gloeckler
presents the therapeutic spectrum of anthroposophic medicine - its
scientific basis, diagnostic methods and potential for practice.
She gives numerous practical examples of its application and
suggestions for treating patients at home. Anthroposophic medicine
is an integrative system that combines scientific training and
practice with a spiritual understanding of the human being. It
seeks primarily to stimulate self-healing powers, directly
supporting recovery processes and innate capacities of resistance.
Anthroposophic physicians - registered general practitioners and
specialists in all fields - utilize the knowledge and skills of
conventional treatments as well as anthroposophic and homoeopathic
medicines, external applications, and eurythmy, art and physical
therapies. Michaela Gloeckler describes the current status of
anthroposophic medicine whilst raising awareness of the social
dimension of illness and health to address issues of fate and
destiny and to show what individuals can do for their own and other
people's health. She reflects on Rudolf Steiner's call to 'make the
health system democratic' and clarifies why scientific pluralism of
methods and freedom of therapy are essential for the further
development of the healthcare system and a modern understanding of
disease.
"Almost every day you can read somewhere that a fundamental change
is needed in schools and the education system..." Dr M Gloeckler. -
How do we accompany and support the development of children and
adolescents so that they can be motivated to face the challenges
ahead? - What skills are needed to solve the global problems of
social injustice and deal with the consequences of the ecological
economic crisis creatively? - What must the education system be
like, that it prepares us as adults to be less moulded to existing
conditions and therefore better able to see what needs to be
changed for the future? - Which activities in the classroom or
necessary so that initiative and entrepreneurial will can develop
for the realisation of new ideas? - What does an age-appropriate
media education look like, for achieving maturity and competence in
working with information technology? Regardless of what problem you
are considering: what is needed are courage and confidence, health
and a joy for life. But how can school and parental home create the
conditions for these qualities to develop? In view of the
increasing life expectancy worldwide this is an urgent need,
because a healthy physical emotional spiritual maturation is the
best prerequisite for a creative life into old age. This book is a
plea for radically aligning upbringing and education with what is
needed for the healthy development and well-being of children and
adolescents - and not aligning at the wrong time with performance
goals coming from business and government policy. The author, a
paediatrician with many decades of experience, begins with a
consideration of what is meant by age appropriate instruction,
delving into a detailed discussion of the child as he or she grows
through different stages of development, and how the child will
grow in health, well-being and resilience if upbringing and
education are aware of and an sync with this. As an example, the
experiences of Waldorf schools are examined, looking in detail at
the growth in each year of childhood and adolescence as it pertains
to a holistic curriculum which incorporates education of body, soul
and spirit. Dr Gloeckler then considers the effects on health and
the causes for illness in adult life if age-appropriateness is not
taken into account. She concludes with a discussion of teacher
health and health engendering principles that can protect against
teacher burnout. Education for the Future is a very informative
book and will be of interest for educators as well parents who are
interested in nurturing health and human potential in children.
Ever since the Greek philosophers characterized the three
foundational ideals for attaining wisdom -- Truth (science), Beauty
(art) and Goodness (religion) -- these ideals have been significant
influences on all levels of education. They are also the pillars of
healthy development of body, soul and spirit. This insightful book,
drawing on lectures given by Dr Michaela Gloeckler at the 2018
Kolisko conference, explores these themes and asks what the future
looks like in the areas of education, the healing arts, and health
care in light of them. How do goodness, beauty and truth acts as
preventative medicine in society? And how can they be understood in
the context of the Waldorf curriculum?
"The picture we have of viruses and their significance for human
beings and nature has fundamentally changed in the last two decades
but with hardly any of this more widely known ... Viruses are the
oldest, the most common and the most broadly distributed organic
structures that evolution has ever created. Viruses basically are
the most ancient building blocks of life; without this knowledge we
will not be able to understand their role and the part they play in
the course of illness." T. Hardtmuth....... Dr Thomas Hardtmuth
tackles the many issues of the Covid-19 Corona pandemic. He
proceeds from the premise that we first need a thorough
understanding of the significance of viruses not just as a cause of
illnesses but as a medium, under the right conditions, for building
and maintaining health, as a carrier and changer of genetic
information in the service of evolution. Still prevalent is the
view that all viruses are enemies to be fought, consigning
ourselves as in this epidemic to battleground stations, with all
that that entails. Governments have described it as a war..... The
newest research and understanding, though, is leading to very
different conclusions. The prevalent view of a virus attacking us
and making us ill, laying the blame fully on the virus, is
outdated. Its effect depends on the situation and most importantly
the 'host', ie the person - it is not a simple question of cause
and effect - or dots on a computer chart touching each other and
'causing infection', as computer modelling tends to be done.....
This book delves in more detail into related subjects, in an easily
readable language. These themes include the PCR tests and the
so-called Ct (or amplification) values; the psychology of fear and
power; the inner-outer relationship between human health and
environmental health; and the effects of fear as well as other
factors on the immune system. In addition, he introduces the
subject of alternative therapies and the controversial theme of
benefits and risks of vaccination, in general and with regard to
the current Covid vaccines. On the latter he details in
comprehensible form the processes both by which the different types
of vaccines have been produced as well as the different mechanisms
by which they affect human cells and immune systems. He goes on to
consider the testing processes in production which were
significantly shortened for Covid vaccines, the potential risks,
and the immunological responses in the organism through vaccines in
comparison to responses arising naturally through actual infections
- how they are not the same. This leads into a comprehensive survey
of the functioning of the human immune system..... In all the
sections, the effort is made to explore the issues from a broad,
open-minded and holistic perspective, showing how this approach has
an important significance also for the details of the Covid
pandemic and the various measures being taken. It is written in an
easily readable language..... The emphasis: with a comprehensive
knowledge incorporating unbiased views of health and human illness,
without fears or political pressures, we will be in a better
position for discussion on policies as well as for responsible
individual choices.
In Corona and the Human Heart, Dr Gloeckler gives new inspiring
perspectives on the significant role of the human heart in the
development of the immune system, from early embryological growth
through to adulthood, and the importance this understanding has for
the Covid crisis. The heart is intrinsically involved in the
interplay between inner and outer, the dynamic boundary between
self and the environment. At the same time it is the centre and
life-blood of the human organism, just as the sun is for the living
earth. In exploring the wide fields of the heart's functions, Dr
Gloeckler sheds light on how immunity is integrally connected with
the heart and the inner sense of self. If we disempower the
individual through anxieties and fears, or through dependence on
outer authority, we reduce the confidence and strength of self;
this in turn leads to a significantly reduced ability of the immune
system to fend itself against outer influences, such as viruses and
other pathogenetic influences. The author leads us on a path
showing how by strengthening our inner spiritual life - our inner
sun - we will be strengthening our health and immunity, as well as
illuminating riddles of conscience and common sense..... "When
people follow their conscience and have the courage to speak the
truth, even when it is unpopular, without the fear of
stigmatisation or exclusion, not only is the immune system
strengthened but also people's trust in the future." M. Gloeckler,
MD..... "This timely book represents a breakthrough in
phenomenological research that will provide far-reaching insights
not only to those who are prompted by the current pandemic to ask
deeper questions related to health and medical freedom, but also to
all open-minded researchers in pursuit of bridging the mind-body
divide." B. Furst, MD
This is a comprehensive and in-depth collection of twenty articles
from the 2006 Kolisko conferences. Named for Waldorf educator and
anthroposophic physician Eugen Kolisko, the Kolisko conferences
bring together pedagogical and therapeutic tools found in Waldorf
education. In 2006, there were nine such Kolisko conferences held
worldwide, and this book brings together the key lectures into a
single volume, newly revised. Topics include healthy timetabling,
development of physiology, professional ethics, meditations for
teachers, medical diagnostics and therapies, spirituality in
science, art and religion, children and drugs, children and
computer games, parent collaboration, the college of teachers and
many more.
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