Soul Searching

Can a Sleep Disorder Predict Parkinson’s?
By ALICE PARK
Calming the tremors of Parkinson’s disease remains a challenge for patients and doctors alike, but new research suggests that future therapies for the condition may emerge from an unlikely place: people’s sleep habits.

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By JOHN TIERNEY
If I’m serious about keeping my New Year’s resolutions in 2009, should I add another one? Should the to-do list include, “Start going to church”?
This is an awkward question for a heathen to contemplate, but I felt obliged to raise it with Michael McCullough after reading his report in the upcoming issue of […]

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Half our bags got taken at the airport. Ugh. Hopefully we can either get them released in to Bali or get them back when we ar returning to the US.

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We’ve hit a bit of a snag and had to halt operations to file a bit more paperwork. What we’ve done so far - the systems, paperwork, organization, team structures - has been extremely effective and is definitely a reproducible model. More info to follow.

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Got our first bag held hostage at customs. Argh. The rest have gotten through okay.

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Sooner or later I’ll do a post about the crazy wine dinners i’ve been organizing. They have been outrageous, one and all. From the Champagne dinner, to the Bordeaux dinner, to the two Barolo dinners - just to mention a few.
More to come in the New Year.

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It’s been a while since I’ve traveled through Beijing – 4 or 5 years – and while the city is fundamentally the same it seems to have grown even more polluted and crowded. There are many more “foreigners” here than there were before. By “foreigners” I’m not referring to Westerners but to Chinese from other […]

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It seems these days that I have very little down time. I think I’ve spent about 4 months out of the year traveling. Most of that (3 months) has been with my GAHP endeavor. The rest with either vacation or teaching/lecturing.
When I am in the city, I’m either running from one meeting to another, lecturing […]

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On our way to Bali again - only this time in style! A group of affluent and influential locals got together and formed a “Yayasan” for us (we would call it a foundation). A wonderful and kind enterprise that will help us reach many more impoverished people.
We are tripling the number of sites we are […]

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By BENEDICT CAREY
From the outside, psychotherapy can look like an exercise in self-absorption. In fact, though, therapists often work to pull people out of themselves: to see their behavior from the perspective of a loved one, for example, or to observe their own thinking habits from a neutral distance.
Marriage counselors have couples role-play, each one […]

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