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Free Advice from Intuitive Life Coach, Jaelin K. Reece

Dear Jaelin,

My husband seems distracted most of the time I'm with him. He says he loves me and I do him. I feel I do all the emotional work. Is there anything I can do to bring equality into our lives? Can he give more?

Joan

Dear Joan,
There is a wonderful exercise that you can do together as a couple that will help you both to be fully in the present moment with each other. I give this exercise to couples often as their homework during couples coaching. You need to sit on the bed or in chairs, facing each other. Each taking your right palm and placing it over the heart of the other person. So your hand will be over his heart and vice versa.

Next, look into each others eyes and hold that position for as long as you can, looking lovingly into each others eyes. This exercise connects the soul to the heart of their beloved. It may be difficult at first to look each other in the eye, but do the best you can. This will help to bring each of you into the full presence of the other. It is an act of balance and strengthens the relationship. See if this is something that your husband would be willing to experience with you. You will receive more in those few moments with him that you have felt in many years. It reconnects you to each other.

Many Blessings,

Jaelin
Whole Life Coach

Disclaimer: Jaelin often shares insights derived from intuitive communications. Any advice she offers is not meant to override your personal health providers' recommendations/prescriptions, but is intended to offer a higher perspective on your behalf based on the question you asked of her.

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It looks like there will be the 60 votes needed to pass health care reform in the United States Senate before Christmas. Good news! Although, there is plenty of debate about what the final bill will actually look like after all the back room bargaining. Spiritual care has been part of that discussion.

Lifelong Christian Scientist, George Reed, depends on prayer for his health and well-being. Reed says "Spiritual care is more than health care; it's also wellness or whole person care, providing for a peaceful and progressive life."

From Reed's article Spiritual care, healing should be part of reform:

Spiritual care has been covered by the insurance industry for almost 90 years. Today, spiritual care - religious nonmedical care - is covered by the Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as a number of government health insurance plans.

Not sure what type of "spiritual care" is actually covered by Medicare and Medicaid programs I decided to do some research about this. Here's what I found:

• 'Although there is no direct payment by Medicare for the services of pastoral counselors, the services they provide to hospital inpatients are included in the hospital's allowable costs under the Medicare program. The costs are included in the administrative and general (A & G) cost center. As early as the mid-1970's, Medicare recognized pastoral care as having a beneficial and therapeutic effect on the medical condition of a patient, and, therefore, the costs a provider incurs to furnish such care to its patients are considered patient care related costs.'

  Source: HIPAA and Pastoral Care

• Medicare Hospice Benefit: More than 90% of hospices in the United States are certified by Medicare. Medicare defines a set of hospice core services, which many hospices surpass through voluntary, community-based efforts.
  • Physician services
  • Nursing care
  • Medical appliances and supplies
  • Drugs for symptom management and pain relief
  • Short-term inpatient and respite care
  • Homemaker and home health aide services
  • Counseling
  • Social work service
  • Spiritual care
  • Volunteer participation
  • Bereavement services

  Source: NHPCO

• All US governmental, public, and private healthcare facilities and their staff fall under some form of regulatory requirement to provide opportunities for spiritual health assessment and care as a component of holistic healthcare. As often the case with regulations, these facilities face the predicament of funding un-reimbursable care. However, chaplains and nurses who provide most patient spiritual care are paid using funds the facility obtains from patients, private, and public sources. Furthermore, Veteran healthcare services, under the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), are provided with taxpayer funds from local, state, and federal governments.

  Source: Journal of Religion and Health, Volume 48, Number 4 / December, 2009

More reading on this subject:

Regulations Impacting Spiritual Care in Health Care
Keep an Open Mind About Spiritual Care
How Will Health Care Reform Affect End-of-Life Care?

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A notice was posted at BlogCarnival on Dec. 12 reporting their intermittently failing email problems have been resolved. BlogCarnival is the submission hub for all all blog carnivals across the Internet. Also, my personal ISP's attempt at an email upgrade this past week caused both my incoming and outgoing mail to have major delivery delays. Things have been a bit crazy.

Unfortunately, due to these email issues, only a handful of entries actually made their way through to our carnival host, Rosanna C.Rogacion. But, Rosanna persevered and posted the carnival just the same with the few rather than many submissions. (Update! Rosanna has since added additional attractions that I came her way late.)

At the Carnival of Healing #220, posted at Meandering Paths to Spirituality and Wellness you will learn how to control your emotions, how to mend a broken heart, and also learn about color breathing. This is the last edition of the calendar year since the carnival is scheduled to take a break next week for the holidays. A special thanks and holiday blessings to Rosanna for her 2009 send off edition!

Announcing Changes for 2010

I was going to announce this in January, but I guess now is just as good a time. I have made the decision to scale back the Carnival of Healing from weekly to monthly editions beginning in 2010. This decision did not come easily, I have given it considerable thought. But, after almost five years of overseeing and promoting the weekly carnivals every Saturday I am anxious to free up my weekends to focus my energies on other projects. No worries, I'm not pulling up the tent stakes altogether. The carnival show will go on, just less frequently.

2010 editions will be posted on the first Saturday of each month. Because there will only be twelve editions of the carnival next year it is my intention that the attractions showcased each month to be the cream of the crop. I plan to host the January edition, but currently there are eleven editions/months open. Bloggers, if you are interested in hosting during 2010, get your bids in. Check the carnival calendar for available hosting dates.

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