My first meeting with Rudolf Ballentin was during my naturopathy training session in early 2000 at the Clayton College of Natural Health. The book was a radical healing, and it changed my way of thinking about sickness and healing. 600 pages of knowledge and experience opened my eyes to the promise of holistic thinking.
Rudolf Ballentin studied at Duke University in the field of psychiatry; He later created and now runs the Center for Holistic Medicine in New York. He is one of the greatest modern bearers of traditions, as ancient as mankind. Ballentin tells us that the suppression of symptoms is nonsense, true healing is essentially transformed, and deep healing reorganizes the deep inner patterns in the mind and body.
Reading Ballentine I recall that the history of natural healing arts is complemented by men and women with a vision and courage that Radent Healing Balentine is not new, but for centuries. Combining our thoughts around this concept is difficult, because in our time the word “new” is just a way to create something that has always been.
There is something in the use of natural medicine that tends to bring us back into harmony with the rest of nature. The idea of practice is to heal, returning all parts back to a cohesive package of spirit, mind and body.
Ballentin is a real miracle in the practice of natural health, he has written several books, is a doctor, psychiatrist, herbalist, Ayruvedic practitioner, homeopath and teachers of all these methods, Dr. Ballentin is a model for the practitioner of the future.
Books: radical healing, integration of the world's great therapeutic traditions to create a new transforming medicine (2000) Breath Science, Practical Guide (2007) Yoga and Psychotherapy, Evolution of Consciousness (with Swami Rama) (2007) Rudolph Ballentine is an excellent modern guru of natural health. I appreciate his life and work.
