This paper provides transcripts from a Focusing session, a method of psychotherapy developed by the American philosopher Eugene Gendlin. The session was conducted with Yumi Nishimura as part of the 21^<st> Public Lecture of the Society for Mind-Body Science held at Kansai University on July 31^<st>, 2010. From the excerpts of this 20-minute Focusing session, the author explicates four assertions about the body: the body as relating; the body as felt sense; the body as implicit and pre-cognitive; the body as implying. These assertions explicate the body as lived; augment the view of the body in anatomy and physiology; and surpass the dualism of the perceiving subject and the object to be perceived. More assertions may be made from the transcripts to explicate the being of what is commonly referred to as body, mind, or living.

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Objective: To examine clinical effectiveness of treatment methods for post-stroke numbness. I executed a single-case randomized trial. Case: A 77-year-old man with a chief complaint of numbness and pain of the left hip to left lower limb. History of present illness: X-10 years previously, he suddenly became conscious of a sense of detachment. Numbness and paralysis of the left leg developed the next morning. Lacunar stroke was diagnosed and rehabilitation was begun. X-1 years previously, he consulted the neurosurgery department of the Meiji University of Integrative Medicine Hospital and underwent treatment with the AKA-Hakata method. X years, I commenced once-weekly acupuncture and moxibustion therapy. Intervention method: Acupuncture using the reactive point treatment based on the Primordial Oriental Medicine (A) and that using and traditional acupuncture points (B) were executed in random order. The patient received 16 treatments in total; eight of each type. Method of treatment: A was assumed to be the reactive point treatment and B the acupuncture point treatment. The randomization method ensured that both treatments were thoroughly performed. Evaluation method Numbness was evaluated using the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and Pain Vision (PV). Result: The patient showed a decrease in VAS score, improvement in PV evaluation, and an improvement in the extent of numbness. No significant difference in clinical effectiveness was found between the two treatments. Conclusion: The present case suggested that both treatments had equal clinical effectiveness and were useful for the sequelae of cerebral infarction.

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In his extensive research of over 40 years concerning children who claim to have "past-life memories," the late Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia collected more than 2,500 cases from all over the world including India, Thai, Burma, Lebanon, Turkey, Sri Lanka, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Portugal, Hungary, Island, Finland, Canada, and the US. Inspired by his work, a number of researchers have been working on similar cases worldwide. However, no case has been reported from Japan so far, which is regrettable in view of the fact that the case of Katsugoro, a boy from the early 19th century Japan was one of the strong cases that inspired Ian Stevenson to work on the phenomena. In this paper I will report a case of a Japanese child with "past-life memories" as a boy who lived in Edinburgh, Scotland. His remarks are basically compatible with a possible life in Edinburgh, and some of them are quite striking. Since the "past-life personalities" has not been successfully identified, the present case is regarded as unsolved. However, the present paper shows the existence of a clear Case of Reincarnation Type (CORT) in Japan and suggests the necessity of looking at a certain type of children from a different angle than traditional ones with the diagnosis as autism spectrum disorders.

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We have studied spatial distribution of healing power (J value) around a human body with our gas measurement method using pieces of cucumber (Cucumis sativus 'white spine type') as bio-sensors, and obtained some findings; for example, a wave-like distribution of potential was generated around a human body. In the present paper, we discussed the details of potential distributions of 5 healers. Results suggest a possibility that we can deal with various claims about healing as the same physical phenomenon.

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The Daoist text Zhuangzi, especially in the inner chapters, depicts sages as not having any sorrow or fear when they face death, thus being capable of peacefully accepting it. The purpose of this paper is to re-examine that matter as a state of mind reached through experience and the practice of "Tao" rather than mere philosophical theory. What Zhuangzi brings into question is the state of our consciousness, which creates an abstract world that deviates from the eternally changing natural world, and thus we grow too deeply attached to it. Zhuangzi therefore attempted to return his mind to the underlying natural world by calming his ordinary consciousness. The experience of meditation can result in a transformation of the practitioner's view of life and death and how time flows through our daily lives. Time, which flows linearly through from life to death, can be caused to disappear, and they instead sense that time flows in a circular motion around the central axis of "Tao." This then results in anybody that has reached the state of Tao being capable of accepting everything by assuming life and death to be a continuous natural cycle.

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Objective: We report a case of sleep disturbance and unidentified complaints that was improved by acupuncture and moxibustion therapy. Case: The patient was a woman in her 20s with sleep disturbance and unidentified complaints such as headache, general malaise, back pain and so on. The sleep disturbance had developed X-5 years previously when she got up early morning to go to work, in combination with stress and excessive desk work. This was accompanied by unidentified complaints. Because she experienced no improvement in symptoms on retiring, we commenced acupuncture and moxibustion therapy after the patient was referred by a doctor. Method of treatment: We administered acupuncture and moxibustion using the reactive point treatment protocol based on Primordial Oriental Medicine. We also advised her with good care such as using a hot-water bottle and taking light exercise. Evaluation method: The patient commented on changes in the symptoms of, sleep disturbance and we evaluated general malaise using a visual analogue scale (VAS). We measured the saliva oxidation reduction potential (ORP) as well as the activation of salivary α-amylase to evaluate general physical condition, and quality of life (QOL) was evaluated using the short form (SF)-8. We also evaluated changes in bilateral axillary temperature. Result: We found no changes in quantitative measurements. However, sleep disturbance was subjectively improved. Conclusion: The present case suggested that both acupuncture and moxibustion therapy and good care might be useful in sleep disturbance.

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"Shikoku Henro" is a Buddhist pilgrimage walking around the Japanese island of Shikoku. Walking the pilgrimage, persons with troubles and sorrows often get solutions and solaces. How do they solve their problems? In the pilgrimage there are few doctrines. There are a lot of symbols and metaphors instead. Pilgrims walk in nature thinking symbolic meanings of it. And they learn the truths that teach them how to live a good life. This is a thinking method of ancient people. In ancient times they understood symbolic meanings of all natural things. In Shikoku Henro, pilgrims become "ancient people" in a sense. They tend to think everything metaphorically. For example, "to walk" is "to live", "to look up in the sky" is "to hold ideals", "spring sunshine" is "a person with love", and so on. Mountain path, rain and wind teach us hardship of life. Flowers in the field and beautiful landscapes give us healing. Nature thus talks. Pilgrims listen to the language of nature and learn the truths revealed in it. That is the way they become wise and regenerated. Metaphorical thinking is a chief characteristic of Shikoku Henro.

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The purpose of this study were to advocate the impersonal perspective as a meta-method to describe spirituality, and according to such a perspective, to model the integral positivity derived from ozaki's theory of three factor spirituality within the context of scientific method to positive psychology and outside of scientific method. First, the integral approach of the Wilber where a first person, second person, third person approach had been advocated to integrate was critically examined from phenomenological standpoint. Second, we described for impersonal perspective through the phenomenological view. Third, we described integral positivity from the model of three factor spirituality on the impersonal perspective which integrated the scientific perspectives and outside of scientific perspectives. Through the process above, we showed the meta-method, impersonal perspective, which made the selection of a suitable method from various ones freely depending on the purposes of the studies possible. We also showed the possibility to describe spirituality and transcendence within the frame of empirical science such as positive psychology by using the new method, impersonal perspective.

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