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The Way of the Pulse: Drumming With Spirit
The concept of the Pulse is the summation and culmination of Dr. John Diamond's forty years of experience in medicine, psychiatry, complementary medicine, the humanities and music. Like the Tao, the Way, it signifies the movement of life from which all things flow.
Here, Dr. Diamond applies this concept, encouraging each of us to play the drums to enhance our sense of how the Pulse actually feels. For once we feel this movement in music, we can increasingly feel it in other aspects of life.
This book represents a major step forward in our understanding of drumming as a therapeutic modality and life-enhancing practice, for it is knit together by an underlying philosophy that embraces all of music and healing.
Here, Dr. Diamond applies this concept, encouraging each of us to play the drums to enhance our sense of how the Pulse actually feels. For once we feel this movement in music, we can increasingly feel it in other aspects of life.
This book represents a major step forward in our understanding of drumming as a therapeutic modality and life-enhancing practice, for it is knit together by an underlying philosophy that embraces all of music and healing.
120 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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About the author
John Diamond
60 books24 followersDr. John Diamond graduated from Sydney University Medical School in 1957 and was awarded his Diploma in Psychological Medicine in 1962. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry, a Foundation Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, American Holistic Medical Association, a Diplomate of the International College of Applied Kinesiology and is a Fellow and past President of the International Academy of Preventive Medicine. He is an Honorary Advisor to the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation and their Japanese sister organization, the Koushikai Foundation.
One of the foremost senior holistic healers, Dr. Diamond's remarkable body of work, which includes his discovery of the link between the acupuncture meridians and the emotions, embraces a wide range of disciplines, the result of over fifty years of research and clinical practice. He began his career in psychiatry but expanded into holistic medicine, concentrating on the totality of the sufferer. In his fifty years of practice, he has increasingly recognized that there is within us a great healing force, Life Energy, the healing power within. With his increasing involvement with this concept, his research has led him to concentrate on the enhancement of the sufferer's Life Energy so as to actuate his own innate Healing Power.
Dr. Diamond has held numerous senior clinical and university teaching appointments in clinical psychiatry, the basic sciences and the humanities, and is a widely recognized bestselling author of over twenty books, including "Your Body Doesn't Lie," "Life Energy: Unlocking the Hidden Power of Your Emotions to Achieve Well-Being," "The Diamond Color Meditation," "Facets of a Diamond: Reflections of a Healer" and numerous books on music and healing. He has a large international following, and his books have been translated into a number of languages including German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Japanese and Greek. Most recently "Your Body Doesn't Lie," "Life Energy" and his newly released "The Diamond Color Meditation" have become available in Russian.
Dr. Diamond lectures and teaches throughout the world and has presented over 1000 seminars, lectures and presentations to numerous medical associations, dental associations and societies as well as other professional organizations in the U.S. and abroad. He has conducted seminars in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Bologna, Tokyo, and London over the past four years.
Dr. Diamond now practices as a Holistic Consultant and blends his experience in medicine, psychiatry, complementary medicine, the humanities, holism, applied kinesiology, acupuncture theory, spirituality and the arts to help sufferers overcome problems relating to body, mind and spirit. He has also used Creativity for many years, regarding it as an essential and major component of healing, and has founded The Institute for Music and Health and The Institute for Life Energy and Creativity to train those interested in learning how to use the arts as a therapeutic modality. He resides in New York.
One of the foremost senior holistic healers, Dr. Diamond's remarkable body of work, which includes his discovery of the link between the acupuncture meridians and the emotions, embraces a wide range of disciplines, the result of over fifty years of research and clinical practice. He began his career in psychiatry but expanded into holistic medicine, concentrating on the totality of the sufferer. In his fifty years of practice, he has increasingly recognized that there is within us a great healing force, Life Energy, the healing power within. With his increasing involvement with this concept, his research has led him to concentrate on the enhancement of the sufferer's Life Energy so as to actuate his own innate Healing Power.
Dr. Diamond has held numerous senior clinical and university teaching appointments in clinical psychiatry, the basic sciences and the humanities, and is a widely recognized bestselling author of over twenty books, including "Your Body Doesn't Lie," "Life Energy: Unlocking the Hidden Power of Your Emotions to Achieve Well-Being," "The Diamond Color Meditation," "Facets of a Diamond: Reflections of a Healer" and numerous books on music and healing. He has a large international following, and his books have been translated into a number of languages including German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Japanese and Greek. Most recently "Your Body Doesn't Lie," "Life Energy" and his newly released "The Diamond Color Meditation" have become available in Russian.
Dr. Diamond lectures and teaches throughout the world and has presented over 1000 seminars, lectures and presentations to numerous medical associations, dental associations and societies as well as other professional organizations in the U.S. and abroad. He has conducted seminars in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Bologna, Tokyo, and London over the past four years.
Dr. Diamond now practices as a Holistic Consultant and blends his experience in medicine, psychiatry, complementary medicine, the humanities, holism, applied kinesiology, acupuncture theory, spirituality and the arts to help sufferers overcome problems relating to body, mind and spirit. He has also used Creativity for many years, regarding it as an essential and major component of healing, and has founded The Institute for Music and Health and The Institute for Life Energy and Creativity to train those interested in learning how to use the arts as a therapeutic modality. He resides in New York.
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December 6, 2018
In The Way of the Pulse: Drumming with Spirit, John Diamond, M.D., stresses that the Highest Creativity of all is Music, which he encourages in all his students. And, as singing and dancing are the highest form of Music, he teaches them to sing and dance on the Pulse. With the drum being the instrument that is most conducive to raising Life Energy, the author encourages all those who request his guidance in improving their lives to play drums. By doing so, they can come to access “the deep desire, the aspiration, to find the Way of the Pulse, Peace and Love – and to give these to others.”
In the Foreword to this insightful work, Paul Cavaciuti, Dip. Mus., D.I.M.H., and former Head of Percussion, Musician’s Institute, stresses that this book is not merely for drummers or therapists, but that it is, rather, worthwhile reading for all those who are concerned with leading a more open-hearted, creative and untroubled life. In an array of both poetry and prose pieces, Dr. Diamond provides an overview of such fundamental topics as “The Tide and The Pulse,” “Drumming, Pulse and Tao” and “The Drum and The Mother.”
Dr. Diamond’s approach is personal and grounded in everyday experience that he elevates to the realm of the transcendental. Inspiring and motivational, The Way of the Pulse: Drumming with Spirit is directed at all who have ever yearned to play the drums. Many readers may be aware of, or even belong to, drumming circles. The latter will already, no doubt, have experienced for themselves the trancelike ecstasy that is aroused by assimilating the hypnotic beat into the inner Sanctum of the essential Self. For any of you who might regard such an experience with a certain degree of trepidation, and have as yet faint twinges of fear as to the likelihood of such a medium opening up and exposing your own Heart of Darkness, Dr. Diamond urges that you embrace the pounding of your inner essence, casting your doubts and anxieties aside.
To those who have, by now, become accustomed to the sound of Dr. Diamond’s voice from his many works that are already on the market, his approach in The Way of the Pulse: Drumming with Spirit comes as no surprise. After all, his own utterances are quite hypnotic and it is no wonder that he urges his audience to read the works aloud. In short, the mesmerizing quality of this joyously written text should win you over, no matter your age or cultural background. To gain additional insight into Dr Diamond's works, of which there are many, why not visit his official website at https://drjohndiamond.com? Doing so really should be a rewarding experience.
In the Foreword to this insightful work, Paul Cavaciuti, Dip. Mus., D.I.M.H., and former Head of Percussion, Musician’s Institute, stresses that this book is not merely for drummers or therapists, but that it is, rather, worthwhile reading for all those who are concerned with leading a more open-hearted, creative and untroubled life. In an array of both poetry and prose pieces, Dr. Diamond provides an overview of such fundamental topics as “The Tide and The Pulse,” “Drumming, Pulse and Tao” and “The Drum and The Mother.”
Dr. Diamond’s approach is personal and grounded in everyday experience that he elevates to the realm of the transcendental. Inspiring and motivational, The Way of the Pulse: Drumming with Spirit is directed at all who have ever yearned to play the drums. Many readers may be aware of, or even belong to, drumming circles. The latter will already, no doubt, have experienced for themselves the trancelike ecstasy that is aroused by assimilating the hypnotic beat into the inner Sanctum of the essential Self. For any of you who might regard such an experience with a certain degree of trepidation, and have as yet faint twinges of fear as to the likelihood of such a medium opening up and exposing your own Heart of Darkness, Dr. Diamond urges that you embrace the pounding of your inner essence, casting your doubts and anxieties aside.
To those who have, by now, become accustomed to the sound of Dr. Diamond’s voice from his many works that are already on the market, his approach in The Way of the Pulse: Drumming with Spirit comes as no surprise. After all, his own utterances are quite hypnotic and it is no wonder that he urges his audience to read the works aloud. In short, the mesmerizing quality of this joyously written text should win you over, no matter your age or cultural background. To gain additional insight into Dr Diamond's works, of which there are many, why not visit his official website at https://drjohndiamond.com? Doing so really should be a rewarding experience.
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