His greatest attribute, in my eyes, is that he has an innate ability--a gift he was given--to observe someone and sense what is needed, that is his true gift which puts him into a category of a healer as well as a practitioner.
In the seventeenth century, the philosopher Spinoza examined the role emotion played in human survival and culture. Yet hundreds of years and many significant scientific advances later, the neurobiological roots of joy and sorrow remain a mystery. Today, we spend countless resources doctoring our feelings with alcohol,…