The Wise Woman tradition is a spiral of uniqueness, everchanging, like a woman, steeped in and rising out of the blood mysteries, the wisdom of womb-ones, the knowledge of those who hold their blood inside.

The Wise Woman tradition honors the ordinary and avoids the exotic, works simply and steers clear of complication, accepts failure, chaos, and the eternal void with humor instead of fear and dread. The Wise Woman tradition is compassionate and heart-centered. It honors the Earth. It is local and ecological and urges us to use our dooryard weeds instead of the latest miracle herb from far away.

The Wise Woman tradition maintains that health is best defined as flexibility and that deviations from normal (that is, problems) offer us an opportunity to reintegrate parts of ourselves that we have cast out, emerging healedwholedholy. Illness is understood as an integral part of life and self-growth, with healer, patient and nature as co-participants in the healing process.

This is in marked contrast to other traditions of healing. In the Scientific tradition the doctor is highly visible and the patient is reduced to a body part or a disease designation. In the Heroic or Holistic tradition, the healer is the one who knows the right way to do things and the patient must follow the rules in order to get well. Most so-called alternative medicine comes from Heroic traditions, which emphasize fasting, purification, colonic cleansing, rigid dietary rules, and the use of rare botanicals in complicated formulae. Metaphysical healing also is applied that way: It views illness as a failure rather than a natural and potentially constructive process.

The Wise Woman Tradition reminds us that wellness and illness are not polarities. They are part of the continuum of life. We are constantly renewing ourselves, cell by cell, second by second, every minute of our lives. Problems, by their very nature, can facilitate deep spiritual and symbolic renewal, leading us naturally into expanded, more complete ways of thinking about and experiencing ourselves.

The Wise Woman Tradition encourages us to work towards good health from the inside out. And to remember that our healing choices influence not only ourselves but the entire planet.

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has praised the state of preparations for South America's first Olympic Games, to be staged in Rio de Janeiro next year.

The endorsement comes despite delays to a planned new metro line and concerns about the quality of water at the Guanabara Bay sailing venue.

"I am very satisfied," IOC president Thomas Bach told media on Tuesday.

Earlier, Bach met Brazil President Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia. He is also due to meet the IOC's executive committee.

Bach's comments come less than a year after IOC vice-president John Coates described the Games' preparations as the "worst" he had ever seen.

Rio mayor Eduardo Paes said the focus of planning was now geared towards the running of the event, to be held from Aug. 5-21 next year.

"We are are now talking about the operation of the city - how to take care of the event itself - which is a totally different matter," Paes said.

"I am very optimistic. I think things are moving very well."

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NAIROBI, June 30 (Xinhua) -- African Securities Exchange Association (ASEA) on Friday signed a three-year deal to promote the development of the continent's capital markets.

ASEA said the cooperation pact inked in Nairobi will see Financial Sector Deepening Africa (FSD Africa) extend technical assistance to ASEA to 208,000 U.S. dollars to support the organization of the Annual ASEA Flagship Conference; and enhance the quality of data and statistics on the ASEA website portal.

""ASEA was established to showcase the prominence of Exchanges in societal transformation and as enablers of inclusive economic growth in Africa; and today we have yet again taken a significant step forward by partnering with FSD Africa. This cooperation will indeed build awareness of African markets,"" ASEA president Oscar N. Onyema said.

Through this technical assistance programme, ASEA and FSD Africa are working together to promote the sustainable development of Africa's capital markets by encouraging inflows of long-term finance into Africa's capital markets, and providing a spur to economic growth as those capital flows are invested in the real economy.

The Annual ASEA Conference is the flagship forum by the Association which brings together key decision makers in the African financial market to discuss and suggest possible ways of advancing the continent's socioeconomic transformation through the capital markets.

FSD Africa will leverage its capital markets partnerships to share emerging insights, knowledge, and best practices in the capital markets at the annual conference.

Onyema said ASEA will collaborate with FSD Africa to strengthen ASEA's position by enriching the information portal on ASEA's website to provide the information that local and international investors need to make investment decisions.

""Better availability of information on African exchanges is expected to increase investor interest and confidence in Africa's capital markets and result in more transactions,"" he said.

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