Coma and Remote State Directive
The COMA AND REMOTE STATE DIRECTIVE is a legal document; an advance directive, also known as a living will. The intention of this document is to implement your wishes if you are ever concerned with communication and decision making durIng confusion, delirium, stupor, coma, vegetative state, depression, catatonia, dementia, and other remote states of altered consciousness.
This document helps ensure that you receive verbal and nonverbal support for your awareness of …
Eldership: A Celebration
Tom Richards demonstrates the use of sentient caring skills to encourage eldership in seniors. He shows how to inspire stories, blessings, sacred space, dreams, beauty, and spiritual experiences ~ the treasures of eldership ~ from our seniors, many of whom are “stuck” in states of confusion, memory loss, high drama, delusion, delirium, dementia, Alzheimer’s, end of life processes, and even coma. They too often lack the awareness and communication skills …
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“He visitado su sitio y lo encuentro excelente. Soy medico especialista en Gerontologia y Geriatria. En estos momentos estoy tratando de verticalizarme en le tema de los trastornos cognitivos, en especifico las dementias. Su sitio web me es de gran utilidad.
Sin mas, agradecida.”
DRA. NIURKA CASCUDO
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“Thanks, Tom, for your precious work and love and sensitivity working with people at the ends of life in situations where normally they are …
Coma Work ~ One family’s experience with structural coma
A 35 year old man suffers a heart attack causing oxygen deprivation to the brain resulting in diffuse brain damage leaving him in a structural coma and persistent “vegetative state.”
The family is told there is “nobody home” and no hope of any degree of recovery. They are advised to “warehouse” him with a maintenance care order only.
Finding this medical advice to be unacceptable, the family retains Sentient Care for a …
Tom Richards
Tom Richards evolved from a corporate executive with thirty-two years of experience in the health care industry, to a mentor, researcher, author, and consultant working with individual health issues, patient advocacy, and people in deep inner states of consciousness. Tom also serves as a Prayer Chaplain, and Prayer Chaplain trainer, for Unity on the North Shore in Evanston, Illinois.
Tom is author of The Healing Power of Awareness: How to Recover …
Hot Topics for Presentations, Workshops, & Training
HOW TO SUPPORT AND COMMUNICATE WITH INDIVIDUALS
IN REMOTE STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Applicable to supporting individuals near death, in coma, or in other remote states such as forgetfulness, depression, dementia, or Alzheimer’s
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THE HEALING POWER OF PRAYER: WHY PRAYER HEALS
New Insights into the Healing Process
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ELDERSHIP AND AGING: A SACRED CAREER
Celebrating the gifts and benefits of intergenerational awareness
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HEALING POWER OF AWARENESS
How to recover faster, and less painfully using …
Sentient Care™
Sentient Care™ is the name of our organization, and our name for the style of sentient awareness facilitation that we practice; learned from its innovators Drs. Amy and Arnold Mindell, founders of Process Oriented Psychology (Process Work).
By sentient we mean being subtly, sensitively, and finely attuned to perceiving minute flickerings of body feelings, movements, sounds, and images that catch our attention.
Sentient awareness explores the messages, the dreaming, and the meaning …
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