What is a storyteller? Someone who tells a story? “Storytelling” is a word used in many different contexts, and hence confusion. We remember books read to us as a child, and often storytelling as “story-reading” is the only definition some have encountered. Sometimes, it is also applied to novelists, essayists, playwrights, and movie directors. In …Read More
Author: Dr. Joel Ying, MD
Physician-Educator-Storyteller. Integrating the power of story into medicine, healing sessions, workshops, speaking and performance.
Transmitting Food Culture
My childhood memories are filled with Jamaican Jerk Pork fresh from the barbecue pit on the beach, fried sweet plantains in the mornings, “mannish water” (a hot pepper soup served at weddings and gatherings), fresh coconuts from the roadside stall – chopped open right there so we can drink the cool refreshing water and then …Read More
Winter Solstice 2016
If you are reading this on Wednesday, December 21, 2016, in the Northern Hemisphere, you have just survived the longest night of the year. You have now entered the shortest day of the year, and the official start of winter. From here, the days will get longer. From all over the world, thousands will gather …Read More
Eckhart Tolle “The Power of Now”
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.” ― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment On the path to a more conscious life of living the present moment, Eckhart Tolle’s “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment” …Read More
The Medicine Wheel, Upcoming Workshop
Scattered across North America are stones arranged in a circle like spokes on a wheel. These sacred sites were built long ago by the Native American peoples, and continue to be sacred to those that build them today. Big Horn Medicine Wheel in Wyoming is one of the most well-known. At nearly 10,000 feet elevation …Read More
Welcome to my new blog!
Welcome to my new blog! The official launch of this blog and website is January 1, 2017. livingthepresentmoment.com will be a website dedicated to education. I envision supporting the evolution to a more deeply connected, aware, conscious and present world. Prior blog posts will remain at opendreaming.wordpress.com, and some may be republished here eventually. “Living the …Read More
All Soul’s Day: Unseen Connections
Uncle CP is my great uncle, my grandmother’s oldest brother. At 91 years old, his wife developed stomach cancer. A couple weeks ago she went into hospice care. She passed away on Tuesday last week. On Thursday night, Uncle CP went to the hospital with chest pain and shortness of breath. He had been diagnosed …Read More