Harmony in Living and Dying Approach - HILDA

14/09/2024

They’re walking 100km our Woking & Sam Beare Hospice and Wellbeing Care palliative pacers.
I’m not walking with them, just went to the start point to cheer them along.
An incredible team
Sponsor them and our hospice if you wish
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/palliative-pacers

06/07/2024

To Help or To Do No Harm - Hippocratic aphorism to live by!

Listen more in the Harmony in Health podcast : https://bit.ly/3hjxUPi

25/10/2023

A fact of Life: we're going to Die.
'Be of good Heart,' cry the Dead Artists out of the Living Past.
'Our Songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on Singing'.
Maybe a Man's Name doesn't matter all that much.

—Orson Welles

12/08/2023

Pythagoras fixes his intellect in the sublime symphonies of the world, he alone hearing & understanding the universal harmony and consonance of the spheres, and the stars that are moved through them and which produce a fuller and more intense melody than any thing effected by mortal sounds -

10/08/2023

The fennel and echinacea flowers are kissing each other.
The bee is kissing the echinacea.
Magic!

28/07/2023

A doctor needs to be
Alert as a falcon
Patient as a sheep
Cautious as a fox and
Brave as a tiger
- Tibetan art of healing

10/09/2022

The Queen’s bees have been told
Her Majesty has died.
It is a very old tradition to tell the bees when the beekeeper has died daily.jstor.org/telling-the-be…


https://bit.ly/3DedQZT

Royal beekeeper, John Chapple, has informed the hives kept in the grounds of Buckingham Palace and Clarence House of the Queen's death. The bees were also told King Charles is now their boss.

30/01/2022

PERFECTION WASTED by John Updike
And another regrettable thing about death
is the ceasing of your own brand of magic,
which took a whole life to develop and market-
the quips, the witticisms, the slant
adjusted to a few, those loved ones nearest
the lip of the stage, their soft faces blanched
in the footlight glow, their laughter close to tears,
their tears confused with their diamond earrings,
their warm pooled breath in and out with your heartbeat,
their response and your performance twinned.
The jokes over the phone. The memories packed
in the rapid-access file. The whole act.
Who will do it again? That’s it: no one;
imitators and descendants aren’t the same.

03/12/2021

“The only way of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing”
- John Keats
Challenge your mind!
Think outside the box about living, dying and death. Think Harmony
- Harmony in Living and Dying Approach - HILDA

Website and report of the project coming up soon

16/10/2021

Dr Eleni Tsiompanou presenting today the Harmony in Living and Dying Approach - at the Integrative Healthcare Forum on the subject of Death
At National Centre for Integrative Medicine

We hope to shine a light on this dark subject, develop an active inquiry about death and bring a degree of optimism to what can seem like a tricky topic.

Healthcare Professionals, CAM practitioners, Researchers and Students who want clinical and evidence-based updates within a broad vision of healthcare. Members of the public with an interest in Integrative Healthcare are also welcome.

- You’ll gain important insights and awareness from leaders in mainstream Palliative Care as well as those working in more innovative and even experimental ways, with inspiring results
- You’ll join in the discussion about what else is possible in the way we approach and deal with death and dying
- You’ll gain 5 hours of CPD

26/06/2021

TWILIGHT - ΑΝΕΣΠΕΡΟ
Panayiotis Demopoulos contributed to the last HILDA workshop on “Healthy Living, Healthy Dying”.
He composed and played this piano piece to capture the twilight, just before the sun disappears in the horizon. It is a light that never dies. It needs to be captured with the eyes of the Heart, not the eyes of the body. One has to surrender to it with an open soul, trusting it’s purifying, translucent qualities to walk the way of grief.
Listen to it with eyes closed and with your attention to the beats of your heart.
What is death but a new beginning?

Anesperon for piano P. Demopoulos (2021)

05/06/2021

Healthy Living, Healthy Dying – Harmony In Living and Dying Approach (HILDA) workshop on zoom, Thursday 17th June 2021, 19.00 BST
Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/healthy-living-healthy-dying-tickets-154440619049?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
Can dying be a healthy process? Come along to this workshop to find out.
In this 6th HILDA workshop we will continue to examine living and dying in relation to Harmony principles. We will consider the idea of a healthy death, inner and outer connections, our elemental nature and listen to music of the heart. If health is the Harmony of man’s elemental components, as Pythagoras and Hippocrates said, then what are these elements? The elements within - our mind, body and spirit, and also the external - other people, communities, our natural and built environment and, even, the way in which society is structured.
We will inquire how harmony and connectedness can help us at the end of life. Can it foster more contentment and improved wellbeing?
We ask:
• What does healthy living and healthy dying mean?
• Can finding the right balance bring better health when we pay attention to all the components and care for our inter-connectedness?
• If “no man is an island”, then do connections equal living?
• Do we need to move from ME to WE?
Presentations:
Inner Connections and Wellbeing - Dr Jacqui Phillips, Palliative Care Doctor and yoga therapist
Outer Connections and Healthy Dying - Dr Eleni Tsiompanou, the HILDA project lead, Palliative Care Consultant, Hippocrates researcher and Ayurveda therapist
A Healthy Death - Dr Paul Thomas, London GP and researcher who has developed theory and practice of community-oriented integrated care, including shared care for diabetes, mental health and end of life.
Music of the heart – Dr Panayiotis Demopoulos, composer and pianist
Facilitated discussions in breakout rooms: come to share your experiences or simply listen.
About HILDA: HILDA is a UK pilot project. We are exploring a new practical approach to living, dying, death and grief, drawing on ancient wisdom traditions and modern science. Originally inspired by HRH The Prince of Wales’s book "Harmony: a new way of looking at our world", the HILDA approach combines principles of Harmony (cycles, connectedness, diversity, adaptation, beauty, oneness, health) with science, geometry, meditation, movement, music, poetry, philosophy and stories:
to prepare people better for various aspects of end-of-life care and
to inspire people to live fully in the here and now
This project has received an Emergence Foundation grant and is supported by the Harmony Project and the Woking and Sam Beare Hospices and Wellbeing Care.
Register to receive notification for future HILDA events https://mailchi.mp/09c820d86d3c/harmonyinlivingdying
Social media: www.linktr.ee/harmony_inhilda

In our 5th online workshop, we will continue to explore the subject of dying - healthy dying, within the context of living fully.