As a physician, friend, family man, and philanthropist, I realize that properly adjusting our physical and psychological rhythms can prevent and heal dis-ease. This lesson was brought home to me as a young man, stressed out from being torn between studying medicine and playing drums. In the marriage that developed between medical school and being "schooled by Rock and Roll", balance was always subject to discord, and “wellness’ always required adjusting the interplay of passion and reasoning.
Further along the road, I learned that how well we listen strongly influences the quality of what we learn; and likewise, a prime factor in promoting health depends on being a good listener. Consistent with that, the quality of how we "listen to life" has the capacity to integrate or disintegrate our relations to the Earth community as a whole. With one of my chief prescriptions for health being careful listening, Motto Citizens LLC developed from many years of friendship and discussions with Wolf Richards about promoting health, through audio contemplation. Just as ancient counterparts to modern physicians used the beat of the drum to induce change, as chaos spreads around the world, Spoken Word for Global Conflict-resolution is my focus in Motto Citizens’ recordings. Careful listening amplifies reasoning, and reasoning is how and what humanity needs to improve.
Christopher M. Hunt earned a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to earning his M.D. from Duke University School of Medicine in 1979, he performed graduate research for the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Environmental Medicine. He served his Internship and Residency in Family Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. Chris's interests in Alternative Medicine include postgraduate studies in Yoga, Acupuncture, Nutrition, Meditation, Stress Management, and Death and Dying Management. His more recent studies in the psychology of human development include the Chinese Philosophy of Change, Jungian Psychology, and modern poetry. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Roy A. Hunt Foundation.