| It is apparent that a new day has arrived in | | | | such a traditional lawyer may gather together a |
| politics, where a more positive focus on the | | | | team of medical experts and psychiatrists to |
| issues and policies is being emphasized, as | | | | demonstrate that her client’s behavior was |
| opposed to the negativity of dirty tactics --- | | | | due to post partum depression or some other |
| although some have found it hard, perhaps out of | | | | treatable or temporary condition. The attorney |
| desperation, to totally forgo the latter. This is due | | | | would then argue that custody of Britney’s |
| to the public’s hunger for not just change, but | | | | children should be permanently awarded to her |
| change that is positive. The electorate, especially | | | | after she has completed the treatment. |
| the younger generation, is rewarding politicians | | | | A metaphysical or holistic lawyer might take all |
| that are perceptive, and seemingly genuine and | | | | those steps as well, but would go the extra |
| adept enough to tap into this emerging consensus. | | | | distance in a way that genuinely benefits her client |
| As with politics, so is has become with increasingly | | | | (and perhaps her parents, children and generations |
| with medicine, and even with the practice of law | | | | to come), by addressing the spiritual (not |
| --- which arguably is the last holdout in which dirty | | | | religious), energetic, karmic, and emotional context |
| antics and nastiness naturally exist --- that | | | | in which her client’s crisis arose. Obviously, |
| practitioners are seeking a comprehensive, more | | | | there are issues between Britney and her |
| positive approach to solving legal issues. | | | | parents, and now some of those dysfunctions |
| The concept of holistic medicine has been around | | | | threaten to affect another generation of that |
| for quite some time now, with inroads being | | | | family. That’s where karmic healing can come |
| made by Western medicine’s acceptance of | | | | in to address and heal individual and generational |
| practices such as yoga, physical and massage | | | | karma, in order to provide individuals freedom |
| therapies, and chiropractic services as effective | | | | from the vicious cycles keeping them bound. It is |
| complementary choices. Perhaps it’s due to | | | | also apparent that Britney is emotionally troubled |
| the “dawning of the age of Aquarius” --- | | | | and that her energy, though creative, is chaotic, |
| you know, where harmony and understanding, | | | | to say the least. That’s where Reiki and |
| sympathy and trust abound --- that the field of | | | | other forms of energy healing can come in very |
| law is now awakening, as well, to a new way of | | | | handy to help an individual become, without the |
| doing things. As with medicine, holistic law is about | | | | help of prescription drugs or alcohol (and to the |
| helping people beyond their immediate legal needs, | | | | extent that the individual is open and receptive), |
| by looking at the broader context of their lives to | | | | calmer, stabilized (grounded) and happier. This is |
| see how it is impacting on their legal issues. A | | | | not an overnight process, but with repeated |
| holistic lawyer would then address her clients’ | | | | sessions, remarkable strides can be made in |
| legal issues in a way that benefits them in mind, | | | | months, as opposed to the many years it |
| body, and spirit. In support of such lawyers, there | | | | normally takes a psychotherapist, acting alone to |
| is even an International Alliance of Holistic | | | | be effective. |
| Lawyers. | | | | The quicker such a client is put in touch with her |
| Some holistic lawyers emphasize mediation for | | | | soul’s true nature, the sooner her personal, |
| their clients as opposed to fueling the conflict with | | | | familial, and legal concerns would be resolved and |
| opposing parties; some view the rule of law as a | | | | restored to harmony. While it is easy to see how |
| means to end strife in the world; while others, | | | | someone like Britney Spears might benefit from a |
| offer means of becoming centered and | | | | holistic approach to her legal and other life |
| transformed, to their clients. Another indication | | | | challenges, this approach would be just as |
| from popular culture that the time ripe for holistic | | | | beneficial for the average person. We all have |
| lawyers, is the advent of the television show Eli | | | | challenges in life to deal with or handle, it’s |
| Stone. It is about a corporate lawyer who sees | | | | just a matter of how well we do so, and whether |
| visions about what types of cases he should | | | | we learn our lessons the first time so as not to |
| undertake, and due to his epiphany, acts with | | | | keep repeating them over and over in the same |
| integrity toward the other parties, while still | | | | grade. |
| serving the needs of his clients. What a novel | | | | This kind of approach can be a way of life for: |
| concept. In medicine, the show Private Practice | | | | anyone who wants to decrease the amount of |
| also epitomizes the concept of a holistic team | | | | stress in his/her life; insomniacs who want to |
| approach to meeting their clients’ medical | | | | sleep more soundly at night; anyone who wants |
| needs. A holistic lawyer does the same through | | | | to lose weight but his/her emotional, karmic, or |
| the use of a multi-disciplinary approach for her | | | | spiritual blockages are preventing them from doing |
| clients’ immediate needs, but examines the | | | | so; anyone who is preparing for surgery; a parent |
| spiritual, mental, and emotional conditions that | | | | experiencing conflict with a teenager, etc.; people |
| caused their legal challenges or dilemmas to arise. | | | | in toxic romantic relationships who want to |
| In applying the holistic/metaphysical legal approach | | | | transform or end them; people with resentment |
| to a famous --- shall we say infamous --- person | | | | against their parents, a co-worker, boss, sibling, |
| that we all know, let us examine Britney | | | | former spouse, or friend; people who are grieving |
| Spears’ situation (if ever there was an | | | | the loss of a loved one; people who have a |
| example of someone needing a comprehensive | | | | serious illness; or people who have had it with |
| approach to her legal and life challenges it would | | | | being in the same old financial rut and are now |
| be Britney Spears). For example, a traditional | | | | ready to break out of it into a new and more |
| lawyer in going forward with the case, would | | | | prosperous, not to mention successful, life. This is |
| focus primarily on Britney’s child custody | | | | the new paradigm for approaching the legal and |
| battle and counsel her client to behave more | | | | other issues confronting people --- and dare I say |
| discretely. Said attorney might then seek to | | | | --- the most effective one as well. |
| strategize and minimize any negative effects of | | | | Copyright by Reva M. |
| her clients past “bad” behavior. Indeed, | | | | |