Many of us have a habit of ignoring the feeling messages coming from our bodies. We often interpret feelings as symptoms to be controlled or avoided rather than as helpful messages from your body's wisdom. We tend to value and trust our left brain intellect and...
MindBody Medicine is an emerging field that includes the mind in the treatment of physical pain and illness. It also includes an awareness of the body in the treatment of mental, emotional, or spiritual issues. The mind and body are seen as an indivisible mindbody...
For me, ‘surrender’ equates with letting go, trusting, and essentially getting out of my own way. This surrender, this letting go helps to clear the way for a larger something within me to emerge. Call it an inner voice, intuition, or spiritual guidance, this larger...
Pain is the number one reason for visiting a medical professional. Even with today's high-tech approaches to diagnosis and treatment the U.S. is experiencing an epidemic of chronic, lingering pain. Along with that is a growing population of individuals who are...
It's becoming more and more obvious that emotional stress and trauma either create or exacerbate both emotional and physical illness and suffering. This is evident from both clinical observations and emerging research. A research team at the National Center for...
Major insights into the cause and treatment of illness were discovered twenty years ago ... insights that for the most part are still ignored today. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Kaiser Permanente Adult Childhood Adversity (ACE) studies involving 17,000...
One of the most exciting breakthroughs in healthcare focuses on the potential for the brain to repair itself. This capacity for self-renewal is generally known as neuroplasticity. The brain's ability to grow in adult life and repair itself has been documented with MRI...
One of the accepted principles of conventional brain science is that the brain creates the mind. We could say that the mind is just a reflection of what the brain is doing. This outdated and very limiting point of view couldn't be further from the truth. You can use...
In a recent JAMA article a leading pain researcher, Dan Cherkin, PhD, demonstrated that mind-body interventions for the treatment of chronic back pain and other illnesses were more effective than usual medical care. This is really important because usual care has led...