Your Body’s Wisdom is Your Best Medicine – Pt. 2
In part one of this post, we explored the indispensable role that feelings play in your healing and wholeness. We looked at feelings as a right brain expression of your body's wisdom. When we connect with feelings we activate the body's ability to repair and heal...
Your Body’s Wisdom is Your Best Medicine – Pt. 1
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 101 – Part 3
This is part 3 of a 3 part post on MindBody Medicine. In the previous posts, we looked at the stress-related nature of most chronic pain and illness and how mindbody approaches to healing differed from conventional methods. In this brief post we'll explore the...
MindBody Medicine 101- Part 2
This is part 2 of a 3 part post giving an overview of MindBody Medicine. In part 1 we discussed how the stress response is the primary cause of most chronic pain and illness. In this post, we'll explore how and why mindbody approaches can be successful where...
MindBody Medicine 101- Part 1
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...
The Biology of Surrender & Letting Go
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...
You Can Control Your Genes
The older I get the more aware I've become of how the powers that be try to manipulate me. I've learned that for the most part things aren't what they seem. The government, network news, and the medical industry lie (or conceal the truth) on a regular basis in an...
Pain is at Epidemic Levels, Why?
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...
Healing the Chasm Between ‘Us Versus Them’
I don't remember a time when I've felt as much 'us versus them' as I do now. It's not a good feeling either, even when I'm convinced that my point of view is the right one. 🙂 There's no debate to be won. Debate, contentiousness, and the need to prove one's point of...
Stress Relief Quick Tips: Give me some space, man!
'Give me some space, man!' is a familiar refrain suggesting that we intuitively know what mindbody researchers are confirming. Researchers at the University of Arizona's Center for Integrative Medicine are showing that space, or the lack of space, affects our health....
You Can Heal Traumatic Stress and Anxiety Naturally
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...
If You Thought Your Gut was Leaky Before the Election!
If you're anything like me, this year's ever-escalating political debate is taking its toll. I've done some digging and found supportive research showing that we're not alone. The National University for Terminal Stress (NUTS) has published a timely study revealing an...
The Felt Sense – Your Inner Guidance System
Over the years I've seen countless healing techniques, many promising the sky. Yet, the most powerful and under-appreciated avenue for balancing and healing I've experienced is a universal, self-contained mechanism for healing and wholeness. Within each of us is an...
Childhood Adversity and the Link to Adult Illness
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...
Acupuncture Relief for Low Back & Knee Pain
A recent NIH study shows acupuncture is effective for treating low back pain and arthritic knees. The study also sheds favorable light on other natural mindbody therapies like yoga and meditation in the treatment of painful conditions. Chronic Pain is an...
Mindfulness and Law Enforcement
Here's an article about how mindfulness is changing law enforcement. It's encouraging to see that the benefits of mindfulness practice are being appreciated by those who need it most. Law enforcement officers, firefighters, and other first responders...
Stress, Sound Therapy, and Your Heart
Our bodies can be amazingly resilient when it comes to responding to stress. While stress is the number one instigator of illness there's much we can do to minimize its influence. One way to address and neutralize the stress effect is with sound. In my office I almost...
Stress and Magnesium – The Rescue Mineral
Stress gobbles up our magnesium reserves leaving most of us deficient in this crucial nutrient. Therefore, I advise all of my patients to take supplemental magnesium to avoid deficiency symptoms. Furthermore, here are some of the most common signs of magnesium...
Stressful Emotions and Heart Wisdom
Stressful emotions like grief and guilt are powerful bodily experiences. Past conditioning causes us to pull away from painful feelings just as we spontaneously withdraw our hand from a flame. This tendency to move away from and to avoid strong or painful feelings can...
Activate Your Brain to Repair Itself
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...