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...
A Drug-Free Solution to Migraines
I know from personal experience that migraine headaches can be debilitating. I've had a history of migraines, along with both of my parents. Drugs may offer relief but do not address the underlying cause of migraines. If we're not addressing the cause they'll keep...
Chronic Pain & Genetic Memory
I've written about how we're often mistaken about the source of our chronic pain. While it's natural to attribute pain to a structural abnormality like arthritic changes, or a damaged disc, more often than not this assessment of the source of pain is incorrect. And,...
Your Mind Can Heal Your Brain
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...
The New Medicine is Here!
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...
The Heart’s Intuitive Intelligence
A HeartMath video discussing the intelligence of the heart has been circulating recently on Facebook, perhaps you've seen it. I've included a longer video from the Institute of HeartMath below for those who are interested, but first I would like to share some thoughts...
The (Almost) Magic Pill – Brain Integration
Common complaints ranging from insomnia to acid reflux and to pain and anxiety can all be resolved or positively supported when your middle prefrontal cortex is performing its job. Ideally, this brain region should be engaged and performing all of its nine integrative...
Take Control of Your Brain for Pain and Anxiety
Here's a simple process to integrate your brain function and assist in relieving pain or anxiety, and other symptoms, as well. First, we should review how pain and anxiety can be triggered by the brain in the first place. Old, unfinished and often unacceptable...