Naturalpath

“When you work with people who are economically disadvantaged, as well as socially disadvantaged, the stress level is immense.

“And now my practice is with very privileged, highly educated people that have great means. Their stress level is also immense.

“I think that stress is the key and most important lifestyle factor there is in the major health problems that we face in America.

“Even the privileged are stressed beyond belief with different kinds of stress. Food is a way that we learn to modulate it, and unfortunately the food that we learn to modulate it or reduce that stress with, taken in over long periods of time in excess, creates many of the illnesses that we’re struggling with medically – diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and all of the sequela of those kinds of things.”

“I think there’s a very direct link between individual healing, cultural healing and environmental healing. As awareness grows, there’s the opportunity for power to grow, in terms of your own health, the health of others you love and the health of the environment - that from which we are made.”

“What I find exciting about Naturalpath is not merely access to information, although it promises to give us a lot of access to good quality information. What I find exciting about it is that it can provide a way of qualifying and helping people become discerning about the information. There is a ton of information on the web about health, but it’s of highly variable quality.

“I understand that there is technology and ways of using the internet now that allow people to chime in and share their experiences in a way that’s highly meaningful. And there are ways of structuring that information so over time you actually become aware of whose opinions are worth more than other people’s opinions – who is reliable, who is thoughtful. And if I can compare the expert opinion with the opinion of my peers in my community, over time we’re going to have a very powerful way of sorting through this variable quality information that’s on the Internet.”

Overview

Martin L. Rossman, MD is a physician and acupuncturist widely known for his pioneering work with guided imagery in the healing arts. He is a Clinical Associate in the Department of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco, a member of the Adjunct Faculty at the California School of Professional Psychology, and a member of the Educational Advisory Board at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California San Francisco.

Dr. Rossman was also the founder and Co-Director of the Academy for Guided Imagery and has been the director of the Collaborative Medicine Center in Greenbrae, California for over 30 years. He was the first medical acupuncturist to practice in Marin County, and is a founding Board Member of the American Medical Acupuncture Association. Dr. Rossman is also the founder of The Healing Mind, a new web based resource for self-healing books, tools, and audio programs.