Naturalpath

Imagery, the flow of thoughts that one can see, hear, or otherwise experience in the imagination, can be valuable for healing. Research in biofeedback, hypnosis, and meditative states has shown that people have a powerful range of self-regulatory capacities.

Likewise, studies in the United States and England suggest that many health problems presented to primary care clinics are emotional, social, or familial in origin, though these problems are manifested in pain or illness.

Healthnotes - Science has confirmed that emotional fluctuations and emotional status directly influence health. Mind/body medicine focuses on the connection between one's opinion of one's health and the physical realities.

Mind/body medicine is embodied by the field of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI), which links emotions with chemical processes taking place throughout the body.

Mind/body medicine takes a holistic view of the healing process, believing that because each person is unique, it follows that treatment for an individual should also be unique.

“The mind body connection in kids is very important. What I see in kids all the time is how their emotions and what they are feeling can really affect their health. Kids who have asthma will have a flare immediately after emotional or traumatic events. Eczema might worsen, flares of Ulcerative Colitis might occur.

“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.”