Whether reading How Placebos Work or How to Treat Your Pain Without Drugs, we have a lot to gain by taking a good look at the mind-body connections.
From the website of Cleveland Clinic:
Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Integrative & Lifestyle Medicine is dedicated to addressing the increasing demand for integrative healthcare by researching and providing access to practices that address the physical as well as lifestyle, emotional, and spiritual needs of patients.
As the body of evidence for alternative medicine grows, we remain at the forefront providing the most updated education and practices to patients. Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Integrative & Lifestyle Medicine sees more than 5,000 patients per year for a variety of services.
From the website of University of Michigan:
Your mind and body are powerful allies. How you think can affect how you feel. And how you feel can affect your thinking.
From the website of Mayo Clinic:
Mind-body practices have two core components. The first is to restore the mind to a state of peaceful neutrality. This is the focus of our cover story on the practice of meditation in the October 2009 issue of the Health Letter. In this state, the mind achieves a state that’s nonjudgmental, efficient and adaptive to the needs of the individual. To reach this state, the mind has to shed negative experiences acquired over the years.
The second component of mind-body medicine is to use this “ready” mind in a manner to achieve beneficial health effects. This might be through spiritual intervention (prayer), spoken intervention (transcendental meditation), or through practices involving breathing and posture (yoga) or soothing imagery (guided imagery).
This week, make a promise to yourself to take full advantage of your mind-body connection. Imagine getting great placebo effects from your vitamins. Ask for help overcoming symptoms. Notice how you feel and what you think. You may be capable of so much more than just treating pain without medications….
Tips from 5 April 2010 to 6 August 2012 are here: Archived Tips
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Rev. Debra Basham
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“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ~ Mother Teresa |