Achieving the Mind, Body, Spirit and Emotions ConnectionGabriela Taylor
When we talk about the human body, most of us refer to the physical form that we see in front of us. However, in reality, every person is made up of four bodies, all of which interrelate to one another and coexist in harmony.
Acupressure therapy, Acupuncture therapy, Chinese meridian, Foot reflection therapy, Heart meridian, Meridian charts, Meridian therapy, Weight control therapy
Achieving the Mind, Body, Spirit and Emotions ConnectionGabriela Taylor
When we talk about the human body, most of us refer to the physical form that we see in front of us. However, in reality, every person is made up of four bodies, all of which interrelate to one another and coexist in harmony.
Acupressure therapy, Acupuncture therapy, Chinese meridian, Foot reflection therapy, Heart meridian, Meridian charts, Meridian therapy, Weight control therapy
Lifestyle changes to improving our physical, mental and spiritual tone and thereby our well-being. An unconventional and novel approach to living a fulfilling life. I have drawn the basic principles from over 15 years of medical practice, Yoga and Buddhism. Furthermore, by incorporating the basic tenets of evolutionary biology I have tried to put things into perspective so that it does not become another scientific fad i.e. difficult to get the grips and tedious to follow.
Explore how the chakra in body have been talked about throughout the historical time and way to unlock the potential of human body through these chakras
Pranic Healing Centre Melbourne By Natural ApproachNatural Approach
(Visit:http://www.naturalapproach.com.au/)Natural Approach Healing Centre offers courses in Pranic Healing, Meditation and Pranic Healings in Victoria, Australia.
Bio psycho social and spiritual dimension and chdHarivansh Chopra
This presentation is a part of webinar on prevention and reversal of chd and type 2 diabetes mellitus . in this presentation prof rahul bansal has emphasised the role of mind body connection and role of stress in causation as well its removal in prevention and reversal of chd.he has given ample evidence of use of meditation, yoga, as well as of prayers and diet in the reversal of chd
Lifestyle changes to improving our physical, mental and spiritual tone and thereby our well-being. An unconventional and novel approach to living a fulfilling life. I have drawn the basic principles from over 15 years of medical practice, Yoga and Buddhism. Furthermore, by incorporating the basic tenets of evolutionary biology I have tried to put things into perspective so that it does not become another scientific fad i.e. difficult to get the grips and tedious to follow.
Explore how the chakra in body have been talked about throughout the historical time and way to unlock the potential of human body through these chakras
Pranic Healing Centre Melbourne By Natural ApproachNatural Approach
(Visit:http://www.naturalapproach.com.au/)Natural Approach Healing Centre offers courses in Pranic Healing, Meditation and Pranic Healings in Victoria, Australia.
Bio psycho social and spiritual dimension and chdHarivansh Chopra
This presentation is a part of webinar on prevention and reversal of chd and type 2 diabetes mellitus . in this presentation prof rahul bansal has emphasised the role of mind body connection and role of stress in causation as well its removal in prevention and reversal of chd.he has given ample evidence of use of meditation, yoga, as well as of prayers and diet in the reversal of chd
A Review of The Healing Power of Faith: Science Explores Medicine’s Last Grea...David Grinstead, MA
Science is often perceived to be an opponent of religion/spirituality and likewise religion/spirituality is often perceived to be an opponent of science. There is a war of thought and faith that has been going on for centuries. Can these opposing world views be united?
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The technological advances of the past century tended tochange the focus of medicine from a caring, service-oriented model to a technological, cure-oriented model.
Technology has led to phenomenal advances in medicine and
has given us the ability to prolong life. However, in the past few
decades physicians have attempted to balance their care by re-
claiming medicine’s more spiritual roots, recognizing that until
modern times spirituality was often linked with health care.
Spiritual or compassionate care involves serving the whole per-
son—the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual. Such service
is inherently a spiritual activity. Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, who
has developed Commonweal retreats for people with cancer, de-
scribed it well:
Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of see-
ing life. When you help, you see life as weak. When you fix, you
see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing
and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of
the soul (1).
Serving patients may involve spending time with them, hold-
ing their hands, and talking about what is important to them.
Patients value these experiences with their physicians. In this
article, I discuss elements of compassionate care, review some
research on the role of spirituality in health care, highlight ad-
vantages of understanding patients’ spirituality, explain ways to
practice spiritual care, and summarize some national efforts to
incorporate spirituality into medicine.
COMPASSIONATE CARE: HELPING PATIENTS FIND MEANING IN
THEIR SUFFERING AND ADDRESSING THEIR SPIRITUALITY
The word compassion means “to suffer with.” Compassionate
care calls physicians to walk with people in the midst of their
pain, to be partners with patients rather than experts dictating
information to them.
Victor Frankl, a psychiatrist who wrote of his experiences in
a Nazi concentration camp, wrote: “Man is not destroyed by suf-
fering; he is destroyed by suffering without meaning” (2). One
of the challenges physicians face is to help people find meaning
and acceptance in the midst of suffering and chronic illness.
Medical ethicists have reminded us that religion and spiritual-
ity form the basis of meaning and purpose for many people (3).
At the same time, while patients struggle with the physical as-
pects of their disease, they have other pain as well: pain related
to mental and spiritual suffering, to an inability to engage the
deepest questions of life. Patients may be asking questions such
The role of spirituality in health care
CHRISTINA M. PUCHALSKI, MD, MS
From The George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish), The
George Washington University Medical Center Departments of Medicine and
Health Care Sciences, and The George Washington University, Washington, DC.
Presented at Baylor University Medical Center on February 28, 2001, as the Baylor-
Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center Charlotte ...
Abstract— Spiritual or compassionate care involves serving the whole person i.e. physical, emotional, social, spiritual etc dimensions of health. Spirituality has now been identified globally as an important aspect for providing answers to many questions related to health and happiness. The World Health Organization is also looking beyond physical, mental and social dimensions of the health i.e. the spiritual health and its impact on the overall health and happiness of an individual. Spiritual commitment tends to enhance recovery from illness and surgery also. Spiritually is transpired both in order to comfort the dying and to broaden one's own understanding of life at its ending. Spiritual beliefs can help patients cope with disease and face death. So it should be necessarily be add-on in critical stage of disease. Nowadays in some of medical schools in developed countries has included as a curreculam of patient care. Now it is the time that all Medical Colleges should include educating their students about spiritual health care in comprehensive patient care. Medical Council of India should also take some action in this direction.
2. Science and religion argue all the time, but
they increasingly agree on one thing: a little
spirituality may be very good for your health.
3. Which part of the brain particularly concerning
matter of faith?
If you’ve ever prayed so hard that you’ve lost
all sense of a larger world outside
yourself, that’s your parietal lobe at work.
If you’ve ever meditated so deeply that you’d
swear the very boundaries of your body had
dissolved, that’s your parietal too.
4. Spiritual Amusement park
There are other regions responsible for making
your brain the spiritual amusement park it can
be:
Your thalamus plays a role
As do your frontal lobes
But it’s your parietal lobe – a central mass of
tissue that processes sensory input – that may
have the most transporting effect.
5. Here’s what Surprising
A growing body of scientific evidence
suggests that faith may indeed bring us health.
People who attend religious services do have a lower
risk of dying in any one year than people who don’t
attend.
People who believe in a loving God far better after a
diagnosis of illness than people who don’t believe in
god.
6. Dr. Gail Ironson, a professor of psychiatry and
psychology at the University of Miami who
studies HIV and religious belief
says, spirituality predicts for better disease
c o n t r o l .
Your viral loads goes down when you include
spirituality in your fight against HIV because your
levels of cortisol – a stress hormone – go down first.
7. It’s All in Your Head
Newberg’s work of past 15 years, the author of
four books, including the soon-to-be-released
How God Changes Your Brain, he has looked
more closely than most at how our spiritual
data-processing center works, conducting
various types of brain scans on more than 100
people.
8. When people engage in prayer, it’s the frontal
lobes that take the lead, since they govern
focus and concentration.
During the very deep prayer, the parietal lobe
powers down, which is what allows us to
experience that sense of having loosed our
earthly moorings.
9. Experimental evidences
Pray and meditate enough and some changes in the
brain become permanent.
Long-term meditators – those with 15 years of
practice or more – appear to have thicker frontal lodes
than nonmeditators.
People who describe themselves as highly spiritual
tend to exhibit as asymmetry in the thalamus- a
feature that other people can develop after just eight
weeks of training in meditation skills.
10. Better functioning frontal lobes help boost
memory. In one stud, Newberg scanned the
brains of people who complained of poor
recall before they underwent meditation
training, then scanned them again after. As the
lobes bulked up, memory improved.
11. Take Fasting
Why do we fast?
One of staples of both traditional wellness
protocols and traditional religious rituals is the
cleansing fast, which is said to purge toxins in
the first case and purge sins or serve other
pious ends in the second.
This fasts may lead to a state of clarity and
even euphoria.
12. This in turn, can give practitioners the blissful sense
that whether the goal of the food restriction is health
or spiritual insight, it’s being achieved. May be it
is, but there’s also chemical legerdemain at work.
“There are very real changes that occur in the body
very rapidly that might explain the clarity during
fasting,” says Dr. Catherine Gordon, an
endocrinologist at Children’s Hospital in Boston.
13. How powerful is Prayer?
For most believers, the element of religious
life that intersects most naturally with health is
prayer.
In 1988 study by cardiologist Randolph Byrd
of San Francisco General Hospital found that
heart patients who were prayed for fared
better than those who were not.
14. Wonder Drug
First describe in the medical literature in the 1780s, the
placebo effect can work all manner of curative magic against
all manner of ills.
Give a patient a sugar pill but call it an analgesic, and pain
may actually go away.
Newberg describes a cancer patient whose tumors shrank
when he was given an experimental drug, grew back when he
learned that the drug was ineffective in other patients and
shrank again when his doctor administered sterile water but
said it was a more powerful version of the medication. The
U.S Food and Drug Administration ultimately declared that
drug ineffective, and the patient died.
15. Faith and Longevity
One way to test this is simply to study the health of
regular churgoers. Social demographer Robert
Hummer of the University of Texas has been
following a population of subjects since 1992, and his
results are hard to argue with.
Those who never attend religious services have twice
the risk of dying over the next eight years as people
who attend once a week.
16. A similar analysis by Danial Hall, an
Episcopal priest and a surgeon at the university
of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, found that
church attendance accounts for two to three
additional years of life.
17. Neal Krause, a sociologist and public health expert at
the university of Michigan, has tried to quantify some
of those more amorphous variables in a longitudinal
study of 1500 people that has been conducting
since, 1997.
He found that those people who give help fare even
better than those who receive it – a pillar of religious
belief if ever there was one.
He also found that people who maintain a sense of
gratitude for what’s going right in their lives have a
reduced incidence of depression, which itself a
predictor of health.
18. In another study he conducted that was just
accepted for publication, he found that “people
who believe their lives have meaning live
longer than people who don’t”.