What is the mind-body connection?
Although learning to will yourself to change may not necessarily stave off illness, it can reduce its frequency and severity and speed up recovery. Although mind-body techniques may not in all cases replace traditional drug therapies, it may reduce the need for medication.
Complementary medicine represents a shift in modern medicine from simply treating the symptoms of illnesses, to dealing with the root cause, which is often emotional.
Deepak Chopra, world-famous endocrinologist, has said that Western medicine has traditionally focused on the mechanism of dis-ease. This means that if you get a bacterial infection, the cure might be to take penicillin. But the mechanisms of the dis-ease are not the origins of the dis-ease.
The origins of dis-ease have to do with how we live our lives. How and what we eat, breathe, think, feel, and how we deal with our relationships (including our relationship with ourselves).
Toxic emotions and toxic chemicals produce the same hormonal and biochemical changes and the physical symptom is only the superficial part of the dis-ease.
What is the original cause of the dis-ease? Listen to your body and make the necessary changes. Change the way you think, feel and act, and discover true health on every level.
Content provided by complementary medicine practitioner Lizz Huismann.
