Health, Relationships, Success, and Spirituality

Fear of Meditation

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:34:35 -0800

I am 52 and have learned no formal techniques of meditation, but because I am always so full of fears I was advised to meditate. When I sit down to do it, immediately I start moving towards an engulfing darkness. The movement is backwards and the sounds around me start getting fainter and fainter, but along with this is a strange feeling that if I continue I will never come back.

Letting Go of a Relationship

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:54:13 -0800

It may take a little while for you to come to terms with the reality of the breakup, so be gentle with yourself in the meantime.

Exaiming Psychotherapy

Tue, 27 May 2008 20:21:46 -0800

Psychotherapy is such a broad category and so many different practices are done under that general name, that it would be overly simplistic to endorse everything that happens in the name of psychotherapy.

Trust Your Body and Reconnect to Its Healing Power

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:17:34 -0800

Western medicine has proceeded on the assumption that the mind is intelligent but that the body isn't. In effect, the body is a machine made of meat. This machine needs fixing at times, and being deviously complicated, with billions of interconnected parts, it has innumerable ways to break down.

Medical research doesn't so much deny the body's intelligence as ignore it. ...

Examining the Mind-Body Connection to Health

Wed, 14 May 2008 19:55:04 -0800

We need to redefine the body as an aspect of the same intelligence that operates in the mind. Rather than go into a philosophical argument, let's cut to the final result. What do you want from life? How can the body help you achieve it? The following is a vision of life that aims at the highest in personal existence:

Can Alternative Therapies Enhance Conventional Medicine?

Tue, 13 May 2008 01:48:32 -0800

The great promise of mind-body medicine will never be fulfilled as long as the treatments are unpredictable.

How You Think About Illness Affects Your Recovery

Fri, 02 May 2008 00:32:52 -0800

A tide of media articles over the past few years has made it clear that medicine is putting almost all its future hopes on genetics. But a small study from UCLA offers an intriguing alternative, one that could be just the tip of the iceberg.

Experiences, Pain and Your Brain

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:38:34 -0800

The issue of the experience of pain very confusing. There is a lot of subjective control over pain.

High-Fat Diets, Their Dangers, and Other Medical Myths

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:06:09 -0800

Your body knows what it is doing, and if you listen to it and cooperate sensibly, good health is the norm, not the exception.

Why the Healthiest Don't Get Sick

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:12:49 -0800

If someone were to come to me for a physical, I'd certainly comply, but before they left I would do everything possible to put them on the right track to optimal health, which has little to do with doctors.