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"We acknowledge the mind-body connection and even the spirit-mind-body connection, but we have not gone so far as to declare that our physical health is dependent only on the state of our consciousness. It very well may be, and some of our research has hinted at how consciousness influences the body, but we are first and foremost concerned with the energies of the body and the information that directs those energies." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) "In the first example, you might be tempted to explain away the remission of MS by citing the mind-body connection, but if the woman's belief system or mind-set was the mechanism for healing, then the healing occurred without any conscious effort on her part. Also, just what do we mean by a mind-body connection? Thoughts, beliefs, hopes, and dreams are intangibles, and to explain how the mind can affect the body we are forced to ask what consciousness is. The most current research tells us that consciousness is a field, perhaps a quantum field. What does such a field do?" - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) "It is a medical mind-set that acknowledges that healing and curing are qualitatively different, that a person is more than his or her disease, and that there is not only a mind-body connection but also a spirit-mind-body connection. Integrative medicine is what author and physician Larry Dossey would classify as Era Ill medicine.2 Dossey views the recent history of medicine as having evolved through three eras. Era I started in the mid-nineteenth century, when medicine was just beginning to become scientific." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"They bear names such as insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), and they provide an unprecedented view of the mind-body connection. It's only in the past few years that neuroscientists have begun to describe these factors and how they work, and each new discovery adds awe-inspiring depth to the picture. There's still much we don't understand about what happens in the microenvironment of the brain, but I think what we do know can change people's lives. And maybe society itself. Why should you care about how your brain works?" - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"When I'm in the middle of not being able to breathe, I'm not interested in exploring the mind-body connection and the psychological components," she says. "All I want is a shot to open up my lungs and save my life. But once stabilized, I'd like to explore the psychological and emotional components." This exploration is done in the hope of preventing future attacks. Exercise WHAT WOULD YOU think of a natural cure for arthritis, osteoporosis, heart disease, dementia, depression, and diabetes? Pretty good, right?" - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "Synergy in the Wild: The mind-body connection in Animals Here's a great example of synergy. It's a dramatic illustration of how mind and body can work together—even in animals—in ways that are frequently missed by experiments that focus on just one variable. Some time ago, it came to the attention of people who notice these things that frogs were dying at an unprecedented rate, and environmentalists and other concerned citizens were convinced that a prime cause was a particular insecticide called carbaryl that was making its way into the waterways." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"As one reviewer summed up the emerging public consensus, "The mind-body connection must be OK—it's on the Bill Moyers show."3 The year 1993 also saw the publication by Consumer Reports of a guide coedited by Daniel Goleman and Joel Gurin: Mind Body Medicine: How to Use Your Mind for Better Health.4 Originally envisioned as a companion volume to Healing and the Mind (and financed by the same organization, the Fetzer Institute, that partly funded the Moyers series), it helped to solidify "mind-body medicine" as the new preferred term of choice for this approach to healing." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "Amazon showed me 2,438 books that were about the "mind-body connection" and 1,081 books that were about "mind-body medicine." It also showed me 1,992 books about psychoneuroimmunology; 1,638 books about social support and health; 1,717 books about the health benefits of meditation; 5,913 books about the placebo effect; 11,724 titles concerned with stress and health; and a whopping 14,075 titles concerned with positive thinking. When I searched on the keyword "genomics," 15,138 titles turned up." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "Dunbar's role in the rise of American psychosomatic medicine was wide-ranging: it was she who, through her mammoth 1935 book Emotions and Bodily Change, helped produce consensus within professional medical circles that the mind-body connection warranted further study;51 she who, in collaboration with psychoanalytic emigre Franz Alexander helped found the flagship journal of the American Psychosomatic Society, Psychosomatic Medicine, and served on its editorial board for eight years." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"How could that be? The mind-body connection provides the answer. You can't feel pain if the mind is impervious to it. If there is too little energy in the nervous system, the body cannot communicate the sensation of pain to the central nervous system and brain. No communication, no pain. For example, when I injured my back many years ago, I kept re-injuring it in my sleep because there is very little energy in the nervous system when we're asleep. In sleep, my brain wasn't receiving the "message" that my back was in pain, so I tossed around and hurt myself again." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Sometimes we need to exercise more than our physical bodies by addressing and nurturing that all-important mind-body connection. Just as science has proven time and time again the benefits of exercise, so it has with relaxation and stress-reduction techniques. I'm a big believer in engaging in activities that help one cope with inevitable stress. We all live busy lives and typically have more to-dos that we can possibly handle. One of the most amazing benefits of relaxation is that it can give you an inner peace, which then translates to a multitude of other payoffs." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"What we know in terms of the mind-body connection from Hans Sele, a landmark physician and researcher in stress, is that the body tries to support energy expenditures by reorganizing itself. It gets much more economical about distributing cholesterol, distributing blood to vital parts of the body and so forth. It continues to do this in a step wise fashion as long as you continue to make the demands. In those early studies, the more demands that were placed on animals, the more they thrived. Researchers scratched their heads and said, 'What's the limit?" - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"If you're fantasizing about food, your hunger hormone ghrelin is sky-high; add more greens and omega-3 fats and it will drop. þThe mind-body connection is real: Get those feel-good hormones activated with exercise, yoga, or tai chi. THE RESTORATION Chapter g BEGINTHE RESTORATION Don't think for even a second about blowing off the Restoration phase. Do so and you will not effect permanent changes in your eating habits and lasting success in weight controt-or the benefits of improved health and enhanced longevity. Remember, it takes at least three months to make new habits permanent ones." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Many might even say they do not give much credence to the mind-body connection; they don't believe that all those positive-attitude mantras, meditation practices, support groups, and psychotherapies designed to uncover unconscious traumas actually do patients any good. They do, however, believe in suggestion, because the essence of suggestion is that it is not a mind-body therapy so much as it is the charlatan's counterfeit currency. The following quote, from an article published in 1998 in a journal of medical ethics, makes the point plainly: Dr." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Also, just what do we mean by a mind-body connection? Thoughts, beliefs, hopes, and dreams are intangibles, and to explain how the mind can affect the body we are forced to ask what consciousness is. The most current research tells us that consciousness is a field, perhaps a quantum field. What does such a field do? It conveys energy and information." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Our culture treats the mind and body as if they are separate entities, and I want to reconnect the two. The mind-body connection has fascinated me for years. My very first lecture, to fellow medical professionals at Harvard, in 1984, was titled "The Body and Psychiatry." It focused on a novel drug treatment, for aggression, that affected both the body and the brain, which I stumbled on as a resident working in the Massachusetts state hospital system." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"WHEN THE MIRACLE STOPS WORKING The effects of the mind-body connection and certain kinds of prayer are well documented in the open literature. From studies in major universities and field tests in war-torn countries, it's clear that the way we feel within our bodies affects not only us, but the world beyond.19 This relationship between our inner and outer experiences appears to be the reason some forms of prayer empower us as they do. While the precise mechanism that explains why prayers work may not be fully understood, they do and the evidence is there." - Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief (Get the book.)

"Being aware of my mind-body connection has altered my behavior and created a change in my body chemistry. The psychological and emotional changes empowered me. I now understand the negative impact of toxic foods and people. I stopped fighting life and allowed life to support me. I receive ozone therapy at Metropolitan Wellness. My twitching stopped. My hair is long and healthy. I left a toxic job and actualized a new career enabling people to self-empower their lives. MARY I was infertile, I did not ovulate. The orthodox treatment was ineffective and had bad side effects." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Sarno, I want to personally thank you for writing Healing Back Pain: The mind-body connection. Your incredible book enlightened me, inspired me, and challenged me to quite literally change the course of my life. I am truly and eternally grateful to you for sharing your knowledge and vision. For twenty-four long years, beginning in 1976, I suffered through periodic episodes of intense and physically debilitating back and neck pain. With each passing year, my flare-ups became increasingly frequent, more physically debilitating, and of longer duration." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.) "In fact, to talk of a mind-body connection is misleading, for it suggests two separate distinct units somehow "connected" rather than one integrated whole being. As Dr. Sarno has done, I shall refer to this whole entity as mindbody (unhyphenated). Webster's Dictionary defines healing as to "make whole." For many patients with TMS in particular, the very first obstacle in the healing process is their disbelief, or at best, their ambivalence with regard to this integrative, holistic view of mindbody." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.) "He was intelligent and well spoken, and had good insight to the mind-body connection. At some point during the consultation, I had to tell him that I would be uncomfortable seeing him under the guise of workers' compensation because I thought he had TMS, not a work-related physical injury. My submitted report to the workers' compensation board would not be helpful to his claim. Accepting of the diagnosis (and a strong people pleaser, to boot), he agreed with the diagnosis and the decision to work outside the workers' compensation parameters." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.) "Sarno's second book, Healing Back Pain: The mind-body connection. How true were the words that I read. What perfect sense he made. Applying the theories and treatment techniques that I learned from the book, within one week my back pain was better than it had been in ten years and in six weeks I was "cured." I was stunned! Simply by understanding my pain as psychosomatic, including its psychological reasons, and "undoing" all the ways in which I was programmed to have back pain, I was pain free!" - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"Do the Chi-gong Workout (page 377) to build your coordination and mind-body connection. If you have any addictions, start a cessation program like the smoking cessation program on page 134. Pay Three: Start the Three-Pay Pody-basic Piet Your YOU-do List Observe a calorie-restricted diet for three days. The goal of this body-basic diet: Recalibrate your settings to eating better foods—and more sensible amounts. Here's how it works: Eat about three-quarters the amount of food you usually eat every day (using only healthy foods, now)." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.) "Many people believe that it's through these energy fields that prayer may work for them-and, thus, how the mind-body connection works. And it may go on to explain why other things work, like the aging process. flight chemical). As you see in Figure 3.1, these four chemicals serve as your body's SWAT team—they respond to emergencies. Adrenaline increases your blood pressure and heart rate, while Cortisol releases sugar in the form of glucose to fuel your muscles and your mind. Then, to close the loop, Cortisol travels back to the hypothalamus to stop the production of CRH." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"Guided imagery, a technique that has grown in popularity in the last several years, uses this mind-body connection to help people cope with a variety of disorders, including pain. Researchers have established a link between negative emotions and lowered immune function. Conversely, they have found a connection between positive emotions and a healthy immune response. Guided imagery—the mind thinking in pictures—is an effective tool for eliminating negative thoughts and replacing them with positive ones." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"They also help produce an increased secretion of Cortisol in response to injury or infection, and they have a direct effect on the nervous system, allowing for an improved mind-body connection. Immune function is influenced by many factors, including stress, age, sex, lifestyle, and nutritional status. Because adaptogens provide a nonspecific defense response to stress, they also offer an increased resistance to pathogens and infection by providing increased immunity. Most adaptogens have immunomodulating or immunostimulating properties." - David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes, Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief (Get the book.)

"He has proven by scientific method in a laboratory setting that prearranged signals coming from someone who is dreaming can be measured using the mind-body connection. For example, a sleeping lucid dreamer can look left and then right on a previously arranged cue and those eye movements can be recorded by an observer. To engage in lucid dreaming, you first need to notice you are dreaming. Occasionally, this realization is triggered by the dreamer recognizing something impossible in the dream, like flying or meeting someone who has died, but most often it is a learned skill." - Ray Dodd, BeliefWorks: The Art of Living Your Dreams (Get the book.)

"Personally, I prefer to work with female MDs, because I think women are less egocentric, and tend to be far more open to ideas of energy healing, nutritional healing, massage therapy, mind-body connection and so on. Either way, find an MD who is open to this, stick with that MD and fully inform them of what you're doing. Let them know what nutritional supplements you're taking and what other therapies you're involved with. Don't keep information from your doctor." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"The patient has given an eloquent account of these practices and the mind-body connection in health and disease. It is almost certain that, in terms of promoting a healing response, this was and is a critical aspect of his treatment. Case History Concluded The patient's blood chemistry and immunology results from diagnosis to the present show a picture of consistent and continuing stability of disease. Some improvements from diagnosis since the start of treatment are noteworthy." - Michael Gearin-Tosh, Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny (Get the book.)

"Change is accomplished by learning to modify the mind-body connection to alter muscle response, blood pressure and other bodily functions. According to the 2002 federal study on complementary and alternative medicine 1.0% of Americans reported they'd used biofeedback at some time and 0.1% said they'd used it in the previous 12 months. Many people are familiar with the high-tech equipment often used in movies and sports to improve muscle tone and coordination but a mirror can also be a biofeedback device." - Alan E. Smith, UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Get the book.)

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