Although the methods you will learn have been evolving for thousands of years, the science of psychoneuroimmunology and psychophysiology now supports what has been known empirically by healers of various cultures throughout history. The goal is to restore harmony and balance on the psychophysiological level in order to restore health and well-being.
There is now considerable published psychoneuroimmunology research that has been replicated in numerous peer-reviewed journals demonstrating that our beliefs and imagination create powerful emotional states which have specific and profound physiological correlates. Researchers have documented through fMRI, PET, SPECT, EEG, heart rate variability, and lab measures of immune cells, stress hormones, and dozens of biomarkers that which ancient healers and self-healers knew empirically, which is that mental constructs are never purely psychological; they are always psychophysiological.
I teach individuals and chronic illness groups a skill-set and way of life which is conducive to improved health outcomes.
There is no such thing as a purely psychic illness or a purely physical one—only a living event taking place in a living organism that is itself alive only by virtue of the fact that in it psychic and somatic are united. — Fritz Mohr
The healing system is the way the body mobilizes all its resources to combat disease.
The belief system is often the activator of the healing system.
— Norman Cousins
The body knows only what the mind tells it. — Bernie Siegel
What we nurture in ourselves will grow; that is nature’s eternal law. — Goethe
The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine,
the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life.
— Franz Alexander
Belief becomes biology. — Norman Cousins Mind moves matter. — Virgil
There is no clear dividing line between a person's philosophy and physiology. — William James
Feelings affect body chemistry (which affects the development or regression of a tumor),
just as body chemistry affects feelings. — Lawrence LeShan
The same psychological approach that leads to the fullest effectiveness of the immune system is the approach that leads to the fullest and richest life — both during the time a person has cancer and afterward. — Lawrence LeShan
Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in.
—Willis Harmon
The first step toward stunning achievement is believing that you can do it.
—Marilyn King (Olympic pentathlete)
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a choice. It is not a thing to be waited for,
it is a thing to be achieved. —William Bryan
Experience is not what happens to us,
experience is what we do with what happens to us. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
In general, anything that restores a sense of control to a patient can be a profound aid to a physician in treating serious illness. That sense of control is more than a mere mood or attitude, and may well be a vital pathway between the brain, the endocrine system, and the immune system. The assumed possibility is that it may serve as the basis for what may well be a profound advance in the knowledge of how to confront the challenge of serious illness. —Norman Cousins
The body seems to know what to do if the person knows what is desired.
—Elmer Green (brain researcher)
The body does not seem to care about the scientific accuracy of the command, or about the results per se. It simply carries out commands. —Alyce Green (brain researcher)
You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him find it within himself.
—Galileo
A person will become what he thinks about all day long. —Earl Nightingale
Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those we do hold well. —Josh Billings
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
—Henry David Thoreau
The will to live is not a theoretical abstraction,
but a physiologic reality with therapeutic characteristics. —Norman Cousins
Things in themselves are always neutral;
it is our perception which makes them appear positive or negative. —Epictetus
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.
—Anwar Sadat
