Brad S. Lichtenstein, ND Said the patient: “I meditate daily, but I’m not doing it great. My diet is pretty good, but not great. I take my supplements, but I’m not doing it great.” With these words, Sally was off and running. This sentiment—that only if “I try hard...
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Table of Contents | 2012 | June
The Physician-Patient Relationship: Keeping It Real, While Meeting the Patient’s Needs
Sheryl Wagner ND Mind-body medicine equals holism. When physicians get to know the whole patient to treat the mind-body, we get to know the physical, mental, and emotional experience of a patient. Researching the cause of symptoms means uncovering the stressors in the...
Governance Is a Team Sport in the Naturopathic Medical Education World
David J. Schleich, PhD Our naturopathic educational leaders work very hard to strengthen and expand the fundamental building block for professional formation, namely, the seven programs in the Association of Accredited Naturopathic Medical Colleges (AANMC) system....
The Brain-Gut-Enteric Microbiota Axis: A New Twist on Mind-Body Medicine
Matthew Marturano, NMD Early in my clinical training, I received some sage advice from several elders of the profession: When all else fails, look to the gut. Duly noted, I placed my attention on what I perceived to be more interesting matters such as biofeedback and...
Listening to Our Bodies to Achieve Work-Life Balance
Steps for NDs to Avoid the Risk of Workaholism Donna L. Beck, ND We are told “mind over matter.” We are admonished “no pain–no gain!” When a child falls down, we assert: “That didn’t hurt! Come on. Buck up!” We repeat these powerful phrases to one another on a regular...
Psychosomatic Pain: Not Merely “In Your Head” Anymore
Marnie Loomis, ND Node Smith, ND Candidate A wrong functioning of the psyche can do much to injure the body, just as conversely a bodily illness can affect the psyche; for psyche and body are not separate entities, but one and the same life. ...
Good Reasons for Bad Choices
Why Your Patients Do What They Do and How to Help Them Change Rick Kirschner, ND Many of the problems your patients report have a mental or emotional connection driving them that is well worth exploring, understanding, and changing. The difficulty is that...
The Heart of the Mind-Body Experience
Tolle Totum Allison Creech, MEd, ND For those of us who have been following the field of mind-body medicine, we have seen a tremendous progression in the current era. While the science of mind-body medicine can be linked through a common basis in the study of stress...
Good Reasons for Bad Choices: Why Your Patients Do What They Do and How to Help Them Change
Rick Kirschner, ND Many of the problems your patients report have a mental or emotional connection driving them that is well worth exploring, understanding, and changing. The difficulty is that understanding requires going past the surface structure of their awareness...
“Wholism” Alleviates Pain: Pulsatilla and Weeping Reduce Pain in a 60-Year-Old Woman
Joseph Kellerstein, DC, ND Elise is 60 years old. As she sits in the chair opposite me, I get the sense that she is tensed and anxious. At our first visit, this lady has carefully put down a buttock support in the chair and is struggling to find just the right angle...
A Place for Plants in Conscious End of Life
Robin DiPasquale, ND, RH (AHG) From my point of view as a spiritual practitioner, I believe dying to be a great opportunity for people to come to terms with their whole lives; and I have seen many, many individuals take this opportunity, in the most inspiring way, to...
June 2012 | Mind-Body Medicine
Listening to Our Bodies to Achieve Work-Life Balance ................................>>7 Donna L. Beck, ND Steps NDs can take to avoid the risk of workaholism and achieve better work-life balance. Bargaining in Medicine ......................>>10 Brad S....
The Use of Phrenology in Naturopathy
Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE Feeding the mind is more important than feeding the body. -E. Purinton, 1911, p. 783 The use of phrenology is as multiform as there are people, for Nature never repeats herself, and there are no two just alike. -Elinor Van Buskirk, 1913, p....
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