Below are the best articles we could find on Mind-Body Connection and emotional health and well being.
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Whether you seek lower blood pressure, a longer silhouette, or a more peaceful response to life’s pressures, disciplined practices like yoga, tai chi and Pilates offer a host of transformative benefits.
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The Body is a map of every experience we ever had. As we bridge the mind body and spirit we can better understand the connection between trapped emotions and physical ailments causing us suffering.
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Dr. John Sarno, a pioneer in mind-body medicine, emphasized the age-old concept that anxiety and mood have a significant impact on the treatment of chronic disease, including pain.
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“We need to do a better job of addressing mental as well as physical aspects of athletic injuries,” sports psychologist Matthew Sacco, PhD, says.
John E. Sarno, a doctor at New York University whose controversial books on the psychological origins of chronic pain sold over a million copies, even while he was largely ignored or maligned by many of his medical peers, died Thursday in Danbury, Conn. He was 93.
When we are taught about the automatic nature of emotions and learn to identify and work with the core emotions beneath our anxiety, we feel and function better.
Sarno’s basic message is that in the overwhelming majority of cases, back pain is a symptom created by the unconscious mind as a distraction to aid in the repression of strong unconscious emotional issues.
“In many Buddhist teachings, they talk about the connection between the mind and the body, brain, and heart,” says Venerable Sik Hin Hung, a Buddhist monk and the director of the University of Hong Kong’s Center of Buddhist Studies.
When we push away, suppress, or criticize ourselves for having emotions, it comes with a very high cost: our health.
Franz Gabriel Alexander has been described on more than one occasion as the father of psychosomatic medicine. For almost 25 years, he was director of the Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis, where he trained many of the leading students of emotional disturbances and psychosomatic diseases.
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