"Mental Health and Simple Living" was the title for the world’s first such symposium, held on January 31, 2004 at the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Institute of the University of California in Los Angeles, USA.

A proper attitude is that we go to bed to rest and not to sleep. We just lie down innocently without any expectations and whatever our nervous system needs, that is what we will get. This attitude prevents us from being disappointed at how we slept and saves our psychology.

Holistic Medicine Looks At Stress And Obesity In America

It is well known that a good laugh does you good, because every time you laugh you exercise seventeen different muscles in your face, it increases oxygen levels in the body and releases endorphins (feel good hormones) around your body.

Imagine a room lit only by dim candlelight, a man and a woman lying on their own bed, side by side.

Many excellent books on natural healing are available for reference to help parents expand their natural healing abilities and knowledge.

Rene Spitz, a retired professor of psychiatry at my medical school, once showed me pictures from his work with children in a South American orphanage and in a nearby prison in the early 1940’s.

The image is imprinted on my mind. She was sitting cross-legged, brown skin on brown earth, an Indian woman by the roadside as we drove out of New Delhi Airport

I am a psychotherapist, Reiki master teacher, and body/mind/soul-oriented healer.

At this point in the evolution of humanity, people everywhere are longing for divine connection and a sense of higher spiritual purpose.

In the realm of healing, we have a long history of treating symptoms and not necessarily rooting out the ultimate source of a disturbance, “dis-ease,” or illness.

Almost nobody has escaped the experience of a headache. In fact, nearly half the world’s population has a headache so severe that they are disabled at least once a year.

Menopause in all its glory is coming out of the closet and into the mainstream of conversation, sometimes even in mixed company.

The Arvigo Techniques of Maya abdominal therapy are practiced and taught by Dr. Rosita Arvigo, D.N., who has spent the last thirty years studying and teaching Maya medicine.

Since medical school, I have been fascinated with the customs of different cultures with respect to pregnancy and childbirth, having served as a health caregiver on several continents. Some customs were clearly wise; others had me questioning their value in light of their potential danger at such a delicate time.

In the twenty-first century, time may be more important than money. A recent survey by the University of Maryland found that 48 percent of low-to-middle-income Americans questioned said they would give up a day's pay each week in return for an extra day of free time.

People are  becoming increasingly aware of alternative health, holistic methods of healing and maintaining good health as they search for not just a repair for disease.

This powerful, natural lifestyle has given me freedom, health, balance, vitality, and more inner peace than I have ever known.

Medical science is slowly getting the message that maybe the proverb is right when it says “a merry heart does good like a medicine.

When you first feel yourself becoming sick, there are things you can do toavoid becoming ill or to shorten the duration of the illness.

Staring down the barrel of a microscope at the fresh smear of Paula Rizzi’s blood, I saw white blood cells with big blue nuclei instead of their usual lobular shape.

During my third year in medical school, I went to Zululand to pursue research on tuberculosis. The British surgeon at the hospital wrote me to come in September, and several hours after stepping off the train I found out why...

Little did I know how life altering that morning would be. I awoke at my usual time early in the morning. I was in a fetal position — my arms bent at the elbows and crossed over my chest...

The essence of beauty in Ayurvedic understanding is embodied in the idea of luster or radiant light. When we say in English, “She was radiant!” we imply a quality coming from deep within that emanates contentment, joy and accomplishment.