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Based on the wonderful excerpt by Dr. Gabor Maté. Please read it here and below is my reflection to it:
Mind and body are united. They are two sides of the same coin. Believing mind and body are separate creates dichotomy, a big gulf between body and mind and creates psychosomatic division. I have been learning Functional Medicine or Holistic Medicine. I have been developing scientific understanding of the union of body and mind. What we do affects our mind and what we think affects our body. They are dynamically connected. If I see a medical doctor he or she asks me questions about my body. If I see a mind doctor, he or she asks me questions about my mind. Believing and practicing Mind-body are disunited is sadly very prevalent. Glad to know that there is a movement to relate to body and mind in an integrated way. Ayurveda is an ancient wholistic health paradigm which is based on the unity and interaction of body and mind. Stress affects body and mind. I learned about this as I was growing up. I learned from my father how Ashtanga Yoga and concentric meditation build a body-mind bridge, a union between body and mind. I strongly believe in this holistic paradigm and implementing it has extended my life span. Keeping my mind and heart open and practicing what creates and sustains my holistic-physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual well-being- has been very helpful to me. It is the action that counts, not just reading, writing and talking. Namaste.
1 Comment
Debbie Podwika
8/24/2024 01:43:11 pm
Yes I totally agree we need all doctors to be holistic doctors. Part of the problem is insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies and their influence on how doctors can treat and are educated. Insurance companies writing off so much forces doctors to see more patients in the shorter period of time which then does not give them much time to talk about more holistic matters. You only get your 15 minutes from some doctors. Also many people may be shocked, although maybe not, the doctors really do not get training and nutrition. This thankfully is going to be changing with doctor's graduating soon. The food Revolution Network and others have come up with nutrition questions that now will be on the board certification test because of this as you know they teach the test they will have to cover nutrition in class in order to answer those questions on the test. Doctors are also not familiar with practices like mindfulness, meditation, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Yoga etc. they know of them but many of them don't know the research and they don't do it themselves in fact many doctors are unhealthy themselves. Leave a Reply. |
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