Holistic Strategies for Health 2014

Holistic Strategies for Health, Enhance Your Brain and Heart Through Wholeness

Facilitator:  A. Patrick Jonas, MD

Find holistic strategies from the four major NIH categories of Complementary Practices for yourself that enhance your health.  Improve your sense of wellbeing by better understanding how your brain and heart are involved in wholeness. Review:

Mind-Body Strategies

Neutriceutical Therapies

Body Therapies and

Energy Therapies.

Find four of these that fit your style and need.

We'll have fun as we discuss these strategies and help you personalize while sharing with other attendees. We'll use a very interactive learning style in this session.  You already know a lot. 

Introductions

Disclaimer

Review of our holistic journeys

            Wholeness promotes holistic thinking- and human/spiritual connection

            From 60 trillion cells, each w/100,000 chemical reactions per minute

            1 billion + new cells daily, 1 of which is a malignant mutation

            How is it held together? How do we help/ harm ourselves?

Overview of NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

            www.nccam.nih.gov  (Practices not “Medicine”)

            Complete Systems of care such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, Homeopathy, etc

            Mind Body Therapies/ Practices

            Neutriceutical Therapies

            Body Therapies

            Energy Therapies

Aspects of Wholeness:   The Bible

    

Molecules of Emotion  by Candace B. Pert, PhD. Every thought/ feeling affects our white blood cells/ immune system immediately.  T Cells and Natural Killer Cells.

 Vibrational Medicine for the Twenty First Century by Richard Gerber, MD.

The Biology of Transcendence and The Death of Religion and the Rebirth of Spirit by Joseph Chilton Pearce, PhD.

Wheels of Light by Rosalyn Bruyere; Hands of Light by Barbara Ann Brennan

Changing with NLP by Lewis Walker;  Time Line Therapy by James & Woodsmall

The Body Electric Robert Becker, MD & Gary Selden; Healing is Voltage by Jerry Tennant, MD

www.Heartmath.com “Coherence” balancing the autonomic nervous system

www.lef.org Life Extension Foundation- Top Twelve Supplements Recommended

www.healingdrummer.com Sound Atunement Therapy

Examples and Exercises:

            Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP); Hypnosis

            The “5-5-5”.   The vegetable/ herb garden.  The health food store.

            Massage; Chiropractic; Rolfing

  Quick Coherence Technique; Breathing; Relaxation

            Singing Bowls; Drumming; Didgeridoo, Music Therapy, etc.

            Touch; Exercise Ball

            Reiki; Reflexology; Holistic Chair Massage; Dry Needling; Acupuncture

            Prayer; Meditation

General Health and Wholeness