Fear of Meditation Question: I am 52 and have learned no formal techniques of meditation, but because I am always so full of fears I was advised to meditate. When I sit down to do it, immediately I start moving towards an engulfing darkness. The movement is backwards... Read more

Letting Go of a Relationship Question: I have just come out of a relationship (he ended it) and am having difficulty letting go. I understand that this man may not be my soul mate / twin flame, but I still wish we could be together, if only to experience one another in the... Read more

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Trust Your Body and Reconnect to Its Healing Power Western medicine has proceeded on the assumption that the mind is intelligent but that the body isn't. In effect, the body is a machine made of meat. This machine needs fixing at times, and being deviously complicated, with billions of... Read more

Examining the Mind-Body Connection to Health Even as alternative medicine becomes more popular, it faces a huge challenge. Can it reliably replace or enhance conventional medicine? In earlier posts , I sketched in the faults of conventional medicine, which are well known in any case. I... Read more

Can Alternative Therapies Enhance Conventional Medicine? The great promise of mind-body medicine will never be fulfilled as long as the treatments are unpredictable. This has been a major stumbling block in the West, ever since the original excitement over acupuncture in the '70s and Ayurveda in the... Read more

How You Think About Illness Affects Your Recovery A tide of media articles over the past few years has made it clear that medicine is putting almost all its future hopes on genetics. But a small study from UCLA offers an intriguing alternative, one that could be just the tip of the iceberg. ... Read more

Experiences, Pain and Your Brain The issue of the experience of pain very confusing. There is a lot of subjective control over pain. Researchers are aware by now that what rates as a 10 (excruciating) on the pain scale for one person may rate as only a 2 or 3 (tolerable) for... Read more

High-Fat Diets, Their Dangers, and Other Medical Myths Recently I wrote about half a dozen medical myths that float around society. This was in the wake of a huge, definitive government study proving, once and for all, that a high-fat diet doesn't cause breast cancer or heart disease in women. It... Read more

Why the Healthiest Don't Get Sick The assumption that healthy people are just lucky, have good genes, or practice preventive medicine is actually no more than a half-truth. The healthiest people in our society - meaning those who avoid catastrophic disease and live to old age without... Read more