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Connecting with Spirit is one of the answers. If we nullify the negative energies by replacing damaging thoughts with healing thoughts, we will already be on our way to perfect health.
Overmedication of Children: "The prevalence of medication use in children, along with the unpredictability of individual response and high risk of overdose, add up to powerful argument for the role of integrative medicine in young patients." Entonces, se preguntarán, ¿para qué me sirve este libro? En La mente como medicina, la dra. Lissa Rankin pone de manifiesto esas actitudes con las que hemos sido programados, lo que nos permite tomar conciencia de aquello que estamos haciendo equivocadamente... pero más que eso, nos presenta al final, una serie de reflexiones, anécdotas y propuestas de cómo mejorar nuestra salud con ese cambio de hábitos y actitudes. Lo que más me ha sorprendido es que en realidad no son nada del otro mundo y más que complicarnos la existencia podemos incluirlos en nuestra vida diaria y empezar a sentirnos mejor. I felt the tone of the book shifted towards self-validation and promotion of the author's theory and to be honest I probably wouldn't have finished it if it weren't for the club. As a physician, teacher, and writer, I’d like to recommend this book to ALL of my patients! Dr. Rankin summarizes, with simple and descriptive detail, how anyone can engage the most powerful healer of all-their own body.Desde siempre me ha llamado la atención el hecho de que los padecimientos del cuerpo puedan ser un reflejo de las condiciones de nuestra vida diaria (algo que se vio confirmado cuando hice la maestría en psicología) y ese fue el motivo por el cual decidí leer este libro, que sí, se aleja mucho de lo que tanto ustedes como yo estamos acostumbrados a ver reseñado en el blog. For the most part, I agree with everything he said in this book. I wish there was more information to explain somethings, and as for very few points he made, I disagreed. Those very few points are why I gave it 4 stars instead of five. And even in those things I disagreed with, he's not confrontational in his writing, so I wasn't offended.
Granted, Dr. Weil was speaking to the converted when I read this book. I have long been of the opinion that Americans in particular seem to think that there should be a pill for everything and that will relieve them of needing to take responsibility for their health. We are an incredibly over medicated populace, a situation which is tremendously costly both financially and in the damage done by the drugs themselves. Tens of thousands of deaths per year result from adverse reactions, drug-drug interactions, misuse/abuse of drugs, and medication errors in facilities and at home. As a medical professional, I noticed Dr. Weil carefully skirts around making egregious claims that would inevitably put his license at risk; he is always dutiful in adding caveats to never take his recommendations without the advice of a physician and adds trifling sentences once in a while recognizing the importance of conventional pharmaceuticals. However, to patients who are not medical experts, his advice is extremely dangerous. Perhaps his most egregious chapter is on antibiotics, where he rails against their use (primarily because they cause diarrhea!), a statement that will (if not has already) lead to complications from untreated infections. As someone who takes five of the medications Weil discusses, I was interested to learn his position on their efficacy/value. My meds are of course prescribed by my doctor, but if there are natural replacements with fewer side effects that I can choose instead, it would be worth it to share his findings with her. I have followed Weil's writing and research for a couple of decades, as I appreciate the integrative approach he has to medicine. He's not just about the "woo" of "alternative medicine"; instead, he is both a licensed MD and someone who is trained in botany, so he approaches health issues from a reasoned, comprehensive and cautious perspective. An M.D. herself, Rankin takes on the establishment from the inside out, building a compelling argument for a new approach to health and healing that puts the patient in the driver’s seat. Prepare to have your mind blow . . . and your body healed. First, I must say that I did believe in the power of the mind over the body before starting reading this book. BUT, Lissa Rankin being a doctor and having went through medical school writes this book for the skeptics. She approches the subject with an great attitude, the attitude of someone who had her life changed by her great amount of research and her discoveries.Science is a process of understanding the world that is ongoing. I appreciate his attitude when discussing studies, or methods that "this is what we know now" when speaking about pharmaceuticals or auxiliary helps. I have read Dr Andrew Weil's books over the years for advice on healthy living and eating. Quite possibly as a result, I currently take no prescription drugs on a regular basis but my husband takes several for various health problems. In that space, you will find your Inner Pilot Light, and in the divinity, you will discover within your humanity, healing happens; and with healing, cure sometimes follows. If this leaves you unsettled, let me reassure you by saying that if you can trust the journey and even borrow faith from the hundreds of thousands of people who have embarked upon this journey before you, you will discover that you have within you everything you need to be all that you must be. Dare I say that you will become the embodiment of what your soul came here to planet Earth to become? Sometimes this will result in full and permanent cure, and you will feel like you’ve been blessed with a miracle. Sometimes it will not, and I won’t be able to explain why, but I do know that it’s probably not because you failed to do something right. Statins: "Medication alone affords only limited protection against heart disease." There should be equal emphasis on lifestyle changes.
Optimistic people seem to live longer and have fewer health problems than the pessimists amongst us. Studies have been carried out among groups of people who all have the same living conditions – e.g. nuns – and the optimists amongst them lived several years longer than the pessimists and had fewer illnesses and health problems.
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Your body is your business because nobody but you knows what triggers your stress responses or, equally important, how you might activate more of your relaxation responses. The power lies in your hands. Medications for Diabetes: "Medications for diabetes will always be needed, but they bring with them a burden of side effects and cost that could be avoided with appropriate changes in lifestyle."
Even the wrong medical provider can sabotage a good cure. It actually happened to me. In two separate occasions, when I didn't like the doctor I was seeing (not enough caring, no good rapport), my treatment didn't yield good results. When I had to seek for a second opinion and actually had a great interaction with the new doctor, the treatment was totally successful because I believed the doctor was capable enough to cure me, and I knew it was going to be alright. Lissa highlights several similar situations in her book, and also tells her own story. Bridging between seemingly disparate worlds, Lissa is a connector, collaborator, curator, and amplifier, broadcasting not only her unique visionary ideas, but also those of cutting edge visionaries she discerns and trusts, especially in the field of her latest research into “Sacred Medicine.” I've always had a lot of respect for Dr. Weil. I read my first book of his in my late teens. I studied nutrition in university and the Alternative and Integrative Medical Society I belonged to in undergrad brought him out as a keynote speaker.When you give yourself this medicine, you turn off your stress responses, turn on your relaxation responses and allow the body to do one of the things it does best – heal. During the pandemic, Lissa played a public role in debunking “Conspirituality,” the Covid denialism, anti-vaccination propaganda, and conspiracy theories promoted by many wellness, yoga, mind-body medicine, alternative medicine, and spirituality influencers who got “red-pilled” during 2020. This shakeout anchored her platform as a physician influencer to trust who is grounded in science, open to the mystical, spiritually aware, and trauma-informed. Lissa was featured on the popular 2020-2021 podcast Conspirituality.
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