HEALING THE HUMAN ENERGY FIELD: Harmonize the Body, Mind & Spirit!!!
Dr. Esther Sternberg is a major force in mind-body-stress-wellness research and studies the way our environment affects our health. Having started out as a family Medical Doctor, becoming a specialist in Rheumatology, she is now a world-renowned researcher, known for her groundbreaking work on the interaction between the central nervous system and the immune system.
The focus of her work is on the science of the mind body connection, how stress can make us sick, how believing can make us well, and how mind body wellness activities like meditation, Tai Chi, Yoga, prayer, a healthy diet and exercise can help us heal.
The Mind’s Influence on the Immune System – Dr. Esther Sternberg 🙂
Some of her most groundbreaking research delves into the brain’s stress response and how it makes us susceptible to inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis.
“There is no doubt that when you take it to the next level, the mind and the body are connected, and that when those connections are intact and in balance you have health and when they’re broken you have disease.”
She is recognized by the National Library of Medicine as one of 300 women physicians who changed the face of medicine and is the author of best — selling books “The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions” and “Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being.” In 2009, she co-created and hosted “The Science of Healing with Dr. Esther Sternberg” for PBS.
Dr. Sternberg has also acted as adviser to several U.S. and international organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization. She has published numerous scientific and review articles and chapters in leading scientific journals including Nature Medicine, Science, New England Journal of Medicine, Scientific American, J. Clinical Investigation and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In her position as Professor of Medicine and Research Director at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona Dr. Sternberg is looking to the future of mind body medicine and researching smart-technology that can provide real time feedback on mind body interactions.
Additional Links
Esther Sternberg Website
Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona
https://theconnection.tv/dr-esther-sternberg-m-d/
We hear the catch-phrase “body-mind-spirit” everywhere.
We know it is connected to optimal health and wellness, but HOW? Do we REALLY understand what it means on a practical every day level?
More often than not, these terms evoke a sense of spirituality and esoteric wisdoms that make you feel like your head is floating up in the clouds. Many people shy away from yoga and other forms of alternative healing simply because the concept of body-mind-spirit seems too “woo woo.”
This blog post defines Body-Mind-Spirit in simple and practical terms by going back to basic grade-school science class and remembering about the body’s basic functions.
It will explore the:
Mind–body dualism, in philosophy, any theory that mind and body are distinct kinds of substances or natures. Thus, a dualist would oppose any theory that identifies mind with the brain, conceived as a physical mechanism.
How the Mind Affects the Body ★ Healing Thru Thoughts & Infinite Spirit ~ (law of attraction).
BIOLOGY of the BODY in your bones, muscles, blood and breath.
NEUROLOGY of the MIND in your electrical impulses along nerve pathways.
CHEMISTRY of the SPIRIT in your ever-changing moods and hormones.
Once you understand how body-mind-spirit works as a science, you can work it as a medicine to achieve INSTANT WELLNESS. When you put your BODY into alignment, focus and clarify your thoughts in your MIND, and you also breathe from your SPIRIT, everything, absolutely EVERYTHING in life works better. Your body works better, your mind thinks clearer, and your mood feels happier. Understanding of Body-Mind-Spirit as simple and practical science that you can apply to your everyday!
How to Detox Your Life in Mind, Body and Spirit for Your Wellbeing.
Mind-body medicine is a revolutionary twenty-first century approach to health care that includes a wide range of behavioral and lifestyle interventions, on an equal basis with traditional medical interventions. The patient in mind-body medicine is understood as a totality of body, mind, and spirit, and interventions are directed at each of these aspects of the person. The conditions which cause human suffering today, in the affluent societies of the developed world, are caused as much by lifestyle, dietary habits, activity level, and life-stress, as they are by such traditional causes of disease as is infection, virus, bacteria, and physical trauma.
The mind-body medicine approach also creates a partnership among specialists in the medical and mental specialties, including physicians, nurse practitioners, and psychologists, as well as mind/body specialists, such as a biofeedback practitioners, chiropractors, nutritionists, spiritual counselors, and yoga teachers. The result is an integrated team of caregivers who address mind, body, and spirit in each visit. Read More: https://www.aapb.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=3386
The Spiritual Heart — is in a way a little like a smart phone, invisibly connecting us to a large network of information. It is through an unseen energy that the heart emits that humans are profoundly connected to all living things. The energy of the heart literally links us to each other. Every person’s heart contributes to a ‘collective field environment.’ This short video explains the importance of this connection and how we each add to this collective energy field. The energetic field of the heart even connects us with the earth itself. NOVA Wonders What’s the Universe Made Of?
Science and The Mind-Body-Spirit Connection to Health:
Studies in the field of psychoneuroimmunology are demonstrating the effects of the mind and spirit in healing the body. http://www.firstnationshealing.com/resources/McCabe.pdf
Attitude and cancer – Dr. H. Steven Greer conducted several studies, including a study with a 15-year follow up on women with breast cancer, and found evidence that attitude is linked to duration and survival of cancer.
Waston, Maggie, Greer, Stephen, et. al., A Relationships between emotional control, adjustment to cancer and depression and anxiety in breast cancer patients, and also Psychological Medicine (1991), 21: 51-57, http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5011904
Your beliefs affect your health, including your genes – Dr. Bruce Lipton, internationally recognized biologist and article of The Biology of Belief , is a leader in teaching about the science of epigenetics. His scientific experiments proves that your perception or beliefs, affect your health. His studies show that even if you have a gene for a certain disease, it is your beliefs that can turn that genetic issue off or on. To learn more, read The Biology of Belief.
Janine Shepherd’s story is nothing short of incredible. While training for the Olympics, Janine was struck by a massive truck and sustained life-threatening injuries to her neck, back and head. Here she delivers a powerful speech on how she rehabilitated her broken body and broken spirit to defy the odds and achieve the impossible: becoming a licensed pilot. Janine’s story reminds us that we are not limited by our bodies, but by our spirit to overcome the odds and win. See Video Below!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weSjQtPv4pU