Dear sunayna,
Namaskar.
Thank you for defrogging me. So let me skip over to point 3. But be sure what you think as "simpler", I am presenting as complex and what you think as complex, I am making it simple. Before that please be exposed to the world where we are now.
Regards,
Jogeshwar
MIND/BODY MEDICINE
An Alternative and Complementary Medicine Resource Guide
Contents:
Introduction
Books
Journals
Professional and Research Organizations
Self-help and Referral Organizations
Treatment Centers
Web resources
INTRODUCTION
Beginning in the 17th century, the need for separation between the mind and body arose within Western cultures. This gave medical science the freedom to explore and experiment on the physical body while maintaining the church's domain over the mind. While this separation has permitted great advances in the understanding of the nature and treatment of diseases, it has also limited its progression as it has produced a reliance of Western medicine on technology and what has come to be known as "body-mind dualism."
Within the last 30 years, some researchers have turned to alternative and complementary medical systems to explore the interconnections between mind and body. Researchers have also learned that most traditional systems of medicine appreciate and incorporate into their practice the complex and powerful relationship between the mind and the body.
Scientists have developed a new discipline, called psychoneuroimmunology, which interlinks psychological, autonomic, immune, and nervous system functioning. Current mind/body medicine extends beyond psychoneuroimmunology to include the fields of psychology and physics in a new "science of consciousness," which views energy as the underlying pattern of the universe. This is similar to many Asian philosophies, such as Ayurveda and Tibetan medicine, that see human beings as part of an interconnected, universal energy field.
Healing, using mind/body medicine, usually begins by promoting physical and mental relaxation, and developing better ways of coping with stress. A variety of techniques may be used, including biofeedback, body psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, and guided imagery (see our Molecules of Emotion Resource Guide for resources on these and more topics). Mind/body medicine is based on the recognition of the relationship between mind and body, the body's innate healing potential, and the partnership of patient and healer in restoring the body to health.
In 1993, The New England Journal of Medicine published a study stating that one in three adults had used some form of unconventional medicine, with mind/body techniques being the most frequently used type. Mind/body medicine has emerged as an integral part of comprehensive health care, has given rise to the legitimization of wide-spread research, and the incorporation of mind/body programs in major medical institutions.
[Back to Contents]
NOTE: The following resource listings are not intended to be comprehensive, nor to be used as a guide for treatment. They are provided for information only. The resources are selected and categorized to help you with your own research.
BOOKS
AUTHORITATIVE RESEARCH RESOURCES
MIND/BODY
Daniel Goleman, Ph.D. and Joel Gurin
Mind-Body Medicine: How to Use Your Mind for Better Health
Consumer Reports Books, 1995
Provides current information compiled by several contributors on the crucial role the mind plays in health, an analysis of the mind/body connection, and specific techniques for using the mind to achieve better health.
James S. Gordon, M.D.
Manifesto for a New Medicine: Your Guide to Healing Partnerships and the Wise Use of Alternative Therapies
Perseus Press, 1997
Provides an understanding for the use and applications of alternative therapies with a strong guide for blending the best of traditional and alternative methods.
Steven Locke, M.D.
The Healer Within: The New Medicine of Mind and Body
Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies, 1997
A clear authoritative presentation of psychoneuroimmunology, showing how emotions and attitudes can affect health and treatment of illness.
Candace B. Pert, Ph.D.
Foreword by Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel
Scribner, 1997
Based on her own research, discusses how molecules and chemicals are capable of linking mind and body such that our emotional state may affect your health.
PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY
Elliot S. Dacher, M.D.
Psychoneuroimmunology: The New Mind/Body Healing Program
Paragon House, 1991
A detailed explanation of psychoneuroimmunology. Dr. Dacher provides a program on disease prevention, risk reduction, and recovery, applying principles based on imagery, meditation, and biofeedback research.
Manfred Schedlowski and Uwe Tewes
Psychoneuroimmunology: an Interdisciplinary Introduction
Academic Publishers, 1999
Examines the complex functional relationships between the nervous, neuroendocrine, and immune systems. Produced by international leaders in the field, and includes a wealth of cited research studies.
Dr. Alan Watkins
Mind-Body Medicine: A Clinician's Guide to Psychoneuroimmunology
Harcourt Health Sciences Group, 1997
Each chapter focuses on a different clinical problem that practitioners commonly encounter. Provides the reader with current research, scientific explanations of research findings and some helpful suggestions on alternative therapeutic approaches.
CASE STUDIES/OBSERVATIONAL DATA
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.
Minding the Body, Mending the Mind
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishers, 1993
Each chapter focuses on a different clinical problem that practitioners commonly encounter. Provides the reader with current research, scientific explanations of research findings and some helpful suggestions on alternative therapeutic approaches.
Norman Cousins
Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishers, 1991
Cousins examines creativity and humor as essential components of treatment for chronic illness.
Norman Cousins
Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit
Penguin USA, 1990
Cousins' account of his personal triumph over severe illness. This book describes his 10-year quest to find the proof that positive attitudes are actually biochemical factors which combat disease.
Burton Goldberg
Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide
Future Medicine Publishing, Inc., 1998
Based on physician testimonials, a general overview of mind/body medicine, and explanations of various modalities such as yoga, meditation, imagery, hypnotherapy and biofeedback.
Paul R. Martin, Ph.D.
The Healing Mind: The Vital Links Between Brain and Behavior Immunity and Disease
Dunne Books, 1998
An easy to read presentation of what is now know about how psychological and emotional states influence physical health and are in turn affected by it.
Bill Moyers
Healing and the Mind
Main Street Books, 1995
A compilation of transcripts of fifteen interviews with leaders in the field of body/mind healing.
Bernie Siegel, M.D.
Love, Medicine and Miracles
Harper Perennial Library, 1990
Siegel describes how exceptional patients work to heal themselves, and how they find courage and determination to follow new, inspirational paths.
David S. Sobel, M.D., and Robert Ornstein, Ph.D.
The Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Handbook
ISHK Book Service, 1997
Presents strategies and techniques for health improvement such as relaxation, humor and stress management and evidence of their effectiveness.
[Back to Contents]
JOURNALS
Advances in Mind-Body Medicine
http://www.harcourt-international.co...cfm?jhome.html
A publication of the Fetzer Institute, which is a non-profit private foundation. The Institute supports research, education, and service programs exploring the integral relationships among body, mind, and spirit. This journal explores the interactions of thoughts, emotions, attitudes and related phenomena with the body and examines their effects on health.
The Humanistic Psychologist
<link outdated-removed>
A journal of the humanistic psychology division of the American Psychological Association; published three times per year.
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
http://ahpweb.org <link updated to site home>
This journal provides a comprehensive look at humanistic psychology, integrating theory, research, and application through a variety of features, such as experiential reports, theoretical papers, research studies, and analyses of contemporary culture.
Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine Journal
<link no longer exists - removed>
Peer-reviewed journal designed to provide guidelines, scientific background, and scientific credibility for subtle-energies applications and to support increased dialogue among clinicians, healers, and the scientific and medical communities.
[Back to Contents]
PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS
Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB)
http://www.aapb.org/
10200 W.. 44th Ave., Suite 304
Wheat Ridge, CO 80033-2840
Phone: (303) 422-8436
Fax: (303) 422-8894
Email:
A non-profit organization largely composed of clinicians, researchers, and educators in biofeedback and related mind-body therapies.
Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM)
http://www.cmbm.org/
5225 Connecticut Ave., NW
Suite 414
Washington, DC 20015
Phone: (202) 966-7338
Fax: (202) 966-2589
Email:
A non-profit educational organization aimed at transforming medicine into a more compassionate, open-minded and effective model of health care and health education, addressing the mental, emotional, social, spiritual, and physical dimensions of health and illness. Offers several training programs.
Fetzer Institute
http://www.fetzer.org/
9292 West KL Ave.
Kalamazoo, MI 49009
Phone: (616) 375-2000
Fax: (616) 372-2163
Email:
A non-profit private foundation that supports research, education, and service programs exploring the integral relationships among body, mind, and spirit.
Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)
http://www.noetic.org/
475 Gate Five Road, Suite 300
Sausalito, CA 94965
Phone: (415) 331-5650
Fax: (415) 331-5673
E-mail:
The noetic sciences study the mind and its diverse ways of knowing in a truly interdisciplinary fashion. The IONS is a research and education foundation that produces several publications, organizes educational events, and provides grants for scholarly research.
International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM)
<link no longer exists - removed>
11005 Ralston Road, #100-D
Arvada, CO 80004
Phone: (303) 425-4625
Fax: (303) 425-4685
E-mail:
An interdisciplinary organization for the study of the basic sciences and medical and therapeutic applications of subtle energies.
Mind/Body Medical Institute and Mind/Body Medical Clinic
http://www.mindbody.harvard.edu/
Division of Behavioral Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital
110 Francis St.
Boston, MA 02215
Phone; (617) 632-9530
E-mail:
Non-profit scientific and educational organization dedicated to promoting worldwide health and well being, through the study and advancement of mind/body medicine, including the relaxation response and belief systems. Conducts basic and clinical research, offers training to health care professionals and others.
National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine
http://www.nicabm.com/
PO Box 523
Mansfield Center, CT 06250
Phone: (800) 743-2226
Fax: (860) 423-4512
E-mail:
Establishes practitioner-oriented conferences and seminars for health care providers, specifically on the interface between health and psychology.
Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM)
http://www.sbmweb.org/
7600 Terrace Ave., Suite 203
Middleton, WI 53562
Phone: (608) 827-7267
Fax: (608) 831-5485
Email:
A multidisciplinary, non-profit organization that provides a scientific forum for behavioral and biomedical researchers and clinicians to study the interactions of behavior, physiological and biochemical states, and morbidity and mortality.
[Back to Contents]
SELF-HELP AND REFERRAL ORGANIZATIONS
Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP)
http://www.ahpweb.org/
45 Franklin Street, Suite 315
San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: (415) 864-8850
Referral service: (415) 964 8850
Fax: (415) 864-8853
Email:
An international non-profit association that emphasizes consciousness, human dignity, and the capacity for people to direct their own destinies. The AHP offers publications and a yearly directory of humanistic professionals.
Consortium for Holistic Studies
http://www.holisticstudies.org/
P.0. Box 224
Newport Beach, CA 92662-0224
(949) 723-5104
Fax: (949) 723-5104
Email:
A public dialogue, information, and consulting organization dedicated to exploring the intersections of health, psychology, spirituality, and culture. Services include online Public Dialogue Forums, an Information Network database referral system, newsletter "Consortium News", and integrative health consultation.
Mind/Body Health Sciences, Inc.
http://www.joanborysenko.com/
393 Dixon Road
Boulder, CO 80302
(303) 440-8460
Fax: (303) 440-7580
Email:
Publish free annual newsletter/Catalogue: Circle of Healing. Information about the work of Joan Borysenko.
[Back to Contents]
TREATMENT CENTERS
The Life Sciences Institute of Mind-Body Health
http://kitusa.com <link updated to site home>
2955 SW Wanamaker Dr.
Suite B
Topeka, KS 66614
Phone: (785) 271-8686
Fax: (7850 271-8698
Email:
Founded by health professionals who pioneered applications of biofeedback to mental and physical problems, such as stress-related disorders, addictive disorders, attention deficit disorder, depression, anxiety, immune deficiencies, and urinary incontinence. The institute also offers support in accessing particular states of consciousness associated with concentration or creativity.
Mind/Body Medicine
http://www.mindbodymedicine.org/
The Behavioral Medicine Department
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
The Behavioral Medicine Department-Copley practice
185 Dartmouth St.
Boston, MA 02116
Email:
This center treats patients with chronic or recurrent illnesses, physical and/or emotional problems that are stress-sensitive, and help patients become aware of their unique stress response patterns and to learn skills for making healthy changes.
The Mind-Body Wellness Center
<link no longer exists - removed>
18201 Conneaut Lake Rd.
Meadville, PA 16335
Phone: (814) 724-1765
Fax: (814) 333-8662
Email:
This center focuses on treating the whole person with an open-minded approach that focuses on each individual in a caring, comprehensive and coordinated manner. Offers treatment and courses in many mind-body therapies.
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center
http://semc.org <link updated to site home>
736 Cambridge St.
Boston, MA 02135-2997
Phone: (617) 562-7916
Email:
Participants in this eight-week program are taught to incorporate meditation and yoga into their lives for the purpose of relieving stress and its effect on the mind and body.
[Back to Contents]
WEB RESOURCES
Note: Promotional and commercial sites are not included in this listing unless they provide significant impartial information resources.
Alternative Health News Online: Mind/Body Control
http://www.altmedicine.com/altmind.htm
Provides links to sites offering information on an overview of mind/body healing, and discussions on various mind/body techniques, such as music therapy, art therapy, yoga, hypnosis, biofeedback, and guided imagery.
Cygnus: Books on Mind-Body Medicine
http://cygnus-books.co.uk <link updated to site home>
<link outdated-removed>
A brief list of mind/body books, with a description of the book and links to books on related topics.
HealthWorld Online
http://www.healthy.net/
Choose links to general mind/body topics such as, medicine, health, exercise. Also has comprehensive links to specific mind/body therapies, such as bodywork, guided imagery, etc.
OnHealth: Mind/Body Medicine
http://onhealth.com/alternative/reso...item,15041.asp
Brief descriptions on mind/body medicine therapies, including biofeedback, guided imagery, hypnosis, meditation, yoga, and more. Also offers an overview of mind/body medicine and tips on choosing a practitioner.
Yahoo! Health: Mind-Body Medicine
<link outdated-removed>
Provides several links on mind/body medicine, with definitions, related resources, biofeedback, meditation, hypnosis, psychoneuroimmunology, and more.
[Back to Contents]
Last updated: September, 2002
From India, Delhi
174Namaskar.
Thank you for defrogging me. So let me skip over to point 3. But be sure what you think as "simpler", I am presenting as complex and what you think as complex, I am making it simple. Before that please be exposed to the world where we are now.
Regards,
Jogeshwar
MIND/BODY MEDICINE
An Alternative and Complementary Medicine Resource Guide
Contents:
Introduction
Books
Journals
Professional and Research Organizations
Self-help and Referral Organizations
Treatment Centers
Web resources
INTRODUCTION
Beginning in the 17th century, the need for separation between the mind and body arose within Western cultures. This gave medical science the freedom to explore and experiment on the physical body while maintaining the church's domain over the mind. While this separation has permitted great advances in the understanding of the nature and treatment of diseases, it has also limited its progression as it has produced a reliance of Western medicine on technology and what has come to be known as "body-mind dualism."
Within the last 30 years, some researchers have turned to alternative and complementary medical systems to explore the interconnections between mind and body. Researchers have also learned that most traditional systems of medicine appreciate and incorporate into their practice the complex and powerful relationship between the mind and the body.
Scientists have developed a new discipline, called psychoneuroimmunology, which interlinks psychological, autonomic, immune, and nervous system functioning. Current mind/body medicine extends beyond psychoneuroimmunology to include the fields of psychology and physics in a new "science of consciousness," which views energy as the underlying pattern of the universe. This is similar to many Asian philosophies, such as Ayurveda and Tibetan medicine, that see human beings as part of an interconnected, universal energy field.
Healing, using mind/body medicine, usually begins by promoting physical and mental relaxation, and developing better ways of coping with stress. A variety of techniques may be used, including biofeedback, body psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, and guided imagery (see our Molecules of Emotion Resource Guide for resources on these and more topics). Mind/body medicine is based on the recognition of the relationship between mind and body, the body's innate healing potential, and the partnership of patient and healer in restoring the body to health.
In 1993, The New England Journal of Medicine published a study stating that one in three adults had used some form of unconventional medicine, with mind/body techniques being the most frequently used type. Mind/body medicine has emerged as an integral part of comprehensive health care, has given rise to the legitimization of wide-spread research, and the incorporation of mind/body programs in major medical institutions.
[Back to Contents]
NOTE: The following resource listings are not intended to be comprehensive, nor to be used as a guide for treatment. They are provided for information only. The resources are selected and categorized to help you with your own research.
BOOKS
AUTHORITATIVE RESEARCH RESOURCES
MIND/BODY
Daniel Goleman, Ph.D. and Joel Gurin
Mind-Body Medicine: How to Use Your Mind for Better Health
Consumer Reports Books, 1995
Provides current information compiled by several contributors on the crucial role the mind plays in health, an analysis of the mind/body connection, and specific techniques for using the mind to achieve better health.
James S. Gordon, M.D.
Manifesto for a New Medicine: Your Guide to Healing Partnerships and the Wise Use of Alternative Therapies
Perseus Press, 1997
Provides an understanding for the use and applications of alternative therapies with a strong guide for blending the best of traditional and alternative methods.
Steven Locke, M.D.
The Healer Within: The New Medicine of Mind and Body
Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies, 1997
A clear authoritative presentation of psychoneuroimmunology, showing how emotions and attitudes can affect health and treatment of illness.
Candace B. Pert, Ph.D.
Foreword by Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel
Scribner, 1997
Based on her own research, discusses how molecules and chemicals are capable of linking mind and body such that our emotional state may affect your health.
PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY
Elliot S. Dacher, M.D.
Psychoneuroimmunology: The New Mind/Body Healing Program
Paragon House, 1991
A detailed explanation of psychoneuroimmunology. Dr. Dacher provides a program on disease prevention, risk reduction, and recovery, applying principles based on imagery, meditation, and biofeedback research.
Manfred Schedlowski and Uwe Tewes
Psychoneuroimmunology: an Interdisciplinary Introduction
Academic Publishers, 1999
Examines the complex functional relationships between the nervous, neuroendocrine, and immune systems. Produced by international leaders in the field, and includes a wealth of cited research studies.
Dr. Alan Watkins
Mind-Body Medicine: A Clinician's Guide to Psychoneuroimmunology
Harcourt Health Sciences Group, 1997
Each chapter focuses on a different clinical problem that practitioners commonly encounter. Provides the reader with current research, scientific explanations of research findings and some helpful suggestions on alternative therapeutic approaches.
CASE STUDIES/OBSERVATIONAL DATA
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.
Minding the Body, Mending the Mind
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishers, 1993
Each chapter focuses on a different clinical problem that practitioners commonly encounter. Provides the reader with current research, scientific explanations of research findings and some helpful suggestions on alternative therapeutic approaches.
Norman Cousins
Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishers, 1991
Cousins examines creativity and humor as essential components of treatment for chronic illness.
Norman Cousins
Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit
Penguin USA, 1990
Cousins' account of his personal triumph over severe illness. This book describes his 10-year quest to find the proof that positive attitudes are actually biochemical factors which combat disease.
Burton Goldberg
Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide
Future Medicine Publishing, Inc., 1998
Based on physician testimonials, a general overview of mind/body medicine, and explanations of various modalities such as yoga, meditation, imagery, hypnotherapy and biofeedback.
Paul R. Martin, Ph.D.
The Healing Mind: The Vital Links Between Brain and Behavior Immunity and Disease
Dunne Books, 1998
An easy to read presentation of what is now know about how psychological and emotional states influence physical health and are in turn affected by it.
Bill Moyers
Healing and the Mind
Main Street Books, 1995
A compilation of transcripts of fifteen interviews with leaders in the field of body/mind healing.
Bernie Siegel, M.D.
Love, Medicine and Miracles
Harper Perennial Library, 1990
Siegel describes how exceptional patients work to heal themselves, and how they find courage and determination to follow new, inspirational paths.
David S. Sobel, M.D., and Robert Ornstein, Ph.D.
The Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Handbook
ISHK Book Service, 1997
Presents strategies and techniques for health improvement such as relaxation, humor and stress management and evidence of their effectiveness.
[Back to Contents]
JOURNALS
Advances in Mind-Body Medicine
http://www.harcourt-international.co...cfm?jhome.html
A publication of the Fetzer Institute, which is a non-profit private foundation. The Institute supports research, education, and service programs exploring the integral relationships among body, mind, and spirit. This journal explores the interactions of thoughts, emotions, attitudes and related phenomena with the body and examines their effects on health.
The Humanistic Psychologist
<link outdated-removed>
A journal of the humanistic psychology division of the American Psychological Association; published three times per year.
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
http://ahpweb.org <link updated to site home>
This journal provides a comprehensive look at humanistic psychology, integrating theory, research, and application through a variety of features, such as experiential reports, theoretical papers, research studies, and analyses of contemporary culture.
Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine Journal
<link no longer exists - removed>
Peer-reviewed journal designed to provide guidelines, scientific background, and scientific credibility for subtle-energies applications and to support increased dialogue among clinicians, healers, and the scientific and medical communities.
[Back to Contents]
PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS
Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB)
http://www.aapb.org/
10200 W.. 44th Ave., Suite 304
Wheat Ridge, CO 80033-2840
Phone: (303) 422-8436
Fax: (303) 422-8894
Email:
A non-profit organization largely composed of clinicians, researchers, and educators in biofeedback and related mind-body therapies.
Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM)
http://www.cmbm.org/
5225 Connecticut Ave., NW
Suite 414
Washington, DC 20015
Phone: (202) 966-7338
Fax: (202) 966-2589
Email:
A non-profit educational organization aimed at transforming medicine into a more compassionate, open-minded and effective model of health care and health education, addressing the mental, emotional, social, spiritual, and physical dimensions of health and illness. Offers several training programs.
Fetzer Institute
http://www.fetzer.org/
9292 West KL Ave.
Kalamazoo, MI 49009
Phone: (616) 375-2000
Fax: (616) 372-2163
Email:
A non-profit private foundation that supports research, education, and service programs exploring the integral relationships among body, mind, and spirit.
Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)
http://www.noetic.org/
475 Gate Five Road, Suite 300
Sausalito, CA 94965
Phone: (415) 331-5650
Fax: (415) 331-5673
E-mail:
The noetic sciences study the mind and its diverse ways of knowing in a truly interdisciplinary fashion. The IONS is a research and education foundation that produces several publications, organizes educational events, and provides grants for scholarly research.
International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM)
<link no longer exists - removed>
11005 Ralston Road, #100-D
Arvada, CO 80004
Phone: (303) 425-4625
Fax: (303) 425-4685
E-mail:
An interdisciplinary organization for the study of the basic sciences and medical and therapeutic applications of subtle energies.
Mind/Body Medical Institute and Mind/Body Medical Clinic
http://www.mindbody.harvard.edu/
Division of Behavioral Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital
110 Francis St.
Boston, MA 02215
Phone; (617) 632-9530
E-mail:
Non-profit scientific and educational organization dedicated to promoting worldwide health and well being, through the study and advancement of mind/body medicine, including the relaxation response and belief systems. Conducts basic and clinical research, offers training to health care professionals and others.
National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine
http://www.nicabm.com/
PO Box 523
Mansfield Center, CT 06250
Phone: (800) 743-2226
Fax: (860) 423-4512
E-mail:
Establishes practitioner-oriented conferences and seminars for health care providers, specifically on the interface between health and psychology.
Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM)
http://www.sbmweb.org/
7600 Terrace Ave., Suite 203
Middleton, WI 53562
Phone: (608) 827-7267
Fax: (608) 831-5485
Email:
A multidisciplinary, non-profit organization that provides a scientific forum for behavioral and biomedical researchers and clinicians to study the interactions of behavior, physiological and biochemical states, and morbidity and mortality.
[Back to Contents]
SELF-HELP AND REFERRAL ORGANIZATIONS
Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP)
http://www.ahpweb.org/
45 Franklin Street, Suite 315
San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: (415) 864-8850
Referral service: (415) 964 8850
Fax: (415) 864-8853
Email:
An international non-profit association that emphasizes consciousness, human dignity, and the capacity for people to direct their own destinies. The AHP offers publications and a yearly directory of humanistic professionals.
Consortium for Holistic Studies
http://www.holisticstudies.org/
P.0. Box 224
Newport Beach, CA 92662-0224
(949) 723-5104
Fax: (949) 723-5104
Email:
A public dialogue, information, and consulting organization dedicated to exploring the intersections of health, psychology, spirituality, and culture. Services include online Public Dialogue Forums, an Information Network database referral system, newsletter "Consortium News", and integrative health consultation.
Mind/Body Health Sciences, Inc.
http://www.joanborysenko.com/
393 Dixon Road
Boulder, CO 80302
(303) 440-8460
Fax: (303) 440-7580
Email:
Publish free annual newsletter/Catalogue: Circle of Healing. Information about the work of Joan Borysenko.
[Back to Contents]
TREATMENT CENTERS
The Life Sciences Institute of Mind-Body Health
http://kitusa.com <link updated to site home>
2955 SW Wanamaker Dr.
Suite B
Topeka, KS 66614
Phone: (785) 271-8686
Fax: (7850 271-8698
Email:
Founded by health professionals who pioneered applications of biofeedback to mental and physical problems, such as stress-related disorders, addictive disorders, attention deficit disorder, depression, anxiety, immune deficiencies, and urinary incontinence. The institute also offers support in accessing particular states of consciousness associated with concentration or creativity.
Mind/Body Medicine
http://www.mindbodymedicine.org/
The Behavioral Medicine Department
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
The Behavioral Medicine Department-Copley practice
185 Dartmouth St.
Boston, MA 02116
Email:
This center treats patients with chronic or recurrent illnesses, physical and/or emotional problems that are stress-sensitive, and help patients become aware of their unique stress response patterns and to learn skills for making healthy changes.
The Mind-Body Wellness Center
<link no longer exists - removed>
18201 Conneaut Lake Rd.
Meadville, PA 16335
Phone: (814) 724-1765
Fax: (814) 333-8662
Email:
This center focuses on treating the whole person with an open-minded approach that focuses on each individual in a caring, comprehensive and coordinated manner. Offers treatment and courses in many mind-body therapies.
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center
http://semc.org <link updated to site home>
736 Cambridge St.
Boston, MA 02135-2997
Phone: (617) 562-7916
Email:
Participants in this eight-week program are taught to incorporate meditation and yoga into their lives for the purpose of relieving stress and its effect on the mind and body.
[Back to Contents]
WEB RESOURCES
Note: Promotional and commercial sites are not included in this listing unless they provide significant impartial information resources.
Alternative Health News Online: Mind/Body Control
http://www.altmedicine.com/altmind.htm
Provides links to sites offering information on an overview of mind/body healing, and discussions on various mind/body techniques, such as music therapy, art therapy, yoga, hypnosis, biofeedback, and guided imagery.
Cygnus: Books on Mind-Body Medicine
http://cygnus-books.co.uk <link updated to site home>
<link outdated-removed>
A brief list of mind/body books, with a description of the book and links to books on related topics.
HealthWorld Online
http://www.healthy.net/
Choose links to general mind/body topics such as, medicine, health, exercise. Also has comprehensive links to specific mind/body therapies, such as bodywork, guided imagery, etc.
OnHealth: Mind/Body Medicine
http://onhealth.com/alternative/reso...item,15041.asp
Brief descriptions on mind/body medicine therapies, including biofeedback, guided imagery, hypnosis, meditation, yoga, and more. Also offers an overview of mind/body medicine and tips on choosing a practitioner.
Yahoo! Health: Mind-Body Medicine
<link outdated-removed>
Provides several links on mind/body medicine, with definitions, related resources, biofeedback, meditation, hypnosis, psychoneuroimmunology, and more.
[Back to Contents]
Last updated: September, 2002
From India, Delhi
Hi Anjum,
Namaskar.
Here are Gr7 who determine our BEING AND BECOMING.
1.Pineal,
2.Pituitary,
3.Thyroids,
4.Thymus
5.Pancreas,
6.Gonads and
7.Adrenal.
Where is the 8th? Do you prefer to tame these 7 first or search the 8th?
Regards,
Jogeshwar
From India, Delhi
Namaskar.
Here are Gr7 who determine our BEING AND BECOMING.
1.Pineal,
2.Pituitary,
3.Thyroids,
4.Thymus
5.Pancreas,
6.Gonads and
7.Adrenal.
Where is the 8th? Do you prefer to tame these 7 first or search the 8th?
Regards,
Jogeshwar
From India, Delhi
Dear Sunayna,
Namaskar.
Here is the simpler as complex and then I shall post complex as simple.
Regards,
Jogeshwar
THE SIMPLER AS COMPLEX AND THE COMPLEX AS SIMPLE.
By now we are very clear about cyclic causal relationship:-
ATTITUDES--àTHOUGHTS---àBODY CHEMISTRY--àATTITUDES---à
Simpler as complex
1. The imagination of fruit chat stimulates our salivary gland. We are conditioned to the former. We do not know when. Similarly we are conditioned to billions of stimuli about which we may be innocent. Some such conditioned stimuli facilitate our living while certain others create hindrance and sometimes they are so great that they can shorten our life. So can we differentiate the life facilitating conditioned stimuli and hindrance producing stimuli? My answer is emphatic YES. But before that let me tell you the great history behind the conditioned salivary gland response.
2. In 1904 Ivan Petrovitch Pavlov was awarded Nobel prize. Do you know why? He was doing experiment on gastric juice of dogs in a greatly controlled laboratory condition. It was greatly controlled because he wanted to rule out the influence of extraneous factors in his experiments completely.
3. He was a physiologist and did know that a much more psychic domain exists beyond the material world and both material and psychic phenomenon are intertwined very systematically.
4. One day he noticed that while the page boy who used to feed his dogs was still at a distance but the saliva of the experimental dog is falling dip dip dripping. He was amazed. No food was yet in the mouth of the dog and still it salivates. Then the focus of his experiments changed. He named this reaction as psychic reflex and then as conditioned reflex. For this discovery he was awarded Nobel prize in 1904.
5. An American psychologist, John Broadus Watson of John Hopkins University carried forward conditioning research further. He conditioned the little boy Albert to fear his dear white rabbit and then he extinguished the fear too. This was the great beginning of behaviorist school of psychology and behaviour modification movement as well.
6. In the personal front he developed affairs with one of his students(Rosalie Rayner?). The puritan University administration ousted him on this cause. Then he entered into corporate world. Used his conditioning technology in advertisement and became multi millionaire. Thank God he was not ousted for scientific misconduct for producing conditioned fear responses. In the experiment the overt observable behaviours were recorded and not the autonomic and endocrinal responses because experimental psychopathology was yet to come..
7. Not knowing all these as a beginner in the college while I was hearing the lecture on Pavlov’s conditioning, I reacted. What is great in it? In the association school already there are laws of proximity, similarity and cause and effect etc. My teacher was angry and for days together she did not talk to me.
8. During the post graduate stage I found that there was a great controversy between Wolfgang Kohler and Ivan Petrovitch Pavlov on the issue of associationism and conditioning. After several correspondence Pavlov agreed that associatiotionism and conditioning are identical and they merge together.
9. So this is in brief the great history of fruit chat(of course, without chat masala) and saliva.
10. Now let me go to make the complex as very very simple
From India, Delhi
Namaskar.
Here is the simpler as complex and then I shall post complex as simple.
Regards,
Jogeshwar
THE SIMPLER AS COMPLEX AND THE COMPLEX AS SIMPLE.
By now we are very clear about cyclic causal relationship:-
ATTITUDES--àTHOUGHTS---àBODY CHEMISTRY--àATTITUDES---à
Simpler as complex
1. The imagination of fruit chat stimulates our salivary gland. We are conditioned to the former. We do not know when. Similarly we are conditioned to billions of stimuli about which we may be innocent. Some such conditioned stimuli facilitate our living while certain others create hindrance and sometimes they are so great that they can shorten our life. So can we differentiate the life facilitating conditioned stimuli and hindrance producing stimuli? My answer is emphatic YES. But before that let me tell you the great history behind the conditioned salivary gland response.
2. In 1904 Ivan Petrovitch Pavlov was awarded Nobel prize. Do you know why? He was doing experiment on gastric juice of dogs in a greatly controlled laboratory condition. It was greatly controlled because he wanted to rule out the influence of extraneous factors in his experiments completely.
3. He was a physiologist and did know that a much more psychic domain exists beyond the material world and both material and psychic phenomenon are intertwined very systematically.
4. One day he noticed that while the page boy who used to feed his dogs was still at a distance but the saliva of the experimental dog is falling dip dip dripping. He was amazed. No food was yet in the mouth of the dog and still it salivates. Then the focus of his experiments changed. He named this reaction as psychic reflex and then as conditioned reflex. For this discovery he was awarded Nobel prize in 1904.
5. An American psychologist, John Broadus Watson of John Hopkins University carried forward conditioning research further. He conditioned the little boy Albert to fear his dear white rabbit and then he extinguished the fear too. This was the great beginning of behaviorist school of psychology and behaviour modification movement as well.
6. In the personal front he developed affairs with one of his students(Rosalie Rayner?). The puritan University administration ousted him on this cause. Then he entered into corporate world. Used his conditioning technology in advertisement and became multi millionaire. Thank God he was not ousted for scientific misconduct for producing conditioned fear responses. In the experiment the overt observable behaviours were recorded and not the autonomic and endocrinal responses because experimental psychopathology was yet to come..
7. Not knowing all these as a beginner in the college while I was hearing the lecture on Pavlov’s conditioning, I reacted. What is great in it? In the association school already there are laws of proximity, similarity and cause and effect etc. My teacher was angry and for days together she did not talk to me.
8. During the post graduate stage I found that there was a great controversy between Wolfgang Kohler and Ivan Petrovitch Pavlov on the issue of associationism and conditioning. After several correspondence Pavlov agreed that associatiotionism and conditioning are identical and they merge together.
9. So this is in brief the great history of fruit chat(of course, without chat masala) and saliva.
10. Now let me go to make the complex as very very simple
From India, Delhi
Let me repeat the cyclic causal relationship:-
ATTITUDES--àTHOUGHTS--àBODY CHEMISTRY---àATTITUDES
Making the complex as simple.
When the imagery of fruit chat is invoked in the consciousness, every conditioned cell in the body gets activated right from frontal lobe/association cortex in the brain to the salivary gland spontaneously. This is true for every thought(percept, image and idea).
Let me illustrate.
We had to buy a polygraph equipment. The supply came. I had to be satisfied on its output. On checking I found that the equipment is OK but performance of certain parameters required modification. The sales manager could not understand what we wanted. So he requested that this be talked with the production engineer. So I had to go to their factory at Chandigarh. The production engineer could understand our requirement in five minutes. But it took 3 days to effect the correction.
When they said that it is ready I had to check it up in their laboratory itself. One of their employee was hooked up into the parameters. I then asked him:
Close your eyes. Imagine that you are late for office. Hurry up. Hurry up…………. Now you have reached the office and you boss has started orally firing you. You are defenseless
All the imaginations are untrue. He is not late. His boss is very much around and viewing the demonstration. Despite that the equipment shows that his blood pressure has gone up, resistance to electrical conductance has gone down and there is hypoventilation in respiration.
All the three systems-circulatory, dermal and respiratory are complex systems. But the idea invoked in the consciousness or its effect travels to each cell of the body which is record able. The only difference between the aforesaid salivary response and these responses is that of magnitude. The former was above the threshold of awareness and these responses are below the threshold of awareness. But the truth is that the thought invoked in the consciousness or its effect travels to each and every cell of the body.
Next question is how to use this knowledge in general and for human resource management in particular.
CAN YOU GUESS?
Regards,
Jogeshwar
From India, Delhi
ATTITUDES--àTHOUGHTS--àBODY CHEMISTRY---àATTITUDES
Making the complex as simple.
When the imagery of fruit chat is invoked in the consciousness, every conditioned cell in the body gets activated right from frontal lobe/association cortex in the brain to the salivary gland spontaneously. This is true for every thought(percept, image and idea).
Let me illustrate.
We had to buy a polygraph equipment. The supply came. I had to be satisfied on its output. On checking I found that the equipment is OK but performance of certain parameters required modification. The sales manager could not understand what we wanted. So he requested that this be talked with the production engineer. So I had to go to their factory at Chandigarh. The production engineer could understand our requirement in five minutes. But it took 3 days to effect the correction.
When they said that it is ready I had to check it up in their laboratory itself. One of their employee was hooked up into the parameters. I then asked him:
Close your eyes. Imagine that you are late for office. Hurry up. Hurry up…………. Now you have reached the office and you boss has started orally firing you. You are defenseless
All the imaginations are untrue. He is not late. His boss is very much around and viewing the demonstration. Despite that the equipment shows that his blood pressure has gone up, resistance to electrical conductance has gone down and there is hypoventilation in respiration.
All the three systems-circulatory, dermal and respiratory are complex systems. But the idea invoked in the consciousness or its effect travels to each cell of the body which is record able. The only difference between the aforesaid salivary response and these responses is that of magnitude. The former was above the threshold of awareness and these responses are below the threshold of awareness. But the truth is that the thought invoked in the consciousness or its effect travels to each and every cell of the body.
Next question is how to use this knowledge in general and for human resource management in particular.
CAN YOU GUESS?
Regards,
Jogeshwar
From India, Delhi
Dear vishal,
Namaskar.
Here is what science says.
"
(Seven Endocrine Glands - After Ray Stanford)
The endocrine system stands at the heart of human opportunity and human dis-ease. This is the case because the major glands are the transmitting agents for social, emotional, mental and spiritual forces which underlie the whole of our physical worlds.
This idea may seem a bit farfetched to the uninitiated, simply skeptical, or strictly scientific. Many such folks believe that human beings are just peculiar masses of protoplasm which are somewhat controlled by brain impulses and nervous system patterns.
But, there is growing evidence that we are really this and much more. Research is appearing which will eventually validate that, "The mind is not so much in the body, as the body is in the mind."
The choice is yours.
Regards,
Jogeshwar
From India, Delhi
Namaskar.
Here is what science says.
"
(Seven Endocrine Glands - After Ray Stanford)
The endocrine system stands at the heart of human opportunity and human dis-ease. This is the case because the major glands are the transmitting agents for social, emotional, mental and spiritual forces which underlie the whole of our physical worlds.
This idea may seem a bit farfetched to the uninitiated, simply skeptical, or strictly scientific. Many such folks believe that human beings are just peculiar masses of protoplasm which are somewhat controlled by brain impulses and nervous system patterns.
But, there is growing evidence that we are really this and much more. Research is appearing which will eventually validate that, "The mind is not so much in the body, as the body is in the mind."
The choice is yours.
Regards,
Jogeshwar
From India, Delhi
ah..wanted to ask u the same thing
how can we use this info..
my guess wld be u can destress ur employee n motivate...but waiting for the answer
n no..i dont think its boring. i m readin all this for the first time n its fascinating
well...also wanted to ask...wt gland needs to be activated in order to lose weight?
JM....stick to the simpler version.. :wink: n wer do u get sooo much info from?
From India, Mumbai
how can we use this info..
my guess wld be u can destress ur employee n motivate...but waiting for the answer
n no..i dont think its boring. i m readin all this for the first time n its fascinating
well...also wanted to ask...wt gland needs to be activated in order to lose weight?
JM....stick to the simpler version.. :wink: n wer do u get sooo much info from?
From India, Mumbai
if u want to know about losing weight.. then there is one reaserch in uk and usa that says that the person there lose weight very fast when they are in love. even the course o weight loss couldnot achieve this level of weight losses.. so may be u can try that also if u want weight loss
From India, Vadodara
From India, Vadodara
Hi,
Going by what sreenivasan about weight loss, i do not agree with him. In fact, waiting for my husband i tend to eat more which is the result of what iam today.
Do you have another version of this. Say only when you are in love and not married you tend to loose weight but after marriage it is the other way round. :lol:
Regards,
Soumya Shankar
From India, Bangalore
Going by what sreenivasan about weight loss, i do not agree with him. In fact, waiting for my husband i tend to eat more which is the result of what iam today.
Do you have another version of this. Say only when you are in love and not married you tend to loose weight but after marriage it is the other way round. :lol:
Regards,
Soumya Shankar
From India, Bangalore
:lol: lol......hey soumya....sreenivasans theory thus sound right.
u r waiting for ur husband to arrive...so it is like waiting for love :lol:
by the way sreenivasan, i meant which gland cld help in weight loss :D
From India, Mumbai
u r waiting for ur husband to arrive...so it is like waiting for love :lol:
by the way sreenivasan, i meant which gland cld help in weight loss :D
From India, Mumbai
hi soumya shankar,
i am talking a the research done in UK so. naturally it is about people falling in love then weigt loss. so it is not connecte with marriage and then this research came in papers in indian express paper. so if u want full details you can refere the paper... then sunayna i donot know about gland. wjhn i saw about the weight loss this result got in to my mind so just said. i think some biological students can deal with that not mee...
From India, Vadodara
i am talking a the research done in UK so. naturally it is about people falling in love then weigt loss. so it is not connecte with marriage and then this research came in papers in indian express paper. so if u want full details you can refere the paper... then sunayna i donot know about gland. wjhn i saw about the weight loss this result got in to my mind so just said. i think some biological students can deal with that not mee...
From India, Vadodara
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