Key West Retreat 3
The Mind Connection
We are true believers in a Mind-Body Connection and follows in this approach to Healing the protocol of Professor David Spiegel Ph.D . We where also truly inspired by the researches of Lawrence LeShan PHD, Robert Dilts and Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer in dealing with life threatening diseases.
According to Dr. David Spiegel:
” We are fundamentally social creatures, and the social and physical environment can both cause and ameliorate stress. Our response to these forces is influenced by our genetic makeup, early life experiences, and our cognitive and emotional response to them. Effects of stress and support on our health are mediated by the central, peripheral and autonomic nervous systems, our hormonal stress response system, and the immune system. Once believed to be autonomously functioning systems, we now know that the nervous, endocrine and immune systems are integrally connected, with exquisitely sensitive communications and interactions.
These continual fluctuations are not exclusively regulated from the bottom up by the internal molecular and cellular environment. Physical, environmental and psychosocial factors exert a profound downward influence as well on neuroendocrine and immune functioning. Acute stress can stimulate immune response, while chronic stress wears it down. These factors can have an effect on the body’s ability to fight disease. Social isolation is bad for your health, and depression predicts poorer outcome with cancer and heart disease. “
According to Dr. LeShan
“Our approach is different from that of traditional psychotherapies. The traditional focus is on psychological and emotional problems. Its basic questions are, “What’s wrong with you?” and “What are the past causes?”
Years of clinical research have shown that this traditional approach is not productive for people dealing with an illness threatening their lives. Not only is it irrelevant to their immediate concerns, but of far more importance, it has no effect on the course of their illness. With LeShan’s approach, the focus is not on problems and past causes, but on what interests, excites, fulfills and vitalizes the person.
This psychotherapy emphasizes the unique individuality of each person. It encourages you to find your own best ways of being, relating and creating. Its basic questions are “What is right with you?” “What is your own best ways of living?” and “How, given the reality of your situation, can you move more and more in that direction?”
The therapy guides our clients in finding a way of being that brings purpose and fulfillment to their daily life. We explore the past only insofar as it blocks the future they want to create. Our work aims at helping them claim the right to live in ways they would find fulfilling, ways that generate enthusiasm and a commitment to the future. When they do this, their healing resources often respond.
What do you really want? Although we each want something different, we all want more meaning, fulfillment, joy, and enthusiasm. To bring this about, we each have to find our own way to custom-design our life. There is no one right way that fits everyone. When we take action to bring about our own, individual ways to upgrade and enrich our life, this changes us emotionally, psychologically, in relation to others, spiritually and physically.
Thoughts and feelings cannot cause or cure cancer, but feelings affect body chemistry (which affects the development or regression of tumors), just as body chemistry affects feelings. When we act toward ourselves in ways that truly help to nurture the best of ourselves, our feelings change in response. As we feel more positive about who we are, we find it easier to keep acting in ways that nourish us.
When we find life more fulfilling, we tend not only to live more fully, but to live longer. When we try to become the best of ourselves, our trying tells our immune system that we are worth fighting for, and often it follows our example and works toward our health in a stronger way. “Se habla Espanol – Parliamo Italiano – On Parles Francais – Wir sprechen Deutch
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