Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

I’m reading Ernest L. Rossi’s classic book The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing: New concepts of therapeutic hypnosis at the moment. I’ll probably do several posts on it. This one is on an insight he gives which relates to the “switchboard” technique I wrote about in Pain management part 2: Imagination techniques. I already knew that [...]

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I mentioned in my post on gaining control by integrating your mind that I’m reading Ernest Rossi’s The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing at the moment. What it does is provide for mind-body healing the two things that are needed for any idea to be taken seriously by scientists: experimental data and a credible mechanism.
I won’t [...]

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Years ago now, I was struck down by a mysterious illness. I was tired all the time but couldn’t sleep, eating more but losing weight, couldn’t concentrate, and found loud noises and bright lights painful.
I was living in Australia at the time, which had a generous free health system, so I was extensively tested [...]

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Wouldn’t it be great to have a second brain to take care of some routine tasks?
photo credit: *madalena-pestana*
Well, actually, we already do. I’m studying anatomy and physiology as part of my Health Science course, and I’ve just been learning about the “enteric nervous system” – the brain in your gut.
Inside your digestive system is [...]

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As I mentioned in my last post, I’m reading Candace Pert’s fascinating book Molecules of Emotion at the moment, and her theory of the “bodymind” as one integrated, dynamic network is seizing my imagination. She’s a prominent scientist who has worked mostly on peptides, the “molecules of emotion” of her title, which are the means [...]

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