Mind-body medicine is a patchwork of ideas about the way in which we think that our minds make us sick, and might make us well. The big ideas influence how we think about disease, how we seek out different care for ourselves, even how we experience our bodies in health and illness.
Mainstream medicine says leave your mind out of it, you've got a bodily disorder, and we're going to cure it with some kind of physical intervention. And mainstream medicine is often pretty good at this. So as long as it's doing its job very well, a lot of us are very happy to embrace it.
Read the article Minding our health - interview with Medical historian Anne Harrington
- Power of suggestion - ex: placebo effect
- Power of our own positive thinking
- Certain personality types get particular diseases
- Type A - risk of heart attack
- Stress is really a modern invention
- Difference between Stress and Exhaustion
- Advanced practice of meditation might be able to sculpt the brain (also see Buddha on the Brain)
source: salon.com
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