Blogs about Body-Mind-Spirit

Wellness Matters Magazine May/June 2013 Issue www.wellnessmattersmagazine.com You've Got to Move It, Move It!Pilates for a Symbiotic Mind and Bodyby Monique Molino 

 Today life is crammed with demands on personal time, energy, and space. When you continuously care for others without taking care of yourself, you reach beyond your capacity to function.  Like a hard drive with too much information, you essentially crash and burn due to these physical and mental imbalances. At a Pilates class it’s your time to recharge your batteries so you can rediscover your mind-body equilibrium. The Pilates breathing technique will help you to capitalize on your strengths without wearing yourself down. 

Its funny how life works sometimes.  I often find that when looking for answers to a question or a problem I'm dealing with, life often sends me signs all over the place.  That's been true for me this past week.  

A Ferrari F-430 can go from 0-60 mph in about 4 seconds, depending on the year it was made. But it's a machine.

            Do you remember the days when you needed to send a letter to a friend in order to correspond?  How good it felt to open up the envelope?  Now a days, our postal service is in peril because nobody wants to take the time to send those messages.    Caroline Myss, a brilliant medical intuitive and author, says we are trying to remove time and space.  Letters, only a few years ago, needed both time and space to reach their intended targets.  "In the absence of this time and space, all chang

 https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=279708125393900&__adt=4 Originally from en.wikipedia. Drawn by Theresa Knott 

On my forays into the audiobook section at my local library, I recently stumbled into the book “Counter Clockwise: Mindful Health and the power of Possibility” by Ellen J. Langer. As I listened, I was more and more intrigued by the findings. The Romans already declared that there is a healthy mind in a healthy body (mens sana in corpore sano), some believe in “Mind over Matter”, and the researchers are looking into the relationship between mind and body. 

As we shift towards Integrative Medicine, what role should Energy Medicine play?  Western Medicine has been slow to recognize Energy Medicine as a valuable tool in healing.  There are many reasons for this.  The biggest being the lack of research in the discipline.  How does one measure the Human Energy Field? And even if we could measure it, does the dynamic nature of the Field lend itself to measures  that are both reliable and valid?