Tag Archive for: Simonton Cancer Center
Video: The Pharmaceuticals of the Brain
We can improve the brain’s ability to synthesize the drugs we need by improving our level of wellbeing. Increased wellbeing reduces physiological stress, which allows the body to work more optimally. In optimal health the brain writes prescriptions…
Video: Cancer, the Immune System, States of Mind, and Health
This interview points out the power of choice and intention to improve health and well-being. Terms like "have to" are deleterious to our health. According to Dr. Erik Peper: "Health is the ability to make choices." People who are empowered…
Video: Cancer, the Immune System, States of Mind, and Health
This interview points out the power of choice and intention to improve health and well-being. Terms like "have to" are deleterious to our health. According to Dr. Erik Peper: "Health is the ability to make choices." People who are empowered…
Meaning & Purpose Improve Health
Practice Cultivating Meaning and Purpose
The terms meaning and purpose often appear together. For our discussion here, I would frame their relationship this way: acting with purpose entails taking an action that is of sufficient importance…
Practice Humor for Health and Wellbeing
Learn to view thoughts as nothing but passing brain phenomena.
For those of us living with chronic health problems, it’s important not to take ourselves and our medical situation too seriously. Worrying or agonizing about our health challenges…
Our Use of Language Affects Our State of Health.
“I’m Terminal” Is a Dangerous Use of Language
It’s common to hear someone with very advanced cancer say, “I’m terminal.” In the last stages of the disease, this acceptance of death is healthy and allows for a more peaceful dying…
Still More on Cognitive Fusion
An Approach to Cognitive Fusion with Beliefs
During my three years of training at the Simonton Cancer Center, there were many retreat participants who claimed they were willing to do whatever it took to get well, but such a commitment was…
Video: Cancer, the Immune System, States of Mind, and Health
This interview points out the power of choice and intention to improve health and well-being. Terms like "have to" are deleterious to our health. According to Dr. Erik Peper: "Health is the ability to make choices." People who are empowered…
Improve Health and Happiness by Setting and Pursuing Goals
Goals Energize Us.
During my three years at the Simonton Cancer Center, we always impressed upon patients that energy is essential to healing and that the act of pursuing goals can be extremely energizing. Setting goals helps us conceptualize…