How Your Thinking Affects Your Health Part 2 of 3
Theoretical physicist David Bohm explained how virtually all thought has physiological correlates, and that the meaning we assign to material events serves as the link between energy and matter. He refers to thought as energy, and he refers…
How Your Thinking Affects Your Health Part 1 of 3
Every change in your emotional state leads to a cascade of hormones and neurotransmitter substances, and can effect changes in the shape, voltage, and biochemistry of cell membrane receptors, and those changes influence gene expression.…
Skills Not Pills Part 2
Simple Behavioral Changes and Physiological Functioning
Even the simplest of behavioral changes such as varying our posture serve to alter cognition, emotion, and physiological functioning. For example, when we stand tall, we feel better…
Chronic Illness Q&A with Dr. B.
This question & answer column is for people living with chronic health challenges, who want to learn to increase the odds of improving their health by learning to live with mastery & wellbeing.
I invite you to post your questions…
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…
Cancer and Social Support
Social Support and the Immune System
Psychoneuroimmunology researchers have consistently found a positive correlation between social support and the immune system.
Medical researcher Dr. Janice Kiecolt-Glaser has proven that social support…
Video: “Fighting Cancer: A Nontoxic Approach to Treatment”
Psychophysiologist Erik Peper, PhD, discusses the book he co-authored with cancer researcher Robert Gorter, MD. He describes a novel, promising, nontoxic treatment for cancer, the results of which, have been quite exciting. In line with the…
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…
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…