Mindbody Medicine

THE SCIENCE CONNECTING HEALTH AND EMOTIONS

Working with the Stress-Disease Connection

In the past 50 years, medicine has begun to understand the effects our thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and life experiences (ACE, trauma, stress and relationship conflicts) have on our physical health.

The Stress-Disease Connection. How Stress Affects the Body

When we think of stress, we often imagine feeling tense or overwhelmed. But stress isn’t just a feeling — it triggers real, measurable changes throughout...

Is Psychosomatic Disease All in the Mind

Psychosomatic Disease: Understanding the Mind–Body Connection Through Biodecoding When a disease doesn’t have a clear mechanical or infectious explanation, it’s often called psychosomatic. Many assume...

The Science Behind Hypnotherapy for Chronic Illness

Key TakawaysPsychological and social factors affect immune and nervous system function, not just genes or toxins.Hypnotherapy and NLP aim to shift perceptions, beliefs, and emotions...

The Hypnotic State

The Hypnotic State: A Natural Part of Everyday Life — and a Powerful Tool for Healing When most people hear the word hypnosis, they imagine...

Is there an Initial Sensitizing Event in Chronic Disease?

Many practitioners of hypnotherapy wonder is the cause of chronic disease is in an initial sensitizing event (ISE)? As practitioners, do we just search for...

Stop! Pain is Not the Problem

What do you do when a client comes into your office with pain and wants you to get rid of it? Teach them self hypnosis...

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The Psychosocial Factors behind Chronic Disease

The two principal factors in the onset, progression, and recurrence of disease are the physical and psychosocial factors. Physical factors have been the main focus...

The Subconscious Mind and Health

For much of the 20th century, psychology viewed the subconscious mind as little more than a primitive reflex center. Sigmund Freud, for example, described it...

What is Chronic Disease and How to Treat it?

Key TakeawaysChronic disease develops gradually over time, shows symptoms slowly, and worsens without lifestyle changes; examples include Alzheimer's, rheumatoid arthritis, Parkinson's, and cancer.Acute disease strikes...