Reclaim Your Body & Mind
We are in the early stages of a new movement in health. It is one where control is given back to the patient, where physicians and providers get back to the true meaning of the word doctor, from the Latin docere, “to teach”. It is one where we work to reclaim our bodies and minds from the external and internal forces leading to imbalance. It is a movement that recognizes that the sum is greater than any individual part and that our bodies cannot be put into disconnected silos, but that the complexity of the whole must be considered connected when we make interventions in our health.
The Brain and The Body
At the center of our bodies lies our brain, with trillions of connections, more complicated than anything in the known universe. Our brains are made to combine with our bodies to form emotions and feelings. It combines with our external world to form our sense of community, wonder and spirituality. For all of us, these interactions vary and feelings of sadness, worry, disconnection, and fear can be a signal that something is needed; Solitude, action, social connection, love. For 1 in 5 of us, at some point in our lives, these same feelings can reach a level where they interfere with our daily functioning. We have names for these interferences: Major Depression, Generalized Anxiety, Panic Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, ADHD, Schizophrenia, OCD, Addiction. While there are many caring and brilliant minds working to get us closer to the causes, the current standard of care has developed in tandem with more people being disabled from these conditions today than ever before.
With this blog, my goal is to introduce some of the things that frequently underlie the above imbalances. My hope is that some of these resonate with you. With each introduction, I’ll suggest a simple intervention to help rebalance that area. Keep in mind, each of us has a unique genetic code which is then impacted by a unique lifetime of social and environmental exposure. For some, a few simple interventions can be very powerful and for others more work needs doing.
Finding A New Path
The most important thing to remember is that symptoms are signals, diagnoses aren’t an answer, but just another clue to what’s really going on. Let’s begin to put the clues together. Transformation begins when we all realize that you, not your doctor, control your outcome. Sometimes we just need to find the path.
