Tag Archives: Holistic medicine

On Pain

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Michaela

Sometimes I come across people who will insist that pain is an illusion. Ultimately they are right, but as it happens, I am someone who is sought out to provide relief, if nor cure, for pain. So for me to … Continue reading →

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Cure and Healing

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Michaela

I always found it to be curious that the official WHO definition for health is a perfectly holistic one: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. Each … Continue reading →

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Energies of addiction

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Michaela

Contemplating the development of addiction, it occurs to me that all levels of being are in varying degrees affected by the pattern of forming a dependency. In order to understand addiction however, we have to look in particular at the … Continue reading →

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Emotions and disease (2)

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Michaela

I often get asked about the relationship between emotions and disease. There is a lot of interest in the subject and many people intuitively know that there is a close relation between how they feel and their state of health. … Continue reading →

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Back there

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Michaela

Over the course of many years I have come to rely on the symbolic language of the body. The body does not lie and it usually gives a very accurate signal of what is really going on beyond physical symptoms … Continue reading →

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Emotion and disease

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Michaela

What is the relation between stress, addiction and disease? The question still is why do we cause ourselves harm and we said there are three different kinds of disease – karmic, provoked by external factors and lastly conditions caused by … Continue reading →

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Salience & addiction

Posted on November 13, 2010 by Michaela

Once a behaviour is manifested in the mind, it may become the basis for an addiction. There are many models to explain the pathway of an addiction. There are biological, genetic, social, psychological reasons and of course the various combinations. … Continue reading →

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Symptoms & beliefs

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Michaela

Locating the true cause of a disease may be the origin for something new. I live surrounded by physicians. My sisters, my friends, my friend’s friends, we all grew up together, went to the same schools and are all but … Continue reading →

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Ready to be a doctor

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Michaela

The real reason I got into medicine was  because I liked the way hospitals smelled. It was that sharp, clinical scent of antiseptics I encountered on the few occasions one of us was rushed to the casualty department because of … Continue reading →

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