******Middle Way Health – Interview with Mary Claybon

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Ask Dr. Miller: What does it mean to ‘Heal the System’?

Deep Healing emphasizes the systemic nature of healing. If a man strikes his wife, opening a large cut in her head, a few stitches and a little time will result in the closing of that wound—and there’s been some healing, but not a complete healing. More would be necessary to heal the trauma to the woman’s emotion. And, what about the man? He is not healthy; he is ill, as indicated by his dysfunctional behavior, and he needs healing work. Neither can heal alone, and come to a healthy balance. And then, the healing of the relationship is another thing.

Another example—a man is bleeding from the mouth. Only a fool would imagine that stuffing cotton balls in his mouth and bandaging it would solve the problem. Instead, he goes to the hospital, where an x-ray shows that he is bleeding from an ulcer in his stomach. We have a tendency to think of the ulcer as the disease, and might attempt to cure it by surgically removing it.

On the other hand we might take a history from the man and find out that each day he takes a dozen aspirin and drinks a fifth of Vodka. Suddenly we see that the ulcer was but a symptom, and although the surgery cures the ulcer, healing has not taken place and he will likely be back within the year with another ulcer. His behavior is the source of the symptom, and it might be wise to treat his behavior, not just his stomach.

Then we might ask why he is consuming these highly irritating substances—and learn that he feels great guilt for having been disloyal in an important relationship, that he drinks to relieve his inner pain and takes aspirin to relieve his hangover. If our treatment aims to help him learn a better way to deal with his inner conflicts, our healing is even deeper, as we aim ever closer to the source of his problems, which clearly extend to many levels of his system, not just the upper GI bleeding.

On the external level there are those relationships that need healing—our primary relationships, family relationships, and our relationships in our community or work place. In addition to these relationships, deserving as they are to be healed and brought to high levels of performance, we also know that our individual health cannot be maximized in the absence of healthy relationships. In fact, experiments have shown that a person’s health or disease is directly related to the quality of his/her relationships!

Please send your questions to DrMiller@DrMiller.com!

In Peace,
Emmett

Ask Dr. Miller: Dealing with Stress in the World Today

What is the difference between type 1 and type 2 stress?  In this podcast I explain the difference, give examples of each and provide simple ways (affirmations) to quickly release stress and enter a relaxed state of mind, body and spirit.

This audio excerpt is from my program Stress Fitness Volume 1. Please visit my online store at ShopDrMiller.com for more information about this and my other audio programs.

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Green Exercise Heals the Mind

Exercising, even for just five minutes, in a “green space,” such as a park or trail, can boost your mental health, according to researchers in the U.K.¹

They looked at evidence from 1,250 people in 10 studies and found significant improvements in mood and self-esteem after just minutes of such activities as walking, gardening, cycling, fishing, boating, horse riding and farming. In each study, mood and self-esteem were measured using two widely accepted assessment scales. All types of green exercise led to improvements in mental health indicators.

Most surprising was that the largest effect was seen within five minutes! After that, increased green exercise continued to add benefit but with decreasing returns.

The health changes – physical and mental – were particularly dramatic in the young and the mentally ill. Interestingly, an even greater effect was observed when the activity took place in an area near water, such as a lake or river.

Study leader Jules Pretty, a researcher at the University of Essex, said those who were generally inactive, stressed, and/or mentally ill would probably benefit the most from “green exercise. Employers, for example, could encourage staff in stressful workplaces to take a short walk at lunchtime in the nearest park to improve mental health.” He also said exercise programs outdoors could benefit youth offenders.

Once again, we have solid evidence that even a short period of green exercise can provide a low cost and drug-free therapy to help improve mental wellbeing. Anyone experiencing depression should be certain to add this kind of activity to whatever treatment or self-help regimen they have chosen.

Other powerful tools for helping to heal from depression, sadness and grief are presented on “Escape from Depression,” a two CD program for learning how to use your mind, meditation, imagery, autosuggestion and affirmations to speed your recovery.

For a set of effective imagery tools for dealing with loss of any kind, “Accepting Change and Moving On” can also be downloaded or purchased on CD.

Ask Dr. Miller: What is Cognitive Dissonance, Stress and Negative Programming?

The Wellness Revolution Telesummit

Holistic Medicine,
Chronic Illness and Wellness
Deep healing body and soul with your mind

It looks like the wellness revolution is happening at last, and I am honored to have been chosen to be one of the faculty of “The Wellness Revolution: New Paths to Healing”, a phenomenal FREE global telesummit event.  I’m hoping you will join us.

This web event is a gathering of 21 of the world’s leading doctors, healers and authors in the Complimentary and Integrative Medicine movement – the approach, as you may well know, that combines traditional western medicine with ancient wisdom healing practices to create powerful and new possibilities.

I will be appearing with these world-class healers and authors like Dr. Christiane Northrup, my long time friend Dr. Bernie Siegel, Caroline Myss (who first diagnosed me as a mystic) – as well as other remarkable and amazingly effective healers like such as Caroline Sutherland, Master Chunyi Lin, Dr. Alex Loyd.Dr. Naram and over a dozen others – 21 leading international doctors, researchers, authors and health practitioners in all.

Will you join us for these live interviews?  In the live question and answer period, you can ask your important questions about the new healing possibilities.  Register now, before all the available spaces are gone by clicking here to pick up your free passes: http://Dr.Miller.WellnessRevolutionSummit.com

This breakthrough series started on Wednesday, June 16th at 4 PM Pacific, 5 Mountain, 6 Central and 7 Eastern time, so register right now so we can send you a reminder.

… And, in addition to that you can get some great free gifts too, just for being part of the event.  So, what’s not to love about that?

All of these visionary leaders have agreed to share the most important secrets they know about healing in the new paradigm and it’s all for free.  We are sharing everything with you because we believe it is urgent – and you probably feel it too.

Finally, in 2010, the world seems to be awakening to the message I have been promoting the last 4 decades – it is possible for us to use we can use our new understanding of how quantum energy, as theorized by Albert Einstein over 50 years ago, for healing and wellness actually operates in and through us. I guarantee suspect this will be an eye-opening and life-healing journey that you don’t want to miss.

Click here to get your free pass now >>>http://Dr.Miller.WellnessRevolutionSummit.com

See on the calls,

Emmett Miller MD

Ask Dr. Miller: What is ‘Wellness’?

In our culture, we commonly think of ourselves as being “sick” or “healthy.” Generally, we define “sick” as having some sort of signs or symptoms of a disease (pain, swelling, fever, loss of function). We then tend to define health as simply being the absence of these signs and symptoms.

The concept of “wellness” recognizes that this is an inadequate way of looking at things. Wellness looks at the positive dimensions—a person moving toward wellness is gaining strength, reserve capacity, feels joy in life. Wellness indicates not only the presence of health, but also the ability to withstand the stresses that might otherwise lead to illness.

Ask Dr. Miller: What is the Systems Approach?

A friend asked me the other day what I was talking about when I referred to the Systems Approach.  Well, along with a shift in perspective from the Newtonian-Cartesian viewpoint, in a Systems Approach we begin to see the many things and experiences we have as not quite so separate. We notice that there are general patterns of organization that appear again and again in our experience. The pattern of veins flowing in from the hand toward the arm very much resembles the veins on a leaf, which in turn resembles the way the tree’s roots feed into its crown.

The same pattern can also be seen when looking down from an airplane at all the tributaries to a stream or river. If you look at a diagram of the Army, showing the path that information might flow on from a private in the field to a general back at headquarters, you’d see the same pattern. In one case, the flow is through human flesh, another past plant cells in a tube made of plant cells, and another is formed by the rocky banks of streamlets, or by soldiers and their communication devices along the chain of command.

Each of these is a different system, but the branching structure reflects a single basic pattern, which appears in each of them.

When we tune in to that aspect of the world that looks at similarities, rather than at differences, we are beginning to take a “systems approach” to the world. The study of systems may be called “general systems theory.” This approach to understanding recognizes two sets of counterpoised concepts that are crucial to understanding systems, yet are seldom explored in other approaches. They are emergence and hierarchy, information and control.

Health and Peak Performance require homeostasis and balance of our inner systems.

Ask Dr. Miller: How Important is Relaxation to the Healing Process?

Ask Dr. Miller: What is Re-scripting?

Someone asked me the other day what I meant when I used the term Re-scripting. I mean that if we step outside ourselves for a moment, we can see that we behave as if we’re following a script. Often this script is automatic—we react or respond to people in certain ways, we have certain attitudes about ourselves, we engage or don’t engage in certain activities. Often we find that the kinds of behaviors, in other words, the kind of script, that we would like to be following is different from the one that we are, in fact, following on a regular basis.

Re-scripting means becoming aware of a behavior pattern in your life, then developing a new, more adaptive behavior pattern, and finally, teaching this pattern to the deeper levels of your mind (the ones that would, otherwise, behave automatically in the old, maladaptive way).

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