Healing Potentials in Our Words

by Daniel J. Benor, MD

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Our words shape our perceptions and our interactions with the world. . .

Through words we are taught to label the myriads of stimuli that enter our sensory portals. Conventional medicine focuses on physical problems. It offers medicines and other mechanical manipulations (hormones, surgery, genetic alterations) as ways of dealing with problems. We are conditioned through the use of the term, medicine, to view these mechanical approaches as therapies of choice. This focus also tends to shut off awareness of other ways of understanding and dealing with disease and dis-ease.

Wholistic medicine focuses on body, emotions, mind, relationships and spirit. This extends the range of conceptualization of the causes of illnesses and of potential ways for dealing with them. . .

Taking advantage of on-line facilities, for our lay readers we omit technical details and link explanations for key words that may not be familiar, and for our professional readers we supplement basic materials with references and links to more detailed discussions. Both research and clinical references will be featured, including medical, psychological and spiritual studies.

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