medicine Tag

Adapted from the Preface to Consciousness & Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine As we prepared this collection of essays, we identified the following as key tenets of the integral impulse currently emerging within modern healthcare.   Integral medicine does not just refer to the science of diagnosing, treating, or preventing disease and damage of the body or mind, but to a medicine that heals. It is a dynamic, holistic, life-long process that exists in widening and deepening relationships with self, culture, and nature. Integral medicine is about transformation, growth, and the restoration of wholeness. Health is seen not as the absence of disease, but...