Reorganizational Healing: A Paradigm for the Advancement of Wellness, Behavior Change, Holistic Practice, and Healing

Epstein, Donald M.; Senzon, Simon A.; Lemberger, Daniel

doi:10.1089/acm.2009.0043

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“…Theoretically, the findings identified wellness pursuit, slow life seeking, and perceptions of slow food as additional variables that assist the ETPB in explaining behavioral intentions to attend an SLF. Specifically, this study claimed a significant relationship between wellness pursuit and slow life seeking, which extended prior research on the relationship between wellness as being related to healing and fulfilling lifestyles [58]. Thus, the current results extended the ETPB's ability to explain behavioral intentions for a SLF.…”

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“…Wellness pursuit has been found to be related to the following health related factors-physical, emotional, social, intellectual, job-related, and spiritual-which can influence individuals' lifestyles [57]. With the use of these wellness factors, individuals can potentially pursue more fulfilling and resilient lives, such as slow life seeking [58]. The pursuit of wellness has been argued to be related to the pursuit of a better quality of life [4], implying that festival-goers' perceived wellness pursuits influence their slow life seeking.…”

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Wellness Pursuit and Slow Life Seeking Behaviors: Moderating Role of Festival Attachment

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Slow lifestyles have become a way for individuals to reduce the amount of stress in their lives. Moreover, along with wellness and slow food, slow life seeking is emerging as an area of study, though little research has been studied at Slow Life Festivals (SLFs) associated with consumers’ wellness pursuits, slow life seeking, and perceptions of slow food. To address this gap, this study examined visitors’ decision-making processes using an extended theory of planned behavior (ETPB) by incorporating wellness pursuit, slow life seeking, and perceptions of slow food at an SLF. Thus, this study developed a theoretically comprehensive framework by applying field survey. Results revealed significant impacts of visitors’ wellness pursuits and slow life seeking on their decision-making, indicating that wellness and slow life were important factors to consider for SLF management. The research further identified the perception of slow food as a mediator in predicting behavioral intentions. Results further demonstrated a strong relationship between wellness pursuit and perception of slow food for highly attached visitors while revealing a significant relationship between slow life seeking and perception of slow food for less attached visitors. Consequently, this study shed significant light on our understanding of why visitors intend to revisit SLFs.

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Wellness Pursuit and Slow Life Seeking Behaviors: Moderating Role of Festival Attachment

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“…Network care is practiced by chiropractors using network spinal analysis protocols developed by Donald Epstein. 1 , 2 The Network wave was first clinically demonstrated in 1987, and has been studied since 1997 at several major universities and institutions. 3…”

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“…18 The tension is associated with patterns of defensive physiology and intermittent areas of relaxation and ease. 2 The defense physiology associated with AMCT is assessed by examining the stabilizing spinal subsystems (muscular, bony, and neural). 19 , 20 Structural rigidity associated with defensive postures may lead to a static nonadaptable state, which limits the experience of novelty, and constructive change for the individual.…”

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The Network Spinal Wave as a Central Pattern Generator

Senzon¹,

Epstein²,

Lemberger³

2016

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

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Objectives: This article explains the research on a unique spinal wave visibly observed in association with network spinal analysis care. Since 1997, the network wave has been studied using surface electromyography (sEMG), characterized mathematically, and determined to be a unique and repeatable phenomenon.Methods: The authors provide a narrative review of the research and a context for the network wave's development.Results: The sEMG research demonstrates that the movement of the musculature of the spine during the wave phenomenon is electromagnetic and mechanical. The changes running along the spine were characterized mathematically at three distinct levels of care. Additionally, the wave has the mathematical properties of a central pattern generator (CPG).Conclusions: The network wave may be the first CPG discovered in the spine unrelated to locomotion. The mathematical characterization of the signal also demonstrates coherence at a distance between the sacral to cervical spine. According to mathematical engineers, based on studies conducted a decade apart, the wave itself is a robust phenomenon and the detection methods for this coherence may represent a new measure for central nervous system health. This phenomenon has implications for recovery from spinal cord injury and for reorganizational healing development.

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“…It is not about the compelling benefits of living life to the fullest, thriving, and accessing one's unique potential. 18 Embracing a systems and holistic orientation toward health and well-being implies an inclusion of body, emotion, mind, spirit, family, and community. How can we include all of those, embracing the emerging evidence based models for CAM and integrative medicine, in such a way that we can: help people to make the changes they need to at the right time; assist practitioners to embody self-care; and also set an agenda for policy, implementation, and a visionary transformation of health care?…”

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