The Life Mission Theory V. Theory of the Anti-Self (the Shadow) or the Evil Side of Man

Kandel

et al. 2004

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In the medical clinic, we often face health problems that have no known cause, even after a thorough examination. Biomedicine is often unable to find a cure in these situations, leaving the problem unsolved or leaving the patient on a palliative pharmaceutical cure, which is often for a lifetime. In this case, consciousness-based, holistic medicine could be an alternative. Using the theories and tools of holistic medicine wisely, the physician can often provide treatment for the patient.The toolbox of holistic medicine makes it possible to work on everybody because there is always something related to the patients quality of life that can be improved: his love, his purpose of life, and the way he uses his talents, his mind, his feelings, his body, and his sexuality. For treatment in holistic medicine, it really does not matter as much that you cannot give the patient a precise medical diagnosis, because you can always work on the patient with the intention of healing his or her whole life and existence.It is quite a paradox that many of these diseases can be understood on the level of the individual patient at the same moment that the patient is cured; many of these diseases seem to be clearly related to the repression of the individual character, as stressed already by Hippocrates. So if you simply start working with the patient to help him confront old existential pain and coach him in his personal development of his life by intensifying its meaning and purpose, the symptoms very often simply disappear.The toolbox of holistic medicine also seems relevant to even difficult, neurotic, psychosomatic, and hypochondriac patients. Believing in the treatment and not giving up on your patient, and moving forward in the treatment with the patient himself is the ultimate goal, even when you yourself do not understand the mechanism fully. This will force you to develop your own competence and is, in essence, what makes an outstanding holistic physician.

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The life mission theory [6,7,8,9,10,11] states that everybody has a purpose of life or a huge talent. Happiness comes from living this purpose and succeeding in expressing the core talent in your life.…”

Section: Clinical Holistic Medicinementioning

confidence: 99%

Clinical Holistic Medicine: Treatment of Physical Health Problems Without a Known Cause, Exemplified by Hypertension and Tinnitus

Kandel

et al. 2004

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“…The life mission theory [6,7,8,9,10,11] states that everybody has a purpose of life or has a huge talent. Happiness comes from living this purpose and succeeding in expressing the core talent in your life.…”

Section: The Basis For Clinical Holistic Medicinementioning

confidence: 99%

Clinical Holistic Medicine: Social Problems Disguised as Illness

Kandel

et al. 2004

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Many of the diseases seen in the clinic are actually symptoms of social problems. It is often easier for the physician to treat the symptoms than to be a coach and help the patient to assume responsibility in order to improve quality of life, social situation, and relations.If the physician ignores the signs of the disease as a symptom of social problems, and treats the patient with pharmaceuticals, he can give the patient the best justification in the world not to do anything about the situation. It is very important that the physician is not tricked by the games the socially troubled patient, more or less unconsciously, is playing.A firm and wise attitude that confronts the patient with his or her lack of responsibility for solving social problems seems to be a constructive way out. The physician can give holding and support, but the responsibility must remain with the patient. Often it is better for the patient that the physician abstains from giving drugs that can remedy the symptoms and takes the role of a coach instead. Suffering is not necessarily bad, suffering is actually highly motivating and often the most efficient source of learning. Coaching can help the patient canalize his motivation into highly constructive considerations and behavior. A holistic approach thus gives the patient learning and helps him rehabilitate his social reality.Concerning children with recurrent or chronic pain, we have observed an overuse of painkillers, where we believe part is of a psychosomatic nature due to poor thriving in the family. Here the physician has an important job helping the parents to develop as persons, teaching them the basic holding of awareness, respect, care, acknowledgment and acceptance of their child. Most of the chronic pain and discomfort with children can be improved if the physician understands how to use the holistic medical toolbox.

“…The life mission theory [1,2,3,4,5,6] states that everybody has a purpose of life, or a huge talent. Happiness comes from living this purpose and succeeding in expressing the core talent in your life.…”

Section: The Basis For Clinical Holistic Medicinementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In our version of holistic medicine, spirituality is the abstract. The life mission theory [1,2,3,4,5,6] states that the essence of man is his life purpose and this is the abstract core of being. The ideal contact between two persons is the contact we call "love", so important in our clinical work, where our wholeness ("soul") openly and in full acknowledgment meets the other person's wholeness ("soul").…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Clinical Holistic Medicine: Tools for a Medical Science Based on Consciousness

Andersen

et al. 2004

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Biomedicine focuses on the biochemistry of the body, while consciousness-based medicine -holistic medicine -focuses on the individual's experiences and conscious whole (Greek: holos, whole). Biomedicine perceives diseases as mechanical errors at the micro level, while consciousness-based medicine perceives diseases as disturbances in attitudes, perceptions, and experiences at the macro level -in the organism as a whole. Thus, consciousness-based medicine is based on the whole individual, while biomedicine is based on its smallest parts, the molecules.These two completely different points of departure make the two forms of medicine very different; they represent two different mind sets and two different frames of reference or medical paradigms. This paper explains the basic tools of clinical holistic medicine based on the life mission theory and holistic process theory, with examples of holistic healing from the holistic medical clinic.