October 2016

 Health & Wellness TIPS

Trends ~ Information ~ Prevention Strategies

Healing from Disease: Body, Mind and Spirit                                       Inside this issue:

By Liz Brown, ACC, CMC, CWC              which was designed to help patients      Healing from Disease: Body, Mind    1
Be Well Life Coaching                    reduce the stress that comes from        and Spirit

lizbrowncoaching@gmail.com               having a disease or illness. He had been Signs of Breast Cancer to look out  2

When diagnosed with a serious illness or practicing meditation in his own life for for in Women of All Ages
disease, it is very difficult not to become decades and was curious whether he Halloween Health and Safety            4

anxious, fearful or shocked in addition  could help hospital patients enjoy the   Recipe: Cinnamon–Cider Candied      4
to suffering from physical               benefits in a non-secular and clinical   Apples

symptoms. While these are appropriate environment. His goal was to design a       Fact or Fiction                     4
and normal feelings, the added stress program that regular people
                                         could easily understand and incorporate
can compound the discomfort and
                                         into the recovery process. Physicians
cause additional suffering mentally,
                                         were happy to refer patients into the emotions were interrelated. As
physically and emotionally. In
                                         program because they felt it would help participants gained more
addition, stress can tax the immune
system and hinder the body’s ability to their patients who were weighed down awareness of how the body and
                                         with physical and mental pain and
heal. Fortunately, in the past few                                                mind are connected, they

decades several evidence-                were struggling to recover. The          became more able to release

based mindfulness programs have been integrative program was designed to stress in the moment before it
created and aim to help a patient take incorporate the meditative processes manifested in physical
care of their body, mind and spirit and used in the Buddhist philosophy with symptoms. During the initial
                                         gentle hatha yoga to help patients
alleviate added stress to help                                                    phase of the program patients

them heal and recover. These programs utilize their own internal resources to reported less pain, requested
                                         help them heal. The participants were less pain medication, recovered
are not a replacement for medical
treatment but are integrative and used asked through the structured breath faster, were more optimistic and
                                         meditation, body scan and yoga to begin had less stress. The program
to complement the treatment of a
                                         to learn to be aware of thoughts,
physician or psychiatrist.                                                        which was eventually called

Healing through Mindfulness              feelings and physical sensations but     Mindfulness Based Stress
                                         instead of pushing away the negative     Reduction (MBSR) was an

In the late 1970’s, Jon Kabat Zinn, a    ones, to learn to stay with them in the immediate success and over the

clinical researcher at the University of moment and even “befriend” the           past several decades’ thousands

Massachusetts Medical Center             unpleasant. After each meditation, they of people have benefitted.

developed an eight-week program          were instructed to write about how the                       (Continued on page 2)

                                         thoughts, physical sensations and

For more information or for a free workshop on Healing from Disease please call (302)584-5521 or email me at
lizbrowncoaching@gmail.com. For additional resources check out my website www.bewelllifecoaching.com.