Ebb and Flow » Mind-Body Health

I’ve been working on a research study for the last year about Mind-Body health treatments. There are limitations to what Western bio-medicine can do, and Eastern approaches to staying healthy are becoming more and more popular.

In this video, Mind-Body research pioneer and integrative medicine advocate Marilyn Schlitz asks, “What does it mean to be a healthy individual in a sick society?” She talks about the physical, psychological and whole system healing that needs to happen in order for individuals to become more healthy.

Kent and I went to this conference on Consciousness and Healing for our honeymoon last year, and did a number of other interviews there as well.

Update: The New Medicine is a great website that contains video information about integrative healing approaches for various conditions.

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Interview with Marilyn Schlitz: Echo Chamber Project

Killer B Says:
May 6th, 2006 at 5:54 pm

Wow…I’m not feeling very well today, and instead of taking a walk or eating something yummy, I’m sitting in front of my computer. And then I came to this. This was exactly what I needed. How can I be healthy in a sick society? I’ve been trying to figure that out for a while now.

PS - You went to a conference for your honeymoon. Could I be more envious? It will be great to see you both again in SF

ashley Says:
May 7th, 2006 at 2:17 am

there were a lot of big words thrown around at the end without much explanation. Environmental sustainability, what is that? What are we trying to sustain?
These are things I’m studying in school and I’m just posing some questions for you all because it’s easy to use words like harmony, but what do we mean by these things? harmony to what or with what? What is our model for harmony?
just some thoughts.

Jen Says:
May 7th, 2006 at 10:04 pm

Hi Ashley,
Thanks for your comment. I appreciate the feedback. Perhaps the words are too vague at the end, I wonder if the vlog would be clearer without them? I don’t want to “throw out words” that confuse people.

Here is a brief definition for sustainablity: “A development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” In order to began building a healthier society, we need to think together to develop sustainable systems that don’t consume more natural resources than are replenished.

Ecovillages are a great example of sustainable development.

As for harmony, I chose that word because mind-body practices have helped me to develop and inner harmony and mindfulness practice has led me to investigate ways that I can live more consciously and to make choices that are in harmony with the environment and other people. I like the idea of trying to live without “doing harm” to oneself or to others.

Does this help answer your question?

Rox Says:
May 12th, 2006 at 4:37 pm

Thank you for this video Jen. I too have an interest in mind-body. I’d be interested in collaborating with you some on this topic. I am not exactly sure how, but let’s skype or talk if you are interested and see where it goes.

I am trying to get to VloggerCon. Will you be there? I hope so.

Carl Weaver Says:
May 20th, 2006 at 6:12 pm

Excellent video. You got the nut of it in the end - that we have control over this and that means not just the choice, but also the responsibility to fill the void with positive, thoughtful content rather than more TV-type stuff.

Michael Meiser Says:
September 15th, 2006 at 3:15 am

Hmmm… I tend to thing about it this way.

The things that bind us and connect us are the things that shape our culture and who we are.

What the world suffers from is a congestion and clogging of the arteries of our central nercous system… our reliance on broadcast is that problem… it has cause parts of the system to rott… to become necrotic. It is true… we are connected… it is hard to be healthy in a sick society.

What media like blogging, podcasting, video blogging, photoblogging… wiki’s… what they’re all doing is opening up the flow… leting the oxegyn in… breathing new life… waking up the latent cells of creative vital enegetic minds. We’re no longer starved per a lack of culture for a culture that could only be bought in the store… or drawn to that very thing which is sucking the life out of us… our mass mediatized culture through the tube. We’re VERY rapidly shifting gears… especially the young… our life blood, the communications system that connects us all is shifting radically away from those clogged artieris that shapped the broadcast culture. You can site hundreds of polls that illustrate the shift away from TV towards internet media is radical… and that the effect on culture in the coming years will be equally as radical.

Good riddence popular culture… folk is back!

Time to sleep… good night.. thanks for the videos.

Andry Says:
October 8th, 2006 at 12:37 pm

Autor, Respect!

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