Monday, November 1, 2010

"Which lever do I pull, and when?"

Especially when someone has a complex health situation going on, they have multiple choices of assessment and treatments. Whether it is for improving health of body or mind, each person can benefit from looking at life as a process of discovering what works and what does not work for them.

First of all I advise them to learn more about "who is it that is pulling the lever?" What is their basic character type and how might that affect their ability to appreciate the different options for learning about and treating their health concern?

As a doctor of natural medicine I can give them information from these perspectives:
1. Homeopathic personality archetypes [reviewed here];
2. Traditional Chinese Medicine and emotions related to organs [introduced here];
3. Ayurvedic Medicine and personality types [introduction]; and,
4. Rayid Emotional Iridology [introduction].

After we have discovered at least some clues about their personality and neuro-emotional "hard wiring" we can then look at the Three Control Systems that each person has with which to manage their life. [See earlier blog: "Living Inside the Box".] There may be one of the three that seems to offer more return for the investment of time and energies for assessment and treatment using that control system as the starting point.

A quote from Hippocrates is appropriate here:
"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has."

After choosing which one or more of the control systems may bring about significant improvement in health, we then move to the stage of choosing which assessments and treatments to employ.

My practitioner profile at NIHA will give you an idea of some of the assessments and treatments that I can choose. The NIHA practitioners with whom I sometimes join in integrative medicine programs for patients have an impressive list of assessments and treatments that can become part of a program of combined care if you should choose that option.

Here are two out of several aspects that I consider to be very important in deciding which step to take next:
1. Autonomic Regulation and its importance to health care: Blog--Autonomic Self-Regulation: The Power of Life; and
2. The NES ProVision bodyfield scan with Infoceutical supplements to remove distortions in the bodyfield: NES International Headquarters; NES U.S.A. Headquarters; The Living Matrix Movie (which features NES developer, Peter Fraser, acupuncture educator).

In the end, the decision about what will be most effective depends on you. I act as a coach as well as a detective and a doctor. I have always been impressed with the way people's outcomes depend on their learning about how to manage their life and then gaining access to the assessments and treatments that can help their body heal itself.

I am glad to be part of the NIHA community of clinical associates. You are invited to visit the NIHA website, read in the online Library, sign up for complimentary webcasts about current health topics and choose which practitioner(s) you would like to consider seeing to improve your health.