How much of an illness is our own perception?  Conventional medicine says that if something does not appear in testing, then it is probably not an issue or it’s all in your head.  Far from it!

Holistic means essentially in contemplation of the whole.  So when I'm putting together a plan for someone to address their symptoms, conditions or diseases, I have to consider their emotional health, their physical health, their nutritional health, their lifestyle, their stress level, what has happened to them in their life, and myriad other little things many of which have become rather intuitive over the 30 years I've done this.  In other words, natural healing takes a village...

When patients sit down to tell me about their history, they never mention their parents, as though their personal experience is all that influences their health.  But in fact, our health history begins further back in time then we may even know.  Jung had the right idea when he espoused the collective unconscious.  We truly are the sum total of our ancestry, not just our life experience.

Not only do you feel better drinking tea, you actually FEEL better! Let’s drink to that!

I had the luck of ending up behind a school bus this morning that was picking up neighborhood children and whisking them off to school. 

If only we would prepare our bodies and our health as well as prepare for intense weather.  The people who are weathering the weather the best are those that were prepared.

Not only do you feel better drinking tea, you actually FEEL better! Let’s drink to that!

One of the things that we may not realize is that our bodies create sounds that are undetectable to our ears. These sounds are the result of vibration and movement which is inherent in every cell and essential to every tissue. It has often been described as the “singing of cells”.

In the human body there is also an inherent pattern, history, experiences and lifestyle that creates our health or lack thereof. Simply applying a prescription drug may make us feel better, may reduce the symptoms of chaos, pain and debility, but it does not create change, nor does it promote resolution. As soon as we stop, the original condition will often return, making us dependent on the drug for peace within our body.

Each day our health care system demonstrates that it views us as a machine. Emotions, thought processes, memory, even our very soul may make us a miracle, but we are still defined in mechanistic terms which simply reinforces and justifies more automation.

Many of you will recognize this image as the rug in my Westborough office. This represents an important consideration … that if you allow something to create a problem and don’t work to resolve it, then everything that comes after is affected. Read on…

There are many times when I am muscle testing patients and the issues and symptoms they are experiencing trace back to a closed head injury earlier in their life. The truth is that this type of injury, whether diagnosed as a concussion or not, can happen from sports, from a fall, from a blow to the head or from any injury such as in a car accident. But this may be only the start of the problem.

Vomiting may not be the most desirable of topics but it is an interesting one. Why is it that when you’re on a cruise ship having just enjoyed lobster and a glass of wine followed by a Charlotte Russe for dessert, you will inevitably come across a fellow passenger vomiting in the hallway which makes you want to discharge everything you’ve just eaten? The answer is simple - it’s an immune response.

We often think that memory is simply recalling facts, numbers, where we put the car keys. But memory is actually one of the ways in which our body restores itself and creates a healing response to injury and illness.

Our bodies are experiencing water shortages, and methods are being put in place to accommodate these shortages.  The shortages exist because we are failing to fully hydrate our bodies.  We are drinking iced tea, diet coke, carbonated beverages, coffee blends that would astonish Juan Valdez and expecting that they will do what water does because they each contain water.  You would be wrong.