Three-quarters of our healthcare spending is on chronic conditions, including cancer, heart disease depression and chronic pain – for which self-care is best suited.
‘Inexpensive self-care strategies, or alternative therapies might address the underlying biological and psychological imbalances that contribute to chronic conditions – including nutrition, exercise and mind-body techniques like biofeedback, meditation and guided mental imagery’- said James S. Gordon, MD, then a researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health, forty years ago.
Since then research in alternative therapies has shown that ‘mind – body approaches reduce stress and improve mood and immunity, decrease blood pressure in hypertensives, blood sugar in diabetics and pain.’
, in training self -regulation of the Autonomic Nervous System, has been shown to be effective in stress- reduction and relief for many neurological conditions, including Anxiety, Depression, Chronic Pain and Trauma.
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