The Worst Is Over

Mind/body medicine, which includes psychoneuroimmunology, neurolinguistics and medical hypnosis, sees the human being as a complex network of energy. In her book The Quantum Self, physicist and philosopher Danah Zohar writes, “The mind/body duality in man is a reflection of the wave/particle duality, which underlies all that is. In this way, human

1. Remove the patient from his or her environment as soon as possible to minimize external distractions. 2. Memorize and recite a simple paragraph designed to calm the patient and help the patient to begin his/her own healing. They were to do this speaking softly into the patient’s ear, whether or not the patient was conscious. 3. No other unrelated c

In fact, the power of the mind to intervene outside the body has been demonstrated in studies of what is known as non-local healing. In his best-selling books (Healing Words, Prayer Is Good Medicine, Reinventing Medicine, and the latest One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why it Matters, an among many others) La

There is another way of approaching that accident with the biker. You see him go down, you stop the car. You make your 9-1-1 call. Then you get out of your car and take a deep breath to calm and center yourself. You walk over to the rider and kneel down beside him. You determine whether any essential first aid must be administered and then you say:

Words affect the course of healing: anything you say in the presence of a sick or injured person has the potential to help or to harm. Verbal First Aid is an adjunct to medical treatment, not a substitute. A person in a medical or emotional crisis is in a more suggestible state, which we call a “Healing Zone.” Our words can affect all sorts of auto

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou

A threat requires instinctive action, not analysis. (This is also the basis for military training.) Due to this hardwiring, genetic programming, a person who knows Verbal First Aid can readily assume the role of authority in an emergency and provide the victim with mind/body tools that stimulate the healing process.

“Miracles happen, not in opposition to Nature, but in opposition to what we know of Nature.” --St. Augustine

In the American Journal of Health Promotion, Dr. Wallerstein (1992) makes the case that a sense of powerlessness or “the lack of control over one’s destiny emerges as a broad-based risk factor for disease.”