A main point of focus in my professional practice is mindbody health issues that are predicated on the way the mind and thought creates illness and pain. …
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MindBody health, healing, and pain
One of my personal and professional pursuits has always been psychology and the way the mind and emotions affect the health state of the body. This interest led me to develop a program in a field I called Transformational Therapy, which is an approach to understanding the mind and helping create personal transformation that goes beyond psychology and deep into the egoic self to understand how it is created into a belief system — the belief of who we are. Into this field of study I incorporated the study of myth as a guide to return the attention from the objective world to the subjective sense of existence.
A main point of focus in my professional practice is mindbody health issues that are predicated on the way the mind and thought creates illness and pain. The decades-long work of John Sarno, MD, NYU Medical Center, was influential in my method for helping people see the connection between their trauma and suppressed (subconscious) emotions and the very real pain that they cause through the emotion-brain-neurology-body process.
Books & Writing
I’ve been a writer and researcher for my entire life, and one of the most interesting topics to me is holism — the way that our lives and world are part of an inseparable web of ideas, events, lives, deaths, births, happiness, rebirths and sorrow. It is this complexity of existence that has intrigued me enough to observe my own state of mind and compelled me to write several books, many articles, and courses on the self, consciousness, and the so-called awakened state. I have drawn not only from psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality, but mostly from my personal discoveries. In the early 2000s I became a bestselling author on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and amazon.com lists.
A Quick Bio
I began my career in 1979, a year after being graduated from Journalism school at the University of Florida. In the mid 1990s I returned to school to earn a PhD in Health Sciences with a focus on whole food nutrition — how foods are recognized and accepted by the body for healing, disease prevention, and energy. Shortly after, my wife Janice and I opened the Holistic Health and Counseling Center in Carefree, Arizona in which we helped clients in our clinic with a mind-body approach.
A couple of years later we started a company for which I formulated whole food supplements — NutriPlex Formulas, Inc. I also wrote a comprehensive course on whole food nutrition for healthcare professionals anyone else interested in entering the field of natural healthcare.
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My most recent articles can be found on Substack.com— on the mind, consciousness, myth, metaphor, and self-enquiry meditation.