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An attractive feature of self-regulation therapies is that, instead
of doing something to the patients, they teach them to do something
for them selves. Furthermore, the fact that the patient is able to
do something to cope with his or her health problem can produce a
significant reduction in the stress that may have contributed to
that problem and in the additional stress that it produces. While
the idea that the mind can playa role in the health of the body and
some therapeutic techniques based on this idea are not new,
remarkable scientific advances have been made recently in the area
of self-regulation and health. There has been an exciting and
rapidly accel erating increase in our basic science knowledge of
homeostasis, or, in other words, how the body regulates itself in
order to maintain health. Technical and conceptual advances are
increasing our knowledge of the details of such regulation at all
levels-cells, tissues, organs, organ sys tems, and the body as a
whole. We are learning how the competing demands of different
elements at each of these levels are adjusted by the brain, which,
with its neural and humoral mechanisms, is the supreme organ of
integration of the body."
Although the injunction "Know thyself" was inscribed over the site
of the Delphic Oracle, the concept is of much more ancient lineage.
Thousands of years ago, the wise men of the East had learned to
exert authority over a broad range of bodily experiences and
functions using techniques that are still taught today. But it is
only in the past few decades that the West has become aware once
again of the range of control that the central nervous system can
maintain over sensation and body function. Medicine has moved
slowly in integrating these concepts into the classic medical model
of disease despite a growing body of evidence that links emotional
state, thought, and imagery to immunocompetence, tissue healing,
and bodily vigor. It is precisely the role of a volume such as
this, reflecting a fascinating conference in Munich, to emphasize
and reemphasize these ideas. We are fortunately well beyond the
sterile behaviorism of Watson with its com plete negation of the
significance of mental operations. But many still consider suspect
those forces and mechanisms, however powerful, that seem to
originate from brain-mind activity. The chapters in this book, with
their emphases on the mind-body continuum as a bridge to self
regulation and health, provide a modern "School of Athens" in
bringing these concepts to wider acquaintance.
Although the injunction "Know thyself" was inscribed over the site
of the Delphic Oracle, the concept is of much more ancient lineage.
Thousands of years ago, the wise men of the East had learned to
exert authority over a broad range of bodily experiences and
functions using techniques that are still taught today. But it is
only in the past few decades that the West has become aware once
again of the range of control that the central nervous system can
maintain over sensation and body function. Medicine has moved
slowly in integrating these concepts into the classic medical model
of disease despite a growing body of evidence that links emotional
state, thought, and imagery to immunocompetence, tissue healing,
and bodily vigor. It is precisely the role of a volume such as
this, reflecting a fascinating conference in Munich, to emphasize
and reemphasize these ideas. We are fortunately well beyond the
sterile behaviorism of Watson with its com plete negation of the
significance of mental operations. But many still consider suspect
those forces and mechanisms, however powerful, that seem to
originate from brain-mind activity. The chapters in this book, with
their emphases on the mind-body continuum as a bridge to self
regulation and health, provide a modern "School of Athens" in
bringing these concepts to wider acquaintance."
An attractive feature of self-regulation therapies is that, instead
of doing something to the patients, they teach them to do something
for them selves. Furthermore, the fact that the patient is able to
do something to cope with his or her health problem can produce a
significant reduction in the stress that may have contributed to
that problem and in the additional stress that it produces. While
the idea that the mind can playa role in the health of the body and
some therapeutic techniques based on this idea are not new,
remarkable scientific advances have been made recently in the area
of self-regulation and health. There has been an exciting and
rapidly accel erating increase in our basic science knowledge of
homeostasis, or, in other words, how the body regulates itself in
order to maintain health. Technical and conceptual advances are
increasing our knowledge of the details of such regulation at all
levels-cells, tissues, organs, organ sys tems, and the body as a
whole. We are learning how the competing demands of different
elements at each of these levels are adjusted by the brain, which,
with its neural and humoral mechanisms, is the supreme organ of
integration of the body."
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