Because the mind and body are inseparable when it comes to the loss, restoration and maintenance of health, for a change this issue will focus on the subject of attitude and its role in the healing process. In many ways, it is who you are, and how more than what you do, that makes the biggest difference with patients. In exploring these important concepts and presenting them to you, I have asked Kevin Kelly, an author and lecturer on the subject, to add some further insight. Stressed Out For my part as a chiropractor, I see many patients who s symptoms are caused by or aggravated by stress. I mean mental and emotional stress, which tends to follow its own set of laws as real and predicable as any of the physical properties.
Stress includes such feelings as anxiety, worry and apprehension.
These feelings are all subsets of fear. Fear creates a negative energy. Fear Patients in pain often fear what may be wrong with them, if they are ever going to get better, if the treatment they get will hurt, the expense of care, losing time away from their busy schedules, and so forth. Patients with fear need a lot of attention, appreciation and understanding. These qualities are all subsets of love.