By Adam Perlman, MD, MPH Throughout our day, we face multiple decision points. On a personal level, it may be things like what to eat or where to invest our money. On an organizational level, it might be decisions about how to reduce spending while still increasing productivity or who to hire out of the three interviewed applicants. Our ability to move in the direction of—and actually achieve—our larger goals and purposes are to a great degree dictated by these daily ...
Read MoreBy Elisabeth Fontaine, MD My passion as a physician has always been to keep my patients healthy, and my vision is to develop a Lifestyle Medicine Clinic as a transformative adjunct of the wellbeing visit, to teach individuals about the importance of their health. In redefining the norm as being healthy, we will need to stop the stigmatization of obesity, overweight and chronic disease and transition to the simple desire to feel good. I started in the direction of my interest with ...
Read MoreBy Jeffrey Brantley, MD I was recently invited to lead a mindfulness meditation session for a small group in a lovely outdoor garden behind the home of our group's host and hostess. It was a beautiful day, and the group was mostly new to mindfulness, so I gave some brief instructions before releasing them to stroll mindfully through the garden for about thirty minutes on their own. In the instructions, I reminded them they already had all they needed. They had mindfulness ...
Read MoreBy Jeffrey Brantley, MD There is a wisdom saying that points to the power of our thoughts and emotions to shape our perceptions and reactions in each moment. One version of the saying is: “Mind upholds the world.” Of course, this statement could mean many things, but it can be useful to reflect on it from the position of the present moment, resting in awareness and becoming mindful of your thoughts and emotions, and your personality’s ...
Read MoreBy Lori Knutson, RN, BSN, HNB-BC INTEGRATIVE LEADERSHIP IS A SOCIAL IMPERATIVE We may define the elements of Integrative Leadership in the following way: Integrative: “Serving or intending to unify separate things” Leadership: “Going before or with to show the way” Those of us who have been in the integrative health field know that health is much more than a symptom, disease, illness, or disability. These are the physical manifestations of the world around us and the world within us. The science of epigenetics now ...
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