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Social position is a cause of disease as shown by the Whitehall I and II studies

Why Social Position is a Cause of Disease and What to Do to Improve Your Health Regardless of Position on the Ladder

July 25, 2015by Howard Christian, Ph.D. 1 Comment

One of the theoretical benefits of living in a small community is the relative absence of social boundaries that force people into disparate groups based around material evidence of wealth. […]

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Social isolation causes physical disease

Why Connectedness is Important: Social Isolation Causes Physical Disease

July 25, 2015by Howard Christian, Ph.D. 3 Comments

Any talk of heart disease – the world’s leading killer – is synonymous with bad genes, bad diet and bad luck. If you’ve already been diagnosed with heart disease, chances are you’ve […]

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Give me the child until seven and I will give you the man - Francis Xavier

Learn One Simple Tool to Hack Your Mind and Change Your Life

July 24, 2015by Howard Christian, Ph.D. 2 Comments

Francis Xavier reportedly once said, “Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man.” According to many scientists, this outcome is the result of neural hard […]

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Community - and personal health - are better when we're together

Altogether Better: How to Improve Your Health by Focusing On Community

July 24, 2015by Howard Christian, Ph.D. 4 Comments

What makes for a healthy and resource-rich community? And what makes the individual resourceful and healthy? The answer to both questions, I aim to convince, is you do. Of course the […]

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Adolescents and young adults with cancer

Improving Survival in Adolescent and Young Adults with Cancer

June 29, 2015by Howard Christian, Ph.D. Leave a comment

Here’s a disturbing fact: persons aged 15 to 39 years old have worse cancer survival than any other age group [1, 2]. Here’s another: whereas cancer survival in general has […]

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The role of personal narrative and metaphor in the cancer life story

How to Heal Your Body Through Effective Storytelling and Understanding Metaphor

June 29, 2015by Howard Christian, Ph.D. 4 Comments

Adverse experiences such as abuse, bereavement, bullying, perceived failure, trauma and illness can leave an indelible imprint on our human psyche that strikes at the core of who we are. Being […]

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Cancer

Treat Yourself to Complementary Care For a More Positive Experience of Cancer

June 28, 2015by Howard Christian, Ph.D. Leave a comment

Having cancer affects many different aspects of well being, both positive and negative. Now, evidence suggests that cancer survivors who use complementary and integrative medicine are more likely to have positive […]

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Disease is neither of the mind nor the body; rather, disease is of the bodymind

It’s Time to Think Differently About Disease

June 25, 2015by Howard Christian, Ph.D. 1 Comment

Disease is not a disorder of the mind or of the body. It is neither useful nor meaningful to separate disease into discrete categories of mental or physical suffering. Rather, disease is […]

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June 25, 2015by Howard Christian, Ph.D. Leave a comment

We have severed mind and body from story and disease. In Western culture, this severance is several centuries underway and the cost to individual and community health is enormous. Dr. […]

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Disease is not a random aberration to resist or defeat.

Disease: An Entity to Resist or Defeat? Or An Aspect of Self to Accept?

June 25, 2015by Howard Christian, Ph.D. Leave a comment

A MindBody approach recognizes that our disease – in any of its myriad shapes and forms – is NOT a random aberration of the body or mind, an entity separate […]

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