Soft Medicine E-Book

Soft Medicine is medicine practiced with heart, with love tenderness and even affection. This book is for doctors, healthcare professionals and their patients who are interested in the softer side of medicine, a medicine that recognizes us for who and what we really are.

Deep within is our pure being that has incarnated into this body. This being is ultra sensitive and is picking up subtle impressions from the environment through the heart centre of pure feeling even before we come out of mothers womb. This being has its centre in the cardiac area of the body and the more closed it is the weaker and more vulnerable a person or child becomes to illness and disease.

“The heart is a pump and needs to be addressed on a physical level. However, our hearts are more than just pumps, and a true physician is more than just a plumber or a mechanic. We also have an emotional heart, a psychological heart, a spiritual heart,” writes Dr. Dean Omish, Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California School of Medicine.

In talking about the heart the first immediate difficulty we face is the confusion between the physical pump and surrounding nervous system and the core being which lives within it. The heart has always been known for more than its capacity to pump blood. It directs and aligns many systems in the body so that they can function in harmony with one another and both the Chinese and Ayurvedic medical systems have known this for thousands of years.

Many medical doctors are practicing without a clue that emotions matter clinically and thus they neglect how people feel as they battle chronic or severe life threatening illness. In an age where humane medicine would seem appropriate it is almost non-existent. More and more medicine has followed the imperatives of business so sensitive emotionally intelligent health care has become increasing difficult to find.

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is
 perilous, recover their health simply through
their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
                                                                      Hippocrates 460-400 B.C

There is a large body of evidence from dozens of studies that indicates that constant anger injures the heart. And many other studies that show that depression is a stronger more reliable predictor of death than any other medical sign. People who are under intense emotional stress have death rates two to three times greater than those who report their lives are calm and placid.

People are emotionally fragile when sick, and being told you have cancer or AIDS can completely shatter a person’s emotional world. Daniel Goleman explains in his book Emotional Intelligence that this is due to the fact that normally “our mental well-being is based in part on the illusion of invulnerability.”

A real understanding of vulnerability teaches us that such a return to the vulnerable space is necessary and healthy and should be attempted before we get sick. This is the domain of HeartHealth. Vulnerability is the capacity or susceptibility to being hurt. It is not a weakness but a capacity that is deeper than the deepest well. For most people the feeling of being exposed to emotional hurt, or exposed to being taken advantage/abused relates to feelings of vulnerability that are to be avoided at all cost. Most people do associate vulnerability with the feeling of being fragile, weak, or of being susceptible to emotional pain and suffering.

This all translates into adding new components into medical treatment and this is presented in chapters titled Therapeutic Healing Touch and The Psychology of Touch. Also the Psychology of Listening and other chapters on communications pave the way for fundamental changes deep within the heart of medicine for the best listeners are in fact the best doctors. Communication and listening to others with empathy, understanding, and compassion is the path of the heart.

Soft Medicine helps practitioners to be good in their
work, to love and demonstrate that love through listening.

This book is kind of a step down transformer for HeartHealth, a book that takes people on their own individual inner journey into their own heart. It is more like a spiritual do it yourself exercise promising hands on experience with ones own emotions and feelings. Soft Medicine is more about emotional medicine and understanding softer dynamics in medical practice that includes consideration for the strong need that all patients have to be touched in beautiful healing ways.  Soft medicine also introduces soft medicines like medical marijuana and Ayahuasca to demonstrate how useful non toxic non poisonous medicines can be in medical practice and psychology.

HeartHealth is very important in this entire process for to be able to give heart to ones patients one has to be in touch with ones own heart. It is the same in all human relationships, in order to receive love one has to give it. Thus Soft Medicine and HeartHealth both take us as far away from the hard arrogant corners of the medical mind as we can possibly get.

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