Changes

==== Changing paradigms of disease & health ====

==== Changing paradigms of disease & health ====

 

This new study of the body, mind and spirit connection is demonstrating that there are some dramatic new ways of looking at wellness and illness. One of the areas which is becoming very meaningful is the role of thought and stress on the immune system and the physiology of the body. The role of specific events on blood pressure and other body physiology can be better understood now. The effect of  prayer and visual imagery on the course of an illness has been studied well. Through this it can be said that multiple internal factors are involved in the creation of illness, healing and maintenance of wellness. Illness is no longer simply an extension of the germ theory--our present concept of infection being the end result of exposure to a germ, but is expanded to include the ability of the body and its immune system to resist and destroy invading organisms, the stress mechanism, the environment, nutrition and all those factors that are involved with defending and protecting our self from illness.  

This new study of the body, mind and spirit connection is demonstrating that there are some dramatic new ways of looking at wellness and illness. One of the areas which is becoming very meaningful is the role of thought and stress on the immune system and the physiology of the body. The role of specific events on blood pressure and other body physiology can be better understood now. The effect of  prayer and visual imagery on the course of an illness has been studied well. Through this it can be said that multiple internal factors are involved in the creation of illness, healing and maintenance of wellness. Illness is no longer simply an extension of the germ theory--our present concept of infection being the end result of exposure to a germ, but is expanded to include the ability of the body and its immune system to resist and destroy invading organisms, the stress mechanism, the environment, nutrition and all those factors that are involved with defending and protecting our self from illness.  

It is rapidly becoming clearer that most illnesses have a mental or thought component aspect to them. A conflict exists which is not only associated with the illness itself, but frequently is part of the cause of the illness. Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) appears to go beyond the present narrow biological perspectives of illness to consider behavioural components as an integral part of health and disease. The conceptualization of the role of human behaviour and how it interacts with the central nervous system and the immune system are central issues. Psychoneuroimmunology is thus an arena in which questions about the mind, body and person in context of each other come into the consideration. Thus the principles narrated in the chapter can have a great impact on health and course, severity of illness. This can be researched on the axis of PNI.

It is rapidly becoming clearer that most illnesses have a mental or thought component aspect to them. A conflict exists which is not only associated with the illness itself, but frequently is part of the cause of the illness. Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) appears to go beyond the present narrow biological perspectives of illness to consider behavioural components as an integral part of health and disease. The conceptualization of the role of human behaviour and how it interacts with the central nervous system and the immune system are central issues. Psychoneuroimmunology is thus an arena in which questions about the mind, body and person in context of each other come into the consideration. Thus the principles narrated in the chapter can have a great impact on health and course, severity of illness. This can be researched on the axis of PNI.

==== Mind-Body-Immune system interaction ====

==== Mind-Body-Immune system interaction ====