Barry Bittman MDAre you at the top of your game? As you might imagine, I'm not referring to sports. Your "game" refers to your unique way of life and the delicate balance that enables you to feel your best. Staying on top of our game rarely becomes our primary...
Based upon the wide-spread utilization of guided imagery in the healthcare arena, it should not be surprising that this approach is rapidly gaining acceptance in other areas as well. Dr. Barry Bittman weaves a story that is like experiencing an...
What Doctors Don't Tell YouEvery so often, a person with a terminal illness defies the textbook description of his disease and the gloomy prognoses of the experts, and beats it virtually overnight, without the aid of modern medicine. As our main feature notes, most recently...
The thrust of our New Year's issue this month is that the way to health is not a superhighway on which all of us can motor in the same direction, but a dirt road that we have to navigate to and tread along single-file. The incalculable contribution...
When AIDS victim Andrew Stimpson’s disease reversed itself, doctors called it a miracle. But a look at the research on spontaneous healing shows that miracles are not as rare as we think - the result of the body’s mysterious ability to self-repair.
The following is a physician’s report (J Proj Tech Pers Asses, 1957; 21: 331-40) of the most dramatic case of spontaneous remission included in the IONS files.
His ocean blue eyes glistened with youthful energy and enthusiasm that day. His heartfelt words filled my mind with countless possibilities, and a vision of what could be. He was a knight undaunted with an unwavering mission. It struck me that he...
It dawned on me suddenly not more than 10 minutes into a presentation I was giving at a recent symposium for Exceptional Cancer Patients (ECaP) in Michigan. The topic was "survival" as it relates to the extraordinary challenges of living with cancer...
It's hard to imagine living without music. Yet while listening to music is our nation's favorite pastime, active music-making isn't typically perceived to be within most people's grasp. In "Recreational Music Making: mind-body-spirit and wellness"...
According to an article in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, the actual difference between optimists and pessimists just might amount to about 12 years of life. There is now proof that it's not the stress that kills us. Rather, it's our perception of stress...
