ABSTRACT
In Chapter 9, we present areas we have found from our practice to be relevant to today’s health care consumer, which at one time or another will be all of us. It is important as a health care consumer to keep in mind the integration of mind and body. The more we understand human behavior and cognition, the more we appreciate the truth of this interconnection. Even though many works on this subject seem to separate the mind from the body, we attempt to avoid this separation and hope the use of the term MindBody helps emphasize that goal. Of course, in this book we focus on this integration as it might apply to health and the prevention and curing of illness. In this chapter, we present a short discussion of thoughts of wellness rather than illness. All of this is part of a reemphasis on the importance of a holistic approach.
