Mind Over Medicine

But what I do know for sure is that the reversal of chronic or life-threatening illness seems to be very much involved in the state of the nervous system.

And part of this I already knew in Mind Over Medicine, and I explained the physiology in great detail.

But we've learned more since that book came out about things like polyvagal theory and the s- the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system, in particular the ventral vagal branch of the vagus nerve that is involved in the self-healing, in community self-healing, in relational self-healing, in maybe we could even say spiritual self-healing, where, where anything basically that restores the nervous system to that social, pro-social, pro-connectivity.

And when I say connectivity, I mean not only connectivity with other humans who can help us co-regulate our nervous systems and participate in healing, but also connectivity with the divine inside of each of us, whatever you wanna call that.

I have been carrying these two doctors around in my body for years.

I read Dr. Lissa Rankin's Mind Over Medicine book and then put it into the hands of more clients and colleagues than I can count.

It changed how a lot of us practice.

And Dr. Jeffrey Rediger's book, Cured, took everything I'd been circling for decades and made it so clear, so accessible, that it could reach even the most tenacious deniers of the mind-body connection.