My friend Enzo has high blood pressure and has had to confront all the scary possibilities it presents. Medications have not helped to bring it down. His doctor sent him home with instructions to use a blood pressure monitor and take his pressure daily. He says he has...

As far back as the 1970s there were M.D.s working to integrate medicine and metaphysics. Forty years ago I attended talks and workshops by M.D.s like Irving Oyle, Brugh Joy, Deepak Chopra, Bernie Siegel and others, who were adamant that the American medical model was,...

My Ayurveda doctor friend tells me in conversation that all ailments begin in the gut. She makes a good, understandable case for it. Zach Bush, M.D., is a triple certified American doctor who generally agrees with my friend and has created an impressive movement in...

“It can be really hard to wrap your head around the idea that everything, everything in your life, is a reflection of your thinking.” Yet in this universe of ideas, this is the base, the idea of ideas. We humans are busy projecting our ideas out into the common areas...

Thinking can seem a sometimes involuntary, mostly random experience, something that just happens as we go about our lives. Environmental cues occur, input from our extraordinary sensory system demands attention, and thoughts respond. The stimulus can be anything from...

Virtually all spiritual or religious paths teach unconditional love. But everybody I know grew up experiencing love as conditional, with our parents generously expressing love for approved behaviors and clearly withholding it for disapproved ones. It’s pretty simple...