Customized Healing

Mark Mincolla

Description

Only by blending the best of Western mechanistic and chemical knowledge with the best of the ancient Eastern vitalistic approach can we become whole beings and claim our maximum healing potential.

Sujets

• Médecine
• Médecine Générale
• Santé et bien-être
• Diététique
• Santé du quotidien
• Santé au quotidien
• Santé au quotidien
• Alternative Therapies
• Classical Chinese medicine
• Health
• Fitness
• CCM
• diététique

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 05 janvier 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781591203438
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

The information contained in this book is based upon the research and personal and professional experiences of the author. It is not intended as a substitute for consulting with your physician or other healthcare provider. Any attempt to diagnose and treat an illness should be done under the direction of a healthcare professional.
The publisher does not advocate the use of any particular healthcare protocol but believes the information in this book should be available to the public. The publisher and author are not responsible for any adverse effects or consequences resulting from the use of the suggestions, preparations, or procedures discussed in this book. Should the reader have any questions concerning the appropriateness of any procedures or preparation mentioned, the author and the publisher strongly suggest consulting a professional healthcare advisor.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mincolla, Mark Dana.
Customized healing : blending the best of Eastern and Western medicine / Mark Mincolla.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-59120-298-1
1. Medicine, Chinese-Popular works. 2. Nutrition-Popular works. I. Title.
R601.M52 2011
610-dc23
2011044732
Copyright 2011 by Mark Mincolla, Ph.D.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author.
Editor: Roberta W. Waddell Typesetting/Book design: Gary A. Rosenberg Cover design: Mike Stromberg
Printed in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
P ART 1 Healing Depends on Wholeness
1. Redefining Health and Healing
2. The Power to Heal
3. The New Medicine: Blending East and West for Customized Healing
P ART 2 The Ancient East
4. The Five Energies
5. The Five Constitutional Types
6. What Constitutional Type Are You?
7. Wood
8. Fire
9. Earth
10. Metal
11. Water
12. Five Simple Ta i Ch i Exercises
P ART 3 The Contemporary West
13. The Contemporary West
14. Basic Dietary Principles for Maximum Healing
15. Fighting Cancer and Heart Disease with Food
16. Supplementing the Fight Against Disease
17. The Spirit Ill at Ease
Appendix-Questions and Answers
Resources
References
About the Author
I would like to dedicate this book to the Tao
There is an increasing sense that certain ancient and esoteric healing practices, long ignored by Western science, may in fact represent profound insights into the very nature of healing.
In Western society, health is defined in strictly clinical terms by physicians. In Eastern societies, sickness is disruption, imbalance, and the manifestation of malevolent forces in the flesh. Health and healing represent a state of balance, of harmony, and for most of these societies it is something holy.
-W ADE D AVIS , P H.D.
Preface
This is a one-size-fits-all world. The current approach to nutrition is focused on cure-all panaceas that claim to be good for everyone. From the newest fad-diet craze to the latest super pill, pop culture has found its way into the world of nutrition. My life s work has focused on developing a natural, nutritional system of healing that safely, and effectively, addresses the needs of each and every person.
Customized Healing is a book that reflects this system I ve developed over the past three decades. One of its components is my individualized healing method, electromagnetic muscle testing (EMT). It was inspired by the ancient Chinese five constitutional types theory and consists of a muscle-testing protocol that enables people to develop and maintain a pinpointed, customized nutrition plan. My EMT approach to customized healing has allowed many thousands to attain a greater level of health and balance, and overcome chronic illness and disease.
Customized Healing uses the Chinese system of the five constitutional types to personalize the basic dietary guidelines, thereby customizing food plans for individuals. To find out your particular type and the corresponding foods that are particularly good for you, refer to the questionnaire in Chapter 6 and to Chapters 5 - 12 on the individual types: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. The book goes on to explain in greater detail how to arrive at your own personalized system of natural healing, and the back of the book includes a question-and-answer Appendix, a list of helpful Resources, relevant References, and an Index.
Customized Healing is a reflection of my life s work inspired by a truly remarkable, timeless, ancient system.
Acknowledgments
I would like to acknowledge:
Norman Goldfind, who had the vision to publish Customized Healing;
Nancy Dunn and Connie Mac Sweeney for their recipes;
Joel Price for his technical support;
Master Thomas Tam for his ta i ch i exercises;
Master Hua-Ching Ni for sharing his great wisdom;
Bobby Waddell for her superb editing assistance.

1
Redefining Health and Healing
Beyond the world of physical there is a higher, spiritual realm of forms or ideas beyond matter or mechanism.
-P LATO
THE SPIRIT OF HEALING
For almost thirty years as a nutritional and holistic therapist, I have worked with tens of thousands of people. With every consultation, I have become increasingly aware that nature has equipped each of us with the ability to heal. It has also become clear that somewhere in the extreme of today s life, people have lost this ability.
But just exactly what is healing and why does it seem to be so elusive? I believe it is because of the quality of our lives. Take a break from your everyday attitudes for a moment to look deeply within, and there, beneath the surface of life, you ll find a force that animates, elevates, and fills everyone with energy. Although people are not often conscious of this inner aspect of being, it is unconsciously acknowledged when a particular person is noted as being full of life, having a lot of spirit, or a good vibe. These comments all indicate a recognition of a transcendent, spiritlike quality in other human beings.
It is this spiritual essence that I believe holds the key to healing potential.
Although many talk about spirit, the truth is that, as a culture, most people have lost touch with it, along with their wholeness and an awareness of themselves as spiritual, not just physical, beings. In order to heal, it is first important to become whole. Yet without a spiritual sense of self-a sense of spirit and energy-people are left less than whole, dis-associated, and out of touch with an integral part of themselves.
It s easy to see why this has happened. This culture s extremely materialistic bias maintains that only physical things are real, and it invalidates internal realities based on intuition, energy, feelings, and beliefs. Because of this, people have incorrectly defined spirituality and have often respond to it with misunderstanding and mistrust. A good many believe that spirituality is some amorphous thing that can only be found in religious institutions, or is something mystical and mysterious.
But spirituality is simpler than all that; it is as much a part of daily life as the air you breathe. Spirituality is all around everyone every day.
It s every aspect of the universe and of nature.
It is the inspiration that comes with the birth of a child, the joy that is felt with the coming of spring, or the grief felt at the death of a loved one.
Spirituality is reflected in the unique energy of each and every living thing.
Spirit is everything that is not material: life-force energy, dreams, hopes, beliefs, emotions.
Intuition, too, is a type of internal, spiritual phenomenon that science can t measure (maybe one day they ll figure out how-science can now measure many things it couldn t a century ago) and contemporary culture doesn t value. Consequently, unlike their ancestors, people don t trust themselves, their instincts, or what they know in their hearts to be true. This results in a division between the mind and the heart, the mind and the spirit. People may even say they care about soulful and spiritual phenomena, but often the bottom line is that they don t believe that things they can t see can affect them. People forget that they believe in plenty of energies that can t be seen: the forces that bring electricity into the home, the voices at the other end of the phone, the pictures and sound in TVs, computers, and the Internet.
This separation between hearts and minds-the denial of instinctive, intuitive, spiritual natures-creates a terrible rift in the fabric of human beings that has resulted in a grievous lack of self-integration and self-esteem. But how can anyone possibly find the key to trusting and loving themself if they are disconnected from their true nature?
Herbert Maslow, the esteemed human behaviorist, taught that the greatest of all human needs is self-esteem. Greater than the need for food, shelter, or clothing is the need to establish a true self-identity. Without this, it is not possible determine values, priorities, or reasons for living. To love, to be whole, and to heal, every single person must know and be who they are.
The truth is that who people are is not just their material bodies, but also their souls, spirits, and minds.
Not everything can be measured by science yet, and not everything can be known, understood, or treated from the outside. Human beings are a miraculous complex of physical (material) and non-physical (spiritual) energy systems. Like the electricity that illuminates a light bulb, they are powered by an unseen energy life force.
To customize and maximize true healing potential, you need to begin by acknowledging this energy force as it expresses itself in the energies of