I have always believed that that power of mind is the most important part of healing available in any medical technique – whether allopathic or naturopathic/complimentary.

A recent article published in Scientific American states exactly that same thing: “A controversial article just published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association concluded that antidepressants are no more effective than placebos for most depressed patients.

(Think about that statement for a moment!)

Jay Fournier and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania aggregated individual patient data from six high-quality clinical trials and found that the superiority of antidepressants over Placebo is clinically significant only for patients who are very severely depressed.  For patients with mild, moderate, and even severe depression, placebos work nearly as well as antidepressants (Again, please think about that statement for a moment!)

There have been at least four other review articles published in the last eight years that have come to similar conclusions about the limited clinical efficacy of antidepressants

……..In clinical practice, of course, there is no placebo group, and therefore patients and their doctors are likely to attribute all symptom improvement to the medication.”

Wow!  I am sure that this will be challenged almost immediately, as there is an enormous amount of money to be lost from pharmaceutical companies if this is again proved to be true – and more importantly – this becomes common public knowledge!

Regardless, of the study, I personally have proved to myself from surviving “incurable asthma and cancer” that the power of the mind is real….no proof is needed in my mind.

I have been working in this field of mind (sometimes a minefield or mindfield) all my life – mostly from a survival perspective, but now to help my clients in all aspects of healing – physically mentally and spiritually. The mental aspects of this perspective I call Formless Taoism – (a philosophical approach to life). Many of these perspectives and concepts are very old techniques borrowed from ancient Taoist masters.

I have found the root of all disease to be from two factors: stress and inflammation. So this is the chicken and the egg question, which comes first?

Here at Inner Strength, I have developed some very unique concepts of self-healing, based on my own survival, that I now share with my clients on how to alleviate these two culprits. I use a variety of methods - like having different tools in the toolbox  -one tool may work better than another.  Please contact us today and begin the journey to living life to its fullest again, rather than thinking of just getting through the day, imagine about how to enjoy the day !

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