In medicine, the phenomenon of healing as seen in holistic approaches, is lost. This is the most serious indictment on our conventional approaches. In its reduction of the body for analysis to smaller and smaller fragments, the patient as a human being is lost and health is reduced to a mechanical function. 

The rise of modern scientific medicine began in the nineteenth century, with the advent of the thinker Descartes, in Western religion, there was a division between God and Man, i.e. Deus ex Machina, so God became separate and objective. Science became pre-eminent. William Harvey discovered the anatomy of the heart and circulation and the whole body was mapped with precision so medicine became objectified and people were classified as organs and systems.

We need a profound renaissance in western medical care which follows Osler's dictum. Osler, the brilliant physician who lived a hundred years ago said that medicine is an art which considers the constitution of the patient and has principles of action and reason in each case [Plato]. We have to bring back value and quality into medicine and that means value and quality in both the lives of the doctors as well as the patients they treat.

We have to create a "reculer pour mieux sauter" to revalue the human psyche and human being and to bring commitment, compassion and caring back into hospital wards and general practice.

Western healthcare is now the third leading cause of death in America.JAMA ) However this is not a local problem. The British Medical Journal declares that in America alone, 199,000 A YEAR are being killed by errant medical procedures. In the UK, blunders by doctors are killing 40,000 a year. In Australia, 1 in 5 are being killed by their own healthcare, and in China, bad medicine is killing 200,000 every year, with 60-80% of China's 10 million deaf-mute cases related to The use of inappropriate medicine.

It is well known that 16% of patients who go into hospital either come out worse or do not come out at all as they die from iatrogenic illness and hospital ‘so called treatment’. Australian Medical Journal.

Poor nutrition is costing Australians approximately 6 billion dollars annually. The three major causes of preventable death in Australia are:
Ischaemic heart disease 27.8% Cancer 24.3% and stroke 10.9%representing a total of 63%. Nutritional factors play an important role in the causes of these three killer diseases(1).

Over the past three decades there has been a virtual explosion in information in the medical and scientific literature relating nutrition to disease.

A change in diet and life style and the appropriate use of nutrients reduce the risk of disease and are becoming increasingly important in the treatment of patients to either optimise health and well being, improve prognosis or achieve a state of well-being in serious disorders2 This includes· The elimination of age accelerating, cognitive depleting and life shortening habits, e.g. quitting smoking, drinking alcohol in moderation, wearing a seat belt, avoid inhaling second-hand smoke, avoid breathing polluted air, · Weight Loss Over 50% of Australians are either obese or over weight and are inactive. It is essential to eat a low fat, complex carbohydrate, high fibre diet, including a lot of vegetables, salads and fruits with over 1 and half litres of preferably filtered water per day.·  Establish a regular programme of exercise. The latest research shows that incremental physical activity is as important as sustained exercise, as long as e.g. one hour of walking a day. 

In Australia alone the increasing popularity of natural products has  deprived the global pharmaceutical market of 2 billion dollars annually. Natural Health Care Alliance –

Our beliefs, spiritual values, relationships have a profound affect on our physical health. Candace Pert has shown how neuropeptyd messengers link body and brain. These neuro transmitters translate every mental event into physiological change. We can learn to use our minds to promote our physical and mental health. Margaret Kemeny Psychiatry UCLA intensity of feeling caused increase in natural killer cells in the blood. Our immune system is wired to our nervous system. 

There are Three Eras in medicine Era I, The Biomedical Model (began 1860s)Era II Medicine –Psychosomatic medicine including psychoneuroimmunology (following World War2)Era III Medicine of light -- local and non local consciousness (contemporary).

Nonlocal mind -- mind that is boundless and unlimited An individual's mind may affect not just his or her body, but the body of another person at a distance.

A biofield is a living communication network derived from the bioelectrical phenomena inherent in our living tissues. It is also a manifestation of the integration of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual process Biofield medicine (BFM), also known as vibrational medicine, refers to those therapies intended to affect ones own or another’s bioenergy fields which surround and interpenetrate the human body (Miles and True, 2003). BFM includes the modalities of Reiki, Healing or Therapeutic Touch, Qigong, Yoga, meditation, Polarity therapy, Kinesiology, chakra balancing, and may be extended to network chiropractic, craniosacral osteopathy and modern psychotherapy.

The earth may also have its own biofield, in part, the natural rhythmic pulsations of the Schumann Resonance at 7.83 hertz.

A model of "healing energy" to explain a wide range of biofield phenomena has evolved. The energy matrix is able to sense the internal and external environment, process information and integrate functions throughout the body. When the communication system becomes disordered or unbalanced, the flow of information is slowed, and healing is compromised. External ‘healing’ energy can reopen the communication channels and thereby facilitate tissue repair and replacement. Of particular benefit is the ability to increase immunity and the stress response and decrease autonomic hyperactivity (Miles and True, 2003). Oschman (2002a) also suggests that practices such as mediation, yoga and Qigong bring about an ordering of the tissue structure such that they become more capable of emitting strong, coherent signals. This is effectively self-healing by energy work. 

In the past, people relied on what is now considered to be hidden or unproven potential in human beings to heal themselves through mind over matter. Thus the Shamans had the ability to heal by channeling the life force to heal themselves and their patients. The Yogi was able to master his bodily functions through a conscious biofeedback that enabled him to monitor his health. The Buddhist Monk could change the phenomena of life around him and pray for the wellness of all beings, and send out loving kindness. There was a knowledge of the interconnectedness between the person and the environment.

Just as the body is composed of mind, body and spirit and works in an integrated fashion, the various illnesses, which people suffer have a common cause. Medical science is now beginning to define this cause but unfortunately because of the kind of education that doctors receive, (the bio-medical model), this means that most of the profession are not willing to open their eyes to a holistic approach.  

The incidence of stress in our society is rising, and scientists in general, and doctors in particular, do not understand the effect the mind can have on reducing and controlling stress. The problem of stress is further compromised by the stresses that occur within the context of society, particularly in the work situation. If people are forced to work in situations which are controlling and restrictive, and in which they are not allowed to contribute to decisions and management, they will get sick. 

The old conception of people having five senses is outmoded. In fact, the whole body is a multi-sensory and therefore multi-modality information receiving biomind. Human beings are biomind, biosentient organisms.

How do we reach the human potential within ourselves that we may transform and recreate our lives in the way we wish our dreams to unfold? We have to acknowledge the way we have constructed the patterns of our lives to see our lives and the way we have formed them. By breaking through to the common ground of being by exploring the unknown by seeking that which is within, by accessing the multidimensionality of our selves, by realising that we are in fact multisensory beings, we begin to understand that there is this essence from which all things come and manifest.

One of the greatest commitments of Albert Einstein was to see the universe as one seamless whole and he felt that physics had to in some way reflect that. In deep experiences of meditation and high experiences of transcendental bliss, time seems to stand still and the illusion of separation and isolation that human beings feel seems to melt away into a sense of seamless expression of connectedness in the sense that we are all in a giant ocean of wholeness.

The one thing about the living body, is its amazing plasticity, and its amazing ability to replicate, reproduce and perpetuate itself The living body in contradistinction to the human psyche is in constant motion, constantly changing. Phenomenologically it is never the same as it was in the previous instance. It is like a chameleon, but still maintains its shape, and form and patterning, and its function is directly related to its patterning and changing form. 

I believe it is memory, deeply held memory, within the very fibers of the cells of the bodies of the human being, that create aging, and if there is to be any kind of effective anti aging therapy, it has to be dealt with in changing patterns of memory. The mind and the wisdom that it contains is as plastic, and phenomenal and amazing, in its ability to cure the body of virtually any kind of illness, and therefore reconfigure the nature of the information reaching diseased organs and systems so that they are no longer ill but become healthy.