Spirituality and Health

By Eric NelsonFor Lissa Rankin, the driving force behind her just-released book, Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself, was a deep desire to present the subject of mind-body healing in a way that would be both accepted and und...

By Eric NelsonIt sounds like something out of a George Orwell novel.The BRAIN Initiative (short for Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) is President Obama’s recently announced plan to create a map of what he calls “the ma...

By Eric NelsonBefore he became a published and well-respected OB/GYN, Dr. Shawn Tasson studied math. His research into the compression of S-shaped curves taught him that, for instance, the nearer ocean waves approach land, the closer they bec...

By Eric NelsonTo listen to Eckhart Tolle is to be reminded that anything is possible – for anyone. I’m not talking about living a life of leisure filled with expensive cars, beach homes, and extravagant vacations, but an experience brimming wi...

By Eric NelsonA curious thing happened the other night at the Commonwealth Club of California. Smack-dab in the middle of an all-star panel discussion on the need to improve the ethics and practice of medicine – a conversation that included the usual...

By Eric NelsonIn his testimony before the Senate Health Committee in 2009, Dr. Dean Ornish, founder and president of the California-based Preventative Medicine Research Institute (PMRI) and professor of medicine at University of California, San Francis...

By Eric NelsonFor most it probably seemed like a pretty insignificant coincidence (if anyone even noticed). For me it was proof positive of the remarkable influence for good included in human consciousness. I was sitting in a breakout session a co...

By Eric NelsonColored eggs and chocolate bunnies aside, could it be that Easter holds the secret to better health? For those who may be unfamiliar with the origins of this holiday, Easter is Christianity’s commemoration of the resurrection of Je...

When Wag Dodge and his fellow fire-fighting smokejumpers descended on Montana’s Helena National Forest on that hot summer day in 1949, they had no idea how intense the inferno had become. Moments after landing, the situation turned from bad to worse ...

It shouldn’t be surprising that I ended my interview with Marilyn Schlitz with more questions than answers. After all, as a seasoned and well-respected medical anthropologist, this is a woman who makes her living asking questions – and encouraging ...