HW420: CREATING WELLNESS: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OF HEALING Unit 2: The Mind-Body Connection

Seminar Agenda  Introduction to unit 3  Review of unit 3 assignments  Unit 3 key concepts  Opening Act discussion  Seminar questions  Questions/concerns

Unit 3 Key Concepts: Dacher  Chapter 4: Integral Healing  5 guiding principles: holistic, evolutionary (core principles); intentionality, person-centered, dynamic (application principles)  4 aspects of human experience: psychospiritual, biological, interpersonal, worldly Question: Can one be “well” in one quadrant while “unwell” in another?

Unit 3 Key Concepts: Dacher  Chapter 5: Preparing the Ground  The preparation: Loving-kindness; Skillful action; silence and stillness  Visualization Question: Which of these do you foresee as the most challenging for you personally? How about for clients?

Unit 3 Key Concepts: Schlitz, Amorok & Micozzi  Mapping the Healing System: Harris Dienstfrey  Mind-body research shows that nonbiological factors can have clinical effects on physical health  “How does a social situation, psychosocial factor, initiate a physiological process?” – Awareness  Learning to use the mind as an aid in treatment: placebo phenomenon

Unit 2 Key Concepts: Schlitz, Amorok & Micozzi  Shirazi: Integral Psychology  Addresses behavioral, affective, cognitive in context of spiritual development  Nonduality, multidimensionality, holism, evolution  Chaudhuri’s Principal Tenets of Integral Psychology  Personal Integration: egocentric, psychocentric, cosmocentric  Grof: Psychology of the Future  Holotropic states  COWX systems  Perinatal doman of the psyche & transpersonal domain of the psyche  Braud: Transpersonal Images  Defined: the assumption that information can be transmitted from the consciousness of one person to the physical substrate of others.  Empirical investigations  Implications

Unit 3 Key Concepts: Schlitz, Amorok & Micozzi  Mapping the Healing System: Pert, Dreher, Ruff  The psychosomatic network: the mind-body connection and the “messages” of communication  Emotional Expression hypothesis: Emotional expression, disinhibition, and self-actualization strengthen healing system.  “Teleological Coherence”:the unifying principle that establishes self-identity via psychological, neurological & immunological subsystems.

Unit 3 Key Concepts: Schlitz, Amorok & Micozzi  Mapping the Healing System: Simonton-Atchley & Sherman  Psycho-oncology: Do psychosocial factors contribute to disease onset or progression?  Coping strategies and styles  Stress & psychological factors influence health behaviors

Opening Act BLOG QUESTION: Based on your reflections, and on a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being optimal wellbeing), where do you rate your A-physical wellbeing, B-spiritual well-being, C-psychological well-being? Why? 1) As we saw in our unit 3 readings, stress may potentially lead to negative health outcomes. How does stress impact each of the above? 2) What are some health behaviors (positive and negative) that are associated with stress and how would they effect the above?

Seminar Question 1: Blogs, baby! 1) What have you learned about the diversity of goals that we create for our wellness? 2) Have any goals you have encountered on others’ blogs inspired you to update your own goals?

Seminar Question 2: Clients’ Goals 1) What are the similarities and differences between the goals of class members and the potential goals of your future clients? 2) Who are your potential clients? 3)How will you help your clients create goals?

Seminar Question 3: Living the Lesson Why is it important for health and wellness professionals to assess their own wellness and be integrating health strategies in their lives? 1) Can you effectively work with clients if your own wellness is substandard or you are not making positive changes in your own life?

Questions, Comments, Concerns?