Even though body intelligence and mental intelligence are best understood as two separate systems, they are indelibly connected by the emotions. Think of emotions as energy in motion, or e-motion. Emotions either propel you toward something pleasurable and/or beneficial, or repel you away from things that are painful and dangerous. Emotions by … [Read more...]

Back in the early 1980s, I came across a book that would change my life. This book is “Getting Well Again” by Carl and Stephanie Simonton. He is an oncologist and she a psychologist. Together they discovered a promising way to help cancer patients heal their disease. They found that when cancer patients visualized their immune systems fighting … [Read more...]

The phrase “body intelligence” seems like an oxymoron. We think of intelligence as active consciousness coming from the mind, and the body being the passive victim of influences like viruses, toxins and bacteria that we have no control over.  But the body is not a victim.  It is an active, organized intelligence that has our best interests at its … [Read more...]

Much has been made about happiness lately. There are lists of countries with the happiest citizens. There are lots of studies and research about what factors bring about happiness. There are books that pull together all this data and more. But nearly all of this information leaves out the most important fact about being happy. Happiness is not a … [Read more...]