Authors: Dr. Mark Mincolla
Whole Health
Praise for
Whole Health
“The underlying premise of
Whole Health
embodies concepts of energy in healing that are at once ancient and futuristic. Such concepts lead us all to an integrative, holistic, and evolutionary paradigm of healing that differs profoundly and refreshingly from the reductionistic biomedical worldview of conventional medicine today. Read this book and introduce yourself to the future of medicine, available to you right now.”
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Whole Health
is loaded with many gems about health and wholeness. I highly recommend it.”
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CHRISTIANE
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BESTSELLERS
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
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The Wisdom of Menopause
“Mark Mincolla unearths and shares a treasure chest of healing potential in his instant classic
Whole Health
. This is a must-read for all those searching for ways to increase their ability to take control of their nutritional, emotional, and physical well-being.”
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Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson
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“
Whole Health
has a wealth of information about how to assess an individual's state of health, and how to use energy and nutrition to achieve physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance. It will undoubtedly prove of great value to all those interested in improving their own health, and to health care practitioners wishing to increase their knowledge and understanding to provide even better care for their patients.”
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JEREMY P. TARCHER/PENGUIN
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mincolla, Mark Dana.
Whole health : a holistic approach to healing for the 21st century / Mark Mincolla, Ph.D.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-101-62027-4
1. HealthâPopular works. 2. Mental healingâPopular works. 3. Holistic medicine. I. Title.
RA776.5.M533 2013 2013036565
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Neither the publisher nor the author is engaged in rendering professional advice or services to the individual reader. The ideas, procedures, and suggestions contained in this book are not intended as a substitute for consulting with your physician. All matters regarding your health require medical supervision. Neither the author nor the publisher shall be liable or responsible for any loss or damage allegedly arising from any information or suggestion in this book.
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I would like to dedicate
Whole Health
to my grandson Elijah.
Your miracles await you from deep within.
Foreword by Bernie Siegel, M.D.
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In
Whole Health
, Mark Mincolla has put together a book of great value. This book offers us information that can make a difference in our lives and health. I also know, however, that without inspiration, the information will be ignored. Mark and I both want you to know that we care about you, and if you had an abusive past and did not feel loved, you can abandon your past and let us help to re-parent you and to help you to find self-love and the health benefits that come with it.
What Mark shares, he has learned from his experiences and not the preconceived beliefs that would only serve to interfere with the healing process. True healing demands that the face of medicine be changed. Rather than simply be provided a diagnosis and prescription, the patient needs to be empowered with the preventive wisdom to help avoid future illnesses. Medicine also needs to educate its physicians to focus on treating the patient's total experience and to not ignore the factors that led to their illness.
We also need to learn, as Mark has, from patients who do well. It drives me crazy when doctors say to patients who are doing well, “You're doing very well. Whatever it is you are doing, keep it up.” What they need to say is, “You are doing very well. Tell me what you are doing.” We can all learn from success by not calling it spontaneous or miraculous but by seeing that healing can be self-induced, and that our lifestyle and nutrition can be our medicine. We all have the potential to heal but have to be willing to do the work to allow it to happen. Our body needs to know we love it; then our entire life will get the message and will do all it can to help us heal and grow in a transformational way. We need to treat the whole picture and be truly holistic.
The word
doctor
derives its meaning from “teacher.” We practitioners need to be more like coaches who criticize in a constructive way so that our patients become healthier and better performers, but our players will have to show up for practice if we are going to see any results. We care about you and want you to know that you are worthy of compassion and love no matter how painful your past experience was with the authority figures in your life.
When you lose your health, we'll be here to help you find it. You must go beyond viewing the process of disease as punishment, or wellness as something you deserve. I want you to take as good care of yourself as you do your beloved pets. When we love our lives and bodies, our internal chemistry helps us to heal and grow in a transformational way. True wellness is not about trying to avoid death but about healing our lives and bodies and benefiting from the health that comes with it.
A study of Harvard students published in
Nature
in 1998 showed that only one-fourth of those who felt loved by their parents suffered a major illness by midlife, while almost 100 percent of those who did not feel loved by their parents had suffered a major illness in the same time span.
Our lives are stored in our bodies, and if we do not respond to what is within us, someday the body will present us with the bill. Mark's work can help you to find self-empowerment and free yourself from unhealthy addictions and behaviors.
Medicine is limited by its beliefs and what it is willing to accept and research. If it can't explain something, it rejects it. We need to open our minds and beliefs, and Mark can help us to find the way to true healing and health. When I first decided to open my mind and my beliefs, I was criticized and rejected because what I wanted to research wasn't believed and accepted by the medical establishment. Decades later, the work is now getting done because beliefs have changed. Mind, body, and spirit are a unit, not separate entities, and they need to be treated as such.
We need to understand that when we wage war against disease, we empower the enemy. When we seek to find peace and heal, the disease is eliminated in the healing process. The ability to heal is built into all living things. Bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics. We cut our finger and don't bleed to death. The key issue in our vulnerability is to understand that our emotions create our internal chemistry, and can help us to resist or be vulnerable to disease. We need to pay attention to what is killing us and not just what symptoms we are complaining about. When we lose our health, we need to simply look for it. It's important that we don't see disease as a punishment, or health as something we deserve.
The medical profession needs to learn from Mark by not just prescribing pills but empowering patients and treating their experience. Doctors also need to accept criticism and let their patients become their teachers too. Tourists do not understand what natives are going through and experiencing. I try to help people to learn how to stop being good patients, or submissive sufferers, and become “respants,” or responsible participants. Doctors need to define why some patients do better, learn from them, and help all patients to incorporate those traits into their lives and personalities, as Mark has done.
When people make the “right” choices for themselves, whether it means eating vegetables or undergoing medical treatments, they become empowered. When we love the child within us and understand true health, change will occur. When we see the world through a grandmother's eyes and not the eyes of a CEO, good health will bloom and blossom accordingly. I was born an ugly duckling, but had a grandmother who massaged and loved me, so those healing memories still remain within my body.
We are all unique, yet we have certain things in common, and Mark treats the things that deplete our energy and our ability to heal. Someday life force, consciousness, and energy will be scientific and incorporated into medicine and healing. I know from experience what we are capable of accomplishing when we direct our life force the way wires carry energy from a battery. When this is all accepted, mind-body-spirit will all be understood as one, and food will be seen as a source of energy that keeps us well, not just a medication.
The way to accomplish change is to rehearse and practice becoming the person you want to be. Mark's work can help train and coach you in this process. As I have said, our lives are stored within us, and if the wounds are not healed, the body will one day present us with its bill. We need to understand that while there is such a thing as survival behavior, we can choose to be empowered to change with the help of people like Mark Mincolla, and
Whole Health
.