As you can see, tending to these Four Levels of Healing will help you not only “attain” a cure for your patients, but also help you pay “attention” to their whole scope of needs to attain true health in and out of your office.
Stress, Health and Your Patients
Stress has become such a common issue for most of our patients that it is almost a “disease” unto itself. In a myriad of ways, in a variety of situations, we face stress on an almost daily basis: at school, at work, in our relationships, in traffic, in lines at stores, over money, career and finances and dozens of more things; stress is almost as common as time itself. What’s important to understand about stress is that while it’s an emotional issue, it also affects us in a variety
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Verily in the remembrance of God, do hearts find rest.” 13:28) and recitation of the Qur'an. These elicit the physiologic relaxation response. Hajj and congregational Prayers serve to buffer the adverse effects of stress and anger, perhaps via psychoneuroimmunology. It is speculated that congregational prayers may trigger a multifactorial sequence of biological processes leading to better health. Studies have shown higher degrees of social connection (through family and friends or congregational prayers in the Masjid) consistently relate to decreased mortality. Zakah is altruism and sharing the wealth; apart from the socio-economic benefits, Muslims also garner better health. Doing good for others is also Zakah, and those who volunteer their work find marked improvement in their health and they will no longer feel isolated. Several studies have already documented the health benefits of fasting during the month of Ramadan. By acting on these spiritual levels, the patient will appreciate the simplest events of life and appreciate the beauty of the smallest …show more content…
Diet, sleep and exercise play a very important role in maintaining the balance. Therefore, we should know their habits in diet, sleep and exercise and educate them about these important habits at the same time.
Moderation in Diet
People tend to eat too often, or not enough. They tend to eat fatty, salty, sweet and “convenient” foods that have been prepared by someone else – at a restaurant, the deli, the grocery store, the convenience store or at fast food restaurants – and are far removed from the healthy, natural, unprocessed foods that are essential to physical health. Honest, natural, whole “good” food is designed to contain essential nutrients that help the body grow and maintain through the daily rigors of modern life. When we overcook our foods, eat them too often or eat junk, consume processed or “fast” food, we trade nutrition for convenience and even taste – and as a result, we rob our bodies of the precious nutrients they need to survive. This poor nutritional status can have short and long-term effects on a patient’s health, including:
• Being overweight or even obese;
• High blood pressure;
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