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NWI Webinar: “Mind-Body Medicine: Effective, Evidence-Based Self-care for Health & Well-being” presented by Carrie Phelps, PhD, BCC, CWWS

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Effective, Evidence-Based Self-Care

for Health and Well-Being

MIND-BODY MEDICINE

Presented By: Carrie Phelps, PhD, BCC, CWWSSeptember 22, 2015

Carrie Phelps: A Brief Introduction • PhD in Mind-Body Medicine (with a specialization in healthcare systems)• Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Exercise and Health Science• Faculty, Center for Mind-Body Medicine • Adjunct Faculty, Saybrook University College of Integrative Medicine

and Health Science• Board Certified Coach• Executive Board Member, National Wellness Institute• Licensed one-on-one HeartMath provider • Professional Work Experience• Community and Corporate Health Promotion• Integrative Medicine and Wellness• Professional Coaching• Teaching and Mentoring


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Searching for Answers

My Mission Statement: Co-create the next evolution of Health Promotion; one that inspires and energizes well-being, expands potential, fosters fulfillment, and enriches lives

Objectives:

Name at least 3 benefits of mind-body medicine

Name and experience at least one evidence-based mind-body technique

Identify at least one way in which mind-body medicine can be applied in a healthcare setting, in a corporate wellness program, and within wellness coaching

Artist: Ami Costa


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Thank You!The Pioneers of Mind-Body Medicine

Dr. Deb Kern Dr. Karen Wolfe

THE WHAT


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What is Mind-Body Medicine? An Inside Out Approach to Health and Healing that utilizes the mind’s capacity to improve the body’s function (and vice versa)

Mind

Body

Emotions

Thoughts Beliefs Attitudes

Nervous System

Immune System

Endocrine System

CardiovascularSystem

Memory

Musculo-skeletal System

Perceptions

Awareness/Consciousness

Self-AwarenessSelf-Care

Social Connections

Mind-Body Medicine Science

Psycho immunoendocrinologyneuroPNI(E)

Mind & Emotions

Mind & Emotions

Brain & Nervous System

Brain & Nervous System

Immune SystemImmune System

Endocrine System

Endocrine System

A MindBody network language that is used to communicate across systems such as the neurological, gastrointestinal, immune, and endocrine system (communication at the molecular level).


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A Brief History

Nervous System

Endocrine System

Immune System Brain

Gastro-intestinal

Neurocentric paradigm Expanded paradigm

Neuroanatomy and the electrical brain

PharmacologyHow do chemical

substrates act at a distance from their site

of release?

Neuroscience and the parallel discoveries of EndocrinologyNeuroanatomyPharmacology

Physiology


Key Points

95% of ligands are peptides

Peptides are subconscious messenger molecules

Receptors are sensing molecules

Peptide-Receptor= multidirectional communication throughout the entire organism

Receptors on the cell serve as sensing molecules

Ligands (neurotransmitters, steroids, and peptides) bind to the receptors

Pert (1997), Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine



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Information carriers of Mind/Emotions

“Molecules of Emotion”

Information exchange via psychosomatic network

Peptide

Receptor

Receptor on the cell receives the information

Binding process changes the behavior of the cell

Anger

Joy Embarrass-ment

Fear

Love

Perceptions

Courage

Peptides, the “Molecules of Emotion”


Mind/Emotions and bodily sensations are functionally integrated in a multidirectional network linked by information molecules

Pounding Heart

Tight stomach

Red Face

AngerAnxious

Joy


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Paul MacLeanTriune Brain

Hindbrain

Limbic System

Forebrain

Limbic system contains an extremely high quantity of receptor molecules

Feeling of love and compassion can prompt neurological and chemical response

Emotions originate in

the head andthe body


• Increase heart rate• Increase blood pressure• Faster breathing• Muscular tension• Coldness and sweating• Decreased intestinal activity• Increased inflammation

(immune response)• Increase survival-oriented

decisions (reptilian brain)• Decrease cortical activity

(executive brain function)

Most of the tigers we are “fighting” or “fleeing” are in our mind(a constant state of anxious readiness)

Fight or Flight Response

Autonomic Nervous System


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Antidote to the Fight or Flight response

Mind-Body Practices

Mind-Body Skills

• Breathing• Relaxation • Meditation• Mindfulness• Biofeedback• Autogenic Training• Body Scan• Emotional expression (e.g., drawings, journaling)• Visualization and Imagery• Mind-body dance and movement • Nutrition and mindful eating• Self-hypnosis • Prayer

Consciously entering mind-body communication and influencing well-being

Mind-Body Skills can break a negative feedback loop

MBM Basic

Simply be present for a period of time without

the “shoulda”, “woulda” or “coulda”

and notice

MBM Basic

The mind influences the body and the

mind/emotions can be accessed via the body


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Mind and Body are one…the MINDBODY

“Every change in the physiological state is accompanied by an appropriate change in the mental emotional state, conscious or unconscious, and conversely, every change in the mental emotional state, conscious or unconscious, is accompanied by an appropriate change in the physiological state.”


-Elmer Green, Mayo Clinic physician (as quoted in Molecule of Emotion by Candace Pert, p. 137)


Interdisciplinary and Interdepartmental


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SO WHAT

Mind-Body Medicine Benefits

•Self-awareness

•Self-healing

•Self-responsibility

•Self-care


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Mind-Body Medicine Benefits

Stress

Resilience

Thrive

Stress Management“Stress remains a barrier that prevents people from living well and reaching their health and lifestyle goals.”

Thoughts and feelings can influence disease

Mind-Body Practice 2x/day for 2o minutes

Mind-Body Medicine lifestyle approach to well-being and quality of life

Mind-Body Connect: Implications

Stress and blocked emotions can prevent peptides (molecules of emotion) from flowing freely wherever needed

Dis-ease

Please let me go where I need to flow!

“I believe that happiness is what we feel when our biochemicals of emotion, the neuropeptides and their receptors, are open and flowing freely throughout the psychosomatic network, integrating and coordinating our systems, organs, and cells in a smooth and rhythmic movement” (Candace Pert, Molecules of Emotion, p. 265).


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NOW WHAT?

Mind-Body Skills

Promote Self-Awareness, Self-Care, and Self-Healing

Illustration used with permission from the Center for Mind-Body Medicine www.cmbm.org

Biomedical Model

CAM Therapies

Psycho-social approaches

Drugs and Surgery

New Model

Self-Care

Drugs and Surgery

Therapies that require a professional and also promote one’s capacity for self-healing


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Multiple Intel

Self-AwarenessSelf-Care

Social Connections

Emotional

Physical Spiritual

Relational

Mind

Body

Diet

Exercise Stress


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MovementMovement

MeditationMeditation

MusicMusic

MindfulnessMindfulness

MysticalMystical

Mood FoodMood Food

Carrie’sMind-Body “Work-in” Program

APPLICATIONS


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Mind-Body Medicine Applications• Whole person • Holistic approach• Relationship-based

Healthcare• Mind-Body self-care

programs• Integrative wellness

coaching

Corporate Wellness

Wellness Coaching• Mindfulness Training• Mind-Body stress

management• Wellness Coaching • Mind-Body (process)

coaching• Integrative Wellness

Coaching• Mind-Body skills group

coaching

Thank You!For more information please contact:

Dr. Carrie [email protected]

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