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KMID : 0895720110150010071
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Journal of the Korean Society of Jungshin Science
2011 Volume.15 No. 1 p.71 ~ p.94
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The Neurophysiological Significance of Mind Healing in Whole-Person Stress Medicine
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Shin Kyung-Hee
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Abstract
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The aim of stress healing is to achieve holistic wellness, the multi-dimensional well-being. This study intended to examine biomedical benefits of mind healing in old whole-person medicine, explaining its mechanism by stress medicine and neurophysiology. The pattern of stress reaction of central nervous system affects health and disease. Under stressful events, the body not only reacts through neuroendocrine system, but accumulates those experiences by neural processes of memory and learning. These processes accompany by functional and organic changes of nervous system, that is to say forming and enhancing neural network. In the tradition of whole-person medicine, mind is an essential route of disease and healing. There exist mechanisms to maintain physiological homeostasis, and psychological homeostasis as well. Disturbances of homeostasis lead to negative emotion which results in stress reaction. Since emotion gives rise to integrative function of brain, the ability to understand and care one"s emotion is crucial for achieving better health for it changes the pattern of stress reaction.
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KEYWORD
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stress medicine, whole-person medicine, neuroplasticity, emotion, mind healing
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