Emotions can cause physical illness, and restore health
Dr. Gabor Maté is the author of the book, “When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection”
The Vancouver-based Dr. Gabor Maté argues that too many Western doctors seem to have forgotten what was once a commonplace assumption—that emotions are deeply implicated in both the development of illness and in the restoration of health.
Based on medical studies and his own experience with chronically ill patients at the Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital, where he was the medical coordinator for seven years, Dr. Gabor Maté makes the case that there are important links between the mind and the immune system. He found that stress and individual emotional makeup play critical roles in an array of diseases.
To look at an interview on the Democracy Now TV and radio channel in the US click on the link below and wait as it takes a while to get to the part of the program where Dr Maté is interviewed:
(There’s a transcript and a video on the web page.)
Gardening chills the body and nurtures it.
May the gardening be with you, any stress banished and the plants the better for it,
Michael
