The Voice of the Body

Further, I am not terrified by pain for I recognize that it is part of the healing process.

sciatica due to pressure on the sciatic nerve.

Stress and Illness: A Bioenergetic View,

The Rhythm of Life

Breathing, Movement, and Feeling

Stress and Illness: A Bioenergetic View

When the body is overpowered by a stressor agent its first reaction is shock, which consists of the withdrawal of energy and blood

psyche and soma are both antithetical and functionally identical

ypical attitude of the second half of this century. That attitude is despair. The idea that disease and culture are related is expressed by Henry E. Sigerist. He says, “In every epoch certain diseases are in the foreground and…are characteristic of this epoch and fit into its whole structure.

This means that there is an emotional attitude which has the same relation to cancer that romantic longing has to tuberculosis.