About My Methods

An Overview of My Methods

I work with all forms of chronic disease and illness.  Regardless of the name given to your illness I treat you as a totally unique person and I design a individualized  program of care especially for you.  

There is a method I apply to every person and there are definitely principles which guide my decisions.  These are the highlights of my method:

1.    I first evaluate how well you take care of yourself in four fundamental aspects of your life: Nutrition, Exercise and Rest, Psycho-Spiritual, and Relationships.  I term these “The Four Disciplines” or “The Four Arts of Living”.  These four activities form the foundation of all Health and Healing.  While there may be many other factors contributing to your illness, nothing will benefit you as profoundly nor as rapidly.

2.     I teach you to view your body’s problems not as due to a foreign and malevolent “illness or disease” but rather to see your symptoms as intelligent and purposeful expressions of your body.   You learn to relate to your body more as a person or an animal rather than as something unintelligent and uncaring like a computer or a car.  

3.    From this foundational understanding I guide you to construct what you believe to be the real causes of your illness. Hormonal imbalances, a weak immune system or blown out adrenals are not the true cause of your problems.  Why are your adrenals blown out?  The causes we are searching for are found in the ways you live your life and care for your body.  The root causes of your dis-ease lie even deeper in your lack of understanding of the laws of Nature/reality, your lack of caring and compassion for yourself and lack of ability to direct your own actions.  

    Said another way, your illness will require you to develop deeper levels of kindness towards yourself and deeper levels of honesty.  

4.    I help you develop a plan for getting well that makes sense to YOU; that you really have faith in.  Your plan will describe the changes you will make in each of the four disciplines.  This connects your illness to the ways you actually live.  You will view your ordinary activities of living as having far greater meaning and importance.  

5.    You will learn a brilliant model of how your body actually works;  How the ways you eat, think and live influence your entire physiology particularly your digestive tract, liver and hormonal balance.  You will understand the actual changes that take place as your body degenerates.  

6.    You will learn how to properly care for yourself when you are ill.  This includes learning how to properly feed yourself, rest and use processes such as bowel cleansing, sweating procedures, along with some powerful herbs and supplements.  

7.     Perhaps most importantly you will learn how to meet the challenge of changing deeply seated habits of behavior.  For most of my students the greatest focus of our work is learning how to face and change these thoughtless, compulsive ways of eating, thinking and relating.   This is done through counseling and assignments such as reading, journaling and meditation.  

8.    You will develop caring relationships that will support you and hold you accountable for doing the good actions you aspire to do.