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What Is Appreciative Medicine™?

Appreciative Medicine™ is a philosophical approach to medicine that views health and life as a continuum of physical, emotional, and psychological as well as a spiritual quest.

This is a simple list of seven things that Appreciative Medicine™ does:

1. Shows patients how to get beyond their frustration and anger within the health care system.

2. Creates a way for patients and doctors to get the most out of medical visits.

3. Suggests that you might find the ultimate secret to health and healing to be... 30 minutes of meditation every day.

4. Ushers in a new era of health care by giving you a philosophical approach to healing that's based upon health rather than disease.

5. Shows you how to merge the physical, psychological, emotional as well as spiritual being.

6. Helps health care providers recapture their enthusiasm for the practice of medicine.

7. Offers a new philosophical approach to health and to life to create the ultimate you.

In conventional health care it's difficult for patients to get beyond their "illness"—because in traditional medicine, the focus is on a "problem oriented approach." This model works great in the acute care setting; e.g., chest pain, stroke, or in major trauma as in a motor vehicle accident, but this approach is very limiting when trying to get beyond chronic illness; e.g., fibromyalgia, chronic pain syndrome, or back pain, asthma, diabetes or allergies.

With Appreciative Medicine™, multiple treatment options are combined synergistically to create an optimal wellness plan, with the focus on optimal well-being. When we change our focus—when are able to see beyond a particular health challenge—we can experience the highest quality of human health. In fact, our mind set is the ultimate factor; a prerequisite to achieving your optimal self.

Within Appreciative Medicine™, we create a dialogue between patient and physician—amongst all the practitioners an individual is working with—and within the individual themselves. This specific process is called "Appreciative Dialogue."

This approach creates wellness from within, and incorporates the entire spectrum of health care options from conventional medicine to acupuncture to massage. Within this alternative approach, each person calls upon innate healing energies, dwelling upon all the goodness and creative spirit that lies within to achieve the ultimate in health and life.