An article titled “Miracle Survivors,” in Forbes (March 2, 2009), portrays stories of people who have spontaneous remissions from several different types of cancers. Explanations by the medical community range from “…a complete mystery,” “divine intervention,” or “the immune system.” With regard to the latter explanation, our bodies have all the necessary elements to heal itself.
Everyone knows who Deepak Chopra is…here is his explanation and understanding of spontaneous remission taken from intentblog:
“Essentially remission is based on our understanding of the science of self-repair. Our bodies have learned to heal themselves over millions of years of 
evolutionary time. Our bodies are the best pharmacies in nature. They make antibodies, sleeping pills, tranquilizers, immunomodulators, and anti-cancer drugs in the precise dose at the precise time and for the right taget organ; and all the instructions come in the packaging! The “packaging” is your own inner self - the ultimate and supreme genius which mirrors the wisdom of the universe. Cognition or thinking, moods, feelings and emotions, behavior, social interactions, personal relationships, environment, diet, and the inner world of consciousness including attention and intentionality all influence the biology of healing.”
Now, back to the Forbes article…
It states that “spontaneous remissions are among the rarest and most mysterious events in medicine, with only several hundred cases that can be considered well documented.” In 1993, two authors for the Institute of Noetic Sciences, created a database of medically reported cases of spontaneous remission in the world from more than 3,500 references. This data shows the ability of our bodies to heal itself is not such a rare event.
Btw, the authors defined spontaneous remission as “the disappearance, complete or incomplete, of a disease or cancer without medical treatment or treatment that is considered inadequate to produce the resulting disappearance of disease symptoms or tumor.”
Activate the body’s self-healing properties with Creative Interventions in Patient Care:
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Art-making
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Writing
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Music
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Dance
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Humor
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Laughing Clubs
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Art Exhibits with artwork created by patients, families, professional staff
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Indoor and outdoor gardens
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Art at the bedside
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Limitless possibilities
critical care units (past tense in my case) are happy to see patients tranferred to step-down units because we feel we applied our best efforts in getting these patients on the road to recovery…and we did. We stablized their bodies and healed them physically, but researchers are finding out that spending days, weeks or months on life support in the units can bring unexpected, long-lasting undesireable effects.
stress disorder) such as hallucinations, nightmares during sedation, mood disorders, anxiety, shortness of temper and frightening memories - 
bodily trauma, but also psychosocial stressors with pain, inability to communicate, sleep deprivation, feelings of isolation or lonliness, and fear or anxiety being the most common. A review of the literature has shown each of these stressors are associated with decreased immune functioning. (2)
1999 movie “Flawless?” The main character (Robert Deniro) suffers a debilitating stroke and is prescribed to take therapeutic singing lessons for his paralyzed larynx. His music teacher is his gay next-door neighbor. The outcome from taking singing lessons is positive, for relearning and regaining speech AND learning tolerance of different lifestyles.
The therapeutic effects of music is not new news…the method of delivering music, marketing and money needed for these new elaborate systems are. WHO is paying for the high-cost of audio systems fit for concert halls in hospitals? Instead, pay musicians to play in clinical settings. Music is their passion and their presence will help humanize an environment that can be frightening and dehumanizing.
Amenities in Hospitals’ 
families heal? Are there any long-term benefits of hotel-like services for patients? Or have hospitals strayed from their original missions and visions? I believe the latter may be true, i.e., hospitals have lost their original vision of healing the sick in an attempt to gain market share, but at least we’ll be able to attend a cooking class at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital.
assessing people diagnosed with lupus, aka, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). A qualitative study was conducted at the Medical University of Gdansk, Poland with 2 main goals. First, to examine the ways illness is perceived and experienced by patients with lupus and second, to assess the use of drawing as as a diagnostic tool. 
between foreign substances and its own cells and tissues. The immune system is designed to attack foreign substances in the body, but in lupus, something goes wrong with the immune system and begins to make antibodies that attack healthy cells and tissues causing inflammation, pain and damage to the body. 
with no known cause, red rashes on the face, chest pain when taking deep breaths, hair loss, pale or purple fingers or toes, sensitivity to the sun, swelling in legs or around the eyes, ulcers in the mouth, swollen glands, and feeling fatigued.
assessment tool in measuring illness perception is verbal communication. By drawing their disease, it had patients think about their disease in a different way, and produced “incredibly tangible” insight of the impact of lupus to the patients themselves and healthcare professionals.
moment of injury when displaced bone fragments, disc material, or ligaments bruise or tear into spinal cord tissue. Most injuries to the spinal cord don’t completely sever it. Instead, an injury is more likely to cause fractures and compression of the vertebrae, which then crush and destroy the axons, extensions of nerve cells that carry signals up and down the spinal cord between the brain and the rest of the body. An injury to the spinal cord can damage a few, many, or almost all of these axons. Some injuries will allow almost complete recovery. Others will result in complete paralysis.
(gunshot wounds). The rest are due to sporting accidents, and work-related accidents. Interestingly, the proportion of injuries due to sports decreased over time while the proportion of injuries due to falls has increased. Acts of violence caused 13.3% of spinal cord injuries prior to 1980, and peaked between 1990 and 1999 at 24.8% before declining to only 15.3% since 2005.
participants’ feelings went unrecognized until the drawing task. I am not surprised by this at all…engaging in the creative process allows the spirit/soul to assume control and communicates with the body, mind and emotions via complex biochemical pathways. See my diagram to the right ->
winner in the Atlanta Film and Video Contest; her screenplay, ‘One of Us’, was a semifinalist in the Cinestory 1997 Screenwriting Contest. She has written three books – 2 novels (Shadow Dance and Horography), and a collection of short fiction titled ‘No Part of the Body is Not Sacred.’ Sara holds a Masters degree from Boston College. She has taught English at the University of Georgia, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Piedmont College. In addition, she has been a Georgia Artist in the schools and conducted workshops throughout the state. Sara created the Woven Dialog Workshops, writing workshops that aid in facilitating the healing process at Loran Smith Center for Cancer Support in Athnes, Georgia.
health field where healthcare professionals have expertise in the art of helping a patient psychologically. A study of an arts support program concluded 
which I find 
(“infinity” Marti Hand, 2008 )
of a drumming circle I had at my home a few years ago, and decided to use drumming as the topic for this post.
gathered a group of 10 people and had them beat hand drums for an hour while a music “facilitator” conducted. Afterward, Bittman took blood samples. The drummers, he found, had heightened levels of immune cells called natural killer cells that seek out and destroy both cancer cells and cells infected by viruses. A control group that read in silence experienced no such upsurge.
