The traits that shape human behavior and beliefs are complex.
An evolutionary pattern that connects people within cultures, communities and groups which also tends to keep them in their isolated view of the world.
Often new ideas bring fear or disbelief as old views are questioned.
In some instances, beliefs are so tightly held it is almost impossible to accept new or opposing views.
This mindset makes the transition from long held beliefs to a new understanding a complicated one.
It is ever thus that, in the history of ideas, there is a four-stage process: "A new idea is often first picked up by a crazy person, then elaborated by an artist, who is more interested in its imaginative possibilities than in its literal truth, then it is picked up by a scholar or scientist who has become familiar with the idea through the work of the artist; the savant makes the hitherto crazy idea perfectly acceptable to the multitude, until finally the idea rests as a certainty in the hands of a bureaucracy of pedants.
" (William Irwin Thompson, Passages About Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture, 1973) With this in mind, it is not hard to see how some have been resistant to change from the old view of healthcare.
Unfortunately, that old view is often merely a shadow of reality.
Today the American healthcare system is no longer centered on "care" but on "management.
" With new economic and industry restraints on physicians, a more streamlined medical system has evolved.
While in the past physicians traditionally balanced science with the art of medicine, currently the weight has shifted to a purely scientific model.
Science has become the religion of medicine.
A blind eye and ear is frequently turned to the patient ignoring their symptoms, family history and even past complaints.
The results of this shift has taken the emphasis off using scientific studies and tests as merely guidelines for treatment design and changed it to one treatment fits all.
In this model everyone with the same disease is presumed to be the same, and quality medical care is measured by how it conforms to the one best "scientifically proven" protocol.
At this juncture, science has won the war and patients are the big losers.
Medicine has become mired in the quantification of science.
Anything that can't be measured in double-blind, placebo-controlled studies are labeled as unscientific and therefore not legitimate.
This label has unfortunately been applied to many remarkably effective medical alternatives that have many fewer side effects than its pharmaceutical counterpart.
The pharmaceutical companies have long influenced legislation and medical treatments.
Their mass media campaigns have lured the unsuspecting populace into pathologizing even normal behaviors.
This has created a huge demand for pharmaceutical interventions which many times create worse problems than they cure.
This is especially problematic in children, where a label can shape identity for a lifetime and along with seniors, are experiencing increasing additional health problems related to side effects of unwarranted medications.
They have guided health care away from curing illness and towards the less costly tact of managing symptoms and while doing so have laced our soil and water with a cocktail of drugs flushed from its users.
They have quietly removed the allopathic alternatives such as holistic, naturopathic and alternative medicine by making their services an out-of-pocket expense that few can afford.
However, the real truth is few can afford not to look at these alternative methods.
In the last few years there has been an enormous amount of information coming out of the scientific community which highlights new revelations in the way the brain functions and how it can repair itself.
Made possible by the growing power of technology and imaging systems, we now know the brain is "plastic" and able to change and repair itself even into old age.
Plasticity, or Neuroplasticity as it's called, is the brain's ability to reorganize neural pathways based on new experiences.
As we learn, we acquire new knowledge and skills through instruction or experience.
In order to learn or memorize a fact or skill, there must be persistent functional changes in the brain that represent the new knowledge.
This revelation that the brain is not a static organ without hope of rejuvenation should be of immense interest to everyone in this country dealing with ADHD, mild cognitive impairment, depression, anxiety, memory loss, traumatic brain injury and PTSD just to name a few.
Over thirty years of scientific research has shown the effectiveness of neurotherapies that are non-invasive and virtually free of harmful side effects to enhance brain function and repair prior damage.
If a medication had been proven this successful, we would all be hailing it as a miracle drug.
But because it is a non-traditional medical technique, it has been likened to "snake oil sold on the back of a horse-drawn wagon".
Some are fighting the status quo to try and tip the scales away from pharmaceuticals and towards balance of the system through non-invasive means.
Neurotherapeutic technologies has incredible potential and is available to everyone now.
It is a new way to permanently change brain function that is cost effective, non-invasive and powerful.
The outdated allopathic mindset that pharmaceutical drugs are always preferable and quicker to administer, despite patients' immediate and long-term side effects, must be looked at with a new eye.
The artist in each of us must recognize the need for effective safe solutions to brain dysfunction and other diseases that empower people to be in charge of their inner and outer environments: a sustainable present and future.
An evolutionary pattern that connects people within cultures, communities and groups which also tends to keep them in their isolated view of the world.
Often new ideas bring fear or disbelief as old views are questioned.
In some instances, beliefs are so tightly held it is almost impossible to accept new or opposing views.
This mindset makes the transition from long held beliefs to a new understanding a complicated one.
It is ever thus that, in the history of ideas, there is a four-stage process: "A new idea is often first picked up by a crazy person, then elaborated by an artist, who is more interested in its imaginative possibilities than in its literal truth, then it is picked up by a scholar or scientist who has become familiar with the idea through the work of the artist; the savant makes the hitherto crazy idea perfectly acceptable to the multitude, until finally the idea rests as a certainty in the hands of a bureaucracy of pedants.
" (William Irwin Thompson, Passages About Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture, 1973) With this in mind, it is not hard to see how some have been resistant to change from the old view of healthcare.
Unfortunately, that old view is often merely a shadow of reality.
Today the American healthcare system is no longer centered on "care" but on "management.
" With new economic and industry restraints on physicians, a more streamlined medical system has evolved.
While in the past physicians traditionally balanced science with the art of medicine, currently the weight has shifted to a purely scientific model.
Science has become the religion of medicine.
A blind eye and ear is frequently turned to the patient ignoring their symptoms, family history and even past complaints.
The results of this shift has taken the emphasis off using scientific studies and tests as merely guidelines for treatment design and changed it to one treatment fits all.
In this model everyone with the same disease is presumed to be the same, and quality medical care is measured by how it conforms to the one best "scientifically proven" protocol.
At this juncture, science has won the war and patients are the big losers.
Medicine has become mired in the quantification of science.
Anything that can't be measured in double-blind, placebo-controlled studies are labeled as unscientific and therefore not legitimate.
This label has unfortunately been applied to many remarkably effective medical alternatives that have many fewer side effects than its pharmaceutical counterpart.
The pharmaceutical companies have long influenced legislation and medical treatments.
Their mass media campaigns have lured the unsuspecting populace into pathologizing even normal behaviors.
This has created a huge demand for pharmaceutical interventions which many times create worse problems than they cure.
This is especially problematic in children, where a label can shape identity for a lifetime and along with seniors, are experiencing increasing additional health problems related to side effects of unwarranted medications.
They have guided health care away from curing illness and towards the less costly tact of managing symptoms and while doing so have laced our soil and water with a cocktail of drugs flushed from its users.
They have quietly removed the allopathic alternatives such as holistic, naturopathic and alternative medicine by making their services an out-of-pocket expense that few can afford.
However, the real truth is few can afford not to look at these alternative methods.
In the last few years there has been an enormous amount of information coming out of the scientific community which highlights new revelations in the way the brain functions and how it can repair itself.
Made possible by the growing power of technology and imaging systems, we now know the brain is "plastic" and able to change and repair itself even into old age.
Plasticity, or Neuroplasticity as it's called, is the brain's ability to reorganize neural pathways based on new experiences.
As we learn, we acquire new knowledge and skills through instruction or experience.
In order to learn or memorize a fact or skill, there must be persistent functional changes in the brain that represent the new knowledge.
This revelation that the brain is not a static organ without hope of rejuvenation should be of immense interest to everyone in this country dealing with ADHD, mild cognitive impairment, depression, anxiety, memory loss, traumatic brain injury and PTSD just to name a few.
Over thirty years of scientific research has shown the effectiveness of neurotherapies that are non-invasive and virtually free of harmful side effects to enhance brain function and repair prior damage.
If a medication had been proven this successful, we would all be hailing it as a miracle drug.
But because it is a non-traditional medical technique, it has been likened to "snake oil sold on the back of a horse-drawn wagon".
Some are fighting the status quo to try and tip the scales away from pharmaceuticals and towards balance of the system through non-invasive means.
Neurotherapeutic technologies has incredible potential and is available to everyone now.
It is a new way to permanently change brain function that is cost effective, non-invasive and powerful.
The outdated allopathic mindset that pharmaceutical drugs are always preferable and quicker to administer, despite patients' immediate and long-term side effects, must be looked at with a new eye.
The artist in each of us must recognize the need for effective safe solutions to brain dysfunction and other diseases that empower people to be in charge of their inner and outer environments: a sustainable present and future.
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