Engendering Optimal Coping for Cancer Patients

Enhancing personal strengths and sense of hope

 Negative Cognition/Emotions

The Physiological Response to Stress

 

The Amygdala Hijacking

An Integrative Model of Behavior Prediction

Biopsychosocial Approach

 

 

 

Peace of Mind and Personal Contentment                                  

Progressive Relaxation and Mindfulness Meditation

• Eases Anxiety
• Stress Reduction
• Relieves Pain
• Alleviates Insomnia
• Improves Appetite Issues

 

 

The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that channels stress and decreases heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing pace.  As a result, the muscles become relaxed and circulation improves.  The progressive relaxation process allows individuals more in tune with personal needs and understands the importance of self-maintenance.

• The mind body medicine technique is adapted from Herbert Benson, MD. He found a mechanism to counterbalance the stress response. At the Benson-Henry Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital he realized through research models that physical health is shaped by reflections, feelings, and can equally be formed by physical symptoms.  The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that channels stress and decreases heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing pace.  As a result, the muscles become relaxed and circulation improves.  The progressive relaxation process allows individuals more in tune with personal needs and understands the importance of self-maintenance.

Mindfulness meditation is adopted from Jon Kabat Zinn, Ph.D.   He is the founding Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He was also a Professor of Medicine at Emeritus and a director of a Stress Reduction Clinic at the Medical School.  Jon Kabat Zinn, Ph.D. has published numerous books for the public on mindfulness meditation which has been translated into over 30 languages.  His research focuses on mind/body interactions for healing, clinical applications of mindfulness mediation training, and stress in various corporate settings as well as other work environments.

Please contact Cindy at (561)512-0065.

 

Pain Relief with Meditation

• Meditation is promoted for general well-being, stress relief and even as a solution to specific problems, including pain.
• In a recent study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in 2012, novice participants in a class for mindfulness meditation reported less pain.
• With correct training in this method, pain relief can be achieved
• In just a little over an hour and likely enhanced with even more practice

Yes! Even the Brain!
 Integrative Wellness

Gary Small, M.D. neuroscientist, director of the UCLA Longevity Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior

Cautions us against eating refined carbohydrates, citing its  link to Type II Diabetes and the two-fold increased risk for Alzheimer’s Dementia

Mayo Clinic and ACS

 

Medical Nutrition

Health Psychology

Cindy Collins, PhD, RD, CSO, LD/N

Cindy Collins, PhD, RD, CSO, LD/N