Why Mind-Body Medicine

To understand why American Association of Mind-Body Medicine (AAMBM) is established, it is necessary to understand why Mind-Body Medicine is important and worth to promote.

Today's earth family is seriously facing multiple crisis including economic, mental and physical health and environmental / energy resource crisis. As more and more health practitioners, psychologists, education professionals and spiritual practitioners get understood, these crisis are all originated from disturbances of human minds and as well as these impure vibrations inside the minds.

The fact is that on this fast-developing planet we keep seeing that increasing number of people are suffering from mental and physical health problems and tremendous stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental and emotional nagitivities, and increasing number of physical diseases that are caused by or cause mental illnesses. From serious diseases such as Cancer, Heart Failure, AIDS, Diabetes, MCS, Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Fibroid, STD to ADD/ADHD, drug/alcohol/cigarette addictions, depression, anxiety, daily stress, etc., there are over 10,000 disease names added to the modern medical dictionary. It is still increasing; many diseases have not been added or have no name defined. Unfortunately many of these diseases are not easy to be cured or still labeled as "incurable disease" despite well-developed modern medicine and expensive medical care services.

WHO's study indicates that in next 13 years the number of cancer patients per year will be increased from 10 million to 15 million while the number of death due to cancer will be increased from 6 million to 10 million each year.

According to most recent convincing research by American Psychological Association (APA) and WHO, more than half of college students in the United States have suicidal thoughts due to stress and mental problems such as depression, confusion and hopeless in life and lack of understanding the meaning of life, as reported by NBC on August 18, 2008.

All the social and family's, economic and educational, historical and realistic, spiritual and physical, environmental and nutritional, personal and social, psychological and physiological factors interacting each other caused those problems of mental health, physical health, social problems and economic hardships.

It is the time that cannot be ignored any more, for us to find the fundamental, comprehensive, effective, preventive and practical solution to help our earth family regain the true health and harmony, in hope of saving lives and the planet. The core solution for these problems is to work on our mental health, spiritual purity, mental and physical strength to build peaceful, energetic and healthy minds and energy field of, and/or within, individuals, families, organizations, companies and societies. Such a science and practice is called Mind-Body Medicine (MBM). MBM deals with all these factors at the same time in a balanced way based on the natural law, fundamental principle and well-established techniques that have been developed in the long history and still being advanced at modern time.

Mind-Body Medicine is a mean, principle and practice of science, technology, research, education system, healthcare service, coaching and consulting service, organizational, entrepreneurial and social practice to help individuals and society to gain health, strength and purity mentally, physically and socially, as result achieving the peaceful solutions for these problems mentioned above.

Why AAMBM

After understood by reading Why MBM above about why Mind-Body Medicine is an extremely important needed science and practice at modern time and for the future, it is easy to understand why and how to promote Mind-Body Medicine (MBM) by involving many's efforts from entire society.

It is obvious that the solution MBM aims to can be reached only by joint efforts, integrative study, and kind-hearted contributions from as many valued talents as possible from different fields. These talents include, of course but not only health practitioners and educators in the related fields of life science, conventional medicine, alternative and complementary medicine, psychology, but also successful professionals in other fields such as natural sciences, social sciences, business management, and any individuals, organizations, companies, and governments that have the same concern and understanding, and as well as intention to put effort to develop and promote Mind-Body Medicine as a public health science and practice.

With all these in the mind as described above, AAMBM is established as a platform or network for all those professionals and spirits to join efforts in development and promotion of MBM science and practice.

To promote MBM, to conventionalize MBM education and services, to help MBM practitioners to professionally practice, to educate public to better understand MBM, and to accredit MBM education programs and institutions in order to ensure quality education for MBM students' learning benefits, are the reasons and purposes why American Association of Mind-Body Medicine has been established.

Please continue to read about AAMBM's Mission and Goal.