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Spirituality and Health
Published in Makarand R. Paranjape, Healing across Boundaries, 2015
Consciousness is such a blissful mediator that the element of dualism is totally negated. Therefore, mind–body healing is nothing but quantum healing — an idea that has already been creatively intuited by a number of medical practitioners, especially L. Dossey and D. Chopra. The puzzle of mind–body healing is, how a thought, a non-material object, can cause the brain to make a material object, a neuro-peptide molecule, for example, that will initiate a communication to the immune or the endocrine system, eventually leading to healing (Goswami 2004/2005: 47–48).
Complementary therapies: a therapeutic model for palliative care
Published in Cooper Jo, Burnard Philip, Stepping into Palliative Care 2, 2017
Contemporary palliative nursing practice is a complex business given the changes incurred through advancements in technology, therapeutic practices, and a plethora of research evidence. Nonetheless, the heart of nursing practice remains centred on holistic care that serves to promote health, maintain and restore health, and, when health fails, promotes a dignified and peaceful death.1 Holistic practice requires undertaking a comprehensive assessment that considers the patient’s physical, social, psychological and spiritual wellbeing: a framework that not only guides clinical practice but has an affinity with the philosophical teachings associated with CAMS. Therefore, it is clear why nursing, within the context of palliative care, should incorporate CAMS as part of everyday practice. Nursing is a therapeutic endeavour in its own right,25 but only if there is a transfer of energy and/or an exchange of energy between the giver and receiver of care. In this sense, the process of energy transfer is through the principles of quantum mechanisms, or quantum healing.1 Unfortunately, in the pursuit of becoming a profession, and by following the dictums of modern (reductionistic) medicine, palliative nursing practice had lost sight of its central core activity which is to provide care from a holistic perspective in the recognition that people are more than their bodily parts. Nonetheless, with the resurgence of CAMS’ popularity by the public and the recognition to incorporate holism within nursing practice, the current service reforms have allowed nurses working in palliative care to assess and prescribe patients’ needs from a much wider scope of therapeutic practice. However, to undertake such diverse roles and responsibilities, the nurse must demonstrate the competence to practise within the boundaries dictated by the regulatory bodies. Given the need for competence, nurses should not fear the challenge to embrace CAMS as part of their repertoire of skills as the benefits enjoyed by the nurse and patient are significant. For example, CAMS promotes reciprocal partnership so that responsibility and decision making is jointly shared. Moreover, quality of care is improved, leading to increased job satisfaction and achievement.1
There Is No Such Thing as Alternative Medicine
Published in AJOB Neuroscience, 2021
Proponents of medical pseudoscience have always tended toward stretching scientific terminologies beyond their valid meaning. A perfect example is using the scientific concept of quantum for inventing the pseudoscientific notion of “quantum healing”. The same is true about technologies that sound mysterious and highly scientific, such as SPECT and tDCS, and TMS.