- Sixty six percent of the U.S. population uses one or more of the holistic healing modalities as a preventative to illness or to complement or substitute for traditional medical techniques.
- Dr. Candice Pert, a highly recognized neuroscientist and author of Molecules in Motion has scientifically proven that your emotions directly affect the natural function of your body through the release or repression of peptides, the carriers of the body's biochemical information system.
- Deepak Chopra, M.D. in his book Ageless Body, Timeless Mind tells us that our cells are constantly being affected and changed by our thoughts and emotions. Feelings like despair and hopelessness can greatly increase the risks of cancer and heart attacks. He relates to us how depression can devastate our immune systems, and how love can strengthen it. And he explains that just remembering a stressful event releases the same tide of destructive hormones as the stress itself.
- Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of the best selling Love, Medicine and Miracles knows from his extensive personal research that the power of love in the human heart is the most potent factor for transforming our lives and our health.
- The British researcher Hans Eysenck studied more than 13,000 people for over 20 years and found that the vast majority of those who died from cancer or heart disease had unresolved emotional problems like anger, depression, and hopelessness.
