Year: 2024, Volume: 01, Issue: 02, Pages: Pages: 72-79

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Corresponding author: tadgell@hotmail.com

Received Date: 16.01.2024     Accepted Date: 20.01.2024    Published Date: 31.01.2024

Abstract Most chronic diseases are psychosomatic, resulting from chronic stress derived from prolonged negative mental states, which disregulate physiological functions and distort energy flow. Most of the diseases faced today are due to the negative mental states of stress, creating a disbalance within the mind and energy systems, affecting the brain and, therefore, our body, and affecting the very fabric of reality of our existence.

We face serious health concerns that cannot be understood in isolation because they are systemically rooted in the interconnectedness and interdependency of holism. This paper reviews the literature on the healing of chronic diseases using integrative medicine, a medicinal system that includes the mainstream allopathic system with alternative systems, generally referred to as holistic (or integrative) medicines.

Keywords: stress, chronic disease, mind, holistic therapy, quantum, emotions, perception, mental health, consciousness.

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