Ronald Peters, M.D.
Dr. Ronald Peters has 30 years of research and experience in nutritional biochemistry and holistic medicine. He has studied with enlightened spiritual teachers, leading to a detailed understanding of the formative power of the conscious and unconscious mind, which he summarized in his ground-breaking book, Edgework, Exploring the Psychology of Disease. He empowers people to restore the wisdom of the body using nutritional therapies and then helps them understand the governing influence of consciousness. In this manner, disease becomes a messenger offering greater levels of health both physically and psychologically. He has written for the media, appeared on television and offers a variety of health promotion seminars. You can visit his website www.healmindbody.com.
Workshops and Private Consultations for the 2010 Cruise
Workshop 1: The Psychology of Disease and the New Mindbody Medicine
The great psychoanalyst, Dr. Franz Alexander summarized the mindbody connection when he wrote: "The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life..." The origins of physical disease are within consciousness - the body is the messenger of the conflicts, sustained fears, suppressed emotional traumas, disturbed patterns of thinking, and other imbalances that lie within the conscious and unconscious mind. Disease is the body's way of getting your attention and inviting self-exploration, thereby offering true healing. In this workshop you will learn a new model of healing which will guide you to greater levels of health, self-understanding and wisdom.
Workshop 2: Stress and the Psychology of Cancer
According to medical research, stress and toxins are two major factors that can increase your risk for cancer. Stress is a powerful influence in the body and has become “normal” for many people. In this workshop you will learn about stress and how you create it, consciously and unconsciously. It is not the stress that contributes to cancer, but more importantly, how you respond to stressful life events. You will learn how to prevent cancer and also how to greatly improve your chances of healing if you already have it. We will also review the terrain of the body and how it deteriorates over time providing the soil for renegade cancer cells to escape immune defenses and begin growing.
Workshop 3: The Healing Power of Stress
Heart attack, stroke, cancer, high blood pressure and diabetes are stress related, as are fatigue, depression, allergy, and anxiety. All illness is associated with the effects of stress. The fight or flight stress physiology has helped mankind to survive on earth for tens of thousands of years and yet in modern times it is making us sick and even killing us. How can we make sense of this paradox? What is stress? How does it contribute to disease? How do I create stress? What can I do about it?
In this workshop you will learn how you create stress in your life and how you can use it for growth and healing. You will learn a step by step plan that will make the stress system once again your friend helping you to survive, as it was intended.
Integrative Mind-Body Medicine - $350/person.
Mind-body medicine is the essence of healing as it focuses on two issues: restoring the natural wisdom of the body and exploring the causes of disease in the conscious and unconscious mind. The wisdom of the body is an orchestra of wondrously complex systems-including digestion, assimilation, immunity, hormones, brain chemistry, and more. Your body wisdom, however, is governed by your mind and this is the missing element in many medical therapies. In this consultation, Dr. Peters will help you understand the physical nature of a medical problem, as well as the underlying patterns of stress. You will explore the factors that coalesce into disease and how you can restore health in body and mind, thereby responding to the message of illness. Dr. Peters can also work with you after the cruise when you return home via telephone consultation.