Ronald Peters, M.D., M.P.H.
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.
Lectures and Private Consultations for the 2012 Cruise
Lecture 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. New research on this vital topic will be presented.
Lecture 2: Cancer - What are the Causes within Body and Mind?
According to medical research, the terrain of the body deteriorates over time, thereby allowing a renegade cancer to escape immune surveillance and spread in the body. Chronic inflammation, weak immunity, impaired digestion and assimilation, nutrient deficiencies, viral and bacterial overgrowth, toxin accumulation, and lowered oxygen levels are a few of the conditions that permit cancer development. However, the most important factor may be psychological stress, which can be conscious and unconscious. In this lecture you will learn about the latest research on cancer development in mind and body, which will help you prevent the disease or reverse it if it has already developed.
Lecture 3: Epigenetics - The New Science of Gene Regulation, or How You Control Your DNA
The epigenome is the cellular material that sits on top of your DNA, telling your genes to switch on or off, to speak loudly or whisper. This mysterious cellular bio-energy network responds to messages sent from the surface of your cells and activates appropriate DNA activity. This is how stress, toxins, infections, and poor diet create inflammation and other conditions in your body that lead to chronic disease. Your DNA is the hardware and the epigenome is the software, which responds moment to moment to your thoughts, emotions and how you live your life.
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.