Is it essential to release negative emotions for optimum health?
A traditional view, still held by many scientists, is that the immune system is autonomous…that it is self-regulatory and functions separate and independent from the rest of the body. With the increasing focus on the relatively new science of Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) these old views are becoming less legitimate. Dr. Robert Ader, director of the division of behavioural and psychosocial medicine at New York’s University of Rochester first coined the term Psychoneuroimmunology back in 1975. Psychoneuroimmunology is the scientific field of study investigating the link between bi-directional communications among the nervous system, the endocrine (hormone) system, and the immune system and the implications of these linkages for physical health. Thus, old concepts on the nature of consciousness, and on the nature of the body are changing. Some of the more exciting conceptual work on the healing process has been done by a medical doctor in Massachusetts. Deepak Chopra is one of the new br
