If we look back 1,000 to 2,000 years ago, we will see preventive medicine in practice. It was important to keep people healthy so that they could defend themselves and their families, villages, cities, and nations. Accordingly, various practices developed…
As human beings, we consist of two levels: the animal level and the human or speaking level. At the animal level, we need food in order to survive. The fulfillment of this base survival need is the primary concern in…
According to the Academy of the Hebrew Language, the word for psychiatry is “medicine of the soul” (“Refuat HaNefesh“), and it refers to the attempts to treat mental disorders and rehabilitate people who suffer from mental illness. But what exactly…
Addictions are usually associated with drugs, alcohol, and gambling, and we also often hear about addictions to shopping, the Internet, and social media. Of course, there are several other kinds of addictions, but a deeper look shows us that certain…
Depression is a negative illumination. It descends from our desires and thoughts, the highest level of our inner structure, to our mood. From our mood, it proceeds to seep into the bodies’ systems, including our bones, tissues, nerves, and skin.…
Depression is like a virus that suddenly lands on us, chills us, paralyzes us, and lays us down. It strips away the joy of life, the strength to move, function, listen, and open our eyes. If we are depressed, we…
It is said that thought can influence the healing of the body. What is the power of thought? How does it work exactly? What can increase it? We have been evolving as a human species for generations, and our main…
A person is a private system that needs balance, and its balance depends on the general system in which it lives. Today, when the world has become interconnected and interdependent, the general system is in fact global, because human beings…
We are made of a desire to receive pleasure and delight, a desire to enjoy, which exists in various degrees. This desire develops qualitatively, becomes more sophisticated, and urges us to bring it new fulfillments. If we once wanted only…
Pressures, pains, doctors. Maybe the tests show nothing unusual, but the distress continues. Therapists, psychologists, medications. Sometimes there is some relief, but not a solution. Work is hard, family is hard, life is hard everywhere. Why has this epidemic come…
Where does the sensation of pain come from? What is its role? What is the difference between today’s pains and those felt in the past? Can we do anything to ensure there will be less pain tomorrow? The basic substance…
What is the root of cancer? How do relationships between people influence it? Will we ever be able to eliminate it from the world? The integral approach to education, which views the human being, society, and nature as one whole,…