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Appreciative Medicine

What is Appreciative MedicineTM?
The Appreciative MedicineTM Dialogue Process
The Appreciative MedicineTM View

  Appreciative Medicine

Appreciative MedicineTM is a philosophical approach to medicine that views health and life as a continuum of physical, emotional, and psychological as well as a spiritual quest.

    This is a simple list of seven things that Appreciative MedicineTM does:
  1. Shows patients how to get beyond their frustration and anger within the health care system.

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  2. Creates a way for patients and doctors to get the most out of medical visits.

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  3. Suggests that you might find the ultimate secret to health and healing to be thirty minutes of meditation every day.

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  4. Ushers in a new era of health care by giving you a philosophical approach to healing that's based upon health rather than disease.

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  5. Shows you how to merge the physical, psychological, emotional as well as spiritual being.

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  6. Helps health care providers recapture their enthusiasm for the practice of medicine.

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  7. Offers a new philosophical approach to health and to life to create the ultimate you.

In conventional health care it's difficult for patients to get beyond their "illness" - because in traditional medicine, the focus is on a "problem oriented approach." This model works great in the acute care setting: e.g. chest pain, stroke, or major traumas such as motor vehicle accidents, but this approach is very limiting when trying to get beyond chronic illness: e.g. fibromyalgia, chronic pain syndrome, back pain, asthma, diabetes, or allergies.
 
With Appreciative MedicineTM, multiple treatment options are combined synergistically to create an optimal wellness plan, with the focus on optimal well-being. When we change our focus - when we are able to see beyond a particular health challenge - we can experience the highest quality of human health. In fact, our mindset is the ultimate factor, a prerequisite to achieving your optimal self.
 
Within Appreciative MedicineTM, we create a dialogue between patient and physician - amongst all the practitioners an individual is working with - and within the individual themselves. This specific process is called "Appreciative Dialogue."
 
This approach creates wellness from within, and incorporates the entire spectrum of health care options from conventional medicine to acupuncture to massage. Within this alternative approach, each person calls upon innate healing energies, dwelling upon all the goodness and creative spirit that lies within to achieve the ultimate in health and life.

 
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What is Appreciative MedicineTM?
The Appreciative MedicineTM Dialogue Process
The Appreciative MedicineTM View

  The Appreciative Medicine Dialogue Process

Optimizing Healing from Within:
Appreciative Dialogue is based upon optimizing healing from within. Human physiology is based upon biological and chemical reactions that occur to regulate and maintain life. Our immune responses can be enhanced and our hormones optimized by activating innate healing. These systems can be turned on by proper nutrition, exercise, meditation, improved sleeping patterns, healthy relationships, managing stress, and probably enhanced by massage, acupuncture, and proper spinal alignments.
 
The Appreciative Dialogue process leads you through a series of four steps. With each step there are questions that help guide you to an increased level of awareness and assist you in choosing the right healing options and combination of choices for you. It is through exploring these questions in journal writings that you develop, write, and construct your own personal healing plan - your map, your compass, your ultimate guide to wellbeing.
 
To achieve the ultimate in health is like any other journey. It's a quest that begins with one step at a time. To begin, however, requires a change in your mindset, a new way to focus your mind to create your new paradigm of today. We begin by immersing ourselves with goodness, love, and joy and begin to dwell on the creative positive instinct in our lives, then we begin to explore and participate in Appreciative Dialogue beginning with Step 1, each step taken in sequence.
 
The Four Steps:
We'll begin then with Step 1. These are the "first steps to self-awareness": to begin to develop a vision of optimal well-being, to focus on the positive realm of goodness and health within you. Here, our focus begins to change.
 
Step 2 is called "modalities that nurture." These are tools for harnessing the vital energetic force to create healing. This includes the entire spectrum of healing, from conventional approaches to acupuncture and chiropractic to massage techniques. It is the application of the right combination at optimal times and intervals that releases maximum healing potential.
 
Step 3 is called "keys to new directions." This is an opportunity to reflect upon your accomplishments, a way to clarify your goals. On any journey, it's important to have benchmarks along the way. So, too, in your health. We frequently reflect on where you've been so we're more clear on where you're going. Now, focus on your expectations and receive inner guidance.
 
Step 4 is actualization of the ultimate self. Now that you're clearly focused on the road ahead, you obtain true insight into who you are and where you want to go. Optimal health is more than just a state; it's the way you experience your life, the way you live it every day. It is through this willingness to feel that you meet your total self. In return, you generate dynamic solutions and synergistic relationships leading to inner harmony, balance, and optimal health.
 
Appreciative Dialogue is about going beyond healing and getting really excited about the miracle of life and really manifesting in your life all that is humanly possible. This is all about empowering you, giving you the tools, the direction to become the ultimate you physically, emotionally, psychologically as well as spiritually.
 
Focus the Entire Continuum of Health Care on You:
Through Appreciative Dialogue you will have ultimate health via a dialogue in which you and your doctor map out a plan to create a strategy - an individual, unique plan for you to create and develop the ultimate you. Appreciative Dialogue is about communication between you and your doctor and within you, and about restructuring a relationship in health care so that your agenda and your needs are met. Appreciative Dialogue is about building bridges among the entire continuum of health care, where everyone's focus is you.
 
Appreciative Dialogue shows you how to talk to your doctor so that your agenda is met. No longer are you relegated to 10- or 15-minute office appointments where you walk out feeling an emptiness that your needs were not met. Appreciative Dialogue empowers you so that the agenda is set before the office visit and you walk out feeling fulfilled, you walk out of the office knowing and being excited about your next step in creating health in every aspect of your life.
 
The core of my message is that we are the ones that hold the keys to our overall health, and Appreciative Dialogue will help guide you to unlock the treasures that lie within. Appreciative Dialogue is about going beyond healing and getting really excited about the miracle of life and really manifesting in your life all that is humanly possible. This is all about empowering you, giving you the tools, the direction to become the ultimate you physically, emotionally, psychologically as well as spiritually.
 
Healing Is More than Just Overcoming Health Challenges:
Healing is about more than overcoming health care challenges that you may face. It's really about accessing that inner spirit that makes you a unique individual and using that inner self as your guide to creating a life that's truly yours. Appreciative MedicineTM is about utilizing a unique healing plan to create health and exceed your expectations.
 
I believe that all too often we look for answers, whether it be from doctors, therapists or even authors of bestselling books. I think that we all can help put together that puzzle of your health, but the truly profound answers come from within, and through Appreciative MedicineTM/Dialogue we can begin to take that ultimate journey and create in your life your ultimate self physically, psychologically, emotionally as well as spiritually.
 
Develop Your Unique Vision of Wellness:
What makes Appreciative MedicineTM so revolutionary and what makes this approach so powerful is that we shift our focus from illness to wellness, from problems to solutions with the goal of creating a map to achieve optimal health in your life. If you think about it for a moment, if we're always focusing on problems or on illness, we never get beyond that vicious cycle of doctor visits, of X-rays, of MRIs and CAT scans and seeing specialists. But by changing our focus, our entire life changes. When we change our mindset, we are opening ourselves to a whole new world of healing opportunities. The prerequisite to optional health is to change your focus: when you change your mindset, your whole world and what you manifest exceeds all expectations.
 

 
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What is Appreciative MedicineTM?
The Appreciative MedicineTM Dialogue Process
The Appreciative MedicineTM View

  The Appreciative View

Accessing past experience of happiness and joy literally changes your physiology, your body's chemistry. These biological reactions are activated by your euphoric experiences. This is a key ingredient of overcoming life's challenges and literally creating health from within.
 
By adopting an Appreciative View of life you begin to activate innate healing systems. The most essential ingredient to achieve optimal wellness in your life is YOU! Healing actually has to begin with you, not things done to you, or for you - it's not a passive process. Your mindset, your focus is essential - and you can choose what you focus on.
 
In a moment, in the space between these words, the pause between a thought, we can change our lives. We can change in an instant what we focus on, and our entire world, our whole life's journey takes an exciting new turn in the road. This power and the acknowledgment of this strength will change you forever.
 
The prerequisite to obtaining optimal health in your life? Change your mindset. When you change your focus, you open your life to a whole new world of healing opportunities. This is your first step to creating an optimal wellness plan.
 
Begin changing your focus, right now, with Dr. Franklin's free Eight Ways to Become Heart Healthy - or read on below for more mind - and health-changing tips.
 

    Free Your Mind and Unleash Your Creative Genius:
  1. Try a "negative fast." This is very simple, yet very difficult. Take a set amount of time - an hour, a day, a week, a month, or even a year. Make a conscious effort to avoid any negative emotions, thoughts, or actions motivated by anger, hostility, greed, envy, or jealousy, whether at work, caught in traffic or at home.

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  2. Spend time in nature every day.

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  3. Challenge yourself to reframe any challenging situation:

Think of a person, particular song, a movie, or a play that you love. Remember a time when you felt really good, even euphoric. The core of Appreciative Medicine™ is to experience this time over and over again. This emotional experience is key to optimal wellness.
 
The next time you feel angry or even hostile, think first: can I reframe this moment, this experience? Do I need to go down the road of "negativity"?
 
Emotions that we experience, choose to experience, are key to health and optimal wellness. And here is a huge lesson: we can choose which emotions to experience most of the time!

Planting the Seeds of An Appreciative View... One Thought at a Time:

    Three Steps to Euphoria:
  1. Turn on your favorite tunes and turn it up!

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  2. Spend a day in nature - at a park, at the beach, on a lake.

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  3. Adopt a pet, save a dog or cat at your local SPCA.

    Five Steps to Forgive:
  1. No matter who is right, say "I'm sorry" and mean it.

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  2. Make that phone call. Send that letter.

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  3. Refuse to gossip!

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  4. Never hold a grudge.

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  5. Move on, but learn the lesson.

    Five Steps to Begin Anew:
  1. Forgive yourself.

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  2. Make the past a lesson not to be repeated.

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  3. Put on a fresh face and a new pair of shoes and step out with a new attitude about yourself, as if you discovered the fountain of self-esteem.

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  4. Life is a journey, this is a new road, be curious and discover a new view.

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  5. See every challenge as an opportunity to learn the lesson that will change your life.

    Turn a Challenge into a Rewarding Experience in Three Steps:
  1. Become emotionally detached.

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  2. Visualize the positive outcome.

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  3. Know that success is assured.

Your vision for your life is the key to creating that life. Learn how Appreciative MedicineTM can make your visions come true. Get started now. Read my book Expect a Miracle - You Won't Be Disappointed!
 
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