Dr. Peter J. Weiss

Today’s edi­tion of my local news­pa­per, Florida Today, fea­tured a pro­file of Janet Harazda who spe­cial­izes in Hoshino Ther­apy.

Harazda

Now I don’t know too much about this type of acupressure/massage, and I’m not writ­ing about that prac­tice.

The part of the pro­file that inter­ested me was that Janet is a nurse who shifted her career into this non-traditional area (for west­ern health­care providers) after per­son­ally expe­ri­enc­ing its ben­e­fits.

When asked what is the most dif­fi­cult part of her inter­ac­tion with clients she replied, “When they think their prob­lems are too seri­ous and can’t be helped in a nat­ural way. Some peo­ple are just so tied up in their habit­ual way of liv­ing that they don’t want to change.”

“Exactly right,” I thought.

I believe this closed-mindedness could be the sin­gle great­est prob­lem pre­vent­ing most peo­ple from becom­ing healthy.  Their minds are just not open to new ideas.  They’re not teach­able.

Hey, I’m not throw­ing stones.  I’ve been there myself.  It wasn’t a totally smooth tran­si­tion for me either from tra­di­tional west­ern med­ical spe­cial­ist to inte­gra­tive well­ness evan­ge­list, but I’m glad I made it.

That’s why I write so much about open­ing your mind in my book, More Health Less Care.  An open mind is the begin­ning of your jour­ney to well­be­ing.

Yes, it can be dif­fi­cult.  Most peo­ple have to really work at being recep­tive to new ways of think­ing.  I know I do, but it can be done.  So open your mind and begin to grow!  You can do it!