Improvement in attitudes and emotions can be important elements in healing from disease.

Counseling and Stress management therapeutic techniques may be utilized as part of a comprehensive holistic health recovery program.

Dr. Diana Joy Ostroff studied psychology for 6 years at both the University of Delaware and the University of Oregon graduating with honors with a B.A. in Psychology.  This education plus her psychotherapy training and experience with clinical psychology, hypnotherapy, meditation, prayer, affirmation work and dreams gives her a host of tools to draw from when working with patients to assist them in moving through are as in their lives where they feel stuck.  The changes made in the heart, affect the mind, those made to the body, affect the emotions and those shifts made in thoughts and decisions affect your whole being.

Our thoughts affect our words, our words affect our behavior, our behavior creates habits, our habits translate to our personality, and our personality dictates our reality.

Whatever you are thinking right now is your contribution to the universe in this moment.

Psycho-Neuro-Immunity -The relationship between the Mind, Body and Immune System.

Psycho-neuro-immunity is the study of how circumstances affect our lives; how the way we interpret events in our lives affects our physical being, our hormones, our neurological pathways and our abilities to make rational decisions, our immune systems and our whole being.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, everything is caused from the emotions.  The nature of our reactions to life’s challenges and our emotional responses lead to a variety of symptom pictures.

In the five element theory in traditional Chinese medicine, every organ has an associated emotion, color, time of day, season, sensory organ, taste, corresponding body part, element in nature and an associated set of symptoms when out of balance.

A couple of examples of this are as follows:

The liver is said to store the emotions, particularly anger, envy and jealousy.  It’s associated color is green.  The element in nature is wood. Imbalances of the liver manifest in the tendons and muscles, shine through the eyes, and health or imbalance is reflected in the fingernails and toe nails.  The taste associated with the liver is bitter.  Bitter greens can treat liver imbalances.

The kidneys are associated with fear, the color is black, imbalances show up in the knees, low back and the sensory organs are the ears.  The taste is salty and the element is water. Imbalances in the kidneys or the way the body assimilates fluids will be reflected in urinary tract, bladder or even certain hormonal conditions.

When working with Dr. Diana Joy Ostroff, your symptoms will not be treated in isolation without evaluating and properly caring for the emotional aspects of your condition.

Why you and your body collaborated to create this “opportunity to heal” will be discovered and uncovered.  According to the principles of naturopathic medicine “the disease is the cure”.  It is often only when we get sick that we actually take the time to seriously take care of our health.  Why wait another minute?  “Your health is in your hands”. tm

Let’s work with our thoughts to create optimal health.