About Us
About Us
Global Healing Options:
Come join a community of people in search of healing inspiration,
innovative therapies, and authentic hope.
If you’re one of the millions of Americans who regularly turn to the Internet as your first source for health-related information, you may be interested in moving beyond simply reading about health conditions and therapies. Thanks to the advent of social networking, the Internet now enables you to connect with people everywhere in order to share personal stories and insights that can help illuminate new healing paths and possibilities. In short, you now have access to a much deeper, more personal and more meaningful level of health-related information than ever before.
Global Healing Options (GHO) is soon to be positioned in the vanguard of this emerging Internet movement. As a social-networking site, it will enable you to talk with other people who have been through what you’re facing, people who are posting their first-person accounts of recovery from cancer and other serious ailments, as well as experiences of dealing with treatments and side effects from medications. The GHO website will provide you with a convenient venue for recording your story, and commenting on the resources you used so that others can join in the conversation.
You will be able to witness people telling their stories of discovery—their discovery of innovative healing strategies and possible therapeutic breakthroughs, their discovery of meaning and purpose in both the illness and the experience of recovery. By bearing witness to the healing journeys foretold by others, you may be inspired to discover and tell your own story of illness and create a story of healing that can help pull you—and others—forward toward recovery.
Global Healing Options (GHO) enables you to engage with three closely related and complementary models of medicine:
1. Narrative medicine—your healing story. Narrative medicine centers on the practice of recounting your personal healing journey—not just with the medical community, but with the much larger community of people who may be facing a similar condition. GHO will help foster and capture healing stories, because telling your story can be a profound source of inspiration to others. And simply by sharing your story and letting it go, you may experience a kind of healing. Your personal narrative may enable you, the narrator, to mend the disruption in your personal biography by weaving it into the fabric of your life story, putting the experience into perspective.
2. Participatory medicine—your healing community. Participatory medicine is about connecting with the world of healing in a more personal and proactive way—by being mindfully involved in your own healing process, actively learning about treatment options, and making cognitive and behavioral changes that ultimately support your healing journey. The approach is based on developing a team that includes you, the “e-patient”, specialized social networks (e-patient groups), your entire care team, and medical experts or clinical researchers in a collaborative relationship of mutual respect. Through the information gathered and the collective wisdom of peer social networks, powerful new healing pathways can be unveiled.
3. Lifestyle medicine—your healing context. Lifestyle medicine refers to how you choose to create and nurture the daily context of your healing journey. It's about your personal relationship to food, family, friends, work, home, environment, and indeed anything you deem to be integral to your health and happiness, such as walking, yoga, dancing, meditation, art, poetry, laughter, gardening, and healing rituals. All these elements and relationships can work in subtle ways “behind the scenes” to help you find peace, joy, and belonging in your daily life. Collectively, these factors can have a beneficial impact on your biology, your healing potential and vitality. In sharing your personal story, it is sometimes all those “little things” you've done that will strike a chord with others who may be feeling isolated or who are looking for ways to restore harmony and a spirit of aliveness, or what may be called authentic hope.
It’s time to rethink the nature of medicine and healing. Medicine is much more than pills and potions, or sophisticated medical skills and knowledge. True medicine is the healing energy and wisdom that already exists within you. And the true meaning of healing is to become whole, to restore yourself to emotional and spiritual wholeness. GHO's mission is to provide opportunities for realizing a more personal medicine as well as new roadmaps for health and healing. Please join www.globalhealingoptions.com to become a Free Member.
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