We are living in a highly dynamic world that has great potential for cultivating individual and communal resiliency and wellness, but also comes with a wide range of known and unknown stressors that can weaken and break the integrity of our given original design - that blueprint for evolutionary excellence. Ultimately, it is through our awareness and actions that our life energy will either be directed toward de-generative or re-generative processes. What do you choose?
Discover a multi-disciplinary, science based model of identifying specific dysfunctions, disorders, and distress patterns within the mind-body complex, and providing science-driven methods to generate the profound healing you deserve.
The Models & Systems
Navigation of any situation requires the application of a model or system. Each of the following models/systems share a significant amount of key concepts, principles and tool sets, but provide a unique perspective and method in helping us to understand the interconnected elements that make up who we are and how we can live in harmony within our environment, free of dis-ease and abundant in life energy.
SALUTOGENIC MODEL |
SAF/GRASP SYSTEM |
FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE |
Salutogenic Model
Salutogenesis is the study of the origins of health and focuses on factors that support human health and well-being, rather than on factors that cause disease (pathogenesis). The word "salutogenesis" is derived from the Latin word salus (meaning health) and the Greek word genesis (meaning origin). The term was coined by Aaron Antonovsky (1923-1994), a professor of medical sociology. The salutogenic question posed by Aaron Antonovsky is, "How can this person be helped to move toward greater health?"
Antonovsky's theory described an individual's state of well being along a continuum of dis-ease to health arising from the interplay of "generalized resistance resources (GRR's)" and "generalized resistance deficits (GRD's)" within the context of the individual's sense of coherence. Antonovsky defined one's sense of coherence as: "a global orientation that expresses the extent to which one has a pervasive, enduring though dynamic feeling of confidence that (1) the stimuli deriving from one's internal and external environments in the course of living are structured, predictable and explicable; (2) the resources are available to one to meet the demands posed by these stimuli; and (3) these demands are challenges, worthy of investment and engagement."
Essentially, "Beyond the specific stress factors that one might encounter in life, and beyond your perception and response to those events, what determines whether stress will cause you harm is whether or not the stress violates your sense of coherence."
The core tenets/concepts proposed and organized within the salutogenic model serve as a foundational pillar underpinning all wholistically oriented traditional and modern systems of health promotion. The essence of this model is what we must understand and shift our focus on if we want to generate a greater state of health and well being.
Antonovsky's theory described an individual's state of well being along a continuum of dis-ease to health arising from the interplay of "generalized resistance resources (GRR's)" and "generalized resistance deficits (GRD's)" within the context of the individual's sense of coherence. Antonovsky defined one's sense of coherence as: "a global orientation that expresses the extent to which one has a pervasive, enduring though dynamic feeling of confidence that (1) the stimuli deriving from one's internal and external environments in the course of living are structured, predictable and explicable; (2) the resources are available to one to meet the demands posed by these stimuli; and (3) these demands are challenges, worthy of investment and engagement."
Essentially, "Beyond the specific stress factors that one might encounter in life, and beyond your perception and response to those events, what determines whether stress will cause you harm is whether or not the stress violates your sense of coherence."
The core tenets/concepts proposed and organized within the salutogenic model serve as a foundational pillar underpinning all wholistically oriented traditional and modern systems of health promotion. The essence of this model is what we must understand and shift our focus on if we want to generate a greater state of health and well being.
SAF/GRASP System
Beyond a doubt, this is by far one of the most comprehensive systems of self-awareness into one's physical, mental and emotional states of being, and provides one with great power to track and decipher specific distress patterns that have interfered with, blocked or short-circuited one's access to and expression of their inherent life energy and given original design - that blueprint of vast information that is encoded within one's genetic memory banks which oscillate like "tuning forks", reverberating throughout one's bio-electromagnetic field.
The SAF/GRASP system reveals which of our organ systems and associated emotions, conditions, functions are receiving the greatest degree of electromagnetic pressure, resulting in elevated resistance within our systems' circuitry, impedance of energy flow, and the accelerated de-generation of these systems. The SAF/GRASP system measures at what phase of the life cycle is each level of our body (the cell, the tissue, the organ, the organ network) existing in.
The study and implementation of this system is profoundly multi-dimensional and multi-disciplinary, based on synthesized laws and theorems from various sciences - most notably biology, chemistry, physics (classical & quantum), mathematics, and psychology. Yet the outputs yielded from it are clarifying and enlightening to both the client and the practitioner.
The SAF/GRASP system has a time-tested track record of establishing:
The SAF/GRASP system reveals which of our organ systems and associated emotions, conditions, functions are receiving the greatest degree of electromagnetic pressure, resulting in elevated resistance within our systems' circuitry, impedance of energy flow, and the accelerated de-generation of these systems. The SAF/GRASP system measures at what phase of the life cycle is each level of our body (the cell, the tissue, the organ, the organ network) existing in.
The study and implementation of this system is profoundly multi-dimensional and multi-disciplinary, based on synthesized laws and theorems from various sciences - most notably biology, chemistry, physics (classical & quantum), mathematics, and psychology. Yet the outputs yielded from it are clarifying and enlightening to both the client and the practitioner.
The SAF/GRASP system has a time-tested track record of establishing:
- what are the present conditions & circumstances
- what are the past influences and situations that gave rise to the present conditions
- what are the predictable condition(s) and outcomes that are likely to appear in the future
- the hierarchical sequence or order to resolving such conditions
- which modalities or interventions the individual will respond best to
Functional Medicine
According to The Institute for Functional Medicine:
"Functional medicine is personalized medicine that deals with primary prevention and underlying causes instead of symptoms for serious chronic disease. It is a science-based field of health care that is grounded in the following principles:
"Functional medicine is personalized medicine that deals with primary prevention and underlying causes instead of symptoms for serious chronic disease. It is a science-based field of health care that is grounded in the following principles:
- Biochemical individuality describes the importance of individual variations in metabolic function that derive from genetic and environmental differences among individuals.
- Patient-centered medicine emphasizes "patient care" rather than "disease care," following Sir William Osler’s admonition that "It is more important to know what patient has the disease than to know what disease the patient has."
- Dynamic balance of internal and external factors.
- Web-like interconnections of physiological factors – an abundance of research now supports the view that the human body functions as an orchestrated network of interconnected systems, rather than individual systems functioning autonomously and without effect on each other. For example, we now know that immunological dysfunctions can promote cardiovascular disease, that dietary imbalances can cause hormonal disturbances, and that environmental exposures can precipitate neurologic syndromes such as Parkinson’s disease.
- Health as a positive vitality – not merely the absence of disease.
- Promotion of organ reserve as the means to enhance health span.
Functional medicine is anchored by an examination of the core clinical imbalances that underlie various disease conditions. Those imbalances arise as environmental inputs such as diet, nutrients (including air and water), exercise, and trauma are processed by one’s body, mind, and spirit through a unique set of genetic predispositions, attitudes, and beliefs. The fundamental physiological processes include communication, both outside and inside the cell; bioenergetics, or the transformation of food into energy; replication, repair, and maintenance of structural integrity, from the cellular to the whole body level; elimination of waste; protection and defense; and transport and circulation. The core clinical imbalances that arise from malfunctions within this complex system include:
Imbalances such as these are the precursors to the signs and symptoms by which we detect and label (diagnose) organ system disease. Improving balance – in the patient’s environmental inputs and in the body’s fundamental physiological processes – is the precursor to restoring health and it involves much more than treating the symptoms. Functional medicine is dedicated to improving the management of complex, chronic disease by intervening at multiple levels to address these core clinical imbalances and to restore each patient’s functionality and health.
Functional medicine is not a unique and separate body of knowledge. It is grounded in scientific principles and information widely available in medicine today, combining research from various disciplines into highly detailed yet clinically relevant models of disease pathogenesis and effective clinical management. Functional medicine emphasizes a definable and teachable process of integrating multiple knowledge bases within a pragmatic intellectual matrix that focuses on functionality at many levels, rather than a single treatment for a single diagnosis.
Functional medicine uses the patient’s story as a key tool for integrating diagnosis, signs and symptoms, and evidence of clinical imbalances into a comprehensive approach to improve both the patient’s environmental inputs and his or her physiological function. It is a clinician’s discipline, and it directly addresses the need to transform the practice of primary care."
- Hormonal and neurotransmitter imbalances
- Oxidation-reduction imbalances and mitochondropathy
- Detoxification and biotransformational imbalances
- Immune imbalances
- Inflammatory imbalances
- Digestive, absorptive, and microbiological imbalances
- Structural imbalances from cellular membrane function to the musculoskeletal system
Imbalances such as these are the precursors to the signs and symptoms by which we detect and label (diagnose) organ system disease. Improving balance – in the patient’s environmental inputs and in the body’s fundamental physiological processes – is the precursor to restoring health and it involves much more than treating the symptoms. Functional medicine is dedicated to improving the management of complex, chronic disease by intervening at multiple levels to address these core clinical imbalances and to restore each patient’s functionality and health.
Functional medicine is not a unique and separate body of knowledge. It is grounded in scientific principles and information widely available in medicine today, combining research from various disciplines into highly detailed yet clinically relevant models of disease pathogenesis and effective clinical management. Functional medicine emphasizes a definable and teachable process of integrating multiple knowledge bases within a pragmatic intellectual matrix that focuses on functionality at many levels, rather than a single treatment for a single diagnosis.
Functional medicine uses the patient’s story as a key tool for integrating diagnosis, signs and symptoms, and evidence of clinical imbalances into a comprehensive approach to improve both the patient’s environmental inputs and his or her physiological function. It is a clinician’s discipline, and it directly addresses the need to transform the practice of primary care."