The reason that medicine has not explored the issue of self healing and patients who exceed survival expectations is that we either give the treatment the credit or refer to them as miracles or spontaneous remissions. Medicine does not study … Read More
Question for Bernie: Dear Bernie, I am writing to you from Ireland (the country, not the place in Indiana)! I am almost finished reading your book, Love, Medicine & Miracles, and can I tell you, it has been a most … Read More
Dear Everybody, I I was just looking through things I had written to get some ideas for a new column and two things struck me. One was an article I wrote exactly five years ago, to the day, about caring … Read More
The present health care crisis is not just related to health care. It is a crisis related to what is happening in our society. We have become depersonalized as a society, invested in technology and not the experience people are … Read More
My question last week was: What did you do this week to embarrass your family or make them laugh, and why is that important to do? There are many reasons to embarrass your family. As a father of five, I … Read More
Question for Bernie I read an article yesterday and thought of you immediately. The gist of the article was that people should die at 75, and there should be no more “efforts” to care for them after that. The author … Read More
Question for Bernie Hello Dr. Siegel, I thought to contact you and ask for any wisdom and advice you may have. I received awful news last week. My Dad has metastatic cancer. We were on a big family trip in … Read More
At workshops I frequently ask people if they would like to be free of all pain; emotional and physical. However, I tell those who sign up for what they think will be a gift to take my phone number with … Read More
The key to life in all its forms is its ability to communicate. This includes the ability of complex organisms like ourselves to communicate with each other but more importantly within ourselves, our individual organs and cells. How do animals … Read More
Question for Bernie: Hello Bernie, Many years ago you helped me with some anxiety over being abandoned, regarding my mother, when I was an infant. Thank you for that. I’m 62 and my husband died a year ago. He either … Read More