Health and Spirituality: MIND, BODY, and SPIRIT...how are you feeling?

Every day we as a human race spend billions of dollars, amazing amounts of energy, and countless hours to feel better. It’s a search for completeness. We desperately want to be authentically healthy and whole individuals. However this search continues to be elusive. Why? Because even though we are physical, mental, and spiritual beings we don’t live like we are. And when we don’t nourish our mind, body, and spirit health and wholeness will never be a reality.

At Riverview Family Practice and Integrative Medicine Center we want you to be truly healthy. The basis of Holistic medicine is acknowledging and nurturing the connection between mind, body, and spirit. Authentic healing and wholeness comes from paying attention to the complete self. That is why at Riverview we have implemented the Health and Spirituality Program.

The purpose of this program is to bring about health and wholeness by integrating spirituality into the healing process. In this holistic approach to healing you will learn various prayer practices. A prayer practice is simply the art of being attentive to the divine in your life. Prayer practices help us become more aware of the personal connection between our physical and mental health and our sense of spirituality. They help us handle stress better, recover from life setbacks, improve creativity and focus, and give us a greater sense of value, meaning, and compassion. Prayer practices are so powerful and transforming that when we make them part of our everyday life we will actually feel better and suffer less.

To become involved with the Health and Spirituality Program just mention this to one of your health care practitioners at the clinic. As you discuss your over all health this program may be something you and your health care practitioner feel is helpful. Suggestions will be given of which kind of prayer practices would be most beneficial in relation to you and your health. An appointment will then be made with a staff member of Minnesota Institute of Contemplation and Healing (MICAH). There will be one or more consultations until you feel comfortable beginning to integrate the practices into your daily life.

Consultations will initially take place at the Integrative Medicine Center, but may also be arranged to take place at the MICAH rural site. Cost will be a free will donation to the MICAH project. For more information or to make an appointment talk with one of the staff or call the Integrative Medicine Center at 218-281-9519.….seek to feel whole!

Psychotheraphy/Counseling Services:

Psychotheraphy/counseling services are now a part of the services at RiverView Family Practice and Integrative Medicine Center. We now are offering individual, couples and family counceling. Because of our commitment to a holistic approach we feel thta in order to truly address our state of well being, it is often necessary to explore more deeply one's emotional state. Psychotherapy can help provice incite and tools to work with how our mind, thoughts and relationships affect our health and lifestyle habits.