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By Dr Bernard Brom

Ill-health
is the voice of health
asking for help

A new way of seeing ill-health — not as a problem but as a doorway to understanding the language of the body-mind

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  • MBChB, University of Cape Town, 1965
  • Founder and Former Chairman, SA Society of Integrative Medicine
  • Author of Healthy Medicine and The Heart of Healing
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A short film

The mystery underlying health and healing

Dr Bernard Brom in a forest, looking upward — a still from the short film on the origins of Creating Health

Where medicine, philosophy, and lived experience converge into a new way of understanding health and healing

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Consciousness, awareness and love

Hearing a talk that we are living a dream brought the following insight up for me. Whether I was sleep dreaming or dreaming when awake, the background to both dreams was consciousness.

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What is Regenerative Medicine?

A human being is not a machine to be taken apart and repaired when it breaks. We are — as I have come to see it — a matter-energy-information system, and a body-emotions-mind-spirit-consciousness being.

When health is supported and the blocks to healing are removed, the system does what it has always known how to do: it regenerates. There is a deep intelligence within us that knows the way.

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The bridge

Where medicine, philosophy, and lived experience converge

I qualified in 1965, and by 1971 I had walked out of hospital medicine altogether and went travelling for six years. When I came home I returned with a single question: is it possible to treat ill-health without drugs? Everything since has been my quest to understand health and healing.

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Healing is not fixing what is broken, but responding to the call for help
This is the underlying focus of this website

There is a worldwide movement towards a new kind of medicine, a medicine which improves health, focusing on the underlying dysfunction in the body, rather than just treating the disease. The body has an innate drive to heal and repair; the work is to remove the blocks in its way and trust the body’s innate intelligence.

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