Total Health: Dr. Monisha Bhanote On How We Can Optimize Our Mental, Physical, Emotional, & Spiritual Wellbeing
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I was recently featured in Authority Magazine as an expert on Total Health. Here is a short excerpt, but I want you to click through to read the entire interview on ways to elevate your well-being
Nature is our great healer. There is a reason you often see nature art and photography in hospitals. Research shows that even a picture can significantly impact our stress, mood and vitality. As newer hospitals and healing centers are being built, nature gardens for healing are being created. Nature has a physiologic impact that makes our cells feel alive. Personally, I live for nature. I think nature provides a different kind of connection. It is life in constant movement.
Often when we refer to wellness, we assume that we are talking about physical wellbeing. But one can be physically very healthy but still be unwell, emotionally or mentally. What are the steps we can take to cultivate optimal wellness in all areas of our life; to develop Mental, Physical, Emotional, & Spiritual Wellbeing?
As a part of our series about “How We Can Do To Cultivate Our Mental, Physical, Emotional, & Spiritual Wellbeing”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Monisha Bhanote.
Monisha Bhanote, MD, FCAP, CCMS®, YM®TS is a triple board certified physician with expertise in Integrative Medicine, Internal Medicine and Anatomic/Clinical Pathology. She has always been fascinated by the workings of the human body, and has spent the last two decades studying how all systems in our body affect each other both on a cellular and global level. She is an experienced writer, yoga teacher, mindset and meditation facilitator and a culinary medicine chef. Her interests include the role of stress and inflammation in disease manifestation, nutrition and the human microbiome, Ayurveda and its clinical implications, applying mindfulness as a lifestyle practice, cancer and disease prevention, and improving the health and well-being of individuals through practice, education and research.
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