Today, we realize that interdisciplinary approach offers more efficient management over MS. Through the years, we have learned that medical experience and knowledge combined with wisdom and good mental outlook achieve and restore health. The Comprehensive MS Management Program provides all of building blocks to manage a complex disease that can be tamed. Comprehensive doesn't mean only neurological expertise, but physical, occupational and psychological rehabilitation, as well as social services. It needs to include mind-body interactions as well.

Mind-body communication is incredibly complex and not as yet completely understood. In the era of modern medicine and molecular biology there is a growing interest in health damaging psychological factors and in health enhancing behaviors. Psychological stress influences the nervous, endocrine and immune systems and other systems. All are mutually connected by many identified signal molecules and receptors common to them. Those connections go much further than our senses and available tools can detect. Those connections are more than neuro or immuno transmitters. Involvement of multi systems in chronic diseases requires more multi-dimensional management. It also requires changes of an unhealthy lifestyle. Persons with MS and other chronic diseases may learn from their illnesses what changes need to be made to prevent further damage.

Our brain can learn and our body can heal. We need to be aware of it and claim it. For centuries, eastern wisdom has been recognizing subtle energies that can bring health restoration of a whole person. If the disease is seen as a disorder of that wholeness, then we can start to recognize the reason for the disease of that wholeness and disbalance of energies. The patient, as well as the doctor, needs to understand our own purpose on this planet, and the purpose of the disease in order to be able to make a difference. Both need to be aware of infinite intelligence guiding our own ability to heal. Both need to recognize the role of emotions and body functions. The patient guided by the doctor needs to take responsibility for releasing negative emotions in order to start the healing process. Partnership needs to be developed between them so that they are both involved in searching and finding. That process may be very challenging for both of them. That searching may require more time than is wished, however, time is healer. During that time, it may be required to confront one's own emotional pain and fear connected with the physical ailment. It most likely will require courage to work them out and to release them. The healing process not always will mean fixing or removal of physical symptoms. It still can achieve timeless healing, finding ourselves. The power of healing comes from hearing your own music and dancing your own dance.

When we are ready to make changes in our way of thinking and feeling, we also become ready to make changes in our lifestyle. We may start to see our body as a vehicle that serves our higher self to achieve our ultimate goal - unconditioned love.

We may be ready to start taking care of our bodies in a more rational way. We start to understand that our "vehicle" needs to be nourished with healthy food, healthy water and clean air. We start to learn to breathe fully. We start to understand that our body needs to eliminate and to be detoxified. Our body, made mainly of muscles, needs to move. Healthy exercise program, together with cleansing and nutrition programs become a base for our healthy body function. Sooner or later, we start to observe results of our body's own healing process, we even start to understand why we became ill in the first place and how our disease, by slowing us down, forced us to reflect, prompted us to search, explore and find ourselves. We become aware why we are here, our purpose and place among others.

We become healthier, happier and more holly.

At some point in my neurological practice, I realized that any chronic disease is a message we need to recognize, respect and make changes in our lives. Since I have been working mostly with persons with multiple sclerosis the disease has become for me an abbreviation for the journey to myself.