Integrative Medicine
Every year, millions of people see a health care professional for symptoms
that diagnostic tests can't explain. In many of these patients, the
cause of the illness is stress, particularly stress that isn't fully
recognized. Managing stress is all about taking charge of your thoughts,
emotions, and the way you deal with problems.
Integrative Medicine is an approach to medical care focusing on the whole
person and recognizing the interactions of mind, body and spirit to optimize
health and healing.
“Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to
be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness,
with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness,
mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.”
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Our Integrative Medicine Center
To make integrative medicine accessible to patients, physicians and residents
of the greater Palm Beaches, Jupiter Medical Center opened a new center
for mindfulness to address yet another facet of the community’s
health and wellness. The “soul” purpose of our Calcagnini
Center for Mindfulness is to help people heal through the integrative
medicine techniques of mindfulness.
“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how
we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing
what you are doing.”
- Jon Kabat-Zinn