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Congress on Stress

The American Institute of Stress

ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON STRESS

November 26 through December 1, 2000
The Mauna Lani Bay Hotel, Island of Hawaii

Dr. Herbert Benson will be this year's Hans Selye Award recipient. President of Harvard's Mind/ Body Medical Institute and a member of the Founding Board of Trustees of The American Institute of Stress, Dr. Benson is widely recognized as one of the pioneers in behavioral medicine, mind /body studies, and the role of spirituality in healing. He has authored or co-authored over 150 scientific publications, and six books. The recipient of numerous awards, he is perhaps best known for defining and elucidating the Relaxation Response and demonstrating its stress reduction properties. In recognition of Dr. Benson's achievements, this Congress will focus on advances in our understanding of the science of spirituality and the significance of subtle energies. We will learn how new information validates the efficacy of certain ancient therapies and can help integrate Eastern and Western Medical practices in a more meaningful fashion.

The Congress will commence on Sunday evening, November 26 with a Welcoming Cocktail Party, Gala Banquet, and Award Ceremony. The schedule of planned Plenary Sessions is:

Monday - November 27th

o Faith, Belief, and Stress Reduction In Health and Healing
Herbert Benson, MD, Chair

Tuesday - November 28th
o Spirituality In The Workplace And The Global Epidemic Of Job Stress
Lennart Levi, MD, Chair

Wednesday - November 29th
o Placebos: Can They Cure Disease As Well As Relieve Illness? Robert Ader, PhD, Chair

Thursday - November 30th
o Subtle Energies: What and Where Are They? How Might They Mediate Faith Healing and Placebo Effects?
William Tiller, PhD, Chair

Friday - December 1st
o Magnetotherapy In The Millennium; The Psychophysiologic Effects of Feeble Electromagnetic Forces and Other Subtle Energies
W. Ross Adey, MD, Chair

Scientific sessions on most days will run from 8 AM to noon or 1PM so that participants can enjoy the serene and stress free ambiance of this magnificent venue. Afternoon Workshops to demonstrate spiritual healing, new technology to reveal unsuspected mind-heart interactions, stress reduction effects of visual imagery in hospitalized patients, Medical Resonance Therapy Music to reduce pain and stress and improve immune defenses, Metabolic-Thermo dynamic treatment of advanced malignancy, and native Hawaiian healing practices are also planned.

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ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON STRESS

The ability of a strong faith and belief, or the power of placebos to relieve distress and promote health are widely acknowledged but difficult to explain utilizing current chemical/molecular models of communication in the body. However, they are comprehensible within the framework of an emerging paradigm of communication at a physical/atomic level that will be featured at this Congress. It is quite clear that subtle energies such as feeble electromagnetic forces can produce significant psychophysiologic changes. We propose that energies of a similar magnitude that are generated internally can have similar effects. EEG and ECG waves may not merely reflect the noise of the machinery of the brain and heart, but rather signals being sent to specialized receptor sites elsewhere in the body through unsuspected pathways. Could these be related to ancient concepts of chi and meridians, prana, and chakras, or Nordenstrom's proposal of biologically closed electrical circuits? Is it possible that this "'energy" can be transmitted from one individual to another? Can it be stored on a computer chip for future use? The body. is its best pharmacy, and our goal is to provide insights into how to tap into this vast innate potential for self-healing that resides in each of us. Learning how to accomplish this may reveal that faith, the feeling of control, intentionality, placebos, acupuncture, homeopathy, as well as subtle auditory, photic, and electromagnetic stimuli all operate via similar mechanisms. Some relevant presentations include:

o The Power and Biology of Belief -- Herbert Benson

o Science and Spirituality: Oxymoron or Opportunity? -- Wayne B. Jonas

o How Can Physicians Best Utilize Patients' Spirituality? -- Christina M. Puchalski

o The Bible as a Resource for Stress Management -- Skip MacCarty

o Healing Dialogue and Spirituality Treatment of Heart Disease -- James J. Lynch

o Integrating Ancient and Modern Mind/Body Energy Medicine -- Leonard A. Wisneski

o Does Memory in Water Explain Homeopathy? -- Jacques Benveniste

o The Effect of Intentionality on Inanimate and Biological Systems -- William A Tiller

o The Effect of Remote Spiritual Healing on the EEG -- 100 cases -- C. Norman Shealy

o Achieving Psychophysiologic Coherence-Biological and Spiritual -- Deborah Rozman

o Bioinformation, Subtle Energies, and Vibrational Medicine -- Richard Gerber

o Emotions, Immunity and Disease: Four Decades of Integration -- George Solomon

o Clinical Applications of Resonance Therapy -- Jerry Jacobson

o Pulsed Signal Therapy for Pain and Tinnitus: 50,000 Studies - Richard Markoll

o Low Energy Emission Therapy For Insomnia and Anxiety -- Boris Pasche

o Are Placebos Simply Conditioned Responses? -- Robert Ader

o An Update on Biologically Closed Electrical Circuits -- Bjorn Nordenstrom

o Effects of Spiritual Healing: From Humans and Plants to DNA -- Daniel Benor

o Can Placebos Cure as Well as Relieve Symptoms? -- Howard Brody

o A New Therapy for Advanced Cancer and Cardiomyopathy -- Demetrio Sodi-Pallares

o Magnetotherapy in the Millennium -- W. Ross Adey

o The Copper Wall Studies Revisited: The Heart of Energy Medicine -- Patricia Norris

Registration Fee of $500 includes Continental Breakfast and admission to all sessions and workshops. A limited number of Ocean View and Ocean Front rooms are available for early Registrants at $175/night for two. (Regularly $500-$600 at this prize winning elegant resort where bungalows at $4750/night are over 90 percent occupied all year round. See www.maunalani.com)

FOR UPDATED DETAILS ON OUR STAR-STUDDED FACULTY, SPECIFIC PAPERS AT VARIOUS SESSIONS, AND TO REGISTER, VISIT THE WEB SITE WWW.STRESS.ORG