Integrated Healing: Spirit, Mind, Body Solutions to Chronic Health Care Challenges

Chronic disorders are widespread in the United States, and their numbers are growing. The calculated approach in Integrated Healing combines the most effective treatments in Eastern and Western medicine to offer a new, holistic way to alleviate these conditions.

Humans are spiritual beings functioning through minds and bodies. Ideal health is when the soul is effortlessly expressed through the body and the mind. This holistic approach takes into account the physical as well as the mental, the spiritual as well as the logical. Many factors influence a chronic disorder, whether it is allergies or diabetes or IBS, and so the most effective treatment plan must address each of these. For each illness, sections are included on physiology, lifestyle considerations, pranayamas, nutrition, asanas, chakras, meditation, and affirmations, among others. The solutions can be matched to each individual's particular symptoms and experiences. Together they provide all the practical advice necessary for improving one's health.

In order to decrease the effects of a chronic illness on daily life, it's necessary to take responsibility for reaching ideal health. With this systematic guidance, we are all empowered to improve our own health. From this moment forward, self-reliance leads the way.

Michael C. Gadway has been thoroughly trained in the Vedic sciences, beginning his spiritual studies with Roy Eugene Davis in 1988. He was ordained into the Kriya Yoga tradition in 2003. His knowledge includes Ayurveda, Vedic astrology, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and the Bhagavad Gita.

Gadway holds a bachelor’s degree in English from St. Lawrence University and a degree in chiropractic medicine from the University of Western States. He was the attending physician at an autoimmune clinic, where he combined his expertise in functional and Ayurvedic medicine.

Gadway retired in 2014 to focus on writing and lecturing. He and his wife, Mitzi, raised six sons in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, where they live today.