Impact of Chronic Illness on Mind-Body Wellness and Applicable Mind-Body Therapy

Running head: MIND BODY WELLNESS ASSIGNMENT
Mind body wellness assignment
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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................2
Physical, emotional and mental wellbeing:.....................................................................................2
Chronic pain:...................................................................................................................................3
Impact on physical, emotional and mental health:......................................................................3
Mind-body therapy:.....................................................................................................................4
Morbid obesity:................................................................................................................................5
Impact on physical, emotional and mental health:......................................................................5
Mind-body therapy:.....................................................................................................................5
Dementia:.........................................................................................................................................6
Impact on physical, emotional and mental health:......................................................................6
Mind-body therapy:.....................................................................................................................6
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................7
References:......................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction:
The impact of a disease on the overall wellbeing of the patient has been a highly
researched and explored area of concern among the medical scientists. The impact of chronic
diseases has been established to not only affect the physical state of the patient, but also have a
profound impact on the emotional or spiritual health and wellbeing. According to D'Silva et al.
(2012), the patients dealing with a particular chronic illness have to suffer through the process of
adjusting their lifestyles, aspirations and even employment in order to cope with the restrictions
caused by the different chronic illnesses. This assignment will focus on three adverse health
conditions, chronic pain, morbid obesity, and dementia and will discuss their impact on the
mental and spiritual wellness of the patient. The assignment will conclude with applicable mind-
body therapy that can help the patients overcome the negative impact of these health adversities
on physical, emotional and mental wellbeing of the patient.
Physical, emotional and mental wellbeing:
According to the ancient cultural concepts, the understanding of health is not just limited
to the physical manifestation of a disease. Rather, the cultural or ethnic understanding of health
presents a more elaborative idea of health. According to the Ventola (2010), the construct of
good health is comprised of body, mind and spirit. Each of the three elements contributes to the
health or wellbeing of and individual. Integrative medicine and health psychology has now
recognized the influence of the spiritual, mental and emotional state of the patients on the overall
health and recovery. Considering from the point of view of human psychology, the overall
construct health of a particular patient is affected by the trickle-down effect, the physical body is
affected by the emotional distress. On the other hand, the cognitive health of an individual

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directs the thought, and the energy levels or spirit sways the thought process. When a patient is
burdened by any chronic illness, there is a detrimental impact on the emotional and mental state
of the different individual and along with the spiritual health of the patient is also affected.
Hence, as a result of the trickle-down effect, the physical health and recovery potential of the
patient is also deteriorated (Santos et al. 2015).
Chronic pain:
Impact on physical, emotional and mental health:
The first chosen health adversity is chronic pain, which has been proved to have a marked
impact on the psychological and emotional health of the different individuals. On a more
elaborative note, it has to be mentioned that chronic pain has a unique pathology. According to
Müller et al. (2017), this kind of pain facilitates alterations throughout the nervous system of the
patient, which in most cases, worsens over time. Chronic pain has distinct psychological and
cognitive correlates; it represents a severe and separate disease entity on itself. Hence, it can be
mentioned that chronic pain affects each and every aspect of human life, including psychology,
spirituality and emotions.
Chronic pain can be caused by various different health disorders; it can be traumatic or
can be due to health conditions like cancer, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and many other
concerns. According to Simons, Elman and Borsook (2014), the understanding of chronic pain
involves complex brain circuits including sensory, emotional, cognitive, and interoceptive
processing. Hence the impact of chronic pain is high on the emotional and mental wellbeing of
the patient as well. There is a distinct link between the construct of chronic pain and depression.
It has to be understood in this context that the increasing intensity of pain in the patients there is