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As the old world order crumbles, mind-body medicine is increasingly becoming accepted as the new health paradigm, says Chandrika Gibson.

Is there such a thing as perfect health? If so, what does that mean? From a material science point of view, perfect health is a body that functions unfailingly, that is free from pain, discomfort and signs and symptoms of disease.

Perhaps a functioning brain would be included in that definition, but what of the mind? As science evolves, the understanding of the mind, particularly as it affects the body, is becoming more advanced. This is the growing field of mind-body medicine.

Perfection of the body implies a sort of ultimate goal, a finishing line or end point which is fixed, stationary. Once it is achieved (theoretically), maintenance would be required, but not necessarily healing.

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What a tumultuous month it has been. I think you would have to have been hiding out in Antarctica to have missed the world's financial dramas, but come to think of it they probably have Wi-Fi even there by now.

Yet while it's been a difficult time for almost everybody, there's also a growing sense that it's the beginning of the healing process.

For some of that time, I've been in India as a guest at the annual Peace of Mind Meditation Retreat at the truly remarkable Brahma Kumaris Academy at Mt Abu in Rajasthan.

Even there, up on the mountain top (well, not quite), five hours journey from the nearest city of Ahmedabad (whose building boom puts Perth in the shade), news filtered through about the global crisis of confidence...

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Jeremy Ball meets modern day mystic Catherine Shainberg who unlocks a life-changing, healing power within.

I felt myself in a very deep place. I felt my core wounding, as well as the great potential in my existence, this time, on the planet. I heard my young son wake in the room next door with an unusually painful cry. I had the sense of breaking through the illusion of ancestral pain - my own ancestral issue being of the father hating his own son, an extreme self hatred as reflected in the offspring. I felt this healing in my body and a releasing of the burden I would pass onto my son. I heaved a deep sigh of relief and felt him drop into a deep and relaxing sleep.

My full attention returned to the telephone I held tightly to my ear and Catherine's voice as it crackled through the line all the way from New York to our little home in the suburbs of Perth. "This is not therapy it's revelation," Catherine says. Well, it certainly had rocked my world.

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