About Us

At the Center for Integrated Health and Healing, LLC, patients may develop and utilize their own personal spiritual, emotional, and physical resources with the hope of enhancing their quality and quantity of life.

The professionals who practice at the CIHH recognize the tremendous amount of frequently confusing information available to patients, their medical doctors and their complementary practitioners. By having a broad array of healers working in the same location it becomes easier for communication to occur among an individual’s healers if desired by the patient. This makes it possible to bring some order to the complexities of the available modalities which patient and healer alike may experience in developing integrated approaches. Dr Lefler emphasizes the absolute need for ongoing evaluation of both conventional and complementary techniques and encourages patients to allow communication among their various healers.

The realities, questions, and answers derived from a patient’s faith tradition and understanding of spirituality will influence how patients may judge themselves in relationship to their illness as well as the options they may think they have for recovery versus suffering or death.  It is a common but inappropriate assumption that simple labeling such as Christian, Baptist, Roman Catholic, Jew and so forth is adequate to understanding what a patient brings to his or her understanding of health and sickness. Dr Lefler brings a career-long interest and study of this area into his awareness of patient needs.

Integrated Health and Healing- A perspective-12/2/2011

Paracelsus (1493-1541) is considered by many to be the father of modern medicine, psychology, and pharmacology. He used herbs, taught in his native language (instead of the usual Latin of contemporary medical professionals), and realized that alchemy had the potential for what would become psychology and pharmacology. He also recognized the existence of several types of healers that included trained professionals but also those who were naturally gifted in the healing arts.

Fast-forward to the Enlightenment . Francis Bacon brought the calculus into mathematics. Pierre-Simon Laplace’s (1749-1827) early approaches to statistics led to the development and eventual dependence on statistical analysis as the backbone of evidence based medicine. With more refined observations and enhanced methods to analyze that data more “scientifically”, the concepts of Decartes (1596-1650) would allow ever more separation of mind and body.

The development of anesthetics by Joseph Priestly (1733-1804) and anesthesia for use in surgery by Robert Liston (1794-1847) and Crawford Long (1815-1878) would set the stage for modern surgery with its ever-greater capabilities for surgical excision, manipulation, and even creation of replacement parts for the human body.

Descartes’ mechanical disconnect between mind and body and the development of psychoactive pharmaceuticals has resulted in the 20th century patient with a body ready for manipulation and a brain ready for biochemical interventions.

What was unified , if poorly understood before Paracelsus had become ever-more fragmented until the human person began to be regarded as a patchwork of parts carrying a clockwork, biochemical brain on top of a bag of chemicals. Such a dynamically structured and functioning organism would risk being seen as nothing more than a living robot.

In reaction to this reductionist view and inspired by better awareness of the human condition, the sub-specialty of psycho-neuro-immunology has developed as an approach toward re-integrating some of medicine. The emerging fields of complementary and alternative medicine are attempting to re-integrate and re-humanize medicine.

It is my opinion that truly integrated health and healing includes the spiritual aspect of who we are. The designation of Mind-Body-Spirit becomes a more accurate picture of the human condition. (In this context spirituality is a term denoting how individuals relate to their fellow humans and to their own place in creation.)

In A General Theory of Love by Lewis, Amini, and Lannon; we learn how the singular mammalian attribute of the limbic system allows us “…to adjust and fortify one another’s fragile neural rhythms in the collaborative dance of love.” I believe that the awareness and acceptance of the limbic love dynamic in the I-Thou relationship between healer-patient/healer-client is the core of healing.

The Center for Integrated Health and Healing attempts to bring together health and healing professionals from many diverse disciplines to offer truly integrated care.

Current opportunities to help our community with tax-deductible donations

Opportunity #1: A directed donation to decrease the suffering from ADD/ADHD

According to the Center for Disease Control, approximately 9.5% or 5.4 million children 4-17 years of age have been diagnosed with ADHD, as of 2007. The prevalence of parent-reported ADHD diagnosis varied substantially by state, from a low of 5.6% in Nevada to a high of 15.6% in North Carolina.

Recent studies indicate that ADHD is one of the most costly health conditions in the US. The annual cost for ADHD is $77 billion topped only by alcohol abuse and clearly ahead of drug abuse in terms of cost.

Adults who were untreated for childhood ADHD are reported to have higher divorce rates, higher incidence of alcohol and drug abuse, more traffic accidents, lower self image and optimism, and lower levels of satisfaction with all levels of their lives.

The human and monetary costs of this disorder can be devastating for individuals, families and communities. In a time when as a society we are taking too many drugs, even as children, effective, non-drug approaches to this debilitating problem commend themselves for consideration. Brainwave Optimization™ available through The Brain Integration Institute has been shown to be transformative for many people with ADHD.

A tax deductible gift of $36,000 to the Foundation for Integrated Health and Healing, a 501c3 non-profit, would allow 20 young people to experience this often life changing approach to ADD/ADHD and result in a nice tax break for the donor. Donations of any size are welcome.

Opportunity #2: A directed donation to decrease spouse abuse related to alcohol abuse

The consequences of the use of tobacco, alcohol and less socially acceptable drugs cost the citizens of the United States an estimated $609 billion annually. The human cost in terms of damage to individuals, relationships, businesses and communities is equally staggering.
Consider the costs to taxpayers for incarcerating and then treating an alcoholic spouse abuser, often a repeat offender. The American Society of Addiction Medicine has recently stated that “Addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry.” Brainwave Optimization™ is an advanced neuro-technology that effectively guides a brain back to its natural, healthy, balanced state.

The brain is the control center for the entire body, including the autonomic nervous system which regulates our organs, muscles and overall physical well-being. Throughout our lives, emotional and physical trauma can cause brainwaves to become unbalanced, resulting in such behaviors as addictions, anger, depression, physical pain and illness, and general disconnection or hopelessness. Brainwave Optimization restores the brain to its natural high-functioning state through a safe, non-invasive process that requires no medication and has been proven effective with nearly 40,000 clients.

A one time tax deductible donation of $36,000 to the Foundation for Integrated Health and Healing will permit twenty consenting individuals to undergo the process of Brainwave Optimization™ and begin to establish a more cost-effective alternative to conventional approaches.

Brainwave Optimization with RTB™ is not intended to treat, cure, heal or diagnose any disease, mental illness or symptom. Brainwave Optimization with RTB™ is intended to balance and harmonize brain waves. Individual results vary.

The Brain Integration Institute is an independent licensee of Brain Wave Technologies

89 Medical Park Drive, Suite A
Brevard, NC 28712

Phone: 828-884-2636
info@cihh-brevard.com