by Mark Groskin | Aug 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
As many of you know, I’ve had a long-time interest in physical exercise and the martial arts. And in particular, in the techniques used by martial artists and athletes to build focus and enhance performance, as well as to reduce the pain and stress that is often a part of competition. Eventually I learned that many of those techniques either had roots in meditation or a deep closeness in approach. I have been working for several years now on a way to bring together the best of these approaches, and to streamline and simplify them. I’ve called this emerging set of practices and exercises Refuah Tikun Chai — Refuah for the Hebrew word healing, Tikun for the word repair, and Chai for the world life. I’ve never made RTC part of my day-to-day dental practice, although I personally practice it daily and I feel that it’s made me a better health care practitioner; a dental cleaning is a dental cleaning, and not the time for a lecture on the topic of meditation. But a number of my patients who know about my interests in this area have come to me and asked whether RTC might have some applications in the area of dental treatment. And of course anything that aims at reducing stress and fostering healing would seem naturally to have such applications. Such being the case, I would like to review some of my RTC methods for controlling our reaction to stress. Unfortunately, the prospect of dental treatment does from time to time confront some people with genuine stress. Our body’s nervous system has very efficient systems in place for...
