Chocolate Milk and the Intuitive Art of Mind-Body Medicine

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

June 10th, 2011 • Mind-Body Medicine • Print

My first foray into mind-body medicine was when I was all of five years old. That year, I became allergic to my all-time favorite thing in the entire universe: Chocolate milk. Suddenly, every time I drank it, I immediately had horrific, double-over type stomach aches.

Well, I was having none of that.

So I decided that I would drink inordinate quantities of chocolate milk, so as to train my body not to have an allergic reaction to it. It worked! I guess it’s no surprise that three plus decades later, I’m smack in the middle of the mind-body medicine movement…

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