Reply #6: understood, hubby was involved with a national health survey that was... [View All]

designed with a significant alternative therapies module, that would open up in response to key LOQ's; that included prayer, religion, spiritualism & wellness, as you mention; what people thought these concepts to mean, how valid they were, to the respondent in terms of themselves or an experience with having witnessed a loved ones travail sometimes successful sometimes not so, in terms of providing relief from a host of malady including cancer...

while some, not all were able to site alternative therapies as a viable means to wellness...wellness, like happiness, remains at target and similarly can be seen as a state of mind

but i hope she has changed as well, and will be more receptive beyond the flat, cold numbers sitting back there on a shelf at the NIH where we all know the AMA is able to skew all manner of data