Mindful Framing: Transform your Anxiety into Vital Energy

By Oscar Segurado

The ancient practices of meditation have much to teach us, but they’re not well suited for our anxiety-driven modern life. Techniques such as mindfulness meditation once worked well, but today, only experienced meditators achieve calm, relaxed minds by focusing on mantras, breathing, or objects. We need a different approach to deal with anxiety. Beyond engaging daily our mind on self-reflection, we need to frame each of the 1,440 minutes in a day around a natural, empathetic, and healthy lifestyle.

Oscar Segurado, MD, PhD, has developed the practice of mindful framing and the associated NEO Chi lifestyle to address this unmet need. A physician-scientist passionate for integrative medicine, he experienced firsthand the emotional effects of anxiety even as he witnessed its impact on family, friends, and colleagues. As an immunologist, he knows too well how stress and anxiety trigger serious immune-mediated diseases, including cancer, chronic infections, and autoimmunity.

Combining his medical knowledge with a lifelong interest in Ayurveda and Chinese medicine, Segurado developed and practices daily mindful framing and the NEO Chi lifestyle, designed with the modern world in mind.

Supported with audiovisual materials, mindful framing defines a novel nature-mind-body connection for the twenty-first century. With just fifteen minutes of daily practice, you’ll experience a more intimate connection with the natural world, emotional harmony with the minds around you, and a feeling of overall invigoration.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Oscar Segurado
• Release date: Apr 5, 2018
• ISBN: 9781732077232

Oscar Segurado

Oscar Segurado, MD, PhD, is a neuroscientist and immunologist with a lifelong interest in ancient medicine. His interest in Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine led to the development of mindful framing and associated NEO Chi lifestyle. He is a trained acupuncturist who has practiced several types of meditation until developing this program to transform anxiety into vital energy.As a physician-scientist, Segurado has focused his research on the T cells, white blood cells of the immune system with a key role in the cause and treatment of autoimmune diseases and cancer. His work contributes to major advances in immunotherapy and diagnostic tools used in the treatment of cancer, rheumatism, and diabetes, among other immune-related diseases.A father, husband, and friend, Segurado has lived through periods of stress and times of great sadness and joy. His interest in how stress affects the immune system has been a great motivator in his work.

Book preview

ANXIETY AND STRESS are epidemic in today’s fast-paced world. In response, many turn to meditation and related practices with limited long-term success.

Oscar Segurado, MD, PhD, understands why. Meditation worked well for thousands of years, but can’t counter the effects of life in the twenty-first century. Instead, you need a new approach to control anxiety—especially given the proven connection between stress and serious diseases, including cancer, caused by a dysfunctional immune system.

This book is a step-by-step guide to generate Chi, vital energy, by engaging your mind’s eye to connect with Nature, harmonize your Emotions and invigorate your Organism, especially your immune system. A mere fifteen minutes of mindful framing in the morning creates a solid mental framework for the rest of the day. You are the screenwriter and director of a lifestyle movie leading to a calm mind, healthy relationships and a vigorous body.

It’s a modern world. We need a modern way to transform anxiety into vital energy. Segurado offers the way: mindful framing.

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Oscar Segurado, MD PhD, is a neuroscientist and immunologist with a lifelong interest in ancient medicine. His interest in Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine led to the development of mindful framing and associated NEO Chi lifestyle. He has lived through periods of stress and success, times of great sadness and joy for himself and loved ones. His experience of how anxiety can affect the immune system has been a core motivation in his life’s work.

MINDFUL FRAMING: Transform Your Anxiety Into Vital Energy

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my family

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those who have contributed so much to my new perspective of life

CHAPTER 1: WELCOME

CHAPTER 2: A DETECTIVE STORY

In the Bus—Boston, Nowadays

Walk in the Park—Superpowers

In the Precinct—Teamwork

At the Crime Scene—Initial Clues

The Killer—Intuitions

The Mafia—Corruption

The Press Conference—A Hero Is Born

The Immune System—Systems Biology

CHAPTER 3: MINDFUL FRAMING

Scene 1—Your Anxiety Bus

Scene 2—Your Five Senses

Scene 3—Your Five Elements of Nature

Scene 4—Your Tree of Emotions

Scene 5—Your Organism

CHAPTER 4: NEO CHI—A NEW LIFESTYLE PARADIGM

How to Transform Your Anxiety

Enhancing Your Senses

Connecting with Nature

Harmonizing Your Emotions

Invigorating Your Organism

The Nature-Mind-Body Connection

CHAPTER 5: THANK YOU

Practicing Mindful Framing

Finding Time for Reflection

Establishing Habits, Routines, and Rituals

Spending Quality Time with Yourself

Understanding, Observing, and Controlling Your Mind

Living the Neo Chi Lifestyle

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

MINDFUL FRAMING AND NEO CHI INSTITUTE LINKS AND RESOURCES

FURTHER READING

I INVITE YOU to learn how to observe your thoughts and create a new frame of mind.

If you are reading this book, you may be between intrigued and fully convinced of the mind-body connection. The evidence supporting the health and emotional benefits of regularly practicing meditation and self-reflection practices is undisputable. The teachings of ancient cultures and religions, as well as thousands of peer-reviewed studies in academic journals, books, and press articles by prestigious authors, support the notion that meditation, yoga, and related practices can influence both our psychological and physical well-being. Renowned clinics around the world are dedicated to the integrated practice of ancient and conventional medicine.

For years, I have been absorbing ideas, words of wisdom, and expert advice about the mind-body connection and experiencing for myself the emotional and