Michael Loes, M.D., National Pain Foundation Board Member, has written a book, The Healing Response which helps people learn to use the physical, emotional and spiritual tools needed to heal themselves or achieve optimum health.The book outlines the principles and laws that help you understand your body, mind and spirit — the "energetic you".

"Every person’s goal is salubrity, or the state of enviable health," Loes said. "The book explains the 10 principles and laws of the body’s healing response and how your body uses certain foundational efforts to get yourself better."

The Healing Response also provides special sections on pain, including healing wounds and fractures, irritable bowel syndrome, fatigue and headaches. Following a clear and logical pattern, Dr. Loes provides examples of how applying his principles can work for individual patients. Each principle is accompanied by a metaphor to help explain Dr. Loes’ message.

The Ten Principles & Laws of Healing:
Enhance the Healing Response

The Healing Response (THR) is what your body does - its best effort - to get you better when you are threatened, in pain, or already ill. Your body assesses the resources you have and gives you as much healing response as you got. It gives you THR in as organized a way as your body can possibly muster. There are principles and laws behind THR. These are encompassed herein to serve as a guide for the discussion on how the layers of the THR are organized. There is a large body of loosely connected research that compel us to ask and answer whether a definition of THR is warranted. It also compels us to shape our hypotheses within a uniform philosophy that is both energetically and scientifically based.

Principle I: Life (Vital Force) is God Given, but not necessarily God maintained; Free Choice Exists.
The Law: Build Vital Force & Health Ensues. read more

Principle II: Dynamic & Specific Directional Flow of Vital Force Results in Homeostasis.
The Law: Enhance Directional Flow & Life Springs. read more

Principle III: The Body will make every effort to preserve homeodynamics and avoid stasis.
The Law: Rid Stasis & Healing Happens. read more

Principle IV: Diurnal, Lunar & Specific Seasonal Patterns of Energy Flow Exist
The Law: Tune in and Synchronize to Your Healing Rhythms. read more

Principle V: Intelligence is in the Cell.
The Law: Feed the Cell what it needs for Health. read more

Principle VI: The brain provides one Level, but not the only level of support to the cell.
The Law: Open all Lines Communicating to the Cell - Vital Exchange Occurs. read more

Principle VII: Our beliefs create a unique biology within us which creates behavior. It is an equilibrium. Equally true is that behavior creates biology creates beliefs.
The Law: Optimize Healthy Beliefs & Behaviors. Expect Speedy Healing. read more

Principle VIII: Environment Induces Gene Expression.
The Law: Live in a Healty Environment and Protect against Oxidative Stress. read more

Principle IX: Toxins exist internally & externally which assault our structural integrity. Our physical & energetic body must constantly rebuild, shield and actively defend itself.
The Law: Enhance , Build & Defense the Fortress to Augment the Healing Response. read more

Principle X: Connectedness to God Positvely Influences Your Health and Rate of Aging.
The Law: Seek God and Pray without Ceasing. read more

The Ten Principles & Laws of Healing: Enhance the Healing Response is offered as a potential new prism through which to view and treat any injury, sickness, or smoldering illness, especially chronic pain - whether it be physical, mental emotional or spiritual. Our goal as physicians is help patients attain Salubrity - "a state of enviable health".