Western medicine has been dealing with “organs and diseases” based on mind-body dualism, but Oriental medicine has been dealing with “patients with disease” based on the concept, “Shinshin-ichinyo.”
Psychosomatic medicine was established as holistic medicine by using this concept, and becomes popular in the field of general medicine.
Shinshin-ichinyo is the concept derived from Zen Buddhism in Japan in which mind and body connect with and negate each other at the same time. Japanese psychosomatic medicine is also based on the concept of mind-body unity, “Shinshin-ichinyo.”
For Japanese people, Shinshin-ichinyo is a very common sense that has not even risen to the level of consciousness. There are many idioms in the Japanese language that consider the mind and body to be completely one and the same, unable to be separated. When we use those idioms, we are expressing both the state of mind and body together.
For example, “Atama ga itai (I have a headache)” is often used as an idiom meaning “I have something that is seriously worrying me,” in addition to meaning a headache. It is used when you are worried or troubled by a problem that is difficult to solve.
I am sure you can think of many experiences in your daily life where your body and mind are connected.
When you keep your back straight, your mind is refreshed and positive.
When the body is stiff and rigid, the mind becomes inflexible and stubborn.
When anxiety rises in the mind, close your eyes and become aware of the Tanden（丹田） to calm yourself down.
http://www.kikoukakumei.com/tanden.htm
In the case of the Japanese, it is a feeling that is so commonplace that it has not even risen to their consciousness, so when the balance of mind and body is disturbed (when physical illness occurs), they will have a hard time rebuilding the balance of mind and body, and eventually, it will arise that they have to resort to medication.
We who live in the modern world, including Japanese, tend to think of the mind and body separately.
Then, when we are not feeling well, we take medicines that come from Western medicine and continue to overwork our bodies, causing a loss of balance between mind and body…and this happens on a daily basis.
The basis of Yukari Makino’s therapy is to support people to harmonize and integrate their mind and body as one, which they tend to think of separately on a daily basis, and to help them to brighten their lives.
