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Beyond controlling: attentive reflections


This blog explores attentive medicine — and the many reflections, questions, and experiences that surround it. While attentive medicine invites observing, listening, and questioning with the hope that insight will shine a light on the body’s wisdom and reveal why it changed, it reaches further: into human consciousness, change, illness, and the deeper patterns that shape how we live.

attentive medicine is not about returning the body to what it was, but about understanding what made it change. It is grounded in observation, presence, and inquiry — not control. It does not aim to fix, but to listen gently and honestly to what the body may be saying.

Conventional medicine is remarkably effective at controlling many conditions through pharmaceuticals, surgery, and other interventions. attentive medicine does not replace this work; rather, it accompanies it — not to intervene, but to pause, to reflect, and to ask what else might be seen or understood.

The videos here follow the threads attentive medicine touches: philosophy, psychology, personal and collective experience, culture, current events, and attention to everyday life. This is not a place for answers — it is a space for questions.

You are invited to take part. Your comments, suggestions, and insights not only shape the conversation here but also help evolve attentive medicine as a living, responsive practice.

This work draws on over two decades of clinical, research, and humanitarian experience and continues alongside my practice as an NHS GP. I offer online consultations in English, French, and Italian for those who feel their illness may carry meaning and who wish to explore what their body expresses.

To learn more or request a session:

www.attentivemedicine.org

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