Today we stand on the precipice of a new frontier in healthcare.  The existing paradigm of conventional medicine has not met our need to prevent illness and maintain our health.  It’s time we recognize that we are more than a clump of interacting chemicals but a spiritual being having a human experience.  In the nature of taking care of ourselves, we have a responsibility beyond ingesting pills and invasive surgical procedures.  It’s time we remember our rich heritage of the integrative health traditions that focus on our holistic nature, in each aspect of our being.

I believe it’s time to change our healthcare model and embrace a new wellness paradigm that insures our personal responsibility and empowers us at each level of our intrinsic nature.  FICAM provides the knowledge and tools to help each of us optimize our health to realize our birthright of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  It is upon these beliefs that FICAM is created.

A human being is comprised of different levels of consciousness/existence in the Complementary and Alternative Medicine (C.A.M.) holistic model: spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, as well as its relationships to collective and environmental influences. Each level originates from the same source.  This original substance becomes structured into an interactive system based on the amount of condensation the originating life force substance experiences and sustains, creating different levels of vibrational frequencies.  Like a molecule of H2O, it can exist as either a vapor-like gas, water or ice, depending on the degree of vibrational frequency of the molecules.  Yet, regardless of the form H2O becomes condensed in, its essence is always the same: two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. However, the manner in which you would interact with each level of H2O dictates the tools you would need to effectively work with it.

Our C.A.M. model recognizes that each aspect of a human being originates from the same one substance that we can call Life, Pure Consciousness, or Pure Existence. This invisible substance could be considered the unmanifest field from which all manifestation emerges. Quantum physics calls this the implicate order and all which emerges from it the explicate order.  As human beings, this manifest, explicate existence is experienced personally and collectively at the levels of spirit, mind, emotions and the body as the unconscious mind. Healing and health can best be achieved and maintained by bringing health and balance to all levels of our personal and collective integrated nature. It is not possible to effect change at one level without influencing all levels. Recognizing and integrating all of the dynamics which comprise and influence a human being is the best way to ensure optimum functioning of a person and is the only way that comprehensive healing can occur. The key to enjoying the benefits of life-long healing (wholeness) is recognizing each aspect of the existence in which we live and integrating them into a balanced, strong and harmonious system.

At FICAM, we work with students to help themselves in order to help others reach goals for emotional and physical healing. Our practice and research have taken over 35 years of experience which has culminated into this opportunity to train you for a career in Complementary and Alternative Medicine. We stand on the shoulders of all the valiant researchers who came before us to step outside the conventional means of their times (Freud, Reich, Erickson, Bandler, Satir, Wolinski, Lowen, Sarno, Shyam, Hellinger, Winnicott, Jung, Grof, Chopra, Myss, Keleman and many more) who said there must be another way and had the willingness, courage and determination to find it despite dissention from the status quo.

Namaste,

Brian Sheen, FICAM President