Importance of mi-medicine in women’s psychosomatic medicine —Towards the integration of body, mind and spirit—

Abstract

Women’s ways of living have been varied in recent years and their social and family conditions have changed remarkably. In modern societies, women desire to take care or their femininity and achieve self-actualization at the same time. As a result, they could be affected by the multiple psycho-social stress such as the compatibility between work and life events like marriage, pregnancy and childcare, and the imbalance between work and life, the disparity of income between men and women, the Grass Ceiling, the interpersonal stress in diverse families and the difficulties in self-actualization. Therefore, in order to maintain women’s health, it is necessary to practice women’s psychosomatic medicine and to promote the social measures based on the understanding of their biological and psychological characteristics and their lifecycle. Moreover, it is required to recognize their ways of living including spirituality and support them. Mi-medicine plays an important role in obtaining Body-Mind-Spirit well-being and its balance. It is expected that Mi-medicine could be practiced widely, both each individual and the society could be free from gender prejudice and gender stereotypes, mutual respect and mutual understanding about sexual differences could be deepened and the holistic society with spiritual maturity could be created.