Integrative Medicine is geared toward maximizing each individual's ability to experience optimal vitality and wellness, whatever their current state of health. We believe that there is a powerful interrelationship between the mind, body, spirit, and community in the interplay of both health and disease, and that a dynamic, constantly shifting balance exists as each of us moves through the daily stressors of our lives. Research is bringing us closer to identifying genetic susceptibilities for disease, while our population achieves an ever increasing life span in an increasingly fast-paced, demanding technological society. Given these realities, the need to develop comprehensive and dynamically responsive health care plans ('healing paths')for optimal well-being, with a full range of healing resources, becomes increasingly apparent