Dr David Beales FRCP(UK), MRCGP, DCH, DRCOG, Dip Psych is a practising physician and previous full time general practitioner within the NHS. He specialises in mind-body medicine as clinician, educator, and researcher. His focus is on promoting the benefits of behavioural physiology in health care. He is passionate about mind-body medicine and works with people to restore self-regulation using mindfulness, capnography and heart rate variability. He has taught the whole person approach to medical students at the Universities of Bristol and Westminster, and teaches at the British School of Osteopathy and The Centre for Nutrition and Life Style Management, where he is medical advisor. He is co-author, with Helen Whitten, of Emotional Healing for Dummies (2009).