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 The Mind-Body Connection
The study of the connection between the mind and the immune system is called psychoneuroimmunology, and it's a fascinating field of study that clearly demonstrates just how much control the mind has over the health status of the body. You can read more about this at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoneuroimmunology
We've also published several articles about mind-body medicine on NewsTarget: http://www.newstarget.com/mind-body_medicine.html
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Anne Harrington
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 The body responds to the mind's messages, whether conscious or unconscious. In general, these may be either "live" or "die" messages.77
[W]hen a human being suffers an emotional loss that is not properly dealt with, the body often responds by developing a new growth. It appears that if we can react to loss with personal growth, we can prevent growth gone wrong within us. . . . it is my main job as a doctor to help you develop into a new person so you can resist the unwanted, uncontrolled development of illness.78
For many patients, Siegel's vision of cancer was clearly a lifeline. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 Was he really a German soldier in a previous life, or was he just experiencing an archetypal epic drama playing out in his subconscious mind? We cannot know. Research in this field has not evolved to the point of delivering an answer to that question. What we can know is that by accessing this "past life," my patient was immediately and permanently healed of his disorder. I see this in my work all the time. A majority of people who experience a "past life" under hypnosis will experience profound healing effects—psychological and/or physical. |
| Some common examples include the sense that you no longer have a physical body (but instead, a body of light or energy), super-human levels of peace, love and joy, a vastly expanded awareness (as if your mind has become large enough to embrace the earth and all that is in it), receiving personal insights (your purpose in life, why things have happened to you the way they have, which doctor to trust, and so on), or the ability to penetrate some of the mysteries of the universe. About 10 to 20 percent of people will have this type of experience early in their use of this method. |
| Take a passive stance and let your mind lead you to your destination.
The third step is called grounding. You'll hear me ask you a series of questions that help "ground" you in the new place and time. These will be questions such as, "Is this place dark or light? Are you outside or inside? What are you wearing?" As you move through these grounding questions, more and more of your attention will focus on the time and place you are visiting, and it will become clearer to you. You will also remain aware of yourself in the present. |
| Always remember that the subconscious mind loves to communicate through stories, symbols, and metaphors.
You may experience an obvious fantasy when you're regressed under hypnosis. A woman once came to me with bone spurs and severe pain in her feet and ankles. She was lesbian and had grown up with a lot of discrimination from her prominent Midwestern family. At college, she started to come out of the closet, pierced her body, and clothed herself in garb that said, "I don't belong here. |
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 And almost everyone agrees that a lush, green forest, humming with life, is calming and healing to both the mind and body.
One explanation behind all this is that the Earth itself hums at a specific frequency, well below the audible detection range of human beings, called the Schumann frequency or Schumann resonance, which you can read about on Wikipedia. If you multiply this Shumann resonance by multiples of two, you get higher harmonics of the same frequency, sort of like a higher octave on the piano. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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| There is one other type of experience you might have using hypnotic regression: a direct encounter with your super-conscious mind. Super-conscious awareness is not fantasy. It is the actual experience of your own higher states of consciousness. It can vary strongly from person to person. |
Anne Harrington
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| The entrance into the mind of an idea or intimation, originated by some external fact or word, which tends to produce an automatic response or reaction, as hypnotic suggestion. "Many 'miracles' of healing, and of 'stigmatiza-tion,' become credible when verified in modern experience and explained by 'suggestion.' " (James Ward)
—Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1930 edition jk M r. Wright was a very sick man. He had been admitted to the I \ / 1 nospital with a diagnosis of lymphosarcoma, cancer of the JL T Jl lymph nodes. |
| Her body is less cured than it is tricked by both her mind and her doctor, in a collusion that bypasses the patient's own consciousness. Put another way, the powers of suggestion depend on a Faustian bargain in which the patient yields her autonomy to an external authority, lays her troubles at his feet, and hopes to receive in return access to powers and experiences she could otherwise never hope to enjoy. It is a sweet, almost erotic vision—but a dangerous one. For the effects of suggestion are ultimately illusory, and therefore in practice they are highly unstable. |
| But they found that the cause of these effects lay not in the physical but in the mental realm; not in Mes-mer's supposed magnetic "fluids" but rather in a faculty of mind they called the "imagination." In stating this conclusion, however, they were not proposing to replace Mesmer's schema with an alternative one (as Mesmer had previously done with Gassner). What they were doing was dismissing those effects as unworthy of explanation altogether. |
| Imagination, these commissioners knew (following a considerable tradition in the eighteenth century), was the enemy of rational enquiry—a quixotic, irrational, and poorly controlled faculty of the mind. Its fancies, especially ones so powerful they could spread across the population, were a danger to clear thinking because they were not grounded in truth. Scientific methods were thus required, not to understand them, but to unmask them for the unruly, dishonest things they really were. |
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| Tune the mind and body to a higher vibration as part of a treatment protocol for degenerative disease, emotional imbalance or mental disorders.
Amplify the power of intention through meditation or prayer.
Enhance any spiritual practice through greater connection to self and spirit.
Tune specific body energy centers (or "chakras") to clear stagnation and encourage the flow of energy (or "chi").
Enhance and multiply the effectiveness of acupuncture or accupressure therapies.
Cleanse and "zap" the blood to eliminate viruses, bacteria and other pathogens. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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| The subconscious mind's hold on the body can have some astounding consequences. Many years ago, a lovely woman in her mid-forties came to me with an interesting problem. She was about fifty pounds overweight and wanted to do something about this. Under her doctor's supervision, she had been diligently following a stringent weight-loss plan of only 1,200 calories a day for three months. She had not cheated on her diet and engaged regularly in moderate exercise, but she actually put on three pounds. Her doctor was stupefied. |
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| This is essentially what the VRCR machine does, too: it broadcasts a high energy healing frequency (a multiple of the Schumann resonance), entraining your mind, body and even the physical space around you to a frequency that's more in tune with the Earth.
This entrainment phenomenon, by the way, is happening all around us. In fact, the computer you're reading this one wouldn't work if it wasn't for the resonance of the CPU timing crystal, and the subsequent "entrainment" of the CPU cycles. This is a straight physics phenomenon, not some theoretical woo woo stuff. |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
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 Nevertheless, it is being suggested that like psychosomatic symptoms, affective states are also reactions to powerful emotions in the unconscious mind that are threatening to become conscious, and it follows that good medicine requires first acknowledging those unconscious emotions and then dealing with them. Treating anxiety or depression with medications without in-depth psychotherapy is poor medicine, and may even be dangerous if the symptom imperative leads to a serious disorder like one of the many autoimmune maladies or cancers. |
| It is important to bear in mind, however, that symptoms are often erroneously attributed to structural abnormalities that are in reality due to TMS. A good example of this are symptoms blamed on "arthritis," when the "arthritic" changes are merely the result of aging. Contemporary medicine has made a new "disease" of arthritis, hence the monumental sale of pharmaceuticals and a variety of physical treatments. |
| They hear that the mind is involved in TMS. They seem to believe that I am implying they have some sort of mental illness, and they reject the diagnosis.
CASE STUDY: REJECTING THE DIAGNOSIS
A seventy-two-year-old woman has seen me for left shoulder and arm pain for the past two weeks. On her pain diagram, she shaded in almost all the lateral (outside) aspect of her shoulder, elbow, and forearm. She reported tingling and numbness occasionally throughout most of the arm. She also indicated pain in both buttocks and in her low back, present for several years, but not much of a problem recently. |
| Physical symptoms, of either the hysterical conversion or psychosomatic variety, are intended to divert attention from emotions in the unconscious so that they will not become overt and thereby known to the conscious mind.
Fundamental to Freud's understanding is that psychic phenomena result in excitation, a term found throughout his writing, implying a kind of energy that produces symptoms of one kind or another and that can be transferred from one sphere of activity to another for psychic reasons. |
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 You'd have to be truly out of your mind to think that plant-based nutrition has no role in human health and that only pharmaceuticals can prevent disease.
Yet this remains the dominant mindset in conventional medicine today. It is a mindset based on deliberate falsehoods, scientific distortion and outright lies. And right now, you're witnessing yet another attempt to disinform the public about the promise of antioxidants.
Personally, I take antioxidants every day. I also eat raw foods, drink superfood smoothies and avoid all prescription drugs. |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
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| Too little attention has been paid to what the conscious mind cannot report. I hope this will begin to change.
MY EXPERIENCE WITH TENSION MYOSITIS SYNDROME
Ira Rashbaum, M.D.
Ira Rashbaum, M.D., is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine and an attending physiatrist at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in New York City. He began his TMS training in 1992 and has treated numerous patients with TMS since 1993. He published an article with Dr. |
Greg Critser
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 He had patent reform in mind. True, there was now a little bit of obsession at work — "he could get very wound up about it" — yet as he listened to Waxman and Haddad talk, there were also other legitimate pinpricks on his conscience. What if Haddad was right? What if the PMA was on the wrong side of history? After all, in a recent district court ruling, Bolar v. Roche, a Brooklyn judge had ruled that it was not an infringement of a patent if a generics maker used a patented drug for experimental purposes in preparation for a regulatory hearing. That meant that more generics were inevitable. |
| One recently published polemic, Medical Nemesis, blew his mind. Nemesis was not exactly a New York Times bestseller, but its author, a former Catholic priest named Ivan Illich, managed to get his ideas out to a lot of influential people. He was a product of the times. |
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| Her case showed, however, that there was no hiding from such memories; in the end, each had found an alternative expression in bodily symptoms. And what was true for Anna O. was true for all hysterics, Breuer and Freud concluded. Hysteria was a disease caused by the repression of traumatic memories, memories whose emotional significance had not been properly acknowledged by the patient and therefore found expression through bodily symptoms.
How did one help such patients? The solution in Anna O. |
Greg Critser
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| At the core of the new campaign was Zoloft's slogan "From depression, into the mainstream," in itself an odd choice because most depressed people were already in the mainstream, but never mind. With the slogan and a glut of samples went a steady stream of prescribing pads, notebooks, and freebies to physicians, all emblazoned with the same narrative tableau: a thirtyish supermom character in the process of performing all of the tasks expected of any upwardly mobile woman of the early 1990s. |
| And its board had just the fellow in mind. In late 1993, it named Robert Ingram as executive over Glaxo's American operations.
It was an inspired choice, because Ingram, an upbeat, congenial man with a fondness for NASCAR racing, was state-of-the-art when it came to pharma executives, a true hybrid of the political and marketing species. Ingram began his career in sales at Merrill-Dow, where he climbed the greasy pole to head public affairs and later governmental affairs. It was at Merrill that Ingram was exposed to the powerful potential of direct-to-consumer advertising and marketing. |
| With that in mind and the national economy in trouble — inflation was up and productivity was down — Engman went looking for ways to use the FTC's power to make the country more competitive and to make American life more affordable. Quickly he diagnosed a novel cancer on the nation's economic corpus: the regulatory agencies themselves. By making it so hard for small businesspeople to enter their respective industries, the CAB and ICC were hurting the consumer and inhibiting innovation, thereby retarding long-term economic growth and keeping prices unnaturally high. |
| Just like pharma CEOs, we are increasingly conscious of our performance in almost all areas of our lives, and with that increased consciousness comes a toll on body, mind, and spirit. High levels of emotional exhaustion are the norm for 25 to 30 percent of the workforce.
To simplify, it may be that our love-hate relationship with prescription drugs for chronic illness has a rational adaptive function: in ways we cannot yet express, they help us through a new work world. |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
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| Freud would later assign this attribute to a part of the mind he labeled the preconscious, but it is apparent that in 1895 he had not yet developed that concept.)
The two men were puzzled, however, by the fact that an unconscious idea, though not sufficiently intense to become conscious, could be strong enough to induce motor paralysis. How could a weak idea produce such a strong effect? To answer this, they suggested that the pleasure or displeasure that the idea provoked—that is, the nature of its emotional content—might determine whether or not it could become conscious. |
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