Mind Body Healing

An often hard to believe factor in the development of human kind, is the very fact that people and their own stresses cause about 99% of whatever ails them with everything from psychosomatic illnesses through the most disastrous of physically handicapping cancers. Below we begin with a few examples of how ailments commence psychosomatically, leading into the greater science of how our thoughts affect us physically.

Psychosomatic illness is one of the most profound examples of the extreme power of the mind and most specifically our subconscious. Believed to be caused by repressed anger, and or guilt. Both very powerful emotions with the ability to cause mass destruction if released.

With the experience of mental/bodily emotions, the body releases chemicals, endorphins, adrenaline, and a myriad number of others. These different chemicals provide us with whatever we may need at the time to give us the particular strength(s) we require to overcome our challenges, and reach our outcomes. Both friend and foe, these chemicals, caused initially by the power of our wonderful and extreme imaginations, both help and simultaneously have the power to destroy us.

Man has been on a crusade to harness the power of these chemicals and recreate them to be ingested via pill or injection. All one has to do is imagine examples of pleasure to cause the levels of serotonin to rise causing mental and physical orgasms. With the simple yet complex imagination harnessed, and the power of hypnosis, not only do I believe, but I know that these myriads of wonders can be recreated all on ones own.

Unfortunately when emotions are suppressed, or our expressions are prohibited, we still have chemicals released into our systems, and without an external release, they manifest in different forms continuing to grow until recognized and calmed, or the manifestation becomes the end of us.

Of primary relevance are certain strong emotions because of the extremity of their effect. These emotions include that of fear, anger, pain, sadness, and that of guilt. These emotions if not dealt with lead to an incredible number of ailments and disease, because they are often suppressed and continue on either being ignored, or unreleased in any fashion. As with any emotion, certain chemicals are created and released, yet if un used they build up and create a illness.

Below is a small example of how each of these emotions affect us.
Fear: Examples would be phobias and anxiety. It is suggested that most emotional distress results from the unconscious recording of a problem that hasn’t been solved. With a phobia, that recording is eventually triggered by a similar association to the original memory, effectively immobilizing the sufferer without revealing any direct connection. The result of an “overly literal interpretation of the subconscious mind”, in its comprehension of the outside world.

Anger: Anger, a normal human emotion, becomes most crippling when its expression is prohibited. "Anger can be repressed but never eradicated. It continues to seek release by expressing itself in an abnormal, but somewhat disguised manner”. Examples of repressed anger would be migraines, peptic ulcer, back pain, hypertension and obesity.

Pain and Sadness: The deep wound and the sadness of rejection is probably central to the genesis of all emotional illnesses. The earlier such rejection occurs, the more devastating its effect, for the child who has never experienced acceptance, commands few resources with which to deal with later rejection. The person who plays the greatest part in the creation of a child’s mental health is clearly and inevitably his mother. Her acceptance enables him to accept himself. Rejection by the mother is always acutely painful and frightening.

The pain of rejection is often too severe to tolerate on a conscious level and therefore must be repressed. It does not go away, however, no matter how unaware the individual is of its existence. Its constant demand to be expressed in some form or other results in a physical or emotional disturbance or a combination of both. Examples would be asthma, depression, drug addiction, alcoholism, and excessive smoking.

Guilt: Playing an interrelated role with fear, anger, and pain, guilt is consistently a potent factor in the production of all emotional illnesses. Showing itself in the forms of impotence, frigidity, obesity, skin diseases, and the ultimate of hostile acts, “suicide”.

Blood flow plays a central role in a wide variety of acute and chronic illnesses. It has been hypothesized that altering blood flow by directed thinking, imagining, and feeling is a common factor in most methods of mind body healing. Below is a brief description behind the process of mind body communication mediating blood flow at the mind-brain level, the brain-body level, and the cellular-molecular level.

The mind-brain level of modulating blood flow is illustrated by metaphors of everyday speech. Everyone knows what we mean when we say that we feel "warm" or "cool" about a person or situation. It has been found that with biofeedback research these feelings of warmth and coolness are in fact associated with an actual dilation or constriction of blood vessels which either increase or decrease blood flow accordingly. This takes place because a positive response on the cognitive-emotional level is often associated with positive life experiences of warmth on a sensory level. The thought of warmth also has an actual emotional, sensory, and physical experience of warmth.

The brain-body level of blood flow modulation takes place in the limbic-hypothalamic system. The hypothalamus has some of the major control centers for regulating the autonomic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system, through its sympathetic and parasympathetic branches, can mediate the alarm response that contributes to the psychosomatic aspects of surgical emergencies and critical illnesses. It has been stated, for example, that the sympathetic branch can signal the adrenal medulla to secrete epinephrine and norepinephrine into the blood, where they function as information substances that can regulate blood flow by signaling the receptors on vessels in the skeletal muscles and liver to dilate or constrict the diameter of the arterials in other parts of the body.

The cellular-molecular level is illustrated through the action of a number of information substances on the receptors of the capillaries that carry the blood through all the tissues of the body. In an early study on "changes in tissue vulnerability induced during hypnotic suggestion", Chapman, Goodell, and Wolff concluded that "proteolytic enzymes and a bradykinin-like polypeptide are implicated in these enhanced reactions."

"It is now known that the formation and metabolism of bradykinin is interwoven with the metabolic processes that mediate the conversion of angiotensionogen to angiotensin I and II. The interrelationships of the kinins, histamine, and angiotensins in regulating blood flow at the cellular level suggests how all the information substances may be modulating blood flow in well coordinated communication patterns on all levels from mind to molecule. The conventional view has been that while all these substances may be coordinated in their activity, this coordination takes place on an entirely mechanical, involuntary, or unconscious level."

In short, I am of the belief that the only safe way to repair damage done by our minds is a cure created by our own minds. Hypnotic techniques provide a doorway into the realm of one's mind, so with care and a little bit of desire, what we have done can be undone. so have a look at our Health and Healing products page, and if what you are looking for isn't there jsut yet, please do enquire and we'll have you on yor way to feeling much better real soon.

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