It always puzzles me when someone says that it is absurd to believe that something that we are thinking or feeling can affect our bodies!  Are these people robots or just in a state of total denial?  Have they never had ‘butterflies in their stomach’ due to being nervous about something, or a pounding heart due to being scared or afraid that something bad is going to happen?  Have they never gotten a headache from feeling stressed or overworked and overwhelmed?  Didn’t their hearts ever sink or their knees get weak?  These physical reactions are among the thousands that we experience all the time because of what we are thinking or feeling about what is happening to us.  If they are human, they are experiencing these reactions but refuse to acknowledge the connection between the mind and body or that what is going on in their minds has anything to do with what is going on in their bodies.   It is unbelieveable to me that one can be so disconnected from his or her own feelings, thoughts and emotions and to the physical reactions that come from them that they say that the body and mind are not connected!  Of course, we can have and do have many good and positive thoughts and we have all, I hope, experienced good feelings of warmth and affection and kindness and know when they are affecting our bodies.  It would really be sad if someone does not have these sensations not only in their minds, but also in their bodies.  Very sad!

Researchers have proven that humans react at least 10 seconds before they are aware they are reacting*.  This is a biological reaction to some type of threat or stress or conflict that a part of that being is aware of before it is at the mind or body level.  This is the area that we call the sub-conscious mind that is constantly alert and on duty seeking to protect the being of which it is a part.  The sub-conscious mind records everything we think, feel and experience and if something has been unpleasant or dangerous, it immediately is aware of a similar situation and starts a reaction in the body to begin a survival process.  This is done automatically as the person does not respond on a conscious level until 10 or so seconds later.  This is why working on the sub-conscious mind is so important.  It is replaying old tapes and sometimes they fit for a present-day situation, and sometimes they don’t.  When they don’t, we can go into a fight/flight/freeze reaction that is not needed or appropriate at the present time.  When they are appropriate, they can be life-saving.

Unfortunately, many psychological problems develop when the sub-conscious over-rides the conscious mind.  The sub-conscious needs to be set straight sometimes and that is the work of psychotherapists and counselors.  When it serves us right, it serves us well; but, we must be aware of what is going on sub-consciously.  In other words, we must make the sub-conscious conscious.   That is the way to prevent and heal the physical reactions that the sub-conscious triggers.  To deny these reactions, or messages as we see them, is to disassociate from who and what we are.  So, feel your feelings, think your thoughts, and know how you are responding to them.  You are in charge!

These are the kinds of things that German New Medicine, Meta-Medicine, Energy Psychology and NES do for us, MAKE THE SUB-CONSCIOUS CONSCIOUS.   Carolyn Myss, the famous medical intuitive, tells us that the body is the sub-conscious mind.  Ancient mystics and healers from China and India have mapped the body using Meridians and Chakras, energy pathways and energy centers.   Present day healers have learned from the ancients that the body is a map of our consciousness.  Those of us who have studied this ancient work are able to read that map so we can help those who want this kind of information to know what thoughts are causing the particular symptom they are experiencing.  Quantum Physics is now able to prove that much of what the mystics of the past knew intuitively can now be shown with modern day technology to be true.

If you want to learn more about this work go to my Recommended Reading List and you will find many books on this particular topic.  We can do our best healing when we combine the best of modern day findings with the best of the intuitive findings of the past.  Unfortunately, our intuition took a big hit when we disassociated ourselves from the earth and our true nature.  That is what evolution is all about, I suppose, and if it is natural, we can find our way if we want to.  It may take a little more work and initiative than depending on someone else to give us a drug to make us all better, but that is what true healing is about, much more than just covering-up symptoms.

*STUDY QUESTIONS FREE WILL IN HUMANS

Signals in the brain show that people can settle on a decision before they consciously know it, according to a study in the journal Nature.  Activity in two brain regions predicted which button a person would choose to press as much as 10 seconds before they were aware of making the decision the study of brain scans showed.  The findings suggest choices are initiated by instincts or unconscious mental processes that dictate to the conscious mind.  “By the time we consciously make up our minds. the brain has heavily shaped how we are going to decide,” said study author Professor John-Dylan Haynes of the Bernstein Center for Computatinal Neuroscience in Berlin.

In some parts of the world doctors get paid for preventing disease and keeping their patients healthy.  Wouldn’t that be a great thing to have here in the USA!  Unfortunately, our society has become obssessed with taking a pill for whatever ails ya.   They’re even creating diseases so that they can sell medicines to take the symptoms away.  That’s what most doctors are trained to do, take symptoms away.  Wouldn’t it be nice if we could get to the root cause of a disease and really heal that so that the symptoms would go away?  And, once that is done really work at preventing it from happening again by having a better diet, changing life-depleting life styles, improving health overall, and the like.

The American Medical Association has really done a terrific job in handling most emergency situations.  I would put myself in their hands if I needed emergency treatment.  They’ve got that down pat!  The AMA has done a wonderful job in many areas, but it’s the chronic disease area that is lacking.  We need to get help from people who are willing to see us as more than our bodies.  We need the whole being to be taken into account so that healing is happening on all levels.  Removing symtpoms works for a while and can make us feel better, but getting to the root cause of the problem and learning why we have the symptoms is the only way to go in order to heal.

German New Medicine and its offshoot, Meta-Medicine, are probably one of the best ways that we can not only heal, but also prevent disease.  What would that type of prevention look like?   Well, it could have many aspects among which would be meditation and introspection for starters.  If we could learn to examine our lives closely to understand and accept what is going on, how it is affecting us and how we feel and think about it, we would be much closer to warding off disease.  GNM and MM see the patient/client as a being consisting of body, mind, spirit, and emotions and work with all of those areas to bring about healing on the deepest cellular level possible.   MM goes further than GNM, which relies totally on the body to heal itself after resolving a trauma or conflict.  MM uses different therapeutic techniques such as EFT, NLP, and other energy processes to promote and assist the entire being in the healing of body, mind, and spirit.  Hence, it is a real Holistic Healing model.  MM practitioners, or Integrative Health Coaches, work with clients to help them make necessary changes in their diet, attitude, environment, and social circumstances, as well as helping the client not only find the conflict that is causing dis-ease but also resolving it in real-life terms as well as on the cellular level.

When we are aware of what we find unsettling or disturbing we are not in denial.  Awareness must come before any other step.  Living consciously promotes awareness.  Once we are aware we then accept what is happening but that doesn’t mean we do nothing about it.  Of course, as the Serenity Prayer says, we do need to accept the things we cannot change, but we also have to have the courage to change the things we can.   When we accept we then need to move to action whether that means surrendering it to a Higher Power, ending a relationship, or changing jobs, action needs to be taken and goes along with acceptance.  Only then can we remove ourselves from the powerless victim stance.  We are then living from the Higher Self or Unlimited Self which is the authentic self, the real self, the powerful self.