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.

Some people see expressing emotions as being weak.  This has usually been attributed to men but many women aslo hide ther emotions because it is frowned upon to be so expressive.  Also, sometimes people don’t even acknowledge their own emotions to themselves.   They become so used to supressing and denying their emotions, that they don’t even realize they have them.  Many times we find ourselves in situations that make us feel not good about ourselves.  We feel like we want to get away and never get in a situation like that again.  Of course, that is not always possible; and when it is, it prevents growth and experience and that cannot be good.  What I want you to know today is that EMOTIONS are good and acknowledging them and expressing them is even better.  Emotions are signals to us that give us information as to what is good for us and what is not.  Feelings are emotions felt in the body.  They are there for a reason and need our attention.

What is most beneficial to us is to really feel our feelings because we cannot heal what we cannot feel.  Emotions are so important and must be given sufficient stage time.  To deny what we feel and push it aside and pretend that everything is OK can be dangerous.  However, once we have allowed ourselves sufficient time to feel our feelings and really get into them we must adapt and let go.   To dwell on our negative feelings is like pouring gasoline on a fire.   It may be helpful at some point to “act as if” but only when we have acknowledged and not denied our true feelings.   Feelings buried alive never die and actually come back to haunt us.   Emotions are “energy in motion” and are meant to be felt and moved through us, not denied and, consequently, remain stagnant.  These pent-up emotions demand to have their say, and if we don’t give it to them through verbal expression with both thought and dialogue, they will use the body to get our attention.  They will be expressed one way or another.  And, if you don’t hear them or ignore them, they’ll shout a little louder.

Trauma, stress, and the negative experiences that cause them are imprinted upon our sub-conscious which, actually, is a good thing.  Our being, body, mind, and spirit, is so cleverly crafted that it is equipped with a “danger sensory system”.  At the precise moment of a specific stressful event, a multisensory movie is created that includes what we saw, heard, felt, smelled, or sensed when the original event occurred.  This movie is triggered to replay whenever a subsequent event contains any element of the original.  This is to warn us to stay away from something or someone or to run away, or go head on with it.  We know this as the “fight, flight, or freeze” reaction.

Back in the caveman days this really came in handy.  When a large predatory, flesh-eating mammal approached, this reaction would come into play and our ancestors knew to either run or fight.  Very rarely, I’m sure, did they “freeze” other than through fear.  In our modern day world, we cannot or do not always fight or take flight.  Sometimes, we just have to grin and bear it or “freeze” because we either don’t know what to do or to do anyting else would be inappropriate in a civilized world.  We now know that this is the source of many of our emotional and physical problems.  So, what started out as a built-in, life-saving mechanism is becoming counter productive.  But, maybe it doesn’t have to be that way.

As children, we came across many frightening situations and the fight or flight response worked.  It was OK and served us well in many instances.  For example, if we had to give a classroom presentation and, naturally, were a little apprehensive, and we sensed, felt, or heard, a negative reaction from the class or teacher, the imprint of the movie was created.  In that type of situation one cannot run and cannot fight but will usually freeze.  You can come up with many similar examples in your life where these sub-conscious movies were created.  The problem is that we continue to play the same movies as an adult.  You can see how this replaying of an original movie would prevent someone as an adult from advancing career-wise where many times presentations to groups must be made.  This imprint remains until it is released energetically by making a new movie, which some never get to do because of the fear, or using Energy Psychology which removes the imprint at a cellular level without the fear aspect.

The emotions triggered by a present-day situation that we find frightening or unpleasant and may be making us dysfunctional in some way are warnings from the past, the original movie.  This movie program worked at some point to protect us, but as adults, the same unconsious reaction hinders us.  If you find yourself avoiding certain functions, tasks, people, events, situations, procrastinating, having relationship problems, etc.  you are proably running an old movie that was made during a stressful event.  With Energy Psychology we can find the old movie and replace it with a new one that works for you as an adult.  Energy Psychology goes beyond talk therapy; it goes to the cellular level to release the movies that aren’t working for you anymore which will allow you to function without fear in order to live life fully.  This does not mean that you have no sense of danger, but you have an adult sense of danger and act accordingly.  If you are still reacting the way you did as a child, Energy Psychology can help you.  Call me at 908-278-2729 if you are ready to release your old, dysfunctional movies.