How Your State Of Mind Effects Your Bodies' Health

Your thoughts can make you ill. This is not a news flash, but information that has been around for a long time. In many cultures, for example, pregnant women were not allowed to hear negative information. Native Americans even programmed dreams during pregnancy by thinking pleasant positive thoughts before going to sleep. They imagined the ease of the birth, and the health and strength of the newborn. The belief that there would be no pain, during childbirth for example, programs the mind to ignore what it does not expect to encounter. Today, we call this Hypno-birth, and includes lessons to hypnoticly block pain, and remain stress-free throughout the entire birth process. In literature from the Bible to the Greeks and Romans, thought was perceived as having a connection to physical health. Allelopathic, or Modern Medicine, has only been around for about a hundred years or so. Before that, Aurevetic, or what we today call Alternative Medicine, was all that anyone had. Modern Medicine has come to be a mixed blessing. We are willing to allow exceptable levels of side effects in order to gain some results. Out of desperation even an addictive and illegal drug, marijuana, is used to alleviate the side effects of chemotherapy, when in most instances, hypnosis/guided immagery could have done the job with absolutely no side effects! The mind can produce an endorphin called Dopamine, which is hundreds of times more powerful than any synthetic pain reliever.

Stress

Stress is caused by our reaction to situations, not the situation itself, (see Stress and Anxiety Relief page) and is one of the easiest conditions to eliminate. It can cause insomnia, because we tend to ruminate, or think about in an obsessive manner, those issues which are paramount in our mind. Worrying about a situation never makes it better, but constructive, positive imagery can help! People who are anxious about driving can be instructed to imagine a dangerous senario, and then plan an excape maneuver. Instead of causing anxiety, the driver then feels empowered, and confident. Most worry comes from misunderstanding, and what we don't know, we usually imagine. Unfortunately, without being told otherwise, we usually imagine the worst. Whenever we obtain knowledge, we obtain power, and we can then relax because of this confidence. Our bodies require relaxation in order to work at peak performance, just like a race car engine requires oil to relieve friction!

Your Amazing Mind

Your mind controls hormone levels, chemicals in your blood system, and respiration rates. This is all done without any effort on your part, but you could consciously control each and every involuntary function of your body if you wanted to. You can hold your breath, yawn, cry, urinate, even vomit, just by focusing your attention. It may seem amazing, but by simply creating the mental image, your body will respond to almost any command you could possibly give: you could slow your heart rate, stop bleeding, increase or decrease hormones or chemicals in your body, or even decrease blood pressure!

Creating Positive Mental Images

Most people can remember when they were in school and daydreamed during a boring class. Children are very good at daydreaming, because they are in the Alpha State most of the time until about the age of ten. St. Jude Hospital which primarally treats children with cancer, uses a form of hypnosis called guided imagery to help their patients during treatment. After they are extremely relaxed, or hypnotized, they are told to imagine the chemotherapy as cartoon charecters, or "pac-man" marching to the cancer site and destroying the weak, sick cancer cells. This therapy is done with adults with excellent results, as well. It works in the exactly the same way for allergies, asthma, skin conditions, high blood pressure, migraine headaches, fybromyalgia and chronic pain, or any other disease. By accessing the subconscious mind, you are harnessing the automatic, involuntary function of the mind.

Hypnosis And Allelopathic Medicine

In most of Europe, including England, it is usual to meet with and be treated by a Hypnotherapist, who is considered part of main-stream medical care, before surgery or while being treated for illness. Many cases of spontaneous healing occur that would have otherwise lead to extended post-surgical recuperation. Usually explained away as "misdiagnosis" by the unenlightened, but appreciated by those who are living examples of the power of suggestion. Does hypnosis work in every case? Surgery and medications don't always work, either, there are never any guarantees. By using alternative methods first, except in emergency cases, modern medicine can always be considered as a last resort. In cases where medicine has been introduced without obtaining results, Hypnosis and Reiki have shown why thousands of satisfied people over thousands of years can't be wrong!

Your Body Heals Itself

Left to it's own resources, the body heals without any help whatsoever. If you don't believe this, look for a cut on your hand or knee from a few years ago. You might find a scar to remind you to be more careful, but what you won't find is an open, bleeding gaping wound. In the place of the cut, you will always find new healed skin that matches perfectly in color and texture. Your DNA is programmed to replace cells as long as you live, with fresh new ones. Your skin, the largest organ you have, loses and replaces thousands of cells every day. The younger you are, the more new cells you make. The organs in your entire body work this way, yet there are exceptions; you can not replace entire limbs, or organs, for example, or large quantities of skin. But atypical, abnormal cells are the target of vast armies of white blood cells that are roaming your blood system. Abnormal cells, when discovered, are ruthlessly seized and destroyed to protect your health. If normal healthy cells die, they are replaced by the same cells. Given proper nutrition, rest, excersise, clean air and relaxation, and protected from accident and infection, the human body can remain healthy for many years!

Doing Your Part

You cannot expect to remain healthy while consuming alcohol, smoking cigarettes, or ignoring your bodies' desire to sleep. Exercise, too is important. The human body, it seems, develops, looks, and works better the more it is used, but not abused! If positive imaging works to change the course of illness and disease, it works even better in situations promoting health. It takes much less effort to stay healthy than to get healthy! Unfortunately, even when you know what to do, you don't always follow the best advice. Using hypnosis to program positive responses can assure fantastic results. By using tapes, or during private sessions, the information is not only learned, but acted upon. It only takes twenty-one days, less than a month, to change the neurological pathways that produce habits. By taking advantage of your subconscious mind, success can be effortless and automatic.

Sealed With A K.I.S.S.

K.I.S.S. (keep it simple, stupid!) is a great analogy for hypnosis, being as natural and simple as breathing, seeing, touching, or tasting. It is so remarkable, that people have tried to make it more complicated than it really is. Most first-timers realize that their perception is totally wrong. They were told by TV, movies and books that hypnosis is zombie mind control, etc., etc.; and are usually amazed to find out that in reality, they remain in control the entire time. No one can make you relax, however, and that is why it will not work all the time for all people. Reiki, another alternative therapy, together with hypnosis, produces quicker results with some individuals who are experiencing severe illness or trauma. It is then called Hypno-Reiki, and can produce amazing results. Reiki, too, is as simple as it comes, and requires even less effort on your part than Hypnosis! While Reiki Masters usually say little, other than ask how you are feeling; during Hypno-Reiki, suggestions for positive health are added, and since you are in hypnosis, the suggestions are subconsciously assimilated. Both Reiki and Hypno-Reiki direct and enhance your bodies' own healing power. For more information see Reiki links, Hypno-Reiki page, or call or e-mail info@sereneminds.com