can the body
learn to after itself?
self healing
It is over 30 years since Karl Simonton
and his partner in Texas as well as the late Dr Ainslie
Meares (a psychiatrist in Melbourne who retired from
orthodox to help people relax and treat them differently)
gained world attention using mind-body dynamics in the field
of psycho-neuro-immunology - in other words a natural
approach towards healing oneself.
Since then a lot has been written,
researched and studied but the practice is yet to be
universally accepted. Their attention was mainly directed
towards the body overcoming cancer and in the present day Dr
Ian Gawler and associates conduct a retreat in the Yarra
Valley near Warburton in Australia attended by many people
who want lifestyle help and healing in various ways. Their
approach is basically lifestyle, learning to enjoy every day
with positive attitude, and natural whole foods to give the
body its best chance for recovery. In other words, quality
of life and positive attitude.
In my study of Hypnosis, an important
part was this very subject – to assist the client in a
“whole person” way and allow the body its own healing
process to occur, regardless of presenting problem.
I am always amazed when I ask clients who
have been to others if there has been any suggestion or
offer of body/mind relaxation techniques with their
therapeutic journeys – generally the answer is no. I then
say, that it is the very thing the body has been asking to
happen for a long time. A further surprise is that almost
invariably they will go into a hypnotic state very easily
and effortlessly; regardless of how tense and anxious they
may have been on presenting to me. Of course there are
exceptions to every rule. I always say. “Let emotions relax”
which is more important than just body and mind relaxing.
That is a good starting point – the proof
of the pie is in the “eating” that means the way we go from
there towards helping the person and how he or she responds
.
Can we make a friend of our fear?
Certainly we all have these natural feelings – real or
imagined. Refer my web pages on FEAR.
What can we learn from our fear?
Can we let it become our teacher?
Does my thinking seem too way out for
you? Am I ahead of my time?
We spend time talking about real and
unreal (exaggerated) fear.
By getting in touch with the fear then
using relaxing techniques associated with this inner
disturbance, a degree of relief and inner healing is usually
obtained.
More needs to be done by getting to the
source – the original sensitizing event and learning from
that – it then means educating the conscious mind in the
present day because the original fear is not happening now –
it is just still feeling the effects. This style of approach
is mostly overlooked, sometimes ridiculed by orthodox
therapists. Having said this, at long last there is evidence
of acceptance that we all have a place and no one “knows it
all!” Fortunately nowadays many doctors and psychologists
refer people to me that didn’t happen five or more years
ago.
In the hypnotic state methods are used to
assist the client to a new belief to hold about their self
and by imagery the imagination is stronger than will power.
Is that hard to understand for you?
We can work on it in a realistic way –
there are no promises, just the amount of mind dynamics,
confidence that the client will allow to happen – in other
words, giving self permission to relax and be patient to
experience this way that may be new to you. It can take a
time before the new belief for you to hold about yourself
can manifest.
However hard it may be to accept this
philosophy – a way of doctoring – It wasn’t in our
upbringing or life teaching as we live in the western
society where the belief is for a “pill for every ill” -
after all anxiety is really concern, worrying about the
future.
I am always surprised at the lengths lots
of people go in the natural field to, and the fortune spent
on searching, self analysis along with the multitude of
nutritional supplements consumed without any real tests to
show if the body is actually missing them. My work really
means to go with the flow, and allow the body to do its own
inner work by mind power (inside–out rather than
outside-in.) By releasing worry about your health status it
has a greater chance of repair or rejuvenation. Anxiety is
really a concern about the future – the unknown or abstract
or even the unreal – just plain fruitless worry that doesn’t
get us anywhere except to drain our health. People mostly
think and blame the past and sure, there are past regrets
but we do not give them the energy (power) or blame because
we cannot change what has happened.
So much emphasis placed on having the
often unattainable scientific proof by the orthodox
profession but recent announcements are encouraging that
there is now a proven link between stress and bodily health,
cancer, heart and depression. Such things I have said and
believed for a long time - heartening that once anecdotal,
now proven with evidence from research.
They have never been able to accept
documented case studies and observations over what must have
been half a century – certainly I first heard of this
statement a long time ago -
FOR EVERY PHYSICAL COMPLAINT THERE IS AN
EMOTIONAL COMPONENT.
Is it not true that the body has its own
defense system and also the liver is really the purifier,
being the factory within? Sure if liver function is faulty
then there is cause for supplementation and detoxifying, or
medical intervention.