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With the approach and interest in Alternatives to Medicine
that has become prominent in the U.S. in the 90's, scientists
have begun to challenge this fundamental assumption. Some
Scientists feel we are on the verge of a medical revolution that
is bringing the mind and emotions into the equation of healing.
Scientists have long thought that the immune system, our
defense against disease, operated alone, making us better or
worse on its own, without the mind's influence. But
neuroscientists have now traced the nerve threads that run like
wires between the human nervous system and the immune system. The
mind and the immune system talk to one another . We can no
longer pretend that the patient's perceptions and inner feelings
don't matter with regard to healing, just as we can no longer
think that healing is something a doctor does to a patient.
People have learned to surpress their immune systems through fear
and guilt.
Other scientists have been exploring the chemical link between
the mind and the body. Molecules called neuropeptides act as
messengers, traveling through the body and linking with specific
receptor molecules as if guided by antennas tuned to the brain.
Because their activity fluctuates with our states of mind, they
have been referred to as the biochemical units of emotion
translating emotions into bodily activity, for good or for ill.
If we smile and feel joy, our whole being responds, as it does
when we feel discouraged and depressed. The most dangerous threat
to our immune system with the possibility of causing serious
disease is chronic depression. Traditionally, we have thought
the brain houses the mind. However, with the acceptance of
Alternatives to Medicine and through studies of the Eastern
Philosophies, we are finding that the mind resides within the
body as well. The more we know about neuropeptides, the harder it
is to think in the traditional terms of a mind separate from a
body. It is making more and more sense to speak of a single
integrated entity, a body-mind-spirit.
It's not what happens to us, but how we react to it,
and we each are 100% responsible for our experiences. If we
are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be
healed.
Including diet, exercise and your thoughts. Food
combining, Macro-Biotic, Natural Herbs, Vitamins,
Homeopathy. Yoga, trampoline, walking, dancing, cycling,
tai-Chi, Swimming, Sports, Martial Arts, etc.
Meditation
In any form, this is a wonderful way to quiet the mind
and allow your "inner voice" to come to the surface. It's
simple. Sit quietly, ask yourself what it is you need to
know and allow the answer to come to the surface. If it
doesn't right away, that's okay. It will another day. There
are many spiritual groups u can be a part of.
Systematic desensitization, Deep breathing,
Biofeedback, Sauna, Water therapy (Hot Tub), Slant board,
Music.
After five years of training as a Holistic Spiritual Healer, I
had been strongly advised by my mentors never to begin treatment with
a terminal cancer patient. My interest in their specific treatment
began when Dr. Bernie Siegel's book came out entitled, "Love,
Medicine and Miracles." I am not a physician, but I have seen many a
miracle during my spiritual healing sessions. I wondered if the
visualization techniques, dietary and exercise plan and basic belief
in life with positive thinking could help these suffering people.
I began to feel that I could contribute to the cure for cancer
because I knew full well that the patient is in partial control of
the cure. I spoke to a cancer group and was amazed that the patients
seemed to have no motivation to get well. They not only had no
confidence in their own ability to get better, but they had no
confidence in me or any doctor treating them for cancer. So, I began
to look at this problem and to explore the possibility of getting
patients to involve themselves willingly into a self-reflective
healing process. I feel that if a cancer patient begins to look at
the emotional reasons they may have for creating this disease, they
could possible begin to let the tightly held emotions, hence the
disease, go. This would enable the body to then respond to the
treatments.
In my search to find ways to mobilize the patients' inner
resources, I studied meditation, visualization, Louise Hay
techniques, positive thinking, Eastern philosophies, Shamans,
fire-walking, sweat lodges, Silva Mind Control, Dr. Deepak Chopra and
many, many other holistic approaches. I incorporated these techniques
with what I had developed in my own work and found that I began to
bring out dramatic changes in my patients' attitudes, and thus in
their responses to medical treatment. I have compiled a seven year study of my research and find the patients survival time to be changed from the original prognosis by five years or more, and some had surgery and did not need chemotherapy or any other follow-up treatment.
I have been able to maintain a follow up study with all of my
cancer clients and the results have been overwhelming. I was not
able to build an experimental group versus a matched and maintained
control group which is necessary for maximum scientific study. This
would have been my next step, but funding prevents me from
continuing.
However, such a study has now been completed and was published
in October 1989. This research was done at Stanford University and
the University of California at Berkeley and it represents the
highest standard in scientific evidence, in a controlled, randomized
study. The researchers studied women with advanced breast cancer, and
the results, which were reported by Dr. David Spiegel of Stanford,
are very compelling. In their control study they followed up on fifty
women in the counseled group. Their median survival time was 36.6
months in the counseled group. The survival of the control group,
women who were not counseled, was 18.9 months.
These results are especially gratifying because Dr. Spiegel has
admitted the researchers had set out to disprove any claims that
meditation, visualization and counseling can affect survival.
Instead, working with admirable objectivity, they have strengthened
the conclusions of Alternative Medicine, with the highest order of
clinical research.
In 1993 the National Institute of Health organized a branch to
research Alternative Medicine further and is awarding grants to
researchers over the next few years. Dr. Deepak Chopra heads the
Board of Alternative Medicine at NIH.
While scientific proof of the importance of the Body-Mind-Spirit
connection still makes headlines, doctors working with individual
patients have observed such a connection since the beginning of
recorded medical history.
In my opinion, the definitive research has been done to prove
that the mind influences the body. Now it seems the most important
area to address is how the mind can be used to influence the body
most effectively. During the past seven years, this subject has been
the focus of my healing work. Creating optimum health by using
optimum therapy and our natural Mind-Body Pharmacy.
I believe that the power of the mind, as Dr. Carl Jung wrote
about, goes far beyond whatever we have imagined up until now. In
addition I believe that, beyond the mind and body, there is another
aspect of healing that needs to be addressed and researched: the
Spiritual aspect.
The dictionary defines spirit as "the principle of conscious
life, the vital principle in humans. The divine influence as an
agency working in the human heart. Devotional, sacred." Working with
spirit means enhancing our connection with the life principle. It
means asking questions about why we're here on the planet and about
our unique purpose in life.
The mind is used most effectively when it is aware of spirit.
Spirit gives us resources that can't be reached through traditional
psychological approaches. (Seat Of The Soul by Gary Zakov) It opens
the mind and body to healing forces and energies that go far beyond
our current understanding of our own limits. We can learn to bring
that power into our own lives. (Timeless Mind, Ageless Body by:
Deepak Chopra)
I'm sure that this conclusion would be very difficult to prove
in the laboratory. However, through the day by day application and
life experience, methods have been developed to communicate and work
with spirit energy, and I am confident that what I have learned from
my patients prove these techniques to be valid.
Laura came to me in the early fall of 1992. She was 26 years old
and about to be married. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and
had to face the possibility of having no children, plus the ordeal of
a life threatening disease. We began the work, and as we looked far
beneath the surface of the personality through ancient yoga breathing
techniques and regression, a fear began to make itself present within
her. Laura was very angry with her father for early childhood abuse.
She felt she hated him and could never forgive him.
I explained to her that the hate was eating her body alive and
had manifested as an ugly disease within her. We went deeper, and
Laura became hysterical. She would not let go of the hate and
justified anger within her. I asked her to picture the cancer cells
as an eight ball in her abdomen. I then
proceeded with "etheric surgery" and asked for the help of Spirit to
removed the imaginary black ball, representing her dis-ease. Laura
could feel the power of the healing energy move within her. She
stopped and could go no further. With a tear in her eye, she left and
told me she knew what she had to face, and the possibility of the
cancer spreading, but she could not let go of her feelings.
I asked her to come back before the surgery if she felt we could
do more work. It was entirely up to her. I also gave her several
books to read, a suggested diet for cancer patients (per Louise Hay)
and some meditation techniques to practice for several months. She
sighed, said she still hated her father, and left.
A week later Laura returned. I had not contacted her at all,
knowing that the rest of the inner healing had to be completely her
choice. As we began the work, I saw Laura begin to smile. Her present
life, her upcoming marriage and career, was far more important to her
than any experiences she had suffered in the long ago past of
childhood. I was pleased that she understood and embraced the process
so lovingly and wholeheartedly.
This time, as we made the black ball on the abdomen, we decided
to go into the hospital operating room and bless everything. We
blessed the doctors, the nurses, the instruments, the
anesthesiologist, anyone and anything present in the room. We also
blessed all surgeries being performed the next day, as well as
Laura's. We held this inner vision until we could feel light in
every nook and cranny of our visualization. A cool air seemed to
permeate the room and Laura felt a pulling from her abdomen. As her
father had been completely forgiven on all levels of her being, Laura
felt light, energized, alive and complete. She had found peace in her
heart. I knew a spiritual healing had occurred through Grace, and
felt her operation would be successful.
It was after six week when I heard from her again, and the
happiness in her voice will stay with me forever. She told me her
surgery had been successful and the cancer was slight, much less than
expected. She did not need any follow up treatment or chemotherapy
and she had healed much faster than the doctor had expected. The
doctor told her a story that afternoon that left her with a heart
full of spirit and wonderment.
The doctor said he had one of the most successful day of surgery
he could remember. He had done six operations, one on a small boy
with a brain tumor. Every one of the patients had healed quickly and
every one did not need chemotherapy. He also mentioned to Laura that
his hands felt light and "guided" and had tingled through each
operation.
It may take ten, twenty or more than a hundred years to prove
the presence of spirit and the importance of this energy to the human
being, but that's okay with me. The research will continue.
This resignation is certainly understandable. Statistics say that
this year alone 1.2 million people in the United Sates will be
diagnosed with some form cancer, and about half that many will die
from it. Some 46,000 of those fatalities will be due to tumors of the
breast. "By the year 2000, cancer will surpass heart disease as the
leading cause of death." predicts Dr. Harmon Eyre, deputy executive
vice president of medical affairs and research at the American Cancer
Society.
Even so, self-help health management shows that you can take
precautions to lower your risk of cancer early in life. By following
easy, sensible safeguards, establishing a healthy lifestyle, and
practicing early detection, you can improve your chances of avoiding
this disease and may never be exposed to it. However, you must start
today!
The steps to begin healing from within are:
A good diet is your first line of defense against cancer. "No single
factor has a stronger influence of your life than the food you eat,"
says Louise Hay, author of You Can Heal Your Life.
If you are 40% or more over weight, you run a greater risk of breast,
uterine, colon, or gallbladder cancer. Estrogen stored in excess fat
tissues may promote the growth of tumors.
Natural grown foods are a love to effective cancer fighting. If it
doesn't grow, don't eat it. You cannot afford to eat TV dinners or
processed foods. Broccoli contains sulforaphane, a powerful
anticancer compound, while spinach and kale are high in the
protective antioxidant luetin. Enjoy brussel sprouts, celery, green
beans, lentils and peas. Also, cabbage may help to prevent breast
cancer. Rates for this disease are far lower in Poland and Germany,
where much cabbage is consumed.
Enjoy whole grains, whole wheat pasta and brown rice. Potatoes,
popcorn, tortillas (without meat) and whole grain cereals are also
high in fiber. These help to remove carcinogenic compounds from the
body. The best junk food is natural popcorn.
Limit consumption of charcoal grilled, and salt or nitrite cured
meats. Red meat cooked over hot flames absorbs a chemical that is
carcinogenic.
Trim all meats, poultry and fish. People who derive 40% of calories
from fat run a high risk for cancer. According to the National Cancer
Society, people whose diets are heavy in saturated fats are five
times more at risk of developing lung cancer. Avoid tropical oils,
and limit your intake of nuts, seeds, commercially baked products,
snack chips and fried foods, which are heavy in saturated fats. Eat
only small amounts of butter, oil, margarine, creme sauces, gravies,
and high fat dairy foods such as eggs, cheese and ice cream.
The secret is to use common sense, and read the book You Can Heal Your Life, by Louise Hay. Her thoughts and techniques have helped many.
Be sure to get a yearly check up and practice a self-examination each day when you shower. Your best defense against cancer is early discovery of any abnormalities. The earlier the detection, the better your chances for a cure. A full check-up with complete tests every three years is very important and can help detect cancers of the breast, tongue, mouth, colon, rectum, cervix, and skin. This covers more than half of the cases of cancer.
As we read and listen to the research doctors and teams of trained professionals who are tentative, cautious, suggestive rather than emphatic about conclusions, we begin to believe them when they say we are a long way from understanding the manifold connections between the mind and the body. Americans are now experimenting and taking control of their own health. More that three billion dollars was spent in 1994 on Alternative Medicine. This is becoming very important work. If someday we do understand these connections, we will have redefined human physiology and gained the basis for expanding the frontiers of healing.
There are many, many avenues you can explore for alternative healing. If one way doesn't work for you, try another. All these suggestions have proved to be beneficial but no one can say which one is right for you. That is something you have to discover for yourself. No one method, one group or one person has all of the answers for everyone. These are just stepping stones along your pathway to holistic health and balance of the body/mind/spirit.
So please, don't decide that your current beliefs about the "spiritual" experience will exclude you from doing inner work. People have been treated who are atheists, and they are always able to find terms for their experiences that are comfortable and meaningful for them. Remember these techniques don't ask hat you exclude what your doctors can do for you. In fact, most of the work in healing, especially critical or life threatening healing, helps people cooperate more actively with their treatment and with their health care team. These are suggestions to help you realize that you can go further with yourself and your mental abilities to influence your own health. Awareness and Self-Responsibility is the key.
elizabeth@new-visions.com
All Text Copyright 1996 by Elizabeth Joyce; Visions Of Reality