I had a lady walk in this morning with Bell palsy-type symptoms, which the M.D. diagnosed as the result of an ear infection on the left side of her face. After a quick history and look, we discovered she has emotional body inference with depression and negative internal dialog. This, in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), is the root cause for the deficient immune system that opens one up to all sorts of maladies.
“What you feel has a big effect on your immune system,” says Dr. John Arden, Director of Training for Mental Health in Northern California for Kaiser Permanente and author of The Brain Bible: How to Stay Vital, Productive and Happy for Life.
Candace Pert, Ph.D., author of Molecules of Emotion, stated, “Emotions are not just in the brain but are also in the body and appear to run the immune system, the glands and the intestines. So your whole body is a single-unit integrated circuit, running on biochemicals.”
Once this is fully understood, it may provide the medical profession with totally new ways to treat illnesses such as allergies, cancer, obesity, etc.
Our emotions are also influenced by a greater, spiritual energy field that encompasses and influences the entire physical body and nervous system. Our reactions to life are recorded not only in the biochemical patterns of memory storage in the brain but also in the life energy centers of the body that help to nourish our cells and organs.
We are energetic beings whose ills may be healed not only by surgical procedures and drugs but also by different forms and frequencies of energy.
Most psychologists treat the emotions as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely, some physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions.
But the body and emotions are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other.
Having said that… ‘Body-mind,’ a term first proposed by Diane Connelly, PhD (Traditional Acupuncture: The Law of the Five Elements), reflects the understanding, derived from Chinese medicine, that the body is inseparable from the mind. When we explore the role that emotions play in the body, as expressed through the neuropeptide molecules, it will become clear how emotions can be a key to understanding disease.
We know that the immune system, like the central nervous system, has memory and the capacity to learn. Thus, it could be said that intelligence is located not only in the brain but in cells that are distributed throughout the body and that the traditional separation of mental processes, including emotions, from the body is no longer valid.
How can we experience the fact that an emotion is not only stored in the brain? One way is to notice, as we release emotions from the body, that we feel physical relief first and later experience mental relief. By releasing the harmful effects of guilt, fear, anger, and depression, we begin to feel better in many ways.
Many other factors determine who gets sick and who doesn’t. Beliefs, moods, thoughts, and emotions affect the mind/body in many ways. When doctors tell patients, “You will die in six months to a year,” they risk giving them a death sentence.
A terminal prognosis is a death sentence. When patients receive this kind of ‘programming,’ how can doctors expect them to live any longer? Health professionals should consider a person’s ‘fighting’ spirit, commitment, and will to overcome – to re-create his or her own reality!
As a holistic practitioner, I have found a vast majority of health issues have their roots in the emotional component; this would include stress, anxiety, and, of course, anger and fear issues. I have also experienced that once the emotion is released, usually the pain or problem is gone.
Another issue is the excess of mental activity, especially the type of stimulation by screens. Those of you who work at the screen for a living know who I am talking to. Keep it down to 4 hours a day in one-hour segments, and take an hour of YOU time for every hour in front of the screen daily.
There ya’ go..xxk
