Mind Body Medicine

 

To become familiar with the miracle of the human body and mind is to acquire awesome power because it allows us to create new bodies more perfect, more flexible, more dynamic, more fluid, more creative and long lasting. We first have to understand what is this thing called the body and mind. Traditional medicine is symptomatic and can interfere with the mechanisms of disease but they are not the origins of disease. In order to understand the imbalances in the body that give rise to malfunction, ageing and running down or entropy we have to understand the body as it really is.

The body is not a frozen sculpture it is a river of energy and information. A great Greek philosopher once said “you cannot step into the same river twice” because new water is flowing in. In the same way the real you cannot step into the same flesh and bones twice because in every second of existence you are stepping into a new body. All processes of the body and mind are being renewed and exchanged with the body of the Universe. Around 1 million atoms in your body were in Christ or Gandhi.

Radioactive isotopes show that:
 
      98% of body is replaced in less than one year

     New stomach lining every 5 days

     New liver every six weeks

     DNA every six weeks

     New skin once per month

    New skeleton every three months
 
According to Deepak Chopra MD, there is a deeper reality to the body where the mind and body both arise. The body is made up of energy from a field of pure energy and information since 99.9% of our body is space and energy in flux. A quantum unit of light is a photon. A quantum unit of the mind/body connection is a thought, feeling, desire, idea, an impulse of intelligence and information from our own consciousness. When we think we produce neuro-peptides or chemical messengers to talk with our brain cells and receptors also exist in other parts of the body such as cells of the immune system e.g. monocytes, T cells and B cells have receptors to chemical messengers, the material equivalent of thought. So when you have the vague impulse of intelligence in your awareness the immune system is listening. The immune cells can make the same chemicals that the brain makes when it thinks; they have their own thoughts, feelings, and emotions. There is no difference between the nervous and immune system since it is thinking. There are also receptors to these chemicals in all the organs in the body that produce the same chemicals as when the brain thinks. So when saying “I have a gut feeling” or a “sad heart” or “bursting with joy” this may literally be right!

Inner Dialogue

We have on average 60,000 thoughts a day much of which involves what Plato called ‘internal dialogue’. Self talk or internal dialogue builds our self-image that leads to certain behaviour that in turn reasserts the self-talk. All our attitudes, habits, beliefs that go to make up our self-image are store away in the huge database of the inner mind. Around 95% of the thoughts that we have every day are the same giving to the same physical expression of the body. If we go deeper, we can evoke the healing response using the appropriate drugs. Deeper still, we can begin to restructure our perception of time and physical expression and reverse or retard the aging process.

Cellular Memory

Memories are encoded and structured in every cell and constantly transforming themselves into physical reactions. The body is the ‘print out’, the ‘hardware’ is the nervous system, the ‘software’ are all the chemical changes and biochemistry, the ‘programming’ is our thoughts, feeling, emotions, desires, beliefs, concepts; then there is ‘The Programmer’ or the Inner Self - can re-write the programme when get in touch with the Self
 
Memory manifests itself as the physical expression of memory. To cure disease you have to change the cellular memory of the disease by transcending the emotions and becoming the silent witness.The key to cure illness is to remove the memory at the cellular level. According to the Lancet Journal, heart disease is reversible and 82% of patients improved after 1 year as their arteries opening up through exercise, meditation and diet. This shows that nothing in the body is permanent or mechanical. Change the memory through certain changes in life and the arteries open up. The Institute of Noetic Sciences, CA is compiling a list of spontaneous cancer remissions and regressions with 3000 cases recorded. Patients healed through a deep insight where an immediate switch or trigger in memory response led to the healing response. This could be through pleasure such as massage, meditation to experience pure silence and loving attention so that the fear and the pain leave the body.
 
To heal one needs to experience a loss of fear. This is the key ingredient of getting well along with the experience of comfort, pleasure and wholeness changes quantum fluctuations that result in the physical expression of health. We have to change the ‘blue pint’ or interpretations that we have locked ourselves into as a result of conditioned responses. Healing can take place when we become aware of our response to that which is causing us pain or illness. As the silent witness, we are merely witnessing our response without becoming engrossed in the emotion. To uncouple the two allow your awareness to settle down on the physical discomfort and spontaneously the anger or negative emotion dissipates. This is the healing response discovered in the silence of your being and points to the road home to wholeness or ‘Holy-ness’.