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Our bodies are an expression of our subconscious mind. Illness is one of the few ways our subconscious mind can get our attention. The subconscious mind responds perfectly but we create interference, we create overlays, which create distortions. So our bodies are responding perfectly to either the original blueprint or interference.
It’s the subconscious mind that runs our body and it runs it without thought. Innate intelligence, the inborn wisdom that runs our body, directs the life force that flows through the nervous system, guiding and directing appropriately for one purpose and one purpose only. Our bodies are not built to be healthy but not built to be sick either. If that’s the case, what are our bodies built for? Survival. It survives the best it possibly can given the choices we have made in our lifestyles and the inner and outer environments we have either created or put ourselves into. So whatever is going on in our bodies right now, whether we are perfectly healthy or have some serious illness, is perfect; it’s perfect for whatever caused that response. The body is a perfect stimulus response organism. Therefore we need to change the stimulus, in order to change the response.
I work with my patients on wellness and lifestyle choices which we like to call the 6 essentials: what and how we eat, drink, breathe, exercise, rest, and think. The important thing to remember is that, out of those 6 essentials, our thoughts and feelings have a more powerful effect on our body’s function than all the other 5 combined. That’s not to minimize the importance of eating right, drinking proper fluids, getting the rest and exercise you need, and breathing good air. But it is important to recognize that our thoughts have the most powerful influence on our health. As a society we understand more about the other lifestyle choices and influences on health but we’re just now starting to scratch the surface about how the mind and emotions stimulate changes in the nervous system and changes in the physiology of the body.
Most of our limiting beliefs are established by the time we’re two years old, and become blocks of interference in our nervous system and subconscious energy field. We continually attract from this subconscious interference, despite our best conscious efforts. This is the Secret behind the Secret: unconscious beliefs interfere with conscious manifestation.
The body is designed to heal itself and to be able to adapt or respond to the environment appropriately.
We live in a universe of energy in which everything has frequency or resonance. In general, high frequency equates with health and happiness, low frequency equates with disease and depression. Since we all experience both negative and positive frequencies, the key is to notice what is going on, and accept it as that which we have attracted to ourselves. Once we accept responsibility, without guilt and shame, we can begin to release our attachment and resistance to our negative patterns of attraction, and allow our lives to flow without interference.
We know if we plant a seed we have to care for it properly, we have to give it the right nutrients, and water, and air, and sunlight. How come we don’t apply that to our bodies?
Row Row Row means you are going to have to do something. You don’t just row, you work at it. This is not a one shot deal; you’re going to have to DO something consistently. Row “YOUR” boat, meaning don’t worry about anyone else’s boat, worry about your boat. We are constantly worrying about other people’s boats instead of our own, like controlling someone else’s life.
How are you going to do this? This is the key! “Gently” down the stream. Don’t be vigorously trying to go up stream and against the natural flow. Go “Gently” down the stream. We don’t do anything gently; we typically go against most things in life, working against ourselves. “Gently” down the stream which means you’re in flow with the universe because everything that is Godly simply flows; it cannot be forced. Remember force creates resistance.
Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily… Be happy, this is not a dress rehearsal, this is the real thing. We get one shot in this lifetime, so make it an enjoyable journey. It says Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, not grudgingly, grudgingly, grudgingly, grudgingly don’t waste time being upset and angry, enjoy your life.
Life is but a Dream… ok so if this is the case why are you making it such a nightmare? We do, because we’re not enjoying it. We just want to get it over with; don’t fight the current; if you do it will wear you out, and then life becomes a major stress.
Our life should be viewed as moving “Gently down the stream”, we are fearfully and wonderfully made!
Be Happy! Make it a Great day!
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Staying Healthy Through the Holidays
The holidays bring wonderful opportunities for celebration, warmth, generosity and love, and they also bring opportunities for stress, both emotional and physical. Eating rich foods, extra sweets and consuming more alcohol, along with neglecting exercise and daily healthful routines, such as meditation, can create the conditions for inflammation, imbalance and disease in the body. Busyness, family issues, loneliness, and the feeling of obligation are among the emotional factors that can create stress around the holidays. When the physical and emotional stresses are combined, the body can become much more susceptible to pain and ill health.
Therefore, supporting the body, mind, heart and soul through the holidays is especially important, so that we can enjoy this time and stay healthy.
The holidays often bring up unresolved emotions from the past—either because we are around family members that trigger these emotions, or because of memories and associations with the holidays. In the B.E.S.T. system, we refer to these unresolved emotions as SEMO (Subconscious Emotional Memory Override). What that means is that even though you may consciously feel you are relaxed, your body is stuck in “fight or flight,” creating muscle tension, anxiety, depression, poor digestion and a host of health issues.
Even though you are making good lifestyle choices (through healthy eating, good sleep, drinking plenty of water, deep breathing, and getting good exercise), these SEMOs have a more powerful negative impact on the body than all the other factors combined.
So, in order to stay healthy and happy through the holidays, regular B.E.S.T. treatments are highly recommended to keep your body-mind resilient and balanced through these often-stressful times. B.E.S.T. eliminates the root cause of disease and imbalance in the body gently and effectively by removing interference in the nervous system and throughout the body, so that the body-mind can function at its best.
To support you in feeling your best through the holidays and into the new year, we are offering a Healthy Holidays Special for existing patients of four sessions for $200. Sessions must be used by the end of January 2016. You will save $40 off our regular rates and help ensure that you keep getting the support you need through the holidays.
To schedule a session, call us at (530) 205-9037.
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What causes insomnia? Why can’t we fall asleep quickly and naturally? Why can’t we stay asleep? Why do we wake and not fall asleep again? What causes sleep apnea? To answer these questions we must explore the multi-dimensional purposes of sleep.
One purpose of a full night of deep, restful sleep is to provide a time out for the busy, thinking mind, and the awake and active body. This time out allow the internal systems and structures of the body and nervous system to rest and repair.
THE PURPOSE OF SLEEP
During this deepy regenerative sleep period, brain waves are able to slow down to the healing and restorative Theta and Delta waves, with REM Sleep at the end of each of the five dreaming cycles characteristic of healthy, restorative sleep. REM sleep, characterized by rapid eye movement behind the dreaming eyelids, has been shown to be vital to mental health and physiological functioning. In fact, psychosis is produced in experiments depriving humans and animals of dreaming REM sleep!
Additionally, without a daily opportunity to experience Theta and Delta waves, the body/mind becomes stressed from a constant state of Beta (flight or fight) waves. Restful, waking consciousness falls into the Alpha range of brain waves. Unfortunately, Beta is the most common in our contemporary culture, whether awake or asleep.
Another purpose of natural sleep is at these deep levels we return to Source, and much healing can occur on the cellular and subconscious levels during our Dream Time. Advanced spiritual practitioners can practice solitary or group lucid dreaming, where the practitioner(s) are awake, conscious and capable of voluntary action while dreaming. In some cultures healing ceremonies are conducted by Dreamers.
Are Sleeping and Resting and same? Paradoxically, we can be asleep, but not resting because our fearful, worried, stressed minds produce a superficial or fitful sleep. Likewise, certain drugs interfere with the natural sleep cycle and may even suppress REM and other regenerative activities. When we are truly resting, the mind is quiet and emptied of worry. If we can achieve the slower alpha brain waves while resting, conscious and empty of thought (a phenomenon known to experienced meditators), we will experience the restorative functions of sleep. Nothing can replace a full night of deep, restful, regenerative sleep. Truly MacBeth said that “sleep…knits up the raveled sleeve of care….”
WHAT INTERFERES WITH SLEEP?
The greatest enemy of sleep is an active, racing, worried, fearful, stressed out mind which keeps the muscles and internal organs of the body tense. This prevents the process which leads to natural sleep: relaxation of muscles and internal organs, slowing of the breath, quieting the mind as it turns inward towards dreaming and the Source.
Another barrier to sleep is SEMO (Subconscious Emotional Memory Override) in which unresolved, stressful and traumatic memories are stored in the nervous system and limbic brain as energy blocks, keeping us in a Beta State, preventing us from sinking into a deep, restful and restorative sleep, and the slow healing rhythms of Theta and Delta waves.
Amazingly fatigue can be a barrier to sleep, as when we feel “too tired to sleep”. This is because a certain amount of adrenal hormones are necessary for sleep! When a person reaches complete adrenal exhaustion, sleep is often impossible. Sleep apnea is often the end result of such fatigue that the breathing process is severely compromised. Overweight is often a factor as well.
Extreme or prolonged stress interferes with sleep. When the body is in “flight, fight or freeze” mode, it produces stress hormones such as cortisol, and cannot produce melatonin, DHEA and other hormones necessary to sleep. Frequent waking is often a sign of overactive (and therefore worn out adrenals).
Faulty digestion and improper diet can lead to sleep problems. A toxic, acidic body has trouble sleeping. The acidity irritates the nervous system, leading to muscle tension and mental over-activity—both enemies of sleep. A body deficient in magnesium, which is vital for muscle relaxation, will have trouble sleeping. Eating immediately before going to bed produces a body that is busy digesting when it should be sleeping.
AIDS TO DEEP, NATURAL SLEEP
1. Sufficient exercise tells the body that it needs to rest in order to incorporate the benefits of exercise, and to regenerate and repair the natural byproducts of exercise. An alkaline diet rich in magnesium produces a body with everything it needs to enjoy refreshing, regenerative sleep. 3. The correct sleeping surface, with a pillow that positions the neck for proper breathing is essential. 4. A dark room allows the pituitary and pineal glands to function properly and produce melatonin and other sleep hormones. A cycle of darkness after a cycle of light and activity most closely emulates the state of nature in which we evolved. The pineal gland needs this time of darkness to reset its internal clock for the production of many vital hormones in addition to melatonin.
THE SIX ESSENTIALS
Anyone sincerely interested in regaining the deep, regenerative, natural sleep that is their heritage, should study the Six Essentials. Dr. Don has produced an essay on the topic of the Essentials, which delves into the mysteries of correct dietary pH.
The Six Essentials can be considered the doorway to restoring natural sleep. The Six Essentials interact to create health and well being in every one of the body’s systems and structures. This will lead to the enjoyment, night after night, of deep, restful, regenerative and dreaming sleep—a nightly return of the Soul to Source for healing, growth and the Ultimate Refreshment.
To have a phone consult or schedule an appointment call Dr. Don at (530) 205-9037.