Our emotional state controls how we are every minute of the day, if we are angry, sad, happy, depressed, guilty, ashamed and many more. Our emotions were the biggest part of our ancient ancestors brains long before their intellect and reasoning powers were developed.
Thousands of years ago survival was a continual struggle for men and women, looking for food, water and avoiding danger happened daily. Their emotions were highly tuned for a flight, fight or freeze response,where a split second could mean the difference between life or death. This is how the emotions like anger can erupt in the blink of an eye putting the body in fighting mood instantly.
Now instant emotions can be very useful if you are running from a sabre toothed tiger or hunting a mammoth but a big handicap if you are negotiating a pay rise with your boss. We are always going to have emotions but the question is how can we learn to control them better or stop them surfacing altogether.
Most people looking for help with destructive emotions of any type will seek the help of a counsellor, therapist or mental health professional but in recent years incredible results are being achieved by a system called Emotional Freedom Techniques.
Thousands of people from all around the world are being helped by this revolutionary new system, it is similar to acupuncture but without the needles, the technique works with the bodies energy systems to correct imbalances and therefore correct the emotions.
It is a very simple non invasive procedure that has been used for many different problems from fear of spiders, water, heights and public speaking to helping business executives and sportsmen obtain peak performance. There are also many thousands of well documented cases of people being cured of illnesses and physical problems.
Our whole body functions by tiny electrical currents discharging millions of times a minute, controlling our brain and major organs regulating our systems and keeping us alive, its a complex system that can be disturbed at any time by a mental or physical trauma.
Its this disturbance to our energy system that causes the negative emotions, a proven non invasive, quick and lasting restoration in the bodies energy system is by the application of Emotional Freedom Techniques.
If you would like to discuss EFT please contact me by email – keithbird@rocketmail.com
Can people heal themselves mentally and physically or does it happen anyway without outside intervention? There has been thousands if not hundreds of thousands of cases of people having cured themselves of many diseases, some serious and some life threatening.
The big question that everyone wants to know is how, how can someone with a malignant tumour with only a short time to live be completely cured with no conventional medicine or surgery. I have read many accounts of people healing themselves and firstly what they all have is an unshakeable believe that they will get better.
We now have a much better understanding of the relationship between our emotional state and the health of our body, what we think has a direct action on our cells. If we are suffering some mental trauma then this stress is reflected in our physical state, surfacing as some disease or ailment stored in our cells for the future.
It follows that we have to cleanse ourselves of all emotional interference from the past and ensure we maintain healthy emotions in the future, most of us will need help to get our emotional state in balance and then begin to heal our bodies.
There are however some excellent practitioners of mind body healing one is Brandon Bays and the other is Louise L.Hay they both have life changing incredible books and are must reads. They will both help you on your journey to heal yourself.
In this modern world we are never going to be very far from stress and its effects, we all need a certain amount of stress to motivate us and to take action. However what we usually experience is stress that has a negative effect on our emotions which can impact on our daily lives and the lives of those who are closest to us.
With sustained and concentrated stress this can lead to depression and a breakdown in our mental and physical health, we all encounter stress in our daily lives but the question is how can we handle it so that is does not be come destructive?
Firstly like everything in our lives we have a choice of what action to take when we are in a stressful situation, now this is easier said than done, but we can with practice choose how we react to the stimulus casing the stress. We can choose to be happy or sad, we can choose to be frightened or not, what we decide is entirely our decision.
When we realise that we can actually control our emotions then we are controlling the stress and taking control of our lives. It really is a case of taking one step at a time and making sure that in a stressful situation you realise that you can control your reactions, and no one can make you feel how you don’t want to feel.
Keep focusing on your reactions to the stressful situation and in time you will find yourself more in control until finally you will be able to choose your own reaction to any situation you find yourself in.
Check out this great article from Isobel Maciver on the Promega Connections Blog it gives you the low down. The best explanation I’ve read so far, here’s the link http://bit.ly/iV3Fc
Please read the report from the world renowned Johns Hopkins University on the Causes of Cancer If you don’t read anything else please read this its a must for you, your family and friends.
Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins :
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person’s lifetime.
3 When the person’s immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and p revented from multiplying and forming tumors.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies.. These could be due to genetic,environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply..
*CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes likeNutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg’s aminos or sea salt.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.
c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables incl uding bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body’s killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells.. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body’s normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.
1. No plastic containers in micro.
2. No water bottles in freezer.
3.. No plastic wrap in microwave.
Johns Hopkins has rec ently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don’t freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Cast le Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Pa per isn’t bad but you don’t know what is in the paper. It’s just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons..
Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in th e microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.
This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life.
Everything impacts on your emotional state, if you are having a good healthy satisfying life or a life of problems and difficulties depends to a large extent on your past and present emotions and how you handled them.
Everyone on this planet will sooner or later have to handle a whole range of human emotions caused by a variety of unexpected happenings in your life from births to deaths and everything in between no one escapes them. So how we cope with our emotions and how we react to them is probably the biggest challenge we have to face in our lives.
How do we get a better emotional state when problems arise? To start with we need to realise that for our ancient ancestors emotions were a matter of life or death, when they felt fear the body was primed for fight or flight it was that simple. With modern man and woman our fear hopefully is not terminal but our body is still programmed like our ancient relatives were.
So when we have an emotional reaction the best way to have some control over it is simply to try and not react but listen to it, really understand what’s causing it, step inside it rather than put it outside onto someone else which is what we usually do. Try to remain calm and let the emotion dissipate.
You need to understand that no one can make you feel anything or anyway that you do not want to feel, this is a hard one to achieve but with practice you can become better. The hardest and most common emotion to control is anger and this, for most of us, is the most destructive for everyone involved. If we can control our anger response before it surfaces and gets out of control we will have a positive effect on ourselves and the people closest to us this one is definitely worth working on.
I don’t want you to become a zombie with no emotions or no reactions to anything, you will always have emotions that’s what’s makes us human but by trying to take control of them instead of them taking control of us we can become a much happier human being in our family at work or in society as a whole.
A quotation from a report by the world renowned Johns Hopkins University says the following -
” Cancer is a disease of the Mind, Body and Spirit, a proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit, learn to relax and enjoy life”
See the full report from John Hopkins in the post on Nutrition
For more about healing of the Mind,Body and Spirit read the fabulous book by Louise L.Hay – You Can Heal Your Life.
There are thousands of books and videos telling you what you should and should not eat. What you do eat has a massive impact on your health, well being and even your emotions. Studies have highlighted the link between cancer and what we consume (see a report from the world renowned Johns Hopkins University at the end of this post)
Now I’m not advocating you give up everything you like, although if you want to have optimum physical health then you have to eat more of what we all know are healthy foods these are fruit, vegetables, nuts, pulses with more chicken and fish with less red meat.
Another way we can improve our health is by taking a multivitamin supplement with minerals because even some fresh fruit and vegetables are lacking certain nutrients. Read more about supplements with the expert Patrick Holford and his book Optimum Nutrition here is the link . http://bit.ly/7C98RO Also you must try drink much more water and fruit juices and consume less alcohol.
It goes without saying that if you smoke and consume drugs then you are not taking care of your health and should seek professional health to give these up.
Don’t try to change your diet completely overnight start by eating a little more fruit and vegetables and increasing the amounts gradually, yes we all like chocolate, ice cream, biscuits, cakes, burgers, chips etc and these can be eaten occasionally as a treat. Its a personal choice like all things in life but life is extremely short so do we want to live a healthy vital life with energy or do we want to be overweight sitting on the couch watching TV all day with no energy its up to you.
The key is to change the way you eat and what you eat one step at a time introducing new things gradually overtime and then it won’t seem such a big deal.
Report from Johns Hopkins University and the link between what we eat and cancer
Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins :
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person’s lifetime.
3 When the person’s immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and p revented from multiplying and forming tumors.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies.. These could be due to genetic,environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply..
*CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes likeNutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg’s aminos or sea salt.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.
c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables incl uding bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body’s killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells.. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body’s normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.
1. No plastic containers in micro.
2. No water bottles in freezer.
3.. No plastic wrap in microwave.
Johns Hopkins has rec ently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don’t freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Cast le Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Pa per isn’t bad but you don’t know what is in the paper. It’s just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons..
Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in th e microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.
This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life.
The number one rule for coping better with life’s many twists and turns is to be as fit as you can be.
Our bodies were designed to move and move on a regular basis. Our ancient ancestors did not have supermarkets, they had to walk and run to hunt and gather their food otherwise they starved to death.
What has our ancestors got to do with me? I can here you say. Its very simple, their bodies are exactly the same as ours are today so we need imitate our ancient relatives. No I don’t mean you have to hunt mammoths and sabre toothed tigers but we do need to walk, run or exercise everyday.
Why? because our heart is a muscle and muscles need to be exercised to function properly, our lungs need to supply air to purify our blood and our joints need to be moved to keep us active. You don’t have to train like a professional athlete all you need is 30 minutes of vigorous walking a day so you feel out of breath and I can guarantee after a few days you will feel much fitter and able to cope much better with daily life.
Now if you combine this with some deep breathing three times a day and drinking more water you will surprise yourself with the results you can obtain, it will feel a little hard to start with but keep going for at least four weeks and you will never want to go back to your previous state.
I have to repeat again that this first step is the most important first step you will take to make your life better and to help you cope with the difficulties and problems everyone experiences. No matter what your age or fitness keep going with this simple routine and start the transformation to a happier life that we all deserve.
Look out for the next post on nutrition which combined with exercise will really give your life a boost.
