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"For centuries, American medicine has deemed the question of whether our emotions can affect our health as irrelevant. Our two-hundred-year span of medical miracles has led us to revere the technological and scientific approach while giving little thought to the impact that emotions might have on our health. In large part that's because until very recently we have lacked scientific proof that our feelings can influence our physical well-being." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"But they are often the wrong kind of emotions. Negative feelings, such as anger, hate, fear, anxiety, suspicion, jealousy, contempt, and indifference, dominate the tenor of life in modern societies. They result from lifetime experiences that are mainly negative. With some exceptions, even childhood education is based on negative reinforcements such as punishment and the threat of failure. Positive emotions of love and caring are the preserve of the family and our circle of friends, but these aspects of life are often sacrificed to the pressure of work and the struggle to secure our livelihood." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Over a period of time, this background tension begins to affect our thinking, emotions, and behavior. Our judgment deteriorates; we tend to make more mistakes; our perception becomes poorer; we may become depressed, feel hostile toward others, lose our temper more, act less rationally, behave abusively. Meanwhile, the toll on our bodies is manifested in various ways: aches and pains, indigestion, insomnia, high blood pressure, allergies, lowered immunity, illness, sometimes even premature death. These are not the only effects of stress." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"They exist in a dynamic equilibrium with each other, with external influences like climate, seasons, and celestial spheres, and with internal forces like the ageing process and emotions (it is not coincidental that human temperaments here bear humoural names: choleric, melancholic, sanguine, and phlegmatic). Disturbances in health, whether of mind or body, simply reflect disturbances in humoural balance, and healers of every variety strive to diagnose such imbalances, and to redress them." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "In the fully elaborated model of this corporeal universe developed by the Chinese, called 'Five Element theory', specific organs were associated with the odours, tastes, colours, sensations, emotions, seasons, planets, and even compass directions identified with the same element. This meant that every aspect of the natural environment that was available to the senses was also represented in the body, in one or another of the five viscera. The parallels between the Chinese system and its analogues in classical and medieval European medicine, and in India's Ayurvedic texts, are remarkable." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "All of these bodies were endowed with vital energy, and were intercalated with consciousness through the senses or the emotions. Thus the medical practices of these systems aim to augment, redirect, or restore the body's health-giving interactions with its mental, physical, and cultural surroundings. Therapies in South and East Asia in particular have been practically and theoretically designed to tap the vital healing energy and to restore its component substances, whether physical humours or subtle fluids like qi or ojas, to a proper state of dynamic balance." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "To do so, the practitioner would consider the relationship between the visible surface orifices or tissues (like the eyes, skin, or tongue) and their connected pairs of internal organs, as well as the Five Phases associations between organs and, for instance, emotions or seasons. Chinese diagnostics—and equally its Ayurvedic and humoural analogues?involved the active and empirical use of all of the senses, as well as detailed questioning of the patient." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"DANCE MOVEMENT THERAPY Flowing, graceful, uninhibited, letting-go movements to music relax the mind and body, ease tension and release pent-up emotions. Try doing this on a warm day, in an open parkland, with no shoes on and eyes closed (if you can). Even without music the feeling of freedom is delightful. DO-IN This ancient form of Chinese self-massage in the form of a series of exercises is aimed at preventing rather than curing disease, by strengthening energy channels linked to the heart, lungs, liver, gallbladder and other organs." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) "Many essential oils are linked to our emotions, to improve harmony and balance in our lives. They have a significant effect on our moods and energy levels. They can be uplifting, calming, invigorating—or simply have an appeal to our sense of smell, which passes reactive messages to our brain. Modern medical circles are beginning to recognise the merits of aromatherapy. Therapists are now visiting hospitals, nursing homes and hospices with their fragrant essences, practising aromatherapy in tandem with naturopathy, remedial massage and beauty therapy." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) "He considered that repression of the emotions and sexual instincts could lead to 'orgone energy' blockages, resulting in rigid patterns of behaviour and tightening of specific muscle groups. This, he believed, led to a marked deterioration of health. Reich devised an 'orgone accumulator,' a box made of metal and wood in layers in which he could 'concentrate' orgone like an electrical charge. Patients sat in the box, supposedly to have this energy restored. In 1950 an experiment went horribly wrong." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) "Physical manipulation, it is believed, relaxes body armouring and releases muscle tension, thus freeing repressed emotions. The leader of the movement, psychiatrist William Reich, was born in Austria in 1897 and graduated as an MD in 1922. He worked closely with Sigmund Freud for a short while but, like many others at this time, had differences of opinion with Freud and they parted company. Reich moved to America in 1939 and accepted a post in medical psychology in New York. Reich wrote numerous books and believed strongly in the concept of bio-energy flow through the body." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Psychotherapy helps people with depression understand the behaviors, emotions, and ideas that contribute to depression; regain a sense of control and pleasure in life; and learn coping skills. Psy-chodynamic therapy is based on the assumption that a person is depressed because of unresolved, generally unconscious conflicts, often stemming from childhood. Interpersonal therapy focuses on the behaviors and interactions a depressed patient has with family and friends, the primary goal of which is to improve communication skills and increase self-esteem in a short period of time." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"I gave her the remedy, Natrum Muriaticum, for suppressed emotions. Her premenstrual discomfort swiftly went away. Homeopaths usually prescribe on the unusual symptoms if it is a chronic condition. If it had just happened and she was rightfully upset, an acute remedy like Ignatia for grief could be used. Acute Prescribing Acute prescribing is a type of homeopathic prescribing suited to ailments of rapid onset that last only a few days or weeks. The superficial symptoms of the acute ailment are considered. These complaints can be things such as viruses, parasites or bacterial infections." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Natural medicine worthy of the name can never ignore the role of stress, nor of attitude and emotions, in healing the body. That's why you'll see stress management mentioned so frequently in these pages. It's as important to healing as anything you can take in a pill form, even if said pill does come from a plant! the last time I looked you couldn't pluck vitamin C tablets from a tree. Applying the term "natural" to medicine (and cures) is just as difficult and imprecise as it is when you apply it to foods, an area in which the term has become virtually meaningless." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Cognitive behavioral therapy involves examining thought patterns that can be negative and self-defeating, and going over the basis of such thoughts and how they contribute to emotions. Psychotherapy has been shown to be as effective in the treatment of depression as medication, and some people, especially those with early-life-stress issues, may not respond to medication without it." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"So, for example, you might have an experience of learning to ride a bicycle that involves visual information, sensory information, data (time, place, and year), and emotions (it was thrilling, it was scary, I felt powerful, I felt helpless, etc.). Shapiro sees the brain's information processing network as analogous to other body systems like digestion, where food goes in and gets "processed," and the gut extracts nutrients for health and survival." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"We don't notice our emotions, or the way our body feels. We are, in effect, only half-conscious. We have lost the present moment. Lost the now. Saving Time Similar fears underlie our concern for saving time. We fear that we will not have time to do all the things we think we must do if we are to be content. So we try to do everything as quickly and efficiently as possible, reducing "unproductive" times such as traveling and shopping to a minimum. Then, we tell ourselves, we will have more time to spend—to spend, that is, on chasing after fulfillment." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"It means becoming aware that attitudes and emotions influence our health. It means taking responsibility for our attitudes, and making the commitment to change the negative ones. No matter what attitudes our parents, friends, or associates influenced us with, or what our life experiences have been, we are still responsible for our own attitudes. We are the only ones who can change them. Blaming others gets us nowhere except into a rut. Taking personal responsibility for where we are in life is the first step toward improving our attitudes." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "We don't realize what is actually going on because we are blinded by our reactive emotions. We don't see because we don't understand. When we move from the innocence and clear perception of childhood to the pretense that characterizes adulthood, we get caught in the illusion of our ego; our view of reality becomes obscured. Our ego keeps us stuck in the 1% world unless, or until, we use our free will to resist the urge to react, thereby disconnecting from ego, and moving into the Light." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "When we understand that everything is electrical, including thoughts, feelings, and emotions, then it seems to logically follow that saying or repeating words in prayer is one thing, but adding the electrically charged power of feeling and emotion to the process of believing or visualizing that it is already accomplished is quite another. Praying with passion appears to be the key to connecting with the universal creative power. WORDS ARE ELECTROMAGNETIC AND CREATIVE In chapter 2 we were introduced to the understanding that everything in the universe is electric." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Addiction and Disease As long as we continue to be unconsciously directed by our ego, we have very little control over our feelings and emotions; they happen to us. The ego feeds on struggle, and produces a constant flow of self-talk that produces pain in our emotional body. In attempts to escape the emotional pain, we turn to a variety of ways to feel better. Repeated sedations become addictive habits. But the pain always returns. Our innate wisdom is trying to get our attention so we can change our dysfunctional beliefs. A person who is addicted is trapped in a prison of their mind." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"If many years later you have a deep-tissue massage, you may experience the spontaneous release of that long dormant memory and the accompanying emotions. As another example, when you are exposed to a virus, your immune system makes antibodies against it, protecting you from that virus should you be exposed to it again, even decades later. The various antibodies in your system form what amounts to a storehouse of information—a reservoir of memories—of past infections and responses. It is not too far-reaching to say that health and illness ate processes that reveal memory at work." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) "One other point about the Energetic Integrators and emotions and consciousness that will be of interest to readers is that the heart, not just the brain, is also a seat of emotion. Peter's matching tests revealed that emotion, and by extension memory, is inevitably linked back to the heart, its tissue, and the nerves surrounding it. Peter explained, "I give traditional Chinese medicine credit for exploring this, but I have also gone farther in explaining the processes." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) "Where it is stuck, at which Integratot, can indicate a lot about what the problem is, as each Integrator matches to specific emotions and aspects of consciousness. The body-field is a dynamic system, so when something within it becomes static, there are consequences!" The NES Infoceuticals are designed to support normal emotional functioning—to help energy and information flow properly again." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"The repression of the emotions and feelings relating to the mother [in our Judeo-Christian monotheism] has, in virtue of this association, produced a tendency to adopt an attitude of distrust, contempt, disgust or hostility towards the human body, the Earth, and the whole material Universe, with a corresponding tendency to exalt and overemphasize the spiritual elements, whether in man or in the general scheme of things." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"This is where we store energies and emotions relating to love, family relationships, and long-term friendships. The heart is also a center for human virtue (honesty, loyalty, trustworthiness, courage, and so forth). As we've already discussed, when people have problems in this energy center, they tend to show up as heart disease or pulmonary problems. The fifth energy center is in the throat. This center is where we hold energies, thoughts, and feelings associated with deep levels of personal expression—our ability to address what matters most." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.) "At the point when you realize you're feeling bad, take a few seconds to label your emotions. Is it anger, fear, sadness, frustration, shame, guilt, or some other emotion? You are now trying to understand what you're feeling, not what you're thinking. Some people have trouble distinguishing between the two, so it is important to your success that you can discern the difference. If your boss takes you down a peg in a meeting with your colleagues because you failed to get a job done, you might feel anxious, fearful, shamed, guilty, or angry." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.) "Revel in the release of the old emotions and the delight and freedom associated with the new feelings and distortion-free thinking. Give it a full sixty seconds. You do not want to cut this step short. Remember that the "language" of the subconscious mind is imagery, metaphor, and deep feeling, so imagine yourself liberated by this new sense of who you are. During this step, you are broadcasting an advertisement to your subconscious mind—a new way of thinking and feeling that penetrates into the subconscious mind and reprograms the distortion that is lurking there." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Increased irritability or emotions that are not typical • Significant event that you have never felt well since How do I fix my adrenal fatigue? • Skip the caffeinated beverages. They suck the energy out of the adrenal glands and deplete the body of minerals such as calcium and magnesium. They also can keep people awake. • Diet: Eat foods that are low glycemic as outlined in Chapter Two. Have a healthy snack between meals to keep your blood sugar stable. These foods are whole grains, lean protein and fish, fruits and vegetables. • Reduce emotional stress by working on your lifestyle." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

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