The Mind Matters

This newsletter will be focused on helping you appreciate to a greater degree the power that you have in regard to your health.  I want to teach my patients how to use their most precious asset, their conscious mind, to help them overcome health conditions.

I recently re-read a book I hadn't looked at in awhile.  The title is Power vs. Force by David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.  Dr. Hawkins explains the arm muscle test that is fundamental to B.E.S.T.  He states that traditional medicine generally holds that stress is the cause of many human disorders and illnesses but doesn't accurately address the cause of the stress.  He goes on to make the point that perception, how we feel about a situation, determines its physical effect.  For instance, a divorce could be a major emotional trauma or a relief, either of which affects the chemistry of your body.  If you have been receiving B.E.S.T. you know how integral "perception" regarding past traumas is to the healing process.

Early in my work with B.E.S.T. I remember a patient told me about a close friend that was overcoming and healing from a very serious ovarian cancer.  Her friend said she would not trade the condition for anything because of the bonding that had occurred between herself and her two teenaged sons and husband.  In other words, she found the good in the diagnosis of cancer and her perception of the challenge did not interfere with healing.

Every thought you have resonates with one of two basic emotions, love or fear.  The first is health-enhancing; the latter is the opposite.  Any fear-based thought, other than an imminent physical threat, "distracts" the subconscious intelligence running your body and creates a timing problem.  Most of our thoughts are related to imaginary, not real, threats.  The intellect running the body doesn't know the difference.  Fear has a very wide spectrum, ranging from hair-raising terror such as encountering a bear on a hiking trail to low-grade anxiety when you have a nagging concern about keeping your job.  The hormone adrenalin is common to both events.  The adrenalin produced by the bear will never make you sick, because you're going to burn it up by running away.  It is the adrenalin produced by low-grade, on-going anxiety, the "what ifs" in life, that are at the root of most, if not all, chronic degenerative diseases.  Psychologist Dr. Wayne Dyer says "what you think about you bring about.  That can be your health or your disease, your prosperity or your lack."  My teacher, Dr. Ted Morter, Jr., puts it this way.  "Think about what you think about when you think about it because every thought is a silent prayer and every prayer is answered." 

Thoughts are creative so my advice is to develop the habit of finding the good in any situation and be grateful for the lesson. Gratitude will never contribute to making you sick.  Being grateful for the lesson of the moment will prevent the experience from negatively affecting you in the future. B.E.S.T. therapy helps you identify and neutralize old emotional traumas from the past. This is how I can help you to restore and maintain your good health.

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