The Healing Code: 6 Minutes to Heal the Source of Your Health, Success, or Relationship Issue - Brossura

Loyd, Alex, Ph.D.

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ISBN 10: 1455502006 ISBN 13: 9781455502004

Casa editrice: Balance, 2013

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With over 1 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 29 languages, Dr. Alex Loyd's international bestselling book is a life-changing program that uses energy medicine to heal mental and physical challenges.

The Healing Code is your healing kit for life-to recover from the issues you know about, and repair the ones you don't. The book also includes:

• The Seven Secrets of life, health, and prosperity
• The 10-second Instant Impact technique for defusing daily stress
• The Heart Issues Finder, the only test that identifies your source issues in a succinct personalized report

Dr. Alex Loyd discovered how to activate a physical function built into the body that consistently and predictably removes the source of 95% of all illness and disease. His findings were validated by tests and by the thousands of people from all over the world who have used The Healing Code's system to heal virtually any physical, emotional, or relational issue.

His testing also revealed that there is a "Universal Healing Code" that will heal most issues for most people. In this book you will get that Universal Healing Code, which takes only minutes to do.

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Alex Loyd, PhD, ND holds doctorates in Pyschology and Naturopathic Medicine. His 12-year search for a cure for his wife's depression led to the discovery of The Healing Codes system to heal the source of virtually any physical, emotional, success, or relational issue.

Ben Johnson, MD, DO, NMD, was clinical director of the Immune Recover Clinic in Atlanta, GA for several years. He has lectured all over the world about how The Healing Codes work. He is the only MD featured in The Secret.

Alex Loyd, PhD, ND holds doctorates in Pyschology and Naturopathic Medicine. His 12-year search for a cure for his wife's depression led to the discovery of The Healing Codes system to heal the source of virtually any physical, emotional, success, or relational issue.

Ben Johnson, MD, DO, NMD, was clinical director of the Immune Recover Clinic in Atlanta, GA for several years. He has lectured all over the world about how The Healing Codes work. He is the only MD featured in The Secret.

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The Healing Code

6 Minutes to Heal the Source of Your Health, Success, or Relationship IssueBy Alexander Loyd

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ISBN: 9781455502004

FOUNDATIONS(Do Not Skip This!)

The Three “One Things”

There’s saying in the news business to never, never bury the lead.

This chapter is the lead. If you get this, you get everything. So, get this…

Crazy title, huh? Let us try to explain.

In the original City Slickers movie with Billy Crystal, Curly, played by Jack Palance, was the tough, stodgy old cowboy who almost never spoke. But under that rough exterior, Billy Crystal found the wisdom of the ages. In an improbable heart-to-heart between the two, Curly shared with Billy the Secret of Life. The Secret of Life, he said, was one thing. When pressed to name it, Curly refused to divulge what that one thing was. He said Billy would have to find that one thing for himself. And, indeed, everyone needs to find that one thing for themselves.

You see, “One Thing” can make all the difference. Have you ever spoken to someone about their life when suddenly there was a dramatic positive change in their manner? At some point, a sparkle came into their eye as they spoke of one person, one moment, one event, one open door, one breakthrough… ONE THING.

We want to offer you, right now, three “One Things.” We believe that as far as your life, your health, and your prosperity are concerned, these three things make all the difference. Not only are we going to tell you what they are, we’re going to prove them to you and share with you a new discovery that can become the sparkle in your eye that you look back on for the rest of your life.

If you do not agree that we have done what we just said we were going to do, then please ask us to return the money you spent for this book.

THE THREE ONE THINGS

• One Thing #1: There is one thing on planet Earth that can heal just about any problem in your life.

• One Thing #2: There is one thing on planet Earth that will turn off One Thing #1.

• One Thing #3: There is one thing on planet Earth that will turn One Thing #1 back on.

ONE THING #1

There is one thing on planet Earth that can heal just about any problem in your life.

What is it? The immune and healing systems of the body.

Think about or write down the top two or three problems in your life. Health problems, career, relationship, finances—it doesn’t matter what it is. I’m assuming that unless the problem just arose this very minute, you have already tried something (or many somethings) to resolve or lessen this as a problem in your life. If you haven’t, cool! You can start now with the one that will actually fix it. No problem. If you have tried other things, then we believe you’re at the end of your search. Here’s why. Imagine for a minute that whatever your problem is, you could have God himself reach down and hand you a supernatural pill, liquid, secret, treasure map… in other words, a solution not of this world, guaranteed to work. Boy, would that be awesome! Guess what? You already have it!

Every person has an absolutely miraculous healing system in his or her body that can heal any physical or non-physical issue that a person might have. It’s called your immune system. We are born with a self-healing program inside that is designed to be capable of fixing any problem before it becomes a problem. Even if a problem does develop, that’s okay, too. The program can fix it once the problem arises.

Awhile back my computer was not working properly. Not being a computer person, I became frustrated by trying everything I knew how to do. Finally, I called a good friend of mine who is a computer whiz kid. After asking a few simple questions, he confidently told me that I needed to defrag my hard drive. I had never heard of such a thing, but was thrilled to discover that it was a simple matter of pushing a couple of buttons. After doing this, my computer ran almost like new. I was amazed that such a wonderful function could be inside my computer and I did not even know it.

Just like the computer’s “defrag” program, your immune system is capable of healing any issue you may have with amazing speed and efficiency. I (Ben) can tell you that if you were to ask one important question of just about any doctor or health care practitioner in the world, and they answered honestly, every one of them would answer “no.” So what’s the question? “Is there any disease or illness that an optimally functioning immune system cannot heal?” Answer: No. In fact, many experts believe (and I concur) that the only healing that ever happens for any person for any health issue happens because of the immune system.

You may be thinking, “But how can I apply this to relationships, or finances, or career, or other non-physical things that may be a struggle in my life?” As you will see later in the book, specifically in Secret #3 (but don’t peek!), new discoveries at several of our finest and most highly regarded medical schools have found that the source of illness and disease is also the source of the other problems in our lives. Furthermore, we believe and will present proof to you that we have actually discovered a part of the body’s healing system that people have never known about before. We believe this new healing mechanism and how to turn it on can be the One Thing that creates a breakthrough with the struggles of your life.

If you’re a reasonably intelligent person and think about this long enough, you’re very likely to come up with this question: “If this healing system really can heal anything and it’s already inside me, then why do I have the problems in the first place? Why hasn’t it already healed them or prevented them from happening?”

We’re glad you asked. Because that takes us to One Thing #2.

ONE THING #2

There is one thing on planet Earth that will turn off One Thing #1.

So what is it? Stress. (But probably not what you think of when you think of stress.)

If the immune and healing systems of the body can heal any problem you have, then the thing that turns those systems off must be the one cause of all illness and disease. It is. According to Stanford University Medical School in research released in 1998 by Dr. Bruce Lipton, a highly renowned and respected cell biologist, stress is the cause of at least 95 percent of illness and disease. Dr. Lipton reports that the remaining 5 percent is genetic and was caused, you guessed it, by stress somewhere in the ancestry of that person. Even the US Federal Government, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), says on their website that 90 percent of all illness and disease is related to stress. Just about any authoritative source you could name agrees–Harvard, Yale, Vanderbilt, The Mayo Clinic, and the list goes on.

Especially notable is what the Harvard Medical School says on their website. “Too much stress for too long creates what is known as ‘chronic stress’ which has been linked to heart disease, stroke, and may also influence cancer and chronic respiratory diseases. And illness is just the tip of the iceberg. Stress affects you emotionally, as well, marring the joy you gain from life and loved ones.”

In other words, whatever problem you have, somehow or another, it probably came from stress. Thus far, we haven’t been quite sure what to do about it, because what works for one problem and one person is ineffective for another problem and another person. The conclusion has been painfully clear for decades. If we are going to find a way to heal illness and disease at its source, we have to find a way to consistently and predictably heal stress.

And as the Harvard Medical School report said, illness is just one manifestation of stress. If we want to deal with other issues as well—relationship issues, performance issues that affect success—we need to deal with the source. As we will prove to you, stress is also the source of these kinds of issues as well, as evidenced by the fact that when people heal the source of their stress, their relationships improve, their income goes through the roof, and their satisfaction soars.

It’s important to note that the kind of stress we’re talking about that creates this illness and disease is not based on circumstances that you wish you could change. It is deep-seated stress that lives inside you and is totally independent of your current circumstances. In fact, changing your current circumstances by eliminating things that seem stressful to you may very well have little effect on this stress that turns off our immune system. In our research, more than 90 percent of people who say they are not stressed before they are tested for stress actually are under physiological stress, according to their test results. Many of the medical school research studies spoken of above say this very thing—what stresses one person doesn’t stress another. It depends on your “internal” programming.

THE REAL QUESTION TO ASK

This means that the first question you should be asking any time you have a problem that you can’t seem to get beyond is, “What stress is keeping my immune system from healing this and how do I fix it?” The problem is that this kind of stress can be almost impossible to find, you may not have a clue it’s there, and if you do find it, it is literally protected from being fixed (more about all of this later).

On the other hand, you may not realize how good this news is. Why do I say that? Because it’s not your fault. The problem and the solution are not based on effort, and everyone has this kind of stress whether they’ve been good girls or boys or not. So relax and forgive yourself. You don’t have to be perfect. We’ve got what you’ve been looking for. What do we have? It’s…

ONE THING #3

There’s one thing on planet Earth that can turn One Thing #1 back on.

What is it? Healing the issues of the heart!

Let’s review real quickly. The human immune and healing systems, when functioning correctly, are designed to heal—and are capable of healing—just about anything. However, a certain kind of stress will turn the immune and healing systems off, or at least turn them down to the point that we develop health or other problems.

The Healing Code can turn the immune and healing systems back on because it heals “issues of the spiritual heart.” The Healing Codes® encapsulates the discovery of a system that’s been in the body since the dawn of time. How do we know that The Healing Code can turn them on again? Because when we use a gold standard medical test that does not respond even 1 percent to the placebo effect, the results are unprecedented in the history of medicine.

What exactly are these test results? When this Healing Code system in the body is activated, physiological stress disappears, either completely or at least significantly. Using just a little bit of logic, if the one thing on planet Earth that will turn off the immune and healing systems is forced to disappear, then the immune and healing systems should turn back on. That’s exactly what we’ve had the pleasure of watching with people all over the world since the spring of 2001. Not only is The Healing Code mechanism revolutionary, but people tell us that the theory behind The Code had an even bigger impact on their lives. We call the theory “The Seven Secrets.”

An amazing aspect of all this is that no Healing Code ever “treats” any health issues. The Healing Codes only address the “issues of the heart” that Solomon wrote about more than 3,000 years ago, when he said in Proverbs 4:23, “Guard your heart above all else, for out of it are all the issues of life.” Notice that it says all the issues of life come from the heart. This is why scores of people report healing from just about any health issue you can imagine after using The Healing Code.

BEFORE WE GO ANY FARTHER…

Perhaps you’re curious about what The Healing Code is and want to get right to it. That’s fine—just turn to Part Two and you’ll get all the details of what a Healing Code is and how to do it. But at some point, we do want you to learn The Seven Secrets in Part One. In order to use The Healing Code most effectively, you need to understand how problems develop and what you can do to heal yourself for the rest of your life by getting at the source of your problems.

The Seven Secrets in Part One are as revolutionary as The Healing Code itself, because this theory doesn’t deal with symptoms alone, as just about every other self-help system does. Every other system addresses one or more of five areas: emotions; thoughts; conscious beliefs; actions and behaviors; or the physiology of the body. From our research, as outlined in the following pages, we believe these five things are just symptoms. The Healing Code theory and application address issues at the source, not just the symptoms.

So Part One of this book gives a brief history of health care and The Seven Secrets to Life, Health and Prosperity. We will uncover and explain the theory and research that reveal the source of not only all health problems, but just about any other problem as well. We know that’s a tall order, but we’re quite willing to prove it to you!

Part Two is all about results. Some people might find it interesting to read a book that lets them know why their lives are messed up, but if that’s where it ends, most will feel frustrated about being unable to change the problem. This book will not leave you high and dry. Part Two will give you the information you need to start healing the source of your problems and the thing that may be blocking your hopes and dreams. As a bonus, we will also give you a 10-second exercise for dealing with the circumstantial stress that arises in any given day. So Part Two will give you a way to heal both the stress you’re all too aware of, and the unconscious stress that is the true, underlying cause of all your other problems.

You may be tempted to put this book down right now. Why? In the past, you’ve heard one too many “magic bullet” stories. One too many promises of breakthroughs, life change, miracles, and more. We have, too! However, we must tell the truth, and the discoveries and insights and stories that are in this book were the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow of my life search to find the one healing method that was real and could deliver, and the source of healing Ben’s Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS). We can’t not share this information!

We don’t ask you to accept this as truth right now. We ask you only to keep on going and read the rest of this book before you decide. That’s our challenge to you. You have several hours of your life to “lose”… and potentially decades of well-being to gain.

Now that you know The Three One Things and have some background to work with, we’ll move on to the heart of the matter. To get what you want, you need to understand what I call “The Seven Secrets to Life, Health, and Prosperity.” By understanding these seven critical issues, you will come to know how your problems develop, where they come from, what they consist of, why they resist healing, and finally, the simple mechanism that can start to unwind the fabric of what you don’t want in your life.

Before we go there, though, we want to issue a very serious and heartfelt warning.

The information in this book has the power to cause great healing in your life. The mechanism we call The Healing Code can turn off your stress and get your immune system to work the way God intended. You will see amazing changes in your life as a result.

However, there is a purpose to pain, a spiritual purpose, and if The Healing Code helps you deal with the pain but not with the ultimate source of your pain, we have actually done you a disservice.

You see, the deepest healing every person on earth needs is not physical or emotional, but spiritual, and it involves healing any disruption of a relationship with a loving God. That is something only God can do. That is something that is between you and God.

People have told us over and over again that The Healing Code has helped them get issues healed that prevented them from believing in a loving God. One person said, “It’s as if the static of my own issues was removed so that I could finally hear the messages God was telling me about the way he truly is, not the distortions caused by my own heart issues.”

It is not the intent of this book to tell you how to believe. But it is our fervent hope and prayer that you will come to know the One who created the human body and energy and all the things that make The Healing Code work the way it does. That is the most important healing that can occur, and while The Healing Code can help the process, as a tool, it can’t do that job. The Healing Code is a very wonderful tool. But what you ultimately need to grab hold of is the Hand that wields the tool.

PART ONE

The Seven Secrets to Life, Health and Prosperity

CHAPTER ONE

Secret #1: There Is One Source of Illness and Disease

In order to see the door we’re now ready to walk through, let’s take a look at the path that brought us here. Let us tell you in advance that the door we see before us has been predicted by the greatest scientific minds of our time for decades, and in some cases even centuries. So this door that we’re ready to walk through is a golden door that science has searched for, and what is on the other side is going to change the world of health forever. To say that this is a paradigm shift is an understatement.

As I (Ben) mentioned earlier, I was healed of Lou Gehrig’s disease after using The Healing Codes for less than three months. I was so impressed with this program that I have begun lecturing all over the country about The Healing Codes and how they work. This also led to my being the only MD featured in the popular DVD, The Secret. One of the things I lecture about is the Five Eras of Healing, because it gives us important background as to where we have arrived at this point in history and may also explain why The Healing Codes could not have been discovered before now.

THE FIVE ERAS OF HEALING

There are five main eras we’ll speak about here. The first era was prayer. Before human beings knew or understood nutrition or any type of medicine, all they could do was pray. This may seem a strange place to begin the history of medicine, but let’s think about Man in the beginning. When humankind experienced ill health, all they could do was seek the deities for healing. History is replete with idols, religious practices, and ceremonies for healing. In Greek mythology, Apollo was believed to be the primary source of healing, and he transmitted his powers to his son Asclepius, who not only prevented people from dying, but even raised some from the dead. In northern Peru, healing ceremonies are still performed by women called curanderos. The curanderos use prayer and sacred objects, cleanse the patient with holy water, and call on the spirit power to help them discover the cause of the affliction and to cleanse and heal them.

Today, God is still sought as the sole source of healing by many cultures, religions, and individuals. Some people through the years have believed that the power of prayer was in the praying itself, while others have believed the source of the power to be supernatural intervention by a greater power. Recently, many scientific studies have indicated the effectiveness of prayer in the area of healing. Dr. Larry Dossey, MD, has written several books on the power of prayer in healing (Healing Words: The Power of Prayer in the Practice of Medicine; Miracles of Mind: Exploring Nonlocal Consciousness and Spiritual Healing; Reinventing Medicine: Beyond the Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing, etc). Studies called “The Mantra Study Project” have been conducted at Duke University (Horrigan, 1999) and found that patients with angina gained the most benefit from receiving prayer. People through the ages have prayed because they believe in a higher power. Another theory is that healing flows from belief in healing itself. Science has also proven that belief itself is a very powerful healer. Medicine has dismissed this and even disparaged it, calling it the “placebo effect.” Nevertheless, the effect is very real and not to be discounted.

On a more physical level, it didn’t take long to figure out that certain leaves, twigs, roots, or bark were valuable in healing. So we began a long history of herb use. This fell into brief disrepute and decreased usage in Western civilization during the twentieth century. However, it has made a tremendous comeback. You can hardly drive down the street without seeing an herb or nutritional shop. In our recent travels lecturing around the world, we hear people talking about vitamin, mineral, and herbal alternatives everywhere we go. This resurgence has been all the more remarkable because it’s not the backwoods uneducated, but the very sophisticated intellectuals who have come to the same conclusions about herbs and supplements that others have known for centuries. China has been using herbs from time immemorial—as long as there has been recorded history.

Western civilization has upped the ante on Chinese medicine by trying to concentrate certain parts of plant foods, which has resulted in a huge vitamin/nutritional industry. Bookshelves are full of the findings of modern miracles from plants. Nutrition shops have hundreds of products that have been extremely beneficial to people with virtually every disease.

However, this is coming to a screeching halt. A new law has been passed called “CODEX,” promoted by the World Health Organization, that will limit concentrations of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and essential oils to levels that would fall short of the healing effects that we’ve experienced for decades. Anything above this will have to be prescribed by a physician and be purchased at a dramatically higher price. You may think that I’m talking about some future event, but any government that has ratified the WHO agreement is already under that law. Even countries like the U.S. with extremely strong constitutions find themselves under this law because treaty law can override constitutional law. CODEX met in Rome in June of 2005 and affirmed the drug-industry-imposed standards in a Codex guidance document entitled “Vitamin and Mineral Guideline.” It has already taken effect in Germany, where you can now only get vitamins in significant doses via prescription from a physician. I predict that many governments will move slowly to regulate this industry so that there will not be an outcry from the public. I believe they will try the “frog in the water” approach. This is particularly disturbing when considered in light of the far greater danger of pharmaceutical drugs—especially in this circumstance, over-the-counter pharmaceutical drugs—that with CODEX in effect would be much easier to obtain than vitamins.

One might wonder why governments would pass a law like this, which makes vitamins, minerals and nutrients illegal over the counter but lets much more toxic pharmaceuticals remain restriction free. The pharmaceutical industry does not profit when someone gets well; they only profit when someone treats symptoms month after month and year after year.

This leads into our next era of medicine, the drug/chemical era. Why do I call them chemicals? Very simply, that’s what they are. The way most drugs are developed is to find an herb that has a benefit. They then try to break it down and find out the “active” ingredients. Now, this is still not patentable. And remember, there is no profit without exclusivity. So the next step in the process of making a drug is that we have to alter the “active” ingredient so that it’s not natural.

Now we have a chemical. You would think that’s not so bad, but understand that the organic systems of the body are designed to deal only with organic materials. So we have a substance, a drug that the body can no longer break down. This is called a toxin. We have a whole industry that is built around manufacturing toxins when we could be using natural organic materials that work much more efficiently with the physiology of the body and all of the natural components that are part of the original organic substance or plant. Example: One of the top-selling drugs in history is called Valium. It is not related to Valerian root. This root is one of the best natural sedatives and anti-anxiety agents. There has never been one case in history of a person being addicted to Valerian root. However, no company can patent the Valerian root. It occurs naturally in nature. The chemical creation of Valium, in order to patent and market a more powerful version of the natural Valerian root, has resulted in the need for Valium addiction clinics all over the world.

To continue our journey, next we’ll take a look at surgery. Mankind has dabbled with surgery for centuries. However, it remained very crude until the discovery of anesthesia. Prior to this, physicians could only perform what people could tolerate based on their level of pain or how many people you had to hold them down. Alcohol was occasionally used as a general anesthetic. The purpose and value of surgery was to remove something that was life threatening. For instance, if someone had gangrene of the foot, the surgeon would have the person held down and take a hack saw and cut off the leg. Fire was initially used for cautery. Needless to say, we have come a long way in our surgical techniques. However, now not only is surgery used for life-threatening situations, but some would even say it is used frivolously in cosmetic surgery, a booming industry. While statistics indicate that a significant number of surgeries are performed unnecessarily, surgical trauma medicine has been a great gift to civilization and is responsible for the saving of countless lives.

THE FINAL FRONTIER

Now for what you’ve been waiting for: the golden door. What the greatest scientific minds of our time, starting with Albert Einstein, have predicted has now been discovered, validated, and made available to the general public. Many other great scientists have spoken to this subject, but we will leave this for the Second Secret later in the book. I will begin with a quote from one of those great minds:

– Professor William Tiller, Stanford University

“Future medicine will be based on controlling energy in the body.”

That’s right, energy is the final frontier. It is the ultimate form of healing. Medicine has been dabbling in it for some years, and even unwillingly been dragged into it, but irresistibly it has arrived. We haven’t always known that sunlight had a healing effect. Madame Curie helped us to enter this era with the discovery of radium and X-rays. She also discovered how damaging energy could be. You will learn more about what “energy” is, and how extremely damaging or healing it can be, in the coming chapters. You will also understand why it is the future of health and healing.

BEYOND THE SYMPTOM COMPLEX

The way almost all health problems are diagnosed and treated today is based on what is called a “symptom complex.” The symptom complex is used not only in traditional medicine, but also in alternative health care, and it has been used for hundreds of years.

The way a symptom complex works is much like it sounds. The doctor or health care practitioner, problem solver, counselor, or helper, takes note of all the symptoms that a person has. Once they’ve identified the symptoms, they then consult a book, a chart, or their experience to determine what is the most likely problem based on that particular set of symptoms. Once they’ve determined what most likely the problem is—this is called a diagnosis—they then move on to treatment, asking, “What is the best way to treat that problem within the standard of practice?” Treatment is largely determined by the methodology of the practitioner. Traditional medical doctors use surgery, medications—things like that. Alternative health care providers use herbs, minerals and vitamins, not to “treat” disease, but to support optimal health. Counselors and therapists teach and advocate thinking about the problem differently and using behavioral techniques, or simply provide the support of a kind ear.

So the symptom complex basically involves three stages:

1. Presentation of symptoms.

2. Diagnosis based on the presenting of symptoms that comes from experience, schooling, or a book.

3. Actual intervention, therapy or treatment of the problem based on the diagnosis.

There are literally thousands of possibilities for each of these three stages. When you talk about health issues, you have physical health and mental health. Other problems would include relational problems, career problems, and peak performance issues (as in athletics, achievement, speaking, and sales). Each of these issues has different possibilities depending on what the issues are that you’re dealing with and the methodology of the practitioner. In other words, this process can become extremely complicated and even controversial, because different experts disagree on what the diagnosis should be, and even more so regarding the intervention, therapy or treatment that is needed.

If you want to get an idea of how frustrating this issue can be, go to the Internet and type any health issue into a search engine. It doesn’t matter what it is—pick a disease, pick a mental health issue, pick headaches, whatever you want. You’ll probably find a lot of interesting information, but you’ll also find a tremendous amount of disagreement, not only about what causes the problem, but especially what to do about it. You may very well come away a little bit disillusioned, realizing how much the experts disagree. So if the experts disagree, how in the world does the person who’s not an expert, who’s just a person with a problem, ferret out and determine what is the best course of action for them without wasting a tremendous amount of time or money; or in the worst case, possibly losing their life because of trying a solution that is not the right one for them?

Let’s talk some more about the expense of time and money. Let’s say that you did do that Internet search and found that there were ten different suggestions for how to go about dealing with your problem. Let’s say you tried six of them before trying the one that benefited you most. In this case you probably wasted a great amount of money and time on the first five that did not help your problem.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were one source of all problems? If there were one source of all problems, you could simply address that one thing that is the source in order to solve whatever your problem was. This would have several advantages. You wouldn’t waste so much time and money, because you’d only be working on one thing! If there’s one source of all problems then it also has to be the source of your problems, so you could feel confident that if you’re healing that one source, then you’re improving in all directions. You might even go so far as to say, “If I’m healing the one source, then I know I’m doing what is best for my problem.”

You could have peace of mind because you know that you’re doing what’s best—you’re working on the one source. You could have peace of mind because you know you’re almost definitely saving a lot of money. You could have peace of mind because you know you’re saving a lot of precious time and energy because you can go directly to addressing that one source.

The final reason may be the biggest one of all. That is, if there were one source of all problems, and if you have ten problems, you could relieve all of them at one time, because they all go back to that same one source. If you heal that one source, you could actually be healing all ten of the worst problems that are keeping you from having the life you want to have, having the relationships you want to have, having the peace, the prosperity, and the success you want to have. You could be dealing with all of them at the same time rather than having to do it the old way by treating one of them at a time and going through that symptom complex and using a different intervention for each one of them.

So there would be multiple advantages to having only one source of all health problems.

Well, get ready to celebrate, because the one thing that most people in the health field agree on is that there is one source of almost all health problems. That’s our first Secret!

SECRET #1: THE ONE SOURCE OF ILLNESS AND DISEASE

Let’s go back to our example of doing a Web search on a health problem. Remember our frustration because the experts disagreed on how to treat the problem? Well, the one thing that just about everyone does agree on is that almost all health issues originate from one problem—STRESS! In fact, over the last 10-15 years this has become so universally accepted that even the United States federal government has come out publicly in agreement.

As we stated earlier, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta says that 90 percent of all health issues are related to stress. Dr. Bruce Lipton, on the other hand, in research released in 1998 out of Stanford University Medical School, disagrees with the CDC. Based on his laboratory work, Dr. Lipton believes that over 95 percent of all illness and disease is linked to stress.

The major media regularly covers the topic. The New York Times online Health Guide points out that “stress can come from any situation or thought that makes you feel frustrated, angry, or anxious. What is stressful to one person is not necessarily stressful to another.”

Back in September 2004, Newsweek devoted the cover and major issue of the magazine to “The New Science of Mind & Body.” Articles covered “Forgiveness and Health,” “Stress and Infertility,” “Clues to Heart Disease” and more. We’ll get back to the idea of “Forgiveness and Health” later on.

Another prominent news magazine, Time, on its cover called high blood pressure “the stealth killer” that was spinning out of control. Stress has been identified as a cause of high blood pressure again and again.

I have pages and pages of research on how stress is the source of illness. One article in USA Today from May 30, 2004, called “Manage Stress, Manage Illness,” cited sources from Harvard, Arizona State University, University of North Carolina, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Michigan Technological University, the American Medical Association (AMA), Tulane University, Indiana University Cancer Center, and the Department of Health and Human Services. Other studies are from the Mayo Clinic, Vanderbilt University, the Yale Stress Center, Harvard Medical School, the CDC, the Anderson Cancer Center, the National Academy of Sciences, Boston University—the list goes on, and is added to every week as new research comes out.

So what does all this mean? It means that the very first question we should be asking ourselves based on the latest research is this: “What is the stress that’s causing this and how can I fix it?”

Before we can answer this question, we need to answer another question, “What exactly is stress in the body?”

THE PHYSIOLOGY OF STRESS

What exactly is stress? Is it getting a bill in the mail? Having an argument with a neighbor? Things not going as we planned at work? Concern about our health? You name it, and yes, it can be stressful. However, there is a critical difference between circumstantial issues that we normally think of as stress and physiological stress that results in illness and disease.

Physiological stress, simply put, is when our nervous system is out of balance. The central nervous system can be described using the analogy of a car. If you continually floor the gas pedal, you’ll end up breaking something. Likewise, if you ride the brakes, you will end up breaking something. The car is designed to work properly with the gas and brakes working harmoniously in balance. The same can be said of the central nervous system. This system has two parts, just like the gas and brakes on the car. The gas is similar to the sympathetic nervous system (amping things up), while the parasympathetic nervous system works similarly to the brakes (slowing things down). The state-of-the-art test in mainstream medicine for measuring physiological stress is called “Heart Rate Variability” (HRV), and measures the balance or lack of balance in this system. We’ll talk more about this test later.

The larger part of the nervous system is called the autonomic nervous system (ANS). “Autonomic” means “automatic,” because we don’t have to think about it. It happens automatically. In fact, 99.99 percent of everything going on in the body at any given moment is under the autonomic nervous system’s control. We have about five trillion bits of information coming into the brain every second. We are only aware of about ten thousand bits.

For instance, you don’t think about the food that you ate for lunch in your small intestine. You don’t have to think about moving it on to the next segment of the bowel. You don’t have to think about adding amylase to break down starch. Or adding lipase to break down fat. You don’t have to think about increasing insulin to handle excess sugar. You are not thinking about your kidneys getting rid of the excess sodium because you added extra salt to your food. You’re not thinking about your liver detoxifying the pesticides that were on the vegetables, nor about your immune system fighting the bacteria that came in with the food. We could keep on going, but you get the idea. Almost everything that is happening in your body, including your hair growing, is being done automatically. You don’t have to think about it. And isn’t that wonderful? There wouldn’t be enough hours in the day if you had to consciously think about all those things happening!

IT’S ALL ABOUT BALANCE

There are two parts to the ANS, and again, it’s all about balance. There is the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS), which is in charge of growth, healing, and maintenance. It encompasses most of the automatic things we were just talking about.

Then there is the sympathetic nervous system (SNS). It’s designed to be used much less frequently, yet it plays a huge role in health and sickness. The SNS is what we call the “fight or flight” system. It is the fire alarm. It is intended to save our lives at any given moment, very much like when you’re out on the highway in a car. You use the gas most of the time but the brakes may save your life every time you drive.

When we go into fight or flight, many things happen. Blood flow completely changes. It’s no longer going to the stomach to digest food. It’s no longer going to the frontal lobes of the brain for creative thought. It’s no longer going to the kidneys and liver. The lion’s share of the blood is now going to the muscles because your body thinks that it is going to have to fight harder or run faster than whatever is threatening your life. So you don’t need to digest that food in the bowel or clear the toxins from the liver, balance the electrolytes in the kidneys, or have creative thought, because if you don’t survive the next few minutes, all of that doesn’t matter. Again, these things happen automatically.

THE CRUCIAL CELLULAR LEVEL OF STRESS

Although they are designed to save your life, these changes, sustained over time by continual stress, can cause damage to organs, especially and directly affecting the immune system. That’s what’s going on at an organ level. Let’s talk for just a minute about what is happening on a cellular level. I have a good friend who is a PhD in nutrition and a naturopathic physician. She had never understood why many people didn’t get well or heal when she gave them the proper nutritionals, vitamins and minerals. Now make no mistake about it, she was giving them the right ones. She’s a very good doctor. What she didn’t fully understand was the effect of stress on a cellular level.

In the Navy, when a ship is attacked, all maintenance, repair, and normal activities cease. Even crew that are sleeping or eating have to “man the battle stations.” When the fire alarm (the SNS) goes off, our cells cease their normal growth, healing and maintenance. Why? The fire alarm is only supposed to go off in an emergency, and all of those activities can wait a few minutes while we run or fight to save our lives. The cells literally close up, like a ship battening down the hatches in a time of attack. Nothing is going in or out. You don’t see a tender ship coming up beside a battleship to give it food or to unload the garbage during a battle. In the same way, our cells don’t receive nutrition, oxygen, minerals, EFAs, etc., nor do they get rid of waste products and toxins while under stress. Everything stops except what is necessary to survive. This results in an environment inside of the cell that is toxic and doesn’t allow for growth and repair. In fact, Dr. Bruce Lipton says that this is exactly how we get genetic illness and disease. On the flip side, the same research at Stanford found that cells that were open and in growth and healing mode are literally impervious to illness and disease. Let me state that again, because it is the most significant statement that I’ve heard from the medical field in a long time. “A cell in growth and healing mode is impervious to disease.” That’s huge!

As you can see, fight or flight is a necessary response to save our lives in emergencies, but should not be maintained for long periods of time. The problem is that the average person is staying in fight or flight for long periods of time. When that happens, there is one inevitable result. Eventually something breaks and shows up as a symptom. When we get a number of symptoms, we call this a disease. A disease is simply where the weak link in the chain broke under the pressure called stress.

HOW FULL IS YOUR BARREL?

Doris Rapp, MD is considered by many people to be the premier allergist in the world. She’s written multiple books, especially on allergies and children. Dr. Rapp coined a theory that she called “the stress barrel.” In Dr. Rapp’s theory, all of us have an internal barrel that is the amount of stress we can deal with before something breaks. As long as our barrel is not full, we can have new stressors come into our lives or our bodies and deal with them quite effectively so they don’t affect us negatively. Once our barrel overflows, the weakest link breaks.

When the fire alarm gets pulled, a direct message goes out from the brain to the immune system through cells that are directly connected to the ends of nerves. They are called dendrites. When I was in medical school, we were taught that these were immune cells. And indeed, they are. Then the neurologists claimed them because they give off nerve transmitters, the same transmitters that nerve cells use. So now they’re called “neural immune cells” because both are true. They are part of the nervous system, and they are the direct link to the immune system. Their message is, “shut down,” “stop.”

IMMUNE SYSTEM ON HOLD

Why would the brain send such a message to the immune system? Well, think about it. What’s the purpose of the SNS? It’s to save our lives. And the immune system? What’s its purpose? To fight bacteria, viruses, fungi, make repairs, and destroy abnormal (cancer) cells. Does any of that have to happen in the next 5 minutes? Of course not. Also, the immune system uses a huge amount of energy. Remember, we want all of our energy and resources to go for one purpose for the next few minutes—to save our lives! So everything that is not essential for the next few minutes gets shut down.

Well, that’s fine if our immune system doesn’t fight bacteria or fungi for 5 minutes, and it’s fine if that food doesn’t get digested for another 5 minutes. The problem today is we live in a continual state of fight or flight. As we have traveled around the world doing Heart Rate Variability testing, a fascinating and relevant phenomenon has emerged. When doing these tests, we would ask each person one question: “Do you feel stressed today?” About 50 percent would say “yes,” and about 50 percent “no.” Of the 50 percent that answered that they did not feel stressed, over 90 percent, when tested with HRV, were found to be in physiological stress—the kind of physiological stress that can lead to illness and disease.

I saw a bumper sticker on the back of a car the other day. It read, “If you have it, a truck brought it.” Now, I hate trucks. I think these big trucks on the highway are very threatening. At least, they kick me into fight or flight. I think all of that freight should be on a railroad track. Still, I had to admit that everything in my home came on a truck—including my home itself! I actually had it built in a plant one piece at a time and hauled to the building site on a truck. If you have a health problem, it came from physiological stress—all health problems, every time.

We received a call from a gentleman who had attended one of our seminars recently. He called to tell us that after hearing this information in our seminar, he went home and did a Web search on stress. He found 67 million-plus websites that at least had the word “stress” in them. If you scan through those sites, what you will likely come away with is that if you have a health problem, it came from stress. This being true, every time you have the sniffles, any time you have an ache or pain you can’t identify, if your doctor drops the dreaded cancer word on you, in short, no matter what happens to you negatively from a health perspective, you should be asking yourself, “What is the stress that caused this and how can I eliminate it?”

So why aren’t we asking that question? Because up until now, we haven’t had a consistent, reliable, validated way to deal with stress. What works for some people and some problems does not work for other people and other problems. The reason is that there has been a missing piece of the puzzle. And it is Secret #3 that we will get to in a few minutes.

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Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Balance
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1455502006
• ISBN 13: 9781455502004
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 300
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