Reduce stress and release negative emotions to prevent disease.

Is it essential to release negative emotions for optimum health?
A traditional view, still held by many scientists, is that the immune system is autonomous...that it is self-regulatory and functions separate and independent from the rest of the body. With the increasing focus on the relatively new science of Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) these old views are becoming less legitimate.

Thus, old concepts on the nature of consciousness, and on the nature of the body are changing. Some of the more exciting conceptual work on the healing process has been done by a medical doctor in Massachusetts. Deepak Chopra is one of the new breed of health care practitioners who is speaking out, and in a way that will change how we view the mind and the body.

Chopra's credentials are impressive. He is an endocrinologist, and former chief of staff of the New England Memorial Hospital in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Chopra calls himself a quantum biologist, which means the application of quantum physics to biology. He says that the body is a quantum mechanical device, and that it is subject to the laws of quantum physics and not Newtonian physics.

The more important notions of quantum biology is that consciousness is not localized to any one place. Twenty years ago a group of scientists discovered in the brain, a set of chemicals known as neuropeptides. Neuro because they are found in the brain, and peptides because they are protein like molecules. So every time you have a thought or a feeling, a desire, an instinct, or a drive, each of these affects our nervous system by means of specific messenger molecules called neuropeptides.

There are receptors to these neuropeptides not only in brain cells but also in cells of the immune system. So when the scientists began looking at the various immune system cells that protect us from cancer and infection (t-cells, for example), they found that there were receptors to these same neuropeptides in those cells. In fact, the word neuropeptide became obsolete, because they're not confined to the brain. They are floating around in the bloodstream and going to all our different organs.

Since there are receptors to these neuropeptides in cells in the immune system, then it becomes obvious that, as Dr Chopra says, "The immune system is constantly eavesdropping on our internal dialog." In NLP we would add the following comment, "The immune system is constantly responding to the pictures, sounds, feelings, smells, tastes, and the internal dialog that we hold in our mind."

Since the unconscious mind (also known as the "body mind") is the controlling intelligence in the body, it is also the connection between the mind and the immune system. One of the major theories of NLP, and Hypnosis is that the unconscious mind can communicate with any part of the body at any time it so desires, and can in this way, stimulate the healing process. It seems that there is in fact, neurological evidence for this idea. NLP then in turn, is an excellent model to release negative emotions.

Every thought, every happy and negative emotion, every desire, every internal representation you have is monitored, overheard, viewed. Your immune system is watching, listening, feeling! It has been shown that grieving people have grieving immune cells. If the grieving goes on for a prolonged period of time, then the immune system has also the self talk of, "Leave me alone, I don't want to be bothered." Such people are, according to Dr Chopra, susceptible to cancer and other infectious diseases.

That is why it's so important to understand that negative emotions which are trapped in the body are not conducive to health, and why there is a need to release negative emotions within a healing processes. This is why I combine NLP, Hypnotherapy and Energy Healing.

Dr Lipton's The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles has great information on this subject. Dr. Lipton's profoundly hopeful synthesis of the latest and best research in cell biology and quantum physics is being hailed as a major breakthrough showing that our bodies can be changed as we retrain our thinking.

Many mental and physical dis-eases are preceded by a significant emotional experience (SEE) of a negative nature which may appear in the person's recent past, or even further in the past, such as during childhood. If negative, and depending on the intensity, the SEE has the potential to create or be the source of some emotional, mental or even physical dis-ease occurring in the body.

Let's define some terms so that we are speaking the same language. The notion of an SEE comes from the sociologist Dr. Morris Massey, in the book The People Puzzle. First event means the very first time that an experience happens, or the root cause of a first event occurring. Significant emotional experience is any major, fully associated, highly charged emotional event wherever it occurs. Emotional chain is the process that the unconscious mind uses to connect experiences of a similar nature. The term used is "gestalt" which means a collection of memories around a certain subject.

The potential of a negative SEE to create dis-ease is based on the trapped emotions which remain in the memory because they are stored in the body. The work of Dr. Paul Goodwin, a neural physicist at Alaska Pacific University, implies that the trapped emotions in the body have the possibility of creating functional (software, non-physical) boundaries which can impede the flow of nerve information through the neural network pathways.

The following illustration gives some indication of the effect on the physical body if we fail to release negative emotions.

Other than dis-ease, why get rid of trapped negative emotions?
Well, for example, imagine a salesperson who has a dream. They are well trained and knows how to sell, and want to make more money. But every time that salesperson goes to close the sale, fear comes up. That salesperson is not going to do his or her best. Certainly the closing ratio will not be as high as it could be without the fear. Now imagine that same salesperson without the fear. Which one do you thing will do better?

Or in a relationship, perhaps you once got hurt, and so you said, "I'm never going to let that happen to me again." So every time you get to a certain point in the relationship you begin to feel those old negative feelings, and so you end the relationship. More importantly, each relationship ends in exactly the same way each time. You may not even remember the source of the negative feelings, but at a certain point there they are, and the relationship ends. Now imagine being without those negative emotions, do you think that it would improve the relationship? P>

Obviously, the creation of dis-ease requires more trapped negative emotions than those in the situations we've just discussed. However, the process is the same...the unconscious mind represses (to whatever extent it needs to) memories with unresolved negative emotions. It does this for the "sanity" of the conscious mind. Since the unconscious mind does repress the memories with the negative emotions in them, the emotions get stuck in the body and aren't released.

New science shows it is essential to release negative emotions for optimal health. NLP, Hypnosis, and Energy Healing are exceptional tools for doing just that.