The Self Healing

Potential 7th october 2016

What is being well?• Definition WHO: absence of disease• “state of complete physical, mental and

social wellbeing”• Annual UK survey from 2011 to 2016

assessing life satisfaction, worthwhile, happiness and anxiety: CONCLUSION improving peoples health seems to be more important than improving their wealth

• Self assessed health is positively associated with life satisfaction

BMJ July 2016

What is being well?

BMJ July 2016

BMJ July 2016

Longevity Increased by Positive Self-Perceptions of

Aging

The Hippocratic Oath

This oath was written by the Greek Doctor Hippocrates. It was written in ancient Greek around 400 B.C. His students were required to take this oath.

The Hippocratic Oath • First – do no harm- Primum non nocere• Second – honour the healing power of

nature - vis medicatric naturae

• The body wants to be healthy• Healing is a natural power – let mother

nature do her job

Why do we get sick? • What is the message?• Is there a message?• Why now?• Have we lost touch with

ourselves/intuition?• Are we vicitms? • Is illness our own unexpressed power

and energy turning against our body rather than outwards?

What do we get sick with?Infections

• Infections: ”itis” – war within the body.

• Can the immune system, the defence, handle the attack?

• Is there a psychological link?– “what conflict am I failing to see or failing to admit to?”

What do we get sick with?Candida/Parasites

• Imbalance in the digestive system suggests you are being psycho/emotionally invaded by someone or something, and feel out of control. Your normal living environment has become upset or out of balance, allowing candida/parasites to enter and make themselves at home ~ Deb Shapiro

What do we get sick with?Lyme

• Lyme patients usually have multiple issues and numerous infections. Borrelia opens the door.

• A tremendous rebirth can happen on the other side of lyme treatment. There is nothing like a good chronic disease to raise our awareness, The organisms themselves are our teachers ~ Stephen Buhner

• You are actually looking for the highest state of being in yourself and you want to be able to let go of everything else. Dynamic process. Develop your talents ~ Christiane Beerlandt

What do we get sick with?Accidents

• The law of resonance sees to it that we never come into contact with anything that does not affect us directly.

• An accident is a break in your life – and demands investigation as such. A caricature of ones problems, painful as it might be ~ Rudiger Dahlke

What if we get seriously sick?

• Optimise everything!• Get the right medical help for you1. Mind – remove stress, re-establish balance2. Nutrition 3. Fasting4. Remove toxins and moulds5. Tonics for the adrenals, immunesystem6. Acid base balance7. Connection with the spiritual

Rudiger Dahlke• What is the healing power in the illness?• First realize there is no such thing as

illnesses – as there is no such thing as healths.

• Singular – illness – there is a disharmony that is looking to regain balance.

• It is also not the BODY that is ill, but the person (on stage it is not the stage that is tragic but the play)

• When a car gets “ill” – a warning light flashes. We stop (we wouldn’t dare drive on) and fix the problem. No point getting annoyed at the flashing light!

• Replacing the light bulb is not the answer.

• The symptoms are not the enemy but they are your teacher. This applys to regular and alternative medicine

1. Stress – emotional, physical, external

- major immune system inhibitor

• Chronic stress leads to a weaker cortisol response – consequently a higher pain unpleasantness response

• Chronic pain is a self reinforcing pathological state

• Negative and competitive social interactions are related to heightened pro-inflammatory cytokine activity

- Gut connection

• Stress hormones cause rapid growth of Gram negative bacteria. Very sensitive to the hosts experiences. Listens to the emotions.

• 50% of our adrenaline goes to the gut

• Adrenaline with E. Coli in a petri dish – 10000x increase in growth

- Gut connection• Cathecholamines bind to the high

affinity ferritine iron binding proteins – transferrin and lactoferrin which then enables bacterial acquisition of normally inaccessible sequestered host iron

• Stress allows bacteria to steal IRON• Methyl B12 – may be used by the gut

bacteria for their own methylation cycle!

- Gut connection

• What lives in the gut determines anxiety, mood swings, cognition.

• Oral probiotics give significant anti - anxiolytic effect.

• Breathing• Meditation• Exercise

2. Nutrition – Michael Pollan

• Eat food (i.e. recognizable as such), not too much, mainly plants

• Don’t eat anything your great grandmother wouldn’t have recognized

• Cooking is therapeutic - lactobacillus is man’s best friend

• White flour and sugar changed every- thing.

Nutrition• Grains low (Gluten and MAIZE free)• Milk free• Processed Sugar free• 80% PLANTS• Proteins – Meats from grass fed

animals• Good fats – organic nuts, seeds,

coconutBMJ 15 dec 2012

Nutritional factors - Robert Lustig

• Sugar is uniquely toxic – especially fructose – (eg high fructose syrup) in the same league as cocaine, nicotine and alcohol. Same reward pathway.

• Fructose is unstable. Binds to proteins and tags them to self destruct. ROS (reactive oxygen species) - cellular ageing and metabolic syndrome

• Keep your Insulin level lowRef: BMJ 20 april 2013

Nutritional factors - Gluten• Gluten sensitivity estimated at 6% very

likely to be more.• Serological tests are 30%-100% reliable and

biopsy may not be diagnostic.• New diagnosis : “non coeliac gluten

sensitivity”– often only symptomatic, no evidence with histology or serology.

• Only 40% of coeliac patients have GI symptoms. Brain fog! Symptoms very similar to Lyme symptoms.

BMJ 15 dec 2012

My favourite subject..

GREEN SMOOTHIES – why?• Pure nutrition• All the fibres• Delicious• Mix with medicinal herbs and mushrooms• Easy to digest• Full of folate• Increases Nrf2 - Transcription factor ~

500 genes

Nutrition – Nrf2• We want to increase our Nrf2• Transcription factor ~ 500 genes• Omega 3, Carotenoids, Terpenoids,

tocopherols, allium/sulphur, phenolic antioxidants, isothiocyanates

• Plus calorie restriction, exercise, low level oxidative stress.

BMJ 15 dec 2012

3. Fasting• Fasting has been practiced for millennia• Periodic fasting during adult life promotes optimal

health and reduces the risk of many chronic diseases

• Improves insulin sensitivity, reduces blood pressure, body fat, IGF-I, atherogenic lipids and inflammation.

• Fasting regimens improve outcome with myocardial infarction, diabetes, stroke, AD and PD.

• Triggers adaptive cellular stress responses, which result in an enhanced ability to cope with more severe stress and counteract disease processes.

• Protects cells from DNA damage, suppresses cell growth and enhances apoptosis of damaged cells - could retard and prevent cancers.

4. Detoxification Support• Drainage – Trias, Pekana• Heavy metals – Amalgam• EMF (electromagnetic fields)• Binders – Algae, Norit, Humic/Fulvic acid• Liver support• Herbs and vitamin support• Glutathion – our guardian and garbage

man ~ Amy Yasko• Sweating, exercise, yoga

5. Medicinal Mushrooms

Medicinal Mushrooms• Chaga - It is the most powerful single

compound for Lyme in the past few years. Highest antioxidant - ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) level ~ Dietrich Klinghardt

• Reishi – Enhances immune system, helps sleep and gives energy

• Cordyceps – strengthens, liver support• Lions mane – memory, neurological

symptoms.BMJ 15 dec 2012

6. Our Buffer system • The body’s shock absorber ~ Marlene

Kunold• Hippocrates – acids have the most

damaging effects• Sodium bicarbonate is the blood’s most

important buffer• It gives us instant access to more oxygen

because the bicarbonates/CO2 dilate the blood vessels

• Drink it every morning, wash the body with it, make sure your drinking water is alkaline

7. Influence of faith• Connection with the divine and

spirituality. Very personal. • FEAR is the biggest promotor of ill

health• Belief can heal mutant genes. 90% of

breastcancer – are not related to genes but lifestyle ~ Bruce Lipton

The neurobiology of positive emotions

Not “WHY ME” but “YES ME!!”

• Nature: mountains and valleys, light and dark

• Healing is becoming whole again – but that does not mean a ‘perfect’ body.

• Dance with your devils. Love even them

• Symptoms make us honest, makes us look at the things we least want to, – and makes healing possible

Not “WHY ME” but “YES ME!!”

• A problem is to humans like a bone to a dog ~ Eckhart Tolle

• This is it for now – not forever but this the path NOW. It is meant to be your path

• Feeling deserving to heal, wanting to heal, being ready to heal

The inate intrinsic nature of healing

• Any kind of treatment can initiate the healing

• Each healing experience is different and individual

• Solution is often very close by• Healing can be spontaneous – a

natural tendancy arising from the internal nature of DNA

Role of the therapist• Belief of the practitioner strongly

influences the healing powers of the patient (Placebo effect)

• Words of doom rarely motivate. Sometimes, but, rarely

• Usually cause despair.

Andrew Weil • Success stories: Believe in healing, keep

searching, get your ego out of the way and your concepts and let your body do the work

• Fighting is not the most effective way but acceptance is the consistant theme rather than struggle. It represents a mental shift that can initiate transformation of personality and with it the healing of disease

Andrew Weil • Total acceptance allows profoud internal

relaxation and the ‘patient’ no longer feels compelled to fight, to be defensive

• You must love your ‘cancer’/ ‘illness’. It could also be seen as a gift, a way to your transformation and new life.

• LAO TZE ~ As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, so to yield with life solves the insoluble

• Acceptance/ submission /surrender is the master key that unlocks healing

YIELDING• As opposed to surrender (White flag

image) and acceptance (Armchair image)• Yielding instead of fighting or complacency

Case 1 • L.W (female 50 years)• 15 years of tiredness and exhaustion, lack of

concentration, severe muscle and joint pain, Raynaud.• Multiple doctors, tests, autoimmune illness found.• April 2010 started a holistic Lyme treatment. The

symptoms worsend, got strange symptoms - like insects crawling through her brain. “But I had complete faith in the treatment.” Only 4 months later, after many tablets and capsules, within a period of couple of days, there was a sudden surge of energy. The most amazing experience was the realization that I had forgotten how much energy I was capable of having. I actually thought I was becoming demented.

• She continues to be well 6 years on

Case 2 • L.S (female - 17 years)• Tired for some months, emotional summer

holiday. Repeated bladder infections requiring antibiotics

• Vaccinations for Thailand a few months earlier• Sudden worsening in tiredness• TSH >100, fT4 – 8• Advised strongly by the endocrinologist to

start Thyrax medication immediately – but refused

Case 2 • Spoke out about her emotions• Gluten free, sugar free diet• Homeopathy for vaccines• Tyrosine – Thyrotabs – just 1per day• Methylation support • Minerals• Iodine• Watched her closely• HHV-6 positive

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Case 3• Sharon (female 63 years) • Obesity, abdominal pain, joint

problems• Dental problems, Liver function got

worse. • Thyroid medication, milk thistle,

gluten free and carbohydrate free diet, supplements, - nothing worked.

• August 2015 - 5:2 Diet

Case 3

Case 3• Liver function tests June 2014ALAT 92 u/l YGT 135 u/l• Liver function test sept 2016 ALAT 35 u/l YGT 41 u/l• Lost 14 kg• Thyroid medication halved

Case 4 • Myself and my knee

Amy Sher• Trust so deeply in where I was being led

– that if i were to fail it would still be OK. Making this mental shift was the key.

• Perfect timing. Just show up and do the work.

• Be here now ~ Ram Das • Forcing ourselves to go at a pace that

clashes with our spirit is a key issue.

Jeff Foster"A true healer does not heal you; she simply reflects back to you your innate capacity to heal. She is a reflector, or a loving transparency”

“And love is the space in which all of this is possible; love heals” “Find a place of humility, and even gratitude, amidst the rubble of the old dreams. To let go of your idea of 'How Life Was Going To Be', and to embrace 'How Life Actually Is'. To rediscover a sense of sacredness, where you are, how you are. A calling to Truth. Always a beginning, never a defeat.”

Be yourself - fearlessly• “A return to love” - Our deepest fear

is NOT that we are inadequate but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us most ~ Marianne Williamson

• Realize your magnificence and express yourself fearlessly in this world ~ Anita Moorjani

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