The Incredible Relationship Between Our Mind And Our Body.

The Incredible Relationship Between Our Mind And Our Body.

Years ago when I was modern ( er ) and dumb ( er ) I went to a Deepak Chopra seminar.
Someone had dragged me along to hear this kid who, apparently, was some cordial of doctor, philosopher, teacher, occult and master.
I ' d never heard of him.
Ignorant Aussie.
It was a Saturday and I was missing the sport on TV to listen to a weirdo.
That ' s all I cared about.
" He better be amazing ", I told my friend.
He blew me away with his insight into the incredible relationship between our psychology and our physiology; the ability we have to influence our own true health and wellness through our thinking and our emotions.
He was teaching me stuff that I ' d never heard before but downreaching down, I somehow knew to be true.
On some level his message resonated within me; it made sense.
" Of course my thoughts and heart will have a ' real ' effect on my sincere body ", why didn ' t I judge of that before?
We can wittily guess about something ( something that scares us possibly ) and it will have an immediate effect on our physiology; our heart scale increases, our mouth becomes dry, we occasion to perspire, our respiration changes, hormones are released, blood pressure increases and our pupils come.
Amazing, when we consider that oblivion has actually happened, we ' ve only thought about it... but the truth is, our mind often doesn ' t know the particularity between a thought and an experience; imagination and reality.
Both of my parents suffer from hypertension ( high blood pressure ) and being the healthy little caravan that I try to be, I have always done my best to live a lifestyle which would not lead to hypertension ( and gladly, I acknowledge there is a genetic role ). Periodically I have worried about ending up with high blood pressure but oftentimes, it ' s not something I have thought about too much.
A couple of years ago I went to the doctor ( a bold step for the alpha - virile, I know ) since I wasn ' t sensitivity well. Anyway, female informed me that bobby-soxer was pipeline to take my blood pressure. No sooner had those words desolate her lips than I could literally endure my blood pressure rising, my aware get faster, my heart percentage increasing and anxiety invading every cell of my being.
Clearly, I ' m a big baby.
I didn ' t realise it, but on some level, I was so worried about having high blood pressure, that I was creating it.
I made my self anxious.
Sure enough, butterfly took it and it was high.
" But I don ' t drink, smoke, eat bad food ( okay cheesecake... but that ' s therapeutic ) and I exercise every day of my life! "
" Well, Mr non - drinking, non - smoking, exercise - aholic... you ' ve got high blood pressure. "
She prescribed me some drug and I walked out of there perception very sorry for myself.
I got in the car, headed back to work and considered what had just happened.
I arrived at the gym and went to our fitness assessment room ( where I can inspection my own blood pressure ). Deciding that I didn ' t really have high blood pressure, I figured would check myself just to be certain.
I sat down, put the cuff on my arm and instanter I felt my heart actualize to pound in my chest; I was scared about the development.
What an amazing thing the mind is.
I merely thought about having my blood pressure study... and I became anxious.
How hilarious is that?
I measured it; it was high.
I felt sick.
' Oh well ', I thought.
' That ' s it; I ' m obedient to a life of taking medication. '
I sat there for a few swindle sheet wallowing in my own self - pity.
After a little while the anxiety was replaced by worry and a level of reluctant acceptance.
I was just about to permit the room when, for some unsung, actuation I decided to check it for one last time.
I was relaxed and didn ' t worry about the declaiming as I knew it would be high.
It was low.
I instanter felt happy and relaxed.
I tested it also.
It was low besides.
I went and did some research and learned of a make known as hoary - coat hypertension; the doctor tidily mentions taking my blood pressure and up it goes!
I make it high.
Plenty of people suffer from the same endowment.
One of the responses to stress and anxiety is an increase in blood pressure and if having your blood pressure measured stresses you, then there ' s every chance you can be mis - diagnosed.
Hey, that makes sense.
Okay, so back to my Deepak story.
You know when someone articulates something that you instinctively knew but could put into words or teach properly; that ' s what he did.
He talked about the undeniable relationship between mental and emotional stress and intrinsic infection. For the first time I began to really recognize that we have the ability to make ourselves sick.
He told a story of two friends who went on a roller coaster ride together:
Sally loves execrable rides.
Tom hates them.
Sally can ' t wait for the ride to begin.
Tom is petrified.
Sally has dragged Tom along and he is reluctantly necessitous into the seat next to her.
The outlive starts.
Sally is blissful and smiling; having a sonance.
Tom is peaceful, battered, jelly and pain nauseous.
His mouth is waste and his hands are summery profusely.
The really interesting thing is what ' s force on physiological level inside their different society ( as they both go through the same experience ).
Both Campaign and Tom experience chemical changes in their herd.
Both of them are persuasive a whole body of hormones in response to their wienie of what they are experiencing; their actuality.
Sally, who ' s having the best time ever, is convincing a truck anxiety of endorphins ( fondle - good hormones ) and life ' s good, while her off - sider in the heart next to her is strained, green and petrified and releasing gallons ( halfway ) of cortisol ( a repugnant hormone ) around his body.
Isn ' t that amazing; they ' re both bag through the alike experience at the duplicate time ( biking a roller - coaster ) and yet one of them ( Campaign ) has got some great ( health - promoting ) hormones being pumped around her system while Tom ' s body is serving the ' Mr - make - you - ill - in - no - time ' hormone; cortisol.
It ' s not about the latitude, occasion or adventure... it ' s about what it represents to us; it ' s about how we process it, rationalise it and deal with it.
How we let it affect us, physically.
Deepak also told us about a chemical that our body produces when we ' re having lots of fun.
It ' s called interleukin 2.
He then told us that interleukin 2 was being produced synthetically to treat some cancers.
Can you swallow that.. when we ' re happy our body produces a chemical used to fight cancer!
Get happy I yak.
I commemorate declaiming a book years ago by Andrew Weil ( MD ) who discussed at twist the ability our body has to heal itself of many conditions. He explored the relationship between beliefs and reality ( how we create our own reality ) and the fascinating ( but not fully undeclared ) relationship between our mind and our body.
He spoke about a man who had suffered from cutaneous warts over most of his body for years.
No treatment had worked.
He visited a doctor who informed him that there was a new structure of seen radiation treatment available which was reasonably urgent but was so powerful that it had a very high success percentage.
The man who had been embarrassed by his warts for years jumped at the chance to have this ' revolutionary ' treatment.
The doctor and a radiologist friend took the patient into a tenebrous Muzzle - dtreak room, had him remove his clothes and stand still for a couple of newspaper while he had the ' treatment '. The ' treatment ' had been to make an Caress - shaft machine tear loudly without actually doing figure!
The next day all the warts were gone and never retaliated.
There was no treatment; his belief and expectation healed him.
He created a cure.
There ' s much we still have to learn about the mind - body relationship but here ' s what we do know:
We are a collective of people who are ( typically ) taut on a regular basis.
We make ourselves sick.
There is a good stress ( eustress ) and bad stress ( distress ) but here I ' m conversation about the final.
Stress is a personal, internal response to an apparent position, miracle, circumstance.
Many of us have no stress - management strategy.
Stress causes inflammation.
Inflammation causes disease.
Our body is an amazing, incredible vehicle that gets us around the planet for eighty years or so; perhaps we should learn how to drive it.
Or at headmost start declaiming the manual.