Positive Thinking

Depression

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Depression, can it  can be passed on genetically? Blair Justus, Ph.D., stated in his book, “Who Gets Sick” (How Beliefs, Moods and Thought Affect Your Health), that depression can be passed on genetically.  Now, many people would automatically conclude that there is no way to deal with depression, other than medication.  While this may be true in some cases, there may be a different solution.  As always the debate of “nature” versus “nurture” comes into question.

Lynn  McTaggart, in her book, “The Bond”, cites examples of scientists affecting the genetic makeup of experimental animals.  She references the research done by Jirtle and Waterland’s mouse study that showed changes in genes passed on to their offspring.  They state, “Genes can no longer be considered the only driving force of nature if an outside influence can completely derail the programming”, pg 35.

In his book, “The Psychic Roots Of Disease” (psychic here meaning “of the mind”), Bjorn Eybl, explains that depression is linked to thoughts of what we want as opposed to what we have, to the degree that we feel imbalanced and many times, stuck.  

It is sometimes difficult to see that we have control over our lives, especially if we are going though a period of depression.  If we simply want our lives to be different of some level, it wouldn’t be a problem if we worked for the change.  The problem exists in the beliefs we have as to whether or not we can achieve the transformation and at times, what do we need to do and how do we do it.

Working together to discover when and why you get depressed allows us to eliminate those negative emotions that are stuck in our bodies.  Those emotions may be about ourselves, others or situations in our lives. Through processes using NET and OEFT, we can eliminate these stuck emotions and lessen or eliminate those depressive thoughts.

Pattern

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For those of you who might not know Pavlov, he was a scientist who did an experiment with a bell, a dog and food to create a pattern.  He started his experiment by ringing a bell in front of a dog and then fed the dog.  After a short time, he noticed that the dog would salivate when they heard the bell, in anticipation of being fed, this created a pattern.

In a later experiment, he rang the bell but did not feed the dog.  Soon, the dog stopped salivating at the sound of the bell because they knew they were not going to be fed, this was called extinction.

We do something similar in creating patterns in our lives.  We are taught a certain way to act or be by how we are raised and taught by others.  Some of these things are useful and will serve us through our lives.  Some however are negative and detrimental to our growth and mental, as well as physical. well-being.

We may think that because the original input was so long ago, that the pattern would extinguish itself, but what we don’t realize is that when similar things happen in our lives that remind us of the original input, we reinforce the pattern.

It is only by doing something to combat the negative pattern, are we able to make different decisions and thereby take more control of the things in our lives that we don’t like.  Patterns that work for us are never discussed because there are no negative emotions associated with it.  Negative emotions are simply ones that stuck in our bodies and need to be dealt with.

With techniques like NET and OEFT, we can eliminate the negative emotions that drive the patterns interfere with our happiness.  Positive new pattens are just a result of not having the negative patterns anymore.

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The Psychic Roots Of Disease

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In his book “ The Psychic Roots Of Disease”, Bjorn Eybl, uses the word psychic in the title.  The use of the word “psychic” is referring to the mind and how it creates the resulting emotional and physical manifestations in the body.  His research is based on the cases of Ryke Geerd Hammer, MD.

Believing that there is an emotional component (EC) to numerous disease processes he studied cases of Dr. Hammer and his research has resulted in identifying the EC that is associated with many processes so that it can be dealt with by reducing or eliminating the effect that the EC has on the problem and the patient can heal or heal faster, as is appropriate. 

In utilizing NET and OEFT,  the EC will be addressed and neutralized to facilitate that persons healing.  Now, this does not take the place of medical care but acts in conjunction with it so that the person can heal as quickly as possible. Using NET and OEFT, issues can be addressed and dealt with so that Subjective Units of Distress (SUDS) can be lessened.  SUDS is your description of how much this issue is affecting you.  As SUDS lower, more healing is allowed to take place.

ANXIETY

In the case of anxiety, his research indicates that it exists when a person is are afraid of the future, because they feel that they lack control of their life.

During this time of COVID-19, it is easy for some people to feel this way and consequently feel overwhelmed by the situation and lose sight of the fact that something can be done about the situation.  It is during sessions, that we can deal with your issues and lighten any load you may feel.  

 

Happiness is like the Sun

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Happiness is like the Sun: Coloradans like to boasts that there are 360 days of sunshine, when in truth the sun shines everyday, even if we don’t see it.

Think of happiness as the sun. Happiness, like the sun, is always there, but because of the decisions we make about ourselves, life and the world, we develop beliefs that interfere with our happiness because that is what we focus on and it makes true the saying, what you focus on expands. Most times, these beliefs create patterns and they are usually developed when we are young and influenced by others. (HARVARD STUDY). Happiness is not a result of wealth, or health, or a great relationship, etc, rather all these things come when you are happy, or at least happier than you are now.

Napoleon Hill stated, “anything the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve“

To further the analogy of clouds (negative patterns), I’ll refer to a song written by Joni Mitchell that she titled “Both Sides Now”. She starts off seeing clouds as wonderful but then writes, “Now they only block the sun, they rain and snow on everyone. so many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way.”

This is called LIFE. It is neither good nor bad, right nor wrong but rather does it work for you or not. If these patterns no longer work for you, it is time to neutralize them by dealing with the thoughts behind them.

The brain was once thought of as being stagnant. Whatever was programmed at an early age, would always remain. On the contrary, research has proven the neuroplasticity of the brain, its ability to create new pathways of thinking as well as shut down some older ones (fMRl).

This corresponds with the work of Candace B. Pert, Ph.D. In her search for opioid receptors in the body, she discovered that emotions are actual physical substances (ligands) that attach to different places on different cells of different organs. A ligand is a term for any natural or manmade substance that binds selectively to it’s own specific receptor on the surface of a cell.

Apparently what happens when we use the techniques of Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), the emotional ligands are no longer able to attach to the organs (in that particular circumstance) and the neuroplasticity of the brain takes over and deletes, or at least reduces the effect of the pattern. Our emotions create our beliefs, which in turn create our patterns. Creating neutrality about the situation allows the body to process the issue/trauma.

Quantum Physics explains that the observer (you) of a situation, has an effect on the outcome on the situation. In his book, “The Dancing Wu Li Masters”, Gary Zukav explains it this way. “Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based on our perceptions. What we perceive depends on what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.”

If you want to know what you believe, look at your life, it is a manifestation of what you believe. If your life looks like a glass half-empty you may want to neutralize those beliefs that get it your way.

Visualizations and Affirmations

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What about Visualizations and Affirmations?

Napoleon Hill stated, “anything the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve“

Visualizations

The expression, what we focus on expands, is applicable here. There are many books on visualization (The Secret, The Science of Getting Rich, etc) and many speakers who extol the virtues of visualizing what you want. These techniques work but it seems, not for everyone. If you have utilized these techniques and they have not been successful, it is probably because your belief system is telling you the opposite, of you think you are visualizing, without you knowing it (go to the action step and do that process). When, with NET, we muscle test a statement, what we are asking is whether the conscious mind (what you think), is congruent with the unconscious mind (what you believe). Is the test is positive, there is nothing to work on. If the test is negative, then we must get the conscious and the unconscious to work together. Think of trying to plow a field with two horses that are not harnessed together. Each will go their own separate way and you will get a furrow, but it won’t be straight or productive. You may get a result, but it probably won’t be the one you want.

Affirmations

The same applies to affirmations. If you use affirmations and are still not creating what you affirm, then each time you use the affirmation, you are really focusing on the negative beliefs behind the affirmation and expanding that energy instead of the positive you seek. Now I don’t say that using an affirmation is bad, if it works for you, then obviously it is good, but if you are not neutralizing the negative, you won’t get what you want, or at least not as quickly as you would like. By neutralizing the negative beliefs, I feel, that you won’t even have to affirm what you want in order to create it, you just have to keep working on neutralizing the negative beliefs.