The first one is predisposition. This is an emotional
and/or life situation which creates a non-optimal condition of living.
When an individual lives in a household of this nature an underlying
sense of fear, danger and guilt permeates the mind which causes it to
get stuck in the stress mode often called a fight or flight reaction.
This creates a continual strain on the body. As the lungs overwork, the
immune system is weakened and harmful levels of cortisol and adrenaline
are produced to create chemical imbalances. This is why we see such an
epidemic of serotonin deficiencies today.
Low Thyroid and The Precipitation of Illness
The second P behind any illness is precipitation. Our body/mind system
for most of us is very resilient and can often overcome, in our earlier
years, much physical and emotional abuse. Yet, over l time as we age
even the strongest are weakened and the resistant negative beliefs and
decisions that were made in our lifetime due to the negative
conditioning we had will finally bear its toxic front. One day a
physical or emotional trauma occurs and this can precipitate an
onslaught of system breakdowns that can bring cancer, heart disease,
hypo or hyperthyroid conditions, colitis, irritable bowel syndrome,
anxiety-panic disorders or any number of maladies into symptomatic
consciousness. It is important to understand that whatever finally
emerges did not just happen. These imbalances were in the mind/body
system before the symptoms manifested. We all have a potential for
cancer in our bodies. Yet it is through the systems weakening by the
trauma that the illness in waiting debuts.
By this time tears were rolling down Cynthias face. I know your
Ph.D. is in clinical hypnotherapy and you specialized in
psychoneuroimmunology, but are you a psychic too? I feel youre
reading my mind and telling me all about my life without me saying a
word. Ive had a horrible childhood. My parents were always fighting
and my father sexually abused me as a child. I always felt frightened
to speak out about it as I thought my mother must have known but did
nothing. Even when I tried to bury myself in outside activities I
always had this terrible feeling inside me when I went back home. As a
kid I always seemed to have stomach problems which my doctor told me
was because I took life too seriously. Too seriously, my God, I was
afraid to go to sleep at night in my bed. My stomach problems went
away when I went off to college and things went pretty well. I dreaded
the holidays for it meant going home but I learned to stuff my fears
deeply inside. My parents eventually got divorced so it made me easier
and my dad to never bother me again. But then I got married my
first. Things just got off on a bad foot and like my father, my new
husband had a drinking problem that I was in full denial about. I
tried the best I could but before long became too much and I started
having trouble getting out of bed in the morning. When I went into my
doctor he ran a lot of tests and told me although unusual at my age, my
thyroid was very low and he started me on the various medications.
Finally we found synthyroid was what worked best and we stuck with that
up until recently. I divorced my first husband and remarried five
years later to a really nice man. We get along pretty well most of the
time but sometimes I feel like running for my life.
"This is the third P-Perpetuation. Buried deep in your unconscious
mind are large amounts of traumas some painful, some threatening and
others filled with loss or rekindling of old negative feelings and
beliefs. Although you have some conscious awareness of what these stem
from an undeniable axiom of healing is youre never upset for the
reason you think! When the core issues have been taken from the
unconscious portion of your mind and brought into consciousness, the
hidden nature of the real seed of discontent will be removed. The key
is awareness of what is buried beneath your current consciousness. Its
like having a garden filled with weeds, you can quickly create an
appearance of a well groomed lawn just by mowing it, yet after a few
days the weeds will once again pop up as the underling roots are still
there. Unless you dig beneath the soil (your conscious mind) and pull
the roots completely out (the unconscious traumas you have forgotten)
the weeds (your negative symptoms) will return. This is why in 1954
the AMA authorized the use of hypnosis as an approved modality of
healing. As helpful as medications and talk therapy have been over the
years, it was often discovered that over time the symptoms returned or
found a different way to demonstrate themselves.

