I was sitting behind a large and prominently beautiful desk at the Tarrytown police station in NY. He looked calm, composed, physically and mentally organized. The certificate of his book's award and wall proved a long and successful career.
"I paid the membership fee," he scanned the room and spit out the smoke. As he was watching it, his career really started, as he was a teenager who really worked in the American army in Vietnam. I was assigned to the armored car division sent to the deep part of the jungle and learned what I needed to survive in a physical, mental and emotional way.
He was in the mission at Delta, it was summer, the outside temperature had reached 115 degrees Fahrenheit by noon. In the tank, I could not bear under normal conditions. On a certain day, he disappeared yet with superb clarity. It threatened our lives.
"It must have been more than 130. It was hot in a way I never experienced.I was literally up and I managed to lower my body temperature because there was not air conditioning in fact, panic I remember thinking it was supposed to have been supposed to be, my heart.
Lieutenant sitting forward, his body was compressed with the strength of experience, still sitting in him vividly.
For some reason I have heard about some monks of Himalayas how they meditated and never suffered adverse effects at subterm temperatures. I was able to lower it. Until today, I did not know what I did, how I did it, but I imagined cool water in me and around me. I never forgot that I am here, "he sat.
"This pointed to his head," It was my greatest weapon, and since then I've been fighting anywhere, anywhere.
Post 9/11 Sensibility
Since September 11, two rating spinwords are living and emergency situations. Today, Americans are undergoing periodic diet therapy of color-coded security alerts for people who need visual aid. The preparation strategy helps manage thousands of products that can be purchased with $ 49.95, shipping and handling alone, as well as the myriad medical insecurity, depression, and hopelessness of medicines. This is not totally different from the anti-communism frenzy during the Cold War and the resulting Burma / Bunker mentality of pill jumping. No matter what happened we had to protect ourselves.
We feel the same urgency now. However, today most of the people who are building bunkers are worried about colors, going back and forth to orange to red warning conditions, hiking at local courses, armored cars that can pierce mountains , Scientists are preparing in almost every way, except that what they are currently trying to believe is the most important. That is the way of the mind.
The image which we hold in our mind is also preserved in our body. What we are thinking is ours. What we feel is a best-selling author who decides how to heal, and Dr. Larry Dossay, one of the leading experts in psychosomatic medicine, wrote as follows. "The image changes and relaxes as if the body movement really happened, the peripheral blood vessel expands and your hand gets warm like the real thing"
Even if this is partly true, it is an amazing statement. Hippocrates wrote that there is no one who believes in the tenderness of the doctor, but clarified the connection between the mind and the body about 1,500 years ago. Beliefs, images, thoughts - this was clinical far beyond the arrival of modern technology.
A doctor reported in 1912 that TB patients who had previously been studying had died from bad news (eg, relatives died) worsened. At the time it was not called stress medicine or psychoimmunology, but the concept was the same. And today, data that supports the connection between thought and health, actually spiritual image and survival is gathered.
Image and Immunity
Mary Joe Clizer, Director of Spirituality & Healing Center, University of Minnesota said, "We can now measure changes in immune cells and brains in a way that we can objectively and scientifically prove themselves. It is now considered common knowledge that in the circle, it is suggested to people in sleep and can appear in the body immediately, for example by touching a burning cigarette People who are suggested to have the idea that they will actually produce a blister of burns, whether hot or cold, the objects that were touching him.
Those who are known to suffer from multiple personality disorders are presented to a personality but are not documented by allergic reactions if not presented to other persons. Muscle movement does not change. According to researchers, people who have seen movies personally experience the physiological power of thinking and imagination. In one study, it was found that a person watching a movie (via a machine recording a galvanic skin reaction) was monitored, imitating what was happening on the screen unconsciously with micro-muscle movements It was. When someone in the movie jumped off, the muscles normally responsible for the jumping of the person watching the movie did a similar movement.
Scanning the brain clearly shows that when you imagine an event, it brightly illuminates the area of the brain caused during the actual event. Sports psychologists have been in charge of extensive research in this field. In one study, the skier was wired to an EMG machine and evaluated in the same way as a movie audience. However, they mentally monitored electrical impulses sent to muscles while rehearsing downhill. Skier & # 39; The brain sent the same instructions to their bodies when they were jumping or thinking about it.
For anyone in the mountain suddenly encountering heavy rain, who can not get out before the darkness expected to drop the temperature by nearly 40 degrees, what does this mean? How does this help people who have suffered an asthma attack in the middle of the lake or who have broken legs in one hour from the nearest Ranger Station? This is how the rock scramblers and skiers have lifelong performances and how to help keep them quiet and healthy? What some people claim is that it means the difference between life and death.
A simple concept is that words we say (to ourselves and to each other) To do What we are physically and mentally influencing us is that we can heal the words in any situation. By saying the right words in the right way, we can talk directly to the body, alleviate the inflammatory response, slow the bleeding, help stop, change the way the events are interpreted You can have different experiences in the body.
Think about past ills
The scientific community seems to have reached this conclusion. Mr. Lorenzo Cohen, Director of Integrated Medicine Program at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston said, "There is plenty of evidence that negative thoughts and emotions are likely to be harmful to the body. , Heart disease, headache, asthma and many other diseases are known to be factors.
Janice Kiecolt-Glaser at Ohio State University and Ronald Glaser's study can properly compromise the immune system to make it more susceptible to disease, even for relatively mild stressors (eg interviews and discussions). Researchers discovered that couple Spa delays wound healing and stresses care of Alzheimer's patients expose caregivers a few years later.
What can we do, what can we say: First-aid measures in verbal life
Deepak Chopra uses two metaphors on a roller coaster to answer the last question. The following example is adaptation and exclusion of his story:
Two people are in the roller coaster. One is a young cowboy, but rarely goes out of the platform, but his arm is already in the air, he is Hotten & Hollerin & # 39; as expected. His heart is struck. He is laughing. The woman next to him is clamping her hand over the metal rod in front of her. Her heart is struck, but she is not laughing. Both are sitting on the same seat with the same ride but obviously I have not experienced the same thing. the difference? Their ideas.
A young cowboy with a roller coaster is watching the next woman get nervous. He heads to her. She is looking up at her eyes. She says, "How can you relax this much?" He smiles, pointing to his hat "I'm a magical cap." He takes it from the head and hands it to her. "While you ride, you are holding it.If you know that you remember the magic with you, enjoying the rides is easy," Her hand loosens their handful. She takes a hat. For one, she smiles.
According to medical experts, anxiety (or fear) and pain are inefficiently woven into the majority of people. The majority of human discomfort comes from the fact that we anticipate it. Unfortunately, in this country there is nothing fiercely sold like fear. If it is not threatened by the headline, it is a radio report, movie, video game, or television program. We are literally being shelled by images and ideas
Promote fear. We are promoted by it and sold by it.
If science is right, the good thing is that you can change it at every level from consciousness to automatic. If we are changing our thinking, being healed by kind authority, we are guaranteed to be healthy, it is the change of body, softening of bronchi, opening bronchus, calming of pain, beginning of healing . This is the reason that many of the first-aid measures on the spot are aimed at heightening anxiety through the development and use of fellows. People in an intimate relationship will feel that "she understands me." "He is going to help me." "I am safe now."
If you feel we understand, our concern will be alleviated. When anxiety decreases, pain is alleviated. Even if we are entirely alone, doctors and scientists agree to lead thinking so that what we want to say to ourselves is important and the opportunity for survival increases.
According to Mr. Winnie Maggiore (Former Asst), regardless of whether you are talking to yourself or someone else, whether you approach mentally or spiritually, which doctor you have It is as important as medical expertise. Placitas volunteer fire brigade secretary, ambulance, former Asst. DA, and now a medical malpractice attorney.
"We saw the same thing in the wilderness, such as local snake bite, mountain bike shipwreck, rest, restlessness, state of the heart, but the first step that injuries in the wilderness are away from familiar environments Is to let you know that you have expert knowledge.The conviction told us to encourage compliance.
According to Maggiore, another key element to deal with the trail crisis is that it controls in some way what happens to people. "It may have been used to control pain due to hypnotism just by studying emergency medicine.Panic is the worst enemy of the patient.
People usually want to feel relieved with blank sentences such as "You are OK". If this is obviously not true, it is like a word breaking intimate relationships. According to experts, the worst is over and let's say you help. Your compassionate presence is the foundation of the healing process. If you do not know what you want to say, please do not say anything and wait for help or standard first aid. Your care can do a lot more than you can imagine.
The following are two examples of ways in which you can talk with a person with pain, be sedated, relieve pain and move steadily towards healing.
Sandia's asthma .
Sam and his son, Jared, went hiking at Tunnel Springs Trail. Sam was convinced that he stuffed his own inhaler. Jared was convinced that his father stuffed it. When they arrived at the first emblem, Jared was training for breathing. When they learned that they had forgotten, Sam was smart enough to take a deep breath and was quiet, focused and steadily walking towards his son.
Sam : Jared, I can see you breathing, is it a little tight?
Jared : (I will nod, but I can not speak)
Sam : Here sitting with me, leaning forward like this. Please keep your head in front so that you can open and smooth your bronchus.[AtthispointthevoiceofSamfallsinpitchandisslowlyandcalmlycontrolledAshecarefully"paces"hisson'sbreathcarefullybecarefulnottooverbreathesothatthereisenoughrhythmWhenhetalkstohissonhisbreathisabitlateatatimereturninghissontonormalbreathing)AndasyouaredoingyourememberveryclearlyhowyourinhalerfeelswhenyousuckupsuckingIt'salittlecoolabitbadandyoucanrememberhowitopenedabitmorehowitopensyoufairlyquicklydeeplyslowlybreathereallygood[AtthispointSam'svoicedropsinpitchandslowsdownsothatit'ssoothingandcontrolledHe"paces"hisson'sbreathwithhisowncarefullysoasnottohyperventilatejustenoughsothatthereisajointrhythmAshespeakstohissonhisbreathingslowsdownjustalittlebitatatime"leading"hissonbacktonormalbreathing)Andasyoudoyoucanrememberveryclearlyhowyourinhalerfeelswhenyoutakeapuffonitalittlecoolalittletinglyandhowitopensyouupprettyquicklyyoucanrememberhowitfeelsalittlemoreopengetareallygooddeepslowevenbreath[この時点で、Samの声はピッチが落ち、ゆっくりと落ち着いて制御されます。彼は息子の息を自分自身で慎重に"ペース"するので、過呼吸しないように注意して、十分なリズムがあるようにします。彼が息子と話すとき、彼の呼吸は一度にちょっと遅くなり、息子を正常な呼吸に戻します。）そして、あなたがしているように、あなたは吸うことを吸うとあなたの吸入器がどのように感じるかを非常にはっきりと覚えています。それはちょっと涼しい、ちょっとひどく、そしてそれがあなたをかなり素早く開く方法を、あなたはそれがもう少し開いた感じを覚えることができます本当に良い深く、遅く、息をする[AtthispointSam'svoicedropsinpitchandslowsdownsothatit'ssoothingandcontrolledHe"paces"hisson'sbreathwithhisowncarefullysoasnottohyperventilatejustenoughsothatthereisajointrhythmAshespeakstohissonhisbreathingslowsdownjustalittlebitatatime"leading"hissonbacktonormalbreathing)Andasyoudoyoucanrememberveryclearlyhowyourinhalerfeelswhenyoutakeapuffonitalittlecoolalittletinglyandhowitopensyouupprettyquicklyyoucanrememberhowitfeelsalittlemoreopengetareallygooddeepslowevenbreath
Fall along the trail
The trail of La Luz in New Mexico is full of collapsed granite that looks like a trot in the field of ball bearings and brought several people to the knees. Cuts, scratches, bite are simply general crisis. Therefore, it is always prudent to pack an emergency kit, but to stop a bleed and start a healthy immune response it is even more prudent to know what you want to say.
Sandra slides down the trail and slides into a sharp rock. When she gathers herself, blood is poured
Lie down her legs from a 3-inch laceration along the side of her calves. Her friend Kim prepared enough for the day
Hiking, pull out some betades, clean the wounds, apply sterile gauze on it,
Clean, cotton bandana. As she does, she tells her friends, bleeding stops and healing begins.
Sandra : damn it! It is truly bleeding.
Kim That is actually a really good thing, to clean up the wound. You can stop immediately as soon as you wash it [Kim emphasizes "stop"] bleeding.
Sandra : damn it. It was very foolish.
Kim That will happen to everyone. I know that you were cut before. I stopped bleeding before you stopped right now. You can grasp this firmly. Despite the fact that we are sitting here, it has already begun to heal, you can stop the tedious movement and walk the rest of the way.
Points to remember
1. What we think, we feel. What we feel determines how we heal
2. We are more persuasive in shock and stressful situations. What you say to others or yourself will be translated immediately into physiological reality.
3. There is no "nots". Make your thoughts and words simple, positive and concrete. If you want to survive, tell him to "stay with you." I will inform someone of my death, I will die the only image in my heart. Even under normal circumstances, no one can imagine "not". We only see what you are telling us to look like.
4. Please hold authority. When people are scared, the pack leaders are seeking authority to help them and reassure them. Even if someone is myself, if someone is injured, you must take on that role and receive help. It requires a quiet, central and confident approach.
5. If you do not know what you want to say, use calm existence and do not say anything. Touching your palm, your presence will be of great help to help others when she gets hurt or sick.
Mental survival is a matter of remembering and recognizing resources that we already have, regardless of where the person is, whether it is an extreme condition of battle or a backpacking expedition. Costello learned a difficult path, so heart is the biggest weapon out of all.
c. Judith Acosta, 2009. All rights reserved.
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