Mind/Body Communication - A health tool so simple a little child could do it

by Pati M^cDermott, CHT

Consider the idea that illnesses and their symptoms are communications from the body. When we listen to what our bodies are communicating to us, we can resolve symptoms quickly and easily, before they become an illness. There is a psychological connection to illness and disease that is usually ignored. Your body and your mind are communicating with you. What is the message?

Our bodies send us messages in the form of symptoms all the time. Most people ignore minor symptoms and wait for them to go away, or they take a medicine that is designed to relieve that symptom. When we are engaging in disease-causing patterns, if we disguise the symptom with a pharmaceutical, we might resolve the immediate symptom, but another, stronger, communication follows in an attempt to deliver the message. Ignoring or disguising minor symptoms can lead to more serious disease.

Address the Root Cause

For example, if someone has high patterns of stress and tension, combined with poor diet and lack of sufficient exercise, they will likely develop high blood pressure (hypertension) at some point. The common response to high blood pressure is to take a blood pressure medication, and possibly add more exercise (this is good) along with limiting sodium (this is questionable). High blood pressure is a communication about tension, usually medicated with a drug that makes it "safer" to keep the tension. However, if the original, underlying tension is not addressed, further down that road it is common for people to develop more, usually, bigger, symptoms of diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, or another serious illness. These are typically addressed with another drug that gets the body out of immediate danger, but doesn't address the original cause of the path that leads to more illness and premature death.

Asking the Questions

A Mind/Body Communication approach to a diagnosis of high blood pressure would be to find a quiet place for some inner reflection, and contact the part of you that is presenting a symptom. You can have a conversation with that part, as if you are communicating with a small child. Ask the part simple questions. Find out what the symptom is communicating. Keep asking questions, as many as you can think of; find out what the message of the symptom is, and ask that part for guidance on how to resolve it. Sometimes the answers are as simple as add or remove certain foods in your diet. Sometimes it's more complicated, like having to change your job, marriage or housing situation. If you are continually bottling up stress about something that you are not dealing with, that is going to come out somewhere. It doesn't always mean you need to make a drastic change, but, instead, to change your attitude and response to that stress. Spend more time in nature, go for a walk every day, talk to someone, find new ways to cope and relax. Ask the symptom what it wants and figure that out together.

The language of the unconscious mind is symbols and metaphors. What is the metaphor of your illness? Sometimes the message is in the outcome. What is the result of having your condition? It can be simple and obvious like if you won't take time off unless you are sick in bed. We get a message in the form of a symptom before an illness develops. If we don't listen to the message we get a bigger "message" in the form of a more serious symptom or disease.

Always talk to your body nicely to build trust and rapport. You can resolve symptoms, and even serious advanced diseases, using this simple method.

Putting it into Practice

A child can easily learn this technique. If they have a tummy ache, for example, they can ask their tummy why they are hurting. The tummy might say that they ate too much of something unhealthy. to which the child can apologize and promise to be more careful the next time they eat that food. Oftentimes, when the message has been received, meaning the symptom got your attention and you accurately figured out what the symptom communicated, the symptom will go away, sometimes right in that moment. Message received. Symptom no longer needed. If that doesn't happen automatically, ask the body part if it can stop the symptom, based on a promise to give the body what it asked for. If you make a deal with your body, always, always keep those promises because your body will remember that the next time you try to make a deal with it. As you use this technique regularly, you are building a relationship of communication with your body that prevents illnesses and diseases, without spending money on a medical intervention, and with no side effects. If all of us had grown up doing this as children, we would all be much healthier people, so, please, teach this technique to your children for a healthier future world.

I Can Help

I specialize in helping people to resolve the psychological causes of physical and mental illnesses. A simple tool like this one can be effective, even with serious illnesses. My most advanced training is in the health applications of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), a sophisticated system of understanding the patterns of the unconscious mind. I have the most advanced level of NLP training available anywhere in the world. Problems that are being expressed as illness have a corresponding root cause. Employing the deep programming patterns of the mind can be a powerful and effective component of a comprehensive approach to health and healing.

Pati M^cDermott, CHT
Certified Hypnotherapist
Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) Master & Health Practitioner
Thought Pattern Management (TPM) Advanced Master Practitioner
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