Man : Body Breakdown (Body Composition)

 

§  The human body is one of the most incredible and highly orchestrated systems known to mankind. It is made of up several general organ systems, tissues, bones, vascular pathways, hormonal pathways and so many other processes and mechanisms that allow it to function.

§  Human body systems are made up of a central processing system that controls and manages every other function. This is our nervous system, which comprises

o   the brain,

o   spinal cord and

o    peripheral nervous system ensuring everything works smoothly and efficiently.

§  The brain itself is made up of three distinct parts and is sometimes called the triune brain.

o   Brainstem or reptilian brain, which controls all automatic function in the body, our fight/flight response and our unconscious brain.

o   Mammalian brain or limbic brain, which controls both short and long term memory, perceptions of reality, handles emotions, regulates hormones, and controls our subconscious and more.

o   The neocortex. This part of the brain controls logic, critical thinking, creativity, handles things like politics and it is our conscious brain.

A.   HUMAN BODY GPS

§  All these parts of the brain detect and protect our bodies from illness or disease. The human body is a self regulating and highly oiled machine.

§  When sick, ill or a disease in the body, unconscious and subconscious central processing system of the brain sends alert signals and warning signs to the conscious brain, telling it that something needs to be assessed and dealt with.

§  Sickness, illness and disease are like your personal GPS and navigation system for life. Without it, we wouldn’t realise that we took a ‘wrong’ turn or made a decision against our own values or require something that we’re depriving ourselves of or need to speed up when we’re going to slow in the process of journeying towards our destination in life.

§  Conventional medicine, helps humanity, chooses to remove the feedback or GPS that’s warning us of the various different things that we need to pay more attention to or look at in our lives.

§  Getting sick or have the flu doesn’t mean you automatically need to take a pill or some drug to ease the pain or discomfort. It’s important for us to take the time to let the body give us what we need; like having rest, time, more energy, self reflection, self analysis or sometimes even attention, affection and nurturing from others.

• Indeed! Sickness is the ONLY way your body can communicate to you about its condition within. LISTEN TO YOUR BODY!

B.    BODY CELL

• Each cell of your body is a complete living entity with its own metabolism. It needs a constant supply of oxygen and sufficient nourishment. When due to

o   nutritional deficiencies,

o   sluggish metabolism,

o   sedentary life,

o   overeating and consequent poor digestion and assimilation of food,

o   lack of fresh air and

o   insufficient exercise and rest,

§  Our cells are deprived... they start to degenerate... the normal process of cell replacement and rebuilding slows down and your body starts to grow old, its resistance to disease will diminish and you become ‘sick’. 

• The other very important aspect is that your self-awareness. If you are sick and depressed, the most important thing you can try in your healing program, because it gives you immediately an energy boost and increased awareness which might allow that you see things more clearly, allowing you the first step out of your sickness and onto the path of recovery.

C.    NATURALLY

• Be more aware of your body process, your life and with everything. Evaluating objectively and naturally contemplating time amassing, preparing, eating, eliminating and cleaning up your body. Becoming more aware of what your body likes and doesn't like when you start to eat again.
• Animals and human will naturally fast when they are sick or injured, ill, our hunger diminishes. Nature has taken its course, healing any complications. Modern medical practitioners admit that they have no cures, only drugs, masking the symptoms while causing yet other symptoms to appear. 
• “I had a medical practice for 20 years in NYC, supervised hundreds of long fasts, and I found that the physical healing or weight loss was but a pleasant side effect. What really happened is that the person got in touch with their higher self, their true self, and came to the experience that healing can take place at every level, simply by letting go and allowing Mother Nature to do her work.” – Dr. Rai Casey
• We believe that when we get sick, a doctor is going to save us from pain and death. Assuming that the technology is going to be able to repair us when we break down, by giving us a pill, a treatment or a surgery. So alienated are we from our bodies that we think that a doctor knows more about us than we do. 
• The reality is that doctors don’t have the cures, what is offered by the traditional system of healers is only the possibility to treat our symptoms never being able to cure us or root out the cause.
• When we take these kinds of treatments to suppress our symptoms then that cause, the underlying reason we are sick, goes unattended, then in fact our illness continues to grow. We will never be healthy until we take responsibility for our own health.
• Stop blaming the outside for making us sick, whether it is a corporate, a person, our environment or a government.
• But to recognize instead that our sickness is a symptom telling us something is inside needs to be addressed. For sure there are outside influences that we can’t control, but there is much that we can control by taking responsibility for ourselves and working to change our habits.

§  Healing is different from, and so much more than eliminating or suppressing symptoms. 

HEALING

      I.     PHYSICAL

§  On the physical level, healing involves following a healthful diet and a healthful lifestyle with lots of rest. 

§  Involving changes in

o   activities,

o   consuming special foods,

o   taking supplementary nutrients, and o

o   ften the use of other natural therapies of various kinds. 

§  Physical healing needs are described in many other articles on this web site, so I won't spend time on it here.

      II.            MENTAL

§  At a mental level, healing involves

o   taking full responsibility for oneself,

o   committing to oneself and to happiness and health, and

o   releasing any habit,

o   behavior,

o   job,

o   persons,

o   attitudes or emotions that are blocking healing.  It also

o   involves discipline, forgiveness of self and others, desire, allowing and surrender.   

§  Healing also involves an expansion of consciousness and a new understanding of who we are and why we are here.  All of this is part of the healing process.

      III.          EMOTIONAL HEALING

§  Most of us are driven by our emotions.  These include

o   fear,

o   longing,

o   physical desires,

o   anger,

o   resentment,

o   guilt and others. 

§  These are considered normal emotions and are even encouraged by some psychologists. 

§  Healing requires detaching oneself from emotional roller coaster.  One can be up one moment and down the next.  Good days alternate with bad ones, and so forth. 

§  Many methods ranging from traditional psychotherapy and many non-traditional techniques to improving the health of the body.  The brain is a chemical organ.  Meditation techniques can teach the mind detachment.  This concept is explored in an article on this site about meditation. 

§  Emotional healing also involves letting go of all that is not conducive to a positive emotional environment.  This is the most difficult step in emotional healing. 

§  A change in

o   one's relationships,

o   one's family situation,

o   work or

o   even location. 

§  Some situations are clearly damaging and negative from an emotional viewpoint and will block healing.

§  For example, grew in crowded and polluted city, and grew more depressed and anxious living there.  The realization to leave, though it meant giving up my business and friends and moving to a strange city where I knew no one.  It will eventually work out, however, at the cost of emotional healing.

 IV.     SPIRITUAL HEALING   

§  The ego, with which everyone is identified most of the time, is small and insignificant no matter what it thinks.  Moments that are called peak experiences, ecstasy or enlightenment are when the ego has somehow been put aside.

§  Healing involves touching the deeper self, which is vast, powerful and mysterious

§  While physical symptoms may be addressed along the way, the spiritual self also needs to be a focus.  The challenge of healing is to think of way of thinking that characterizes conventional medicine and often even natural health care.

              

V.     TAKING FULL RESPONSIBILITY

§  One of the most damaging attitudes if one wants to heal is that of feeling like a victim.  Victims of germs, a tumor, paralysis and needs the spiritual reality of healing. 

·          If misunderstood, taking full responsibility can cause extreme guilt, remorse and self-blame.  This comes from old attitudes about inner feeling that the world harsh that have become internalized, judgmental or from other harsh authority figures. 

·         Feeling guilty is always false because one does not ever know all the facts about a situation.  One cannot draws conclusions about why one succeeds and another does not, why one is handicapped and another is not, and so forth.  All such conclusions are speculative and not helpful or needed.

§  Responsibility, however, does not mean somberness and heaviness.  Excessive seriousness always impairs the healing process.  One can be committed without being overly serious. 

§  Taking responsibility also does not mean not accepting help.  Far from it.  We are here to help one another awaken, and thus to heal.  Taking full responsibility means respecting the sovereignty of each individual and ability of each to make choice.

 VI.     TECHNIQUES

§  Healing can be facilitated or impeded by many techniques or modalities. 

§  Physical, biochemical, electrical, emotional, mental, spiritual or energetic means.  All may rearrange symptoms may be helpful in some instances.

§  The multiplicity of healing methods reflects just how complex we are.  It also reflects how exotic and remarkable the universe in which we live is. 

§  Understanding the limitless possibilities for healing in it facilitates healing, as it helps release the fear and despair that are often at the root of what must be overcome for healing to occur.  Healing involves an expansion of awareness.       

VII.     HEALERS AND DOCTORS

§  Doctors, nurses, therapists, ministers and counselors facilitate the healing process, but do not cause it.   Some have developed certain gifts, or are more open, in touch with their abilities and willing to share with others.  Looking at a sunset, petting your cat, sitting under a tree, talking to a friend and thousands of other experiences can also facilitate healing. 

§  It is easy to become confused by laws that proclaim that only those with certain licenses or degrees may be healers.  Other laws proclaim that only certain "approved methods" can heal us. 

§  Research reported by Dr. Bernie Siegel indicates those who question and even disobey their doctors, taking back control of their healing process, fare better than the "good, cooperative" patients. 

VIII.     DISCIPLINE 

§  Healing often involves developing discipline.  Forces that controlled the body and emotions often have to be brought under conscious control. 

§  Retraining the body and brain through discipline principles. This can be as simple as following a diet and doing some exercise.  Or it may involve years of working through emotional traumas and physical imbalances in the body and mind.

  IX.          PEOPLE WHO HEAL AND THOSE WHO DO NOT    

§  If healing occurs very easily, it is perhaps not healing.  It is symptom-removal, which can look like healing.  Healing is often a more involved process that requires certain changes in most aspects of life and must touch the deepest places inside one.

§  Healing also involves a change in attitude in almost all cases.  If this does not do occur, it is not the deepest healing.  At times, distinguishing the two is difficult.  

    X.     RETRACING

§  Deep healing always involves the process called retracing or healing reactions.  Other names for the same process are flare-ups, aggravations, exacerbations, purification reactions. 

§  Essentially,

o   one must revisit,

o   reframe and rework or reprocess old physical,

o   emotional and spiritual imbalances so they are healed at the deepest levels.

§  Retracing causes a lot of confusion because symptoms may temporarily arise or become worse before they go away.  This seeming paradox is quite common, in fact, and stops many people from pursuing healing.  Retracing does not occur, as a rule, when one simply removes symptoms, especially with medical procedures like drugs and surgery. 

  

                Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Thomas Fuller

One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.
Georg Groddeck