Psychoneuroimmunology

Psychoneuroimmunology

Psychoneuroimmunology ( PNI) is the study of the connection between the mind/emotions, the central nervous system, the autonomic nervous system, and the immune system.

It is now well accepted that our emotions have a significant effect on our health based on the reactions caused on our endocrine and immune systems. Emotions are the result of our perception to an event. What we perceive is preceded and accompanied by images that usually consist of fear, worry, negative, insecure, non- trusting, failure oriented situations. Negative imagining activates the fight or flight response that causes many changes in our bodies that, when prolonged, can produce illnesses.

Thus, it is necessary to use positive imagery to avoid the negative results. It is essential that we always look for the positive side of everything that we experience in order to avoid the negative imagery and turn it to positive imagery.

We can also learn to use guided imagery for the correction of health problems. In Imagery for Getting Well, Deirdre Davis Brigham provides many success stories of people who used imagery to help them correct cancer problems. She also provides many ideas of how to use imagination to stimulate the immune system to do its job. For example, one recommendation is that a person imagine white tigers (white blood cells) attacking and eating their prey - the cancer cells. She provides many stories and many recommendations to give you ideas on how to use your imagination and visualization for the correction of health problems.

For millennia, imagery, intention, ritual, and other mental/emotional processes have been used by shaman and other healers. This healing practices heavily involved mental pictures, metaphor, and transpersonal images.

About a century ago Emile Coue used autosuggestion to help people use their minds to help heal themselves. Autosuggestion was used to create images of getting well to help stimulate the mind to stimulate the body to make the corrections needed to get well. Coue defined it in these simple words: The influence of the imagination upon the moral and physical being of mankind.

Coue would say "If you persuade yourself that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing is possible, you will do it however difficult it may be. If on the contrary you imagine that you cannot do the simplest thing in the world, it is impossible for you to do it, and the molehills become for you unscalable mountains."

We now know that we can direct our mind by using picture imagery to stimulate our body to make corrections with health problems. The imagery that you use is only limited by your imagination. A lady once imagined that an army of Pac-Men would everyday reduce the size of a tumor she had and in time the tumor disappeared. She realized that the tumor took time to develop, and therefore, it needed to be eliminated over time and it worked for her.

One thing to emphasize is that it is essential that one preform the imagery while in a relaxed state of mind or during "meditation." For those who know how to function at the Alpha Brainwave frequency, as is learned in the Silva Method classes, the imagination/visualization should be done at these deep levels of mind.

Use these powerful tools of visualization and imagination to help you improve every aspect of your life and you will live a happier, healthier, and luckier life.

MAY THE REST OF YOUR LIFE BE THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE!

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