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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Foreword xiii
References 289
Recommended Reading 303
Resources for Health and Well-being 325
Index 333
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Acknowledgements
Firstly, my grateful acknowledgements to everyone in the
Conscious Medicine Circle – Venetia Young, Paul Davies,
Angie Jackson, John McGregor, Sue Birkett, Andrea Baqai,
Mary Parr, Sarah Crocombe, Peter Thompson and Anne
Bennett; and also, now back home in Chile, Gabriela Maass.
Our conversations and friendships have enriched my life
enormously, and helped me shape and mould the clay that
has turned into this book. You are an extraordinary bunch
of visionary healer-practitioners, not to mention lovely people.
I am so grateful that you are in my life, and that we all came
together as a Circle.
My love and thanks to my parents for proofreading the
original manuscript with their usual meticulous care, and
for their helpful comments – and for being there with love,
as always. Much love and a big hug to my son Kieran, for
putting up with a mother who has been passionately focused
on writing this book; we danced together in delight when
it was finished at last! Infinite thanks to my ‘team’ from the
unseen realms who served as collective midwives for this
book, and for whispering in my ears day and night – even
though I sometimes asked them to buzz off and give me a
break!
My love and gratitude to close friends who have supported
and sustained me, especially those friends who are doctors,
healers and therapists, with whom I’ve had so many stimu-
lating conversations about health and medicine, and who
have reassured me that my ‘crazy’ ideas do make intuitive
and scientific sense. Huge thanks to my office goddess and
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi
Abraham (and Esther and Jerry Hicks) for all the wisdom
and inspiration and for permission to print my own version
of the Emotional Scale. And my thanks to those who have
written about their own and others’ healing journeys, for
spreading the positive message that any disease can be healed.
Thank you to all of my fabulous and fascinating clients
and workshop attendees, who have taught me so much about
emotional and physical dis-ease – some of whose stories are
in this book. (Names and some personal details have been
changed to protect their privacy, unless they requested other-
wise.) I have known some of you for many years, and I
follow your unfolding journeys with interest and love. Thank
you so much for sharing with me.
Finally, my thanks to Gill Bailey, Claudia Dyer and everyone
at Piatkus Books – and to my favourite external editor, Liz
Dean, who helped to refine the book in its final stages. You
have been fabulous colleagues, and endlessly helpful, patient
and supportive, as always. I am hugely grateful to have had
you as my publishers for nearly twenty years.
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Foreword
The medical establishment will eventually be dragged, kicking
and screaming, into the quantum revolution.
Bruce Lipton1
TH E JO URNE Y B EG IN S
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TH E HE ALING J O U RN EY
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H OW TH IS BO OK W ILL HELP YO U
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Chapter One
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BEFORE BREAKFAST
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in our lives? And are drugs and surgery the most appropriate
forms of healthcare? Or could it be our conventional model
of healthcare that is faulty and inadequate?
A new model of health and disease is now emerging, which
draws upon the remarkable vision of reality offered by quantum
physics and the ‘new biology’. This model is supported by
innovative health practitioners who have found that shifting
our consciousness – or removing blockages in our energy
field – can heal serious emotional and physical disease. Ancient
mysticism and shamanism have long declared a similar message.
In the twenty-first century, cutting-edge science, spirituality
and psycho-energetic approaches to healing are together
pointing towards a radical new paradigm for health: conscious
medicine.
This book offers a framework for understanding this
exciting revolution in healthcare and medicine, along with
many tools and ideas which will help you to shift your own
energy-consciousness, and bring mind, body and spirit into
harmony – so that you can create lasting health, happiness
and vitality.
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H E ALING STO RI ES
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Since you are reading this book, you are probably more scep-
tical about conventional medicine than the average person,
or at least open-minded about alternative approaches to health.
Most people turn to conventional medicine when they are
ill, then assume it made them better if they heal – or that
they have just been ‘unlucky’ if it fails to work, or even makes
them worse. As a society, we often assume that Western medi-
cine is mostly helpful and effective, and based on sound
scientific research. It is time for a reality check on this.
Physician Norm Shealy reports on a review of the research
which suggests that 80 per cent of medical conditions are
either self-limiting – that is, the body simply heals itself in
time – or cannot be helped by modern medicine. In just
over 10 per cent of cases, medical treatment can help. However,
in 9 per cent of cases, the patient is left with iatrogenic (or
treatment-caused) disease. Shealy points out that this leaves
an overall effectiveness for conventional medicine of only
1 per cent!26
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Chapter Two
THE CONSCIOUS UNIVERSE
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company’s vision, the consultant will not only iron out the
problem, but also create a stronger and healthier company
for the future. And this is exactly what conscious medicine
aims to do.
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TH E PARADIG M S HIF T
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One way of grasping the disparity between the old and new
paradigms – or particle versus wave states – is to consider
the two hemispheres of the brain. The left hemisphere is the
more logical, sequential, verbal, analytical half of the brain,
which sees distinctions and makes comparisons. It sees itself
as objective, and is traditionally linked with masculine energy.
It tends to look for differences and separateness, and prefers
either-or thinking. It might be compared with the ego self
– and is the half of the brain that is identified with old para-
digm thinking. The right hemisphere is more intuitive,
relational, subjective and holistic. Its knowing is direct and im-
mediate, rather than verbal. It sees the bigger picture, and tends
to perceive wholes and connectedness. It is more inclined
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Exercise
QUICK COHERENCE
This is a rapid method of coming into heart coherence – or
connecting with your wave self – that I learnt from the Institute
of HeartMath. You can practise this three or four times a day,
or as you wake and before you sleep, before making a decision,
or whenever you are facing any challenge. If you practise this
regularly, it becomes easier to remain coherent in situations
that would normally trigger you into stress. It gradually entrains
you to live from your higher self. If you are a health
practitioner, you can use it before seeing clients or patients. The
heart radiates an electromagnetic field that affects everyone
around us, so feeling good helps those around you to feel
good. This only takes a minute or two, and will quickly bring
you into balance:
1. Heart focus – Shift your attention to the area of your heart.
It might help to place your hand on your heart and/or close
your eyes.
2. Heart breathing – Imagine that you are breathing in
and out through your heart area. Breathe a little more
deeply than usual, but let it be easy. Find your natural
rhythm, allowing your breath to become smooth, calm
and balanced.
3. Heart feeling – Carry on breathing through your heart while
you bring up a positive heart-centred emotion – such as a
time when you felt love and appreciation for a loved one,
pet or nature, or doing something that you love. Or focus on
something positive that happened today. Or just feel love,
caring or appreciation in your heart area.58
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slowly led her to find the family which had lost their eighteen-
year-old son, Tim, in a motorbike accident. He loved chicken
nuggets, and showed all the qualities and desires that Claire
had expressed since the transplant.59
Many other transplant patients have reported similar
experiences (that gradually fade as the transplanted organs
adjust to their new owner). A materialist viewpoint suggests
the heart and lungs are merely a pump and breathing appar-
atus. The new paradigm recognises that cells are imbued with
consciousness, and that a transplant – or even a blood transfu-
sion – is bound to transfer some of the energy-consciousness
of its former owner. We cannot carry on pretending that the
physical world is all that is real.
If we do indeed live in a conscious universe, then health-
care that focuses on the physical body is missing the point.
It is remedial medicine at best. It is ignoring the CEO of
the body – which is consciousness – and instead devoting
its attention to workers on the factory floor. Conventional
medicine uses a reductionist model of reality that is appro-
priate for building a house or repairing a clock, but is
inadequate and misleading for understanding people and
health. We cannot keep peering down microscopes at cells
to unravel the mysteries of health and disease. We have to
pan back. Instead of meddling with cellular biology, we need
to understand the psycho-energetic nature of the universe.
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the scientific research that illuminates how the mind affects the
body, and how to promote healing. This isn’t (yet) conscious
medicine. We’re not yet talking about how energy-
consciousness converts into matter, about waves and particles,
or how mind and matter are fundamentally the same stuff.
Nor are we yet talking about the body as a conscious biofield,
or how the law of attraction works. Nevertheless, we are
moving towards the new paradigm. Happily, the new biology
has built an easy bridge for us to stroll across – so that is
where our story leads us next.
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Chapter Three
BRIDGE TO A NEW REALITY
has vanished. Your toes curl with pleasure and delight. Your
mind is strangely still and quiet.You feel relaxed, centred and
confident – and there is something else, something almost
forgotten? Oh yes, a deep feeling of happiness!
On returning home, you promise yourself that life will
be different now. Dreams and desires have bubbled up to the
surface. You have fresh plans, and a new sense of priorities.
You will take more time out to relax. You will sign up for
a yoga class, have more fun, spend more time in nature, keep
a journal, devote more time to friends, read more novels –
and spend less time watching TV, on the internet, or with
people who are energy vampires. Maybe you will even change
your job, or move to the country.
A few months later, you wake up to realise that you have
slipped back into your packed routine and the same old
habits and patterns. Nothing has changed. The happiness and
peace of mind of that tropical beach now seem like a mere
fantasy. You tell yourself that others are worse off and you
should be grateful, that life isn’t so bad, that you should grit
your teeth and get on with it. You resign yourself to letting
go of your dreams, and living with that constant tension in
the pit of your stomach. Ah well, retirement is only twenty
years away . . .
Sooner or later, your body comes up with worrying symp-
toms, or you start having panic attacks or get depressed, so
you visit your doctor – hoping for a prescription to take the
pain away. Yet the solution to your symptoms will not be
found in a prescription pad. Nor does it lie a thousand miles
away on that tropical beach. All it takes is a shift in your
consciousness.
If you recognise these two states in yourself – feeling
blissed-out and relaxed, or feeling tense, stressed and over-
whelmed – you are on your way to understanding conscious
medicine. Ten years ago, in my book Pure Bliss, I called these
two states living in Hard Time or Soft Time. More recently,
in Wild Love, I wrote about tame and wild love – or condi-
tional and unconditional love – which also refers to these
two states of awareness. I’ve been studying these two states
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The new science tells us that there are two ways of looking
at reality – both of which are valid in their own way. There
is surface reality, in which everything appears to be solid and
material, and you appear to be separate from me, just as a
chair seems to be separate from a candle. At this level, reality
is made up of separate particles. What is ‘real’ is limited to
the world that we can see, hear, smell, taste and touch with
our five senses. Then there is the level of deep reality, or the
implicate order, or the Divine Matrix, in which everything
is interconnected.The deeper substrate of this reality is energy-
consciousness, or the invisible realms.
Surface reality is particle-like – objects seem to be separate,
and reality appears to be fixed and solid. It seems to be, well,
real. Deep reality, on the other hand, is more wave-like –
everything is more fluid and connected, more subjective than
objective, and there is probability rather than certainty. And
when we limit our awareness to surface reality, we get stressed
and anxious.
According to the new biology, every cell in your body
has two modes it can switch between – and these two modes
correspond to these two states of consciousness:
" The first mode is a state of relaxed, happy and easy
alertness in which healing and growth take place
naturally. This is known as the relaxation response, the
healing response, the love response, growth mode or
‘being in the flow’. It is how you felt on that tropical
beach when nothing was bothering you, and every cell
in your body switched into relaxation. I call this the
wave response.
" The second state is designed to keep you safe and alive
during those rare times when you are in physical
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When you are looking through the eyes of the old paradigm
– through the eyes of the ego – you see yourself as a particle.
You are focused on surface reality, and see yourself as separ-
ate from other people and the world, and even from your
own body. You forget that you are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars. You feel small, insignifi-
cant, lonely and disconnected. You are often worried and
anxious, never knowing what might happen next, and wanting
to stay in control. Time seems to press in on you; there is
never enough time – or it drags on when you want it to
pass.You focus on tasks and lists, rarely living in the moment.
You are easily threatened or blaming, and might focus on
what others are ‘doing wrong’, or what bad things might
happen. In other words, thinking like a particle throws you
into the stress response.
When you see through the eyes of the new paradigm –
through the eyes of your heart or soul – you shift into the
bigger perspective of quantum reality. You feel more like a
wave than a particle. Time feels more flowing and expansive.
You feel connected to everything. It isn’t that you lose your
sense of self, but rather that you expand around it. Being a
wave encompasses being a particle – just as a wave is part of
the sea, yet is still a wave with its own position in space-time.
You are fearless in the wave response. There are no enemies,
only friends. You feel relaxed, loving, appreciative, joyful and
creative. Life seems effortless. There are no problems, only
solutions. There is no fault or blame. Even the concept of
‘healing’ makes no sense from here; you are already healed
and whole, and you know it. You are also deeply intuitive,
knowing things far beyond the limitations of your five senses.
When your consciousness is fully coherent in the wave
response, free from any fear or inner conflict, it feels wonderful.
Boundaries and limitations dissolve. You become One with
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goes into red alert, and they take flight.They bound away at full
speed until they are a safe distance from the predator, then return
to grazing. All of their physiology reverts to normal, and the
crisis is over. Wild animals live in the present moment, and
once a threat has passed, they quickly return to a relaxed state.
People are different from wild animals. We have those
pesky things called thoughts – and it is our thoughts, rather
than external stressors, which create chronic stress. The stress
response was designed for those rare emergencies in which
we can take immediate action to protect ourselves from a
threat. A hungry tiger. A runaway vehicle. A madman with
an axe. Thin ice collapsing beneath our feet. Real physical
dangers in the here-and-now.
However, most of our stress comes from situations in
which fight or flight is not possible, or is inappropriate –
and in which you are not in any real danger. You just feel as
if you are under threat, because of stressful thoughts. A computer
crashes. Your child becomes sick. A deadline looms. You face
a long supermarket queue or a traffic jam. An elderly parent
goes into hospital. Dozens of emails scream to be answered.
The roof starts leaking. You get a batch of final demands on
the same day. The car is making strange noises. Your partner
comes home late from work, and seems distant and distracted.
The boss makes a critical comment or talks about down-
sizing the company, and you wonder whether your job is
safe. You feel threatened, overwhelmed, burdened, helpless or
disempowered – and your stress response is turned on.
The threat is not physical. It is psychological. You feel at
risk of being disapproved of, or criticised, or abandoned, or
emotionally hurt, or not being able to meet others’ demands,
or you feel frustrated because you are ‘wasting precious time’.
You feel worried about loved ones, or concerned that money
will run out, or anxious about losing control of a situation.
Or you tell yourself you have too much to do in too little
time, and if you don’t get it all done . . . What? It is unlikely
that the world will stop spinning, yet from the particle
response you cannot think clearly. You rarely face your fears
head-on, and ask whether they are realistic. You feel like a
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Exercise
BREATHE!
Pay attention to your breathing as you go through your day. Are
you breathing deep down into your abdomen? Are your ribs
expanding with each breath? Are your breaths slow, smooth and
even? All three answers should be Yes. If you are breathing
rapidly, unevenly or shallowly (into your upper chest), you are
almost sure to be in the stress response. Likewise, if you are
periodically holding your breath, you are suppressing painful
emotions. Sit quietly with yourself and – without
judgement – notice what you are feeling.
A simple meditation:
For a simple meditation, close your eyes and focus on the
sensation of your breath as it moves in and out of your
nostrils. When you get distracted by thoughts – and you will,
again and again – gently pull your attention back to your
breath. Allow your mind to become more still. It generally takes
at least eight minutes to get into a meditative state, so aim to
meditate for fifteen or twenty minutes, daily or twice daily if
possible. When your mind tells you that you are ‘not doing it
right’, or that you have more urgent things to do, treat those
thoughts as the distractions they are, and bring yourself back to
your breath.
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Exercise
R-E-L-A-X
If you show signs of chronic stress, you can help to prevent
future health problems by devoting time each day to
unwinding. Nurture yourself. Write a Bliss List of whatever
helps you to relax deeply, and to shift into that timeless right-
brain space in which you feel blissfully happy and at peace.
Then build those practices into your everyday life. Some
examples might be: meditation, yoga, running, dancing, tai chi,
taking a nap, lying in the sun, gardening, walking the dog, being
in nature, playing the guitar, having a massage, making love,
listening to music, baking cakes, singing, photography, watching
feel-good movies, reading or writing poetry, stroking your cat,
going to an art gallery – or just sitting and daydreaming
happily in your favourite chair.
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ME SSAG E O F E PIG EN ET IC S
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are energy fields which impact on the body via the cellular
membrane, triggering proteins that in turn activate DNA.
This is crucial in understanding how the mind affects the
body.
The new biology shows that it is our consciousness that
controls our biology, turning the stress response on or off,
moment by moment. We are not controlled by our genes,
but by our perception of the environment. Our DNA is merely
a worker on the factory floor, which manufactures proteins
as required. The cellular membrane is a middle manager,
paying attention to signals from the environment. (Do you
feel safe, or under threat?) What is more, the signals from
thoughts are found to override biochemical signals from the
body. The CEO of the body is our consciousness.
Remarkable research at the Institute of HeartMath has
shown that while in a state of heart coherence (see Chapter 2)
people can twist or untwist DNA, while it is being observed
under a microscope along the corridor or even in a distant
laboratory. Some people can even twist DNA in, say, one out
of three numbered test tubes, according to precise instruc-
tions. Let us be clear that they are twisting or untwisting
DNA using their minds! And they are influencing DNA other
than their own – which opens up the possibility of distant
and surrogate healing. (Surrogate healing is when person A
stands in for sick person B, accepting the healing on their
behalf.) DNA responds to our thoughts, even at a distance.
This blows conventional medicine right out of the water –
but thanks to epigenetics, we now have a scientific model
that explains how it is possible.
In another HeartMath study, twenty-eight researchers were
each given a vial of human DNA, and asked to hold it while
focusing on either positive or negative emotions. When they
focused on positive emotions such as love, joy, gratitude and
appreciation, the DNA responded by relaxing and unwinding
its strands. When they held negative emotions such as fear,
anger, guilt or frustration, the DNA tightened up and became
shorter; some of the genes were shut down, limiting the range
of possibilities we can choose from.72 No wonder we talk
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Exercise
LIVING FROM THE HEART
When you wake in the morning, spend a few minutes focusing
on all that you feel happy and grateful for – whether it is your
relationships, your home, your work, your health, your pets or
whatever. Today, it might be your warm and comfortable bed, or
being able to take a hot shower, or having delicious and nour-
ishing food in your kitchen, or hearing the birds sing, or seeing a
blue sky. It does not matter what you focus on, as long as it
brings up emotions such as love, joy, appreciation and gratitude.
These heart-based feelings set up your neurochemistry for a
good day ahead.
Then briefly set your intentions for today. Whatever your
plans, what do you hope to experience or achieve today? What
are you looking forward to? What do you plan that is fun-loving,
self-nurturing, creative or joyful today? What will you contribute
to the lives of others? Before your feet even touch the bedroom
floor, you can set yourself up for a happy and healthy day.
At the end of the day, before you go to sleep, focus on the
beautiful moments from that day: a hug with a friend, the soft
raindrops that fell on your face, the first daffodils of spring, the
orange-streaked sky at sunset, the appreciation from a customer
at work . . . Let go of anything that is troubling you, and deliber-
ately focus on what you appreciated today. Fall asleep smiling,
and with a warm heart – and you will wake up feeling good too.
(Note: If you are in extreme distress, this exercise will not be
possible – and might even make you beat yourself up, or feel
worse. The reasons for this will become clear in Chapter 7.)
Let’s make it clear how the new biology can transform the
world of healthcare. In The Biology of Belief, Bruce Lipton
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points out that less than 5 per cent of us are born with faulty
genes which result in having a disorder from birth (such as
Down’s syndrome or cystic fibrosis). The rest of us have genes
that are perfectly healthy at birth. As he says, this means that
more than 95 per cent of disease is caused by stress. It is
stress that turns healthy genes into sick genes.
Our biology is controlled by our perception of the environ-
ment. The body is constantly taking its lead from whether
we see our environment as safe and loving (from the wave
response), or stressful and threatening (from the particle res-
ponse). We are not helpless victims of our genetic inheritance.
Genes cannot turn themselves on or off.We do that ourselves.
What makes our genes faulty is chronic stress – which is
created by our thoughts and beliefs. In other words, our cells
and genes dance to the tune of consciousness.
If you are faced by a hungry tiger or a runaway bus, your
body will react with the fight-or-flight response, and return
to normal as soon as the emergency has passed – and this
does not create unhealthy stress. Unhealthy stress comes from
the stress response being inappropriately and chronically trig-
gered, when you are not in immediate physical danger. That
is, it comes from your thoughts.
This means that all stress is caused by negative beliefs. As
Bruce Lipton puts it, beliefs control our biology. Let me
remind you, this is not the view of a clinical psychologist
like me, but a molecular biologist. This is what he has learnt
from studying cellular biology, and being unafraid to ques-
tion the old materialist paradigm. Disease quite literally comes
from dis-ease.
Some young women who believe their own fate lies help-
lessly in their genes have had healthy breasts removed because
relatives have had breast cancer. In the light of modern epi-
genetic research, such surgery is based on a false assumption
about genetic determinism. In future, these anxious women
might be given a book to read about the new biology, along
with sessions of energy psychology to relieve their fear and
shift their negative beliefs – instead of having a healthy body
mutilated.
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or so. Red blood cells live for about four months. A liver cell
lives for about a year. This means that your body is ten years
old at the very most! How aged and decrepit would you
expect a ten year old to be? Would you expect a ten year old
to show signs of wear and tear? Probably not!
Have you noticed how people can suddenly look older
after a stressful period in their lives? As many researchers are
now saying, ageing is not about how old you are, but about
how much time you spend in the stress response. The human
body seems to be designed to live for at least 120 years. If
you stay out of the stress response, you will look and feel
younger – and can even reverse many of the physical signs
that we associate with ageing. Letting go of your negative
beliefs about ageing will also help!
The body is pure energy-consciousness – and when
you are in the wave response, time expands and your body
regenerates itself. Forget about having toxic Botox injections
or cosmetic surgery! Just focus on de-stressing your life, releasing
trauma, being appreciative and filling your days with joy and
bliss. The wave response is not only a natural anti-wrinkle
cream. It is also the best form of preventive healthcare
there is.
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Chapter Four
FROZEN IN THE PAST
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Exercise
FINDING THE DIS-EASE TRIGGER
Whatever the dis-ease, whether emotional or physical, look for
the root of the problem. This often means asking a series of
questions:
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Exercise
SHAKE YOUR BOOGIE!
Set aside an hour or so when you will not be disturbed –
ideally, somewhere you will not be overheard. Write down
two or three events from the past that you suspect might be
stuck in your energy system. These might be serious traumas
from adult life – such as a car accident, or your child being
hospitalised, getting a life-threatening diagnosis, or your
partner abruptly walking out – or more minor traumas from
early childhood, such as wetting your pants in nursery school,
going to the dentist or getting lost in a market square.
(The younger you are, the more easily you can become
traumatised.)
Put on some drumming or dancing music with a strong
rhythmical beat, then let your body do its own thing.83 Focus
your mind on a trauma from the past, then shake to the music.
It does not matter if you have no memory of that time, but
simply know that it happened. Your body knows what to do, so
trust it to lead the way. Listen to your body. Notice your bodily
sensations. Get out of your own way, and let your instinctive
movements release the trauma from your body. Let yourself
shake, run on the spot, squirm, twist, unwind, lie down and let
your body move itself, scream, go wild. Let loose! Shake your
boogie!
(Note: Unless you are working with a therapist, only use this
approach for minor to moderate trauma. If you are dealing with
severe trauma such as childhood abuse, rape, war trauma or
serious road accidents, I strongly recommend that you see a
qualified therapist who uses an energy-based approach to
healing. Avoid traditional talk therapies, which can reinforce and
deepen the trauma.)
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Exercise
HEALING SHOCK: COOLING FIRE,
WARMING ICE
If you lean towards sympathetic shock, you will be an adrenalin
junkie. You need to slow down, and use practices that force you
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Soul loss
In shamanism – probably the oldest form of medicine – this
splitting-off of traumatised selves is known as soul loss, and
is seen as a primary cause of disease.86 In modern psychology,
we call it dissociation or splitting. It is a protective mechan-
ism designed only for dire emergency, yet it can become
chronic – leaving us frozen in the past.
When I worked in the National Health Service, I saw a
young woman who had been sexually abused, who used to
put herself in the keyhole of her bedroom door as soon as
her father crept in and lifted up her bedclothes. She had
found an effective way of using the freeze response, so that
she was not in her body while ‘it’ was being abused. However,
it soon became a habit to leave her body whenever she felt
under the slightest stress – which was most of the time. She
cycled between panic and feelings of emptiness. The lights
were on, but no one was home. When you’re out of your
body, you are also out of your life.
I recently saw a woman with coeliac disease – a severe
intolerance to gluten. When Martha was three years old, she
had a stomach bug that passed on to her pregnant mother,
who went into premature labour. The baby died, and when
her mother came home from hospital, and Martha excitedly
asked, ‘Where’s the baby?’ she was pushed aside and told to
be quiet. Somehow she came to believe that the baby’s death
was her fault – that she was bad and toxic. Since this message
was something that she ‘could not digest’, she became a sickly
child who never seemed to thrive. Many years later, she was
diagnosed with coeliac disease.
In our session together, Martha revisited the scene of her
mother coming home from hospital – and asked young
Martha what she would have liked to happen. This time, in
a re-imagined scene using Matrix Reimprinting, her mother
was overjoyed to see her again, and reassured her that the
baby’s death had nothing to do with her. This new ‘memory’
was then broadcast to her digestive system, throughout
the cells of her body, and into her whole energy field. Her
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TRAUMA IN CHILDHO O D
Let’s suppose that, when you were three years old, your
mother was suddenly taken into hospital and you did not
see her for several months. That day, you had played in the
mud and messed up your clothes.Your unwell mother, strug-
gling to cope, was cross with you. Then she disappears and
you are told that she is very ill. What does your three-year-
old self conclude? That you have been very bad and made
your mother angry and sick, so she has abandoned you.
Emergency! What might you decide as a result? ‘I have to be
good and perfect, or I will be abandoned.’ Or ‘I must please
others, or something terrible might happen.’ Or even, ‘I am
a bad and evil person, and I can make people ill.’ This
happened to a close friend of mine. When his mother even-
tually returned home, he did not seem to recognise her – a
sign of a deeply traumatised child.
He grew up to be a doctor, trying to heal the sick to
compensate for ‘making’ his mother ill, to recover his sense
of power, and overcome the childhood belief that he was
somehow bad and toxic. He was terrified of anyone being
angry with him, and jumped through hoops to please others
and avoid upsetting anyone, regardless of his own needs
and wishes. Catching the faintest whiff of disapproval would
send him scurrying into the stress response. Not surpris-
ingly, he went through bouts of depression, as well as
chronic anxiety, guilt and workaholism – with physical
symptoms such as irritable bowel syndrome and frequent
headaches – and his personal relationships were deeply
troubled.
Trauma arises whenever we feel both threatened and help-
less, so a young child is readily traumatised. Being hit,
criticised or shouted at by a parent (‘You stupid child!’,
‘You spoilt brat!’, ‘You’re so clumsy!’, ‘Don’t be a cry baby!’,
‘Bad girl!’, ‘Don’t be a nuisance!’) can throw you into fear,
damage your self-esteem and trigger chronic stress that
slowly damages your physiology. The younger you are, the
more easily you are traumatised. Being left alone to cry
when you are a baby – or even being kept in an incubator
at birth – might set up a lifelong fear of abandonment, with
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Our beliefs are the key to our health and happiness. When
we talk about inherited disease, we are probably talking
mostly about inherited patterns of thinking. Particle thinking.
Obstetrician-gynaecologist Christiane Northrup notes that
the black sheep of families – those who do not follow in
the family footsteps – do not tend to get the diseases that
‘run in the family’.91 Remember that genes are activated
by consciousness. What we inherit from our parents is their
beliefs and emotional patterns. It is up to us to break any
chain of pain, and pass healthy beliefs and attitudes on to
our children.
Children do not just learn from what we say. They learn
by watching what we do, and tuning into our emotions. So
whenever you make conscious choices based upon love,
freedom and joy – rather than subconscious choices based
upon fear, guilt, habit or duty – you are not only protecting
your health for the future, but giving a gift to the next gener-
ation. And since all consciousness is interconnected, as you
let go of your own fear-based beliefs, you also help to heal
the world.
One crucial factor for health and happiness is whether
you believe in a loving God or a judgemental God. A study
of those diagnosed with HIV/AIDS found that belief in a
loving God was a hugely protective factor in their illness.
Those who believed in a judgemental God were far more
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trauma, you are likely to have some negative beliefs that are
limiting your life – and which could be a health risk. Changing
your core beliefs is a huge step towards staying more consist-
ently in the wave response, and taking stress and trauma out
of your energy system. And a stress-free energy system means
a happy and healthy person!
Here are some ways of shifting your core beliefs using
energy tools. This works far more rapidly than using spoken
or written affirmations, since it allows you to talk directly
to your subconscious mind. Changing your beliefs can have
a profound impact on your life – and it feels so good that
you are likely to want to keep using this process, until you
have tracked down any beliefs that are keeping you stuck or
frozen. Sometimes shifting just one core belief has a domino
effect that can change your life!
Exercise
CHANGING YOUR CORE BELIEFS
Put aside an hour or so when you can work with a friend or
partner. Drink some water beforehand, and keep water available.
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TH E TRIUNE BR AIN
Let’s look briefly at how stress and trauma affect the brain,
keeping negative beliefs from the past running constantly like
old tape-loops, which means that you attract similar events
and traumas in later life, and patterns keep on repeating –
including illness which ‘runs in the family’.
According to neurologists, the brain has a triune structure.
In other words, it has three different parts:95
1. The most primitive part of the brain, known as the
hindbrain or reptilian brain, comprises the brainstem
and cerebellum. This is responsible for well-practised
skills, conditioned behaviour, automatic reflexes, and
hard-wired beliefs and attitudes. It is essential for skills
such as walking, making breakfast, brushing your teeth
and other everyday activities. Once it is triggered into
action, the reptilian brain is habitual and automatic. This
is why you can arrive at your destination while driving
and have no memory of driving there. Your lizard brain
was doing the driving!
2. Then there is the limbic brain, or mid-brain, which is
responsible for the fight-flight-freeze response. This is
also known as the emotional brain, and it holds all your
subconscious beliefs. If you grew up in a stressful
environment or went through childhood trauma, your
limbic system will be easily triggered into the stress
response.
3. Finally, there is the neocortex or forebrain, which is the
seat of our conscious awareness and higher thinking. It
is the neocortex – and the frontal lobes, in particular –
which give us free will and creativity, and make us fully
human. (See Chapter 5.)
The limbic brain includes the amygdala, which decides
whether your environment is safe or threatening. In other
words, it decides whether to respond to any situation from
love or fear. Research has shown that the amygdala perceives
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Chapter Five
MOVING INTO THE WAVE
RESPONSE
life, and bathed in joy and gratitude. Time felt boundless, and
I didn’t have a problem or pressure in the world. I had merged
with the infinite ocean of love.
It has gradually become easier and easier for me to make
this shift, regardless of what is happening in my life. An invalu-
able piece of wisdom I learnt many years ago is that ‘The steps
to getting there are the qualities of being there’.98 In order to
become a healthy person, you start taking on the qualities of
a healthy person, step by step – even if you can only visualise
it at first. In order to become enlightened, you start taking on
the qualities of a more enlightened person – stepping into the
shoes of a wiser self. In order to become more loving, you act
as if you love yourself and others.
This might sound circular, but it works. It creates a virtuous
cycle that makes it progressively easier to stay there.You make
different choices. You focus on the positive. You begin to see
yourself differently. Your habitual neurochemistry and neural
pathways change. Even if you occasionally slip back, it no
longer feels comfortable and you soon catch yourself. You
forge a new riverbed. Your consciousness shifts. You slowly
evolve into a new self.
In order to step into the wave response – which promotes
health, happiness and growth – you need to consciously take
on the characteristics of someone who is in the wave response.
So in this chapter, we will look at some of these wave-like
qualities.
frontal lobes are asleep, you lose your ability to feel truly
alive and joyful, and to make conscious and life-affirming
choices. You revert to subconscious conditioning, and repeat
habitual tape-loops of thoughts and behaviours. Instead of
making free-will choices, you revert to mere pattern recog-
nition. You are a hamster on a treadmill, rather than a human
being. As neurologist Joe Dispenza puts it, ‘When the frontal
lobes are asleep, so are we.’99
It is only from the wave response that you are visionary
and creative about the future. Only then do you have spirit-
ual awareness. Only then are you truly joyful. Without the
frontal lobes, you are a push-button automaton who was
programmed in childhood – and your health and happiness
are in jeopardy. So how can you make sure that your frontal
lobes are switched on?
Here are some of the qualities linked with the frontal lobes:
" Focus and intent
" Joy
" Empathy and compassion
" Sense of freedom
" Adaptability
" A strong sense of self; individuality
" Clarity and decisiveness
" Making choices that match your goals and desires
" Creativity
" Being able to imagine new possibilities, and ask
‘What if ?’
" Being proactive rather than reactive
" Learning from mistakes, and doing it differently next time
" Good concentration
" Being able to plan for the future
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Exercise
WAKING UP YOUR FRONTAL LOBES
1. Do something different. Avoid clinging to habit and routine.
This sends your frontal lobes to sleep, since they are no
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FO LLOW YO UR B LIS S
good and worthy, nor are we here to save the world. We are
here for a glorious adventure in consciousness. Life is supposed
to be fun! Every day should be filled with wonderful experi-
ences, loving encounters, natural highs and sensual delights.
When we learn to trust in a loving universe, we know that
love and freedom and joy are our natural state of being. Feeling
less than fabulous is an anomaly caused by the particle response.
It is a wake-up call that is gently reminding us to get back on
track – and get happy!
When you value yourself and honour your own needs,
you reach towards whatever you most desire – whether it
is travelling to India, building your own home, setting up
a business, becoming a singer in a rock band or adopting
stray cats. Self-love means that you believe in yourself, follow
your dreams, and trust that you can turn your dreams into
reality.
Many people have conflicting beliefs such as ‘I want to
love and be loved’ and ‘Relationships are dangerous’, or ‘I
want to be free’ and ‘I want approval from others’. These
inner conflicts will block your dreams and rip you apart until
you deal with them – and will become a health risk. The
task is to give up whichever belief comes from your past.
Whichever belief feels more joyful, light and expansive is
the one that comes from your higher self – so that is the
belief to programme into your subconscious. (You can use
the techniques in Chapter 4 to do this, see page 97.) Then
you move towards your dreams – and towards health and
well-being.
Physician Leonard Laskow102 – who gave up his conven-
tional medical practice when he discovered the healing power
of unconditional love – sees the positive intent that under-
lies most illness as the desire to love and be loved, along with
the desire to be free to make your own choices. Love and
freedom are twin keys to healing. They are two sides of the
same coin, like energy and consciousness. Particle thinking
often sees them as incompatible – and suggests that love means
compromise and sacrifice, giving in for the sake of peace, or
caring for others at your own expense. From the wave response,
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EVERYTHING IS A FRIEND
you see a big enough picture and look at it through the eyes
of the wave response. Everything is a friend. Anything that
is uncomfortable has a helpful message for you. It simply
means that your lower self (or bodymind) is not in align-
ment with your higher self. For me, this attitude is a key to
coming out of the stress response.
This does not mean that you turn belly-up, and pretend
everything is fine as it is. It is not about pretence, denial or
giving up. It means that you are authentic about how you
feel, and take responsibility for whatever is happening in
your life, and accept your starting point.You love and accept
your current reality, coming to peace with what is – while
holding a clear vision for the future. Then you come
into alignment with your higher self, which is relentlessly
positive, loving and visionary. And as we shall see, this can
transform your personal relationships.
Persecutor Rescuer
(Shadow Father) (Shadow Mother)
Victim
(Shadow Child)
The Rescuer tries to soothe ruffled feathers, care for and protect
others, and keep the peace at any cost. It is over-responsible for
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criticising you, it takes the wind right out of their sails! Try it.
No resistance. No pushing against. Uniting with them instead.
Or you can ask yourself: what is the opportunity here? If you
had invited this person into your life as a friend and teacher,
what might they have come to teach you? What are the helpful
lessons in this situation? What are they mirroring in you? Do
you criticise or harass yourself – or others? Are you ‘taking it
personally’, because your own childhood buttons have been
pressed? Are you poor at maintaining boundaries yourself ?
If you look honestly at yourself, rather than seeing the
other person as ‘in the wrong’, what might you learn? How
might you think or behave differently from usual, and break
your old habits? Once you have grasped the pearls from an
irritating oyster, the situation will usually change – or it will
no longer push your buttons.
Treating everything as a friend doesn’t mean you want to
hang out with a difficult neighbour, colleague or relative. It
just means that you know they have a ‘message’ for you –
that they match some unhealthy habits of thought of yours.
Likewise you probably don’t want to hang out with a tumour
or broken ankle or kidney stone for too long, but you can
accept that it has a hidden gift for you. It is a wake-up call.
Instead of pushing against it (fight), you can relax and embrace
it. You are not denying it or running away from it (flight),
nor are you sinking into helplessness and despair (freeze).
Instead you are becoming like a willow tree, powerful in its
yielding – and listening to the voice of the wind.
H U NA HE ALING
Exercise
HO’OPONOPONO FOR HEALING
HEARTS
This is an ancient Hawaiian approach to healing relationships of
all kinds – relationships with everything – so it can be applied
to personal relationships or to illness. (I’ve even used it to heal
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once you have embraced it, learnt the lessons and healed the
energetic patterns, you can step into a new future.
In the old Newtonian universe, a billiard ball can be the
innocent victim of another billiard ball. This makes room for
blame, guilt and criticism. But in a conscious universe, every-
thing is connected. You are responsible for your own
experience – and you can only change your body, your rela-
tionships or your life from the inside out.
Exercise
TURNAROUNDS
Choose someone – dead or alive – whom you are holding any
negative feelings towards. Then fill in the blanks below. (You
might want to write out or photocopy this exercise so that you
can use it again and again.) Don’t hold back – express your
anger or pain as if the situation is happening right now, even if it
is in the past.
3. What is it that they should not do, be, think or feel? What
advice could you offer them?
………………… should/shouldn’t …………………………
………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………
Examples of turnarounds:
‘Jack betrayed and abandoned me’ might turnaround into: ‘I
betrayed and abandoned Jack’ or ‘I betrayed and abandoned
myself ’.
‘Mother is so dependent on me, and she won’t make her own
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Chapter Seven
STAIRWAY TO HAPPINESS
You could stand here sick with ten illnesses today, and
tomorrow have no evidence of any of them. Your body has
the ability to replenish itself that fast. But most of you do
not have the ability to change your thoughts that fast.
Abraham121
TH E STO RY SO FAR
E MOTIONS AS GU IDAN C E
Exercise
FINDING A NEW POWER ANIMAL
Make yourself comfortable, and relax deeply – then imagine that
you are in a natural landscape, whether it is a beach, a forest, a
meadow, a mountain or a riverside. Use all your senses to make
the scene come alive. When you are ready, turn to your left and
begin to walk in that direction. You are now walking into your
past, towards all the stress-laden patterns passed down the
generations, the old habits of thought, the old ways of being
that perhaps served you at one time, but which no longer
support you in fulfilling your potential, or helping you find
happiness and inner peace.
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Look ahead of you now, and you will see an animal, bird or
water creature appear. Trust whatever image comes to you now,
without judgement, trusting your subconscious to send you the
animal that best symbolises these old patterns. Greet this animal
in a friendly and loving way, knowing that it has been doing its
best to serve you. It has been trying to protect you in some
way, to ensure that you are safe and loved. It is the voice of fear
within you. Speak to this animal now, and ask how it has been
trying to serve or protect you. Find out how it thinks, so that
you will be able to recognise its voice if it speaks to you again.
Thank it for serving you up to now – and tell it that it can now
go into retirement. It might feel like an old friend – but it is time
to let it go, so that you can move on. Say goodbye to it now.
Now turn back and walk in the opposite direction, towards
your future. Keep walking until you see another animal coming
into view – again trusting whatever image comes to you. What
strengths or qualities does this animal represent? Say hello, and
listen to what this animal wishes to say to you. What messages
does this animal give, when you are listening to this new inner
voice? Then merge with your new power animal – allowing it to
step into you, or you step into it. It might need to shrink so
that this can happen. Absorb it into your energy field, allowing it
to shift your thoughts and beliefs as it does so. Then absorb it
into every cell in your body.
Feel the power of this new voice as you invite it into your
life. This is the voice of love. How will this new power animal
help you handle life? How might you think or behave differently,
with this new voice guiding you? Commit yourself to listening to
this voice within you, more and more, until it becomes natural
to think in this new way, until it becomes who you are. And be
aware whenever you hear your old voice from now on – and
laugh at it gently and with love. When you are ready, bring your
awareness back into your body, and into the room – feeling
wonderfully alive and at peace with yourself.
(A guided version of this inner journey is available on my
CD, Your Future Self.)
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Exercise
SPOTTING YOUR LIZARDS
Complete the following sentences, as fully as you can. Don’t edit
or censor what comes out. Just let it flow. As you become more
aware of your stress patterns, and of the fear-based messages
from your lizard voices, you can remain conscious when the
stress response is triggered. Instead of going into fight-flight-freeze
and running on autopilot, you can calm and soothe yourself.
Then you can make more mature choices.
" I feel unsafe when . . .
" I feel unloved when . . .
" The way I cope when I feel anxious is . . .
" The way I cope when I feel unloved is . . .
" A better way of coping would be . . .
" What my lizard voices tell me about myself is . . .
" What my lizard voices tell me about other people is . . .
" What my lizard voices tell me about life is . . .
" What I want to say to my lizard voices, from the wise and
loving parts of me, is . . .
FO CU SING ON YO U R D ES IRES
The law of attraction says that like attracts like. We are like
magnets, pulling towards us whatever we hold in our conscious-
ness. The more you think like a wave – feeling loving and
connected, looking at what is good and positive, and all that
you appreciate in life, and focusing on where you are going
and what you desire – the more you attract events and circum-
stances that mirror that positive focus. If you focus upon sickness
and problems, you get more of those. If you focus on health
and solutions, that is what you attract.
In a psycho-energetic universe, it is consciousness that
collapses the quantum wave function, and this determines
which of many possible realities come into physical existence
– whether in your body, or in the outside world. More simply,
we create our own reality. This takes us into woo-woo land
as far as materialists are concerned, but it fits with new para-
digm science – and countless authors, scientists and healers
are coming to this same conclusion.130
Your conscious mind is designed to focus and set inten-
tions. Since you get what you focus upon, the more you
think like a particle – feeling separate and fearful, or looking
at what is bad, wrong or missing in self, others or the world
– the more you attract events and circumstances which mirror
your negativity. If you focus upon the positive, that is what
you get.
NE W TH O U G HTS , N EW B O DY
this will serve as an attractor field within your body for those
symptoms once you reach the menopause. Or perhaps you
were told as a child, ‘You’re just like your Aunt Jane’ who is
overweight and arthritic. So you form a neural net that links
Aunt Jane-me-overweight-arthritis. And guess what eventu-
ally happens?
The new biology shows how the law of attraction applies
to the physical body. The mind hard-wires the body, building
neural pathways and (more complex) neural nets that make it
easier to think familiar thoughts, which release a familiar pattern
of neurochemicals. We feel ‘at home’ with these thoughts, and
they attract thoughts (and circumstances) of a similar frequency.
If we try to shift our thoughts, it feels uncomfortable at first,
since we are ‘addicted’ to our usual thoughts. This has become
our personality, like a well-worn shoe.
As we have seen, the stress response puts your bodymind
into defensive mode – with huge knock-on effects for your
biochemistry and physiology. Stress hormones pour into
your bloodstream, the immune system shuts down, the diges-
tive system is suppressed, unhealthy genes are activated, the
frontal lobes are drained of blood and so on. This sets up
patterns of dis-ease. Your body mirrors your habitual
thoughts and vibrational frequency. The law of attraction
brings you whatever you focus upon. If you keep thinking
the same thoughts, you keep re-creating the same body.
New thoughts, new body.
You dream your body into being, day after day. If you
expect to wake up with hands crippled with arthritis, because
that is what you experienced when you woke up yesterday,
then that is what will happen today and tomorrow. But what
if you began to imagine something new and different? What
if you aligned with your higher self – which has healthy
hands – and imagined your hands to be healthy, and kept
feeling it and visualising and dreaming it until those healthy
hands felt as real as your physical body? Then your physical
hands would begin to morph to fit your consciousness.
That is the way our conscious universe works. The path
towards your dreams and desires is always laid out for you, if
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The rule is that when you feel negative emotion, you are
currently attracting what you do not want. When you feel
positive emotion, you are attracting what you do want. If
you can think about any diagnosis or disease you have, and
feel at least hopeful about it (on the emotional ladder), then
you are in the healing response. Your body will then natur-
ally begin to heal itself. Alternatively, if you could forget
about the diagnosis completely, and just focus on anything
else that makes you feel positive – at least hopeful, and prefer-
ably even better – that would likewise take you into the
healing response. The higher your vibrations, the faster you
heal.
Positive thinking is a waste of time unless you are tuned
into your emotions. It is how you feel that matters, not the
words you are spouting. I recently heard someone angrily
denouncing positive thinking for health on the radio. She
was a ‘cancer survivor’ (her term), and furious that anyone
would suggest that thoughts had any role to play in cancer,
after all she had been through with surgery, chemotherapy
and radiation! She saw herself as having had no choice in
this harsh treatment process. This woman was a long way
from being able to use joyful affirmations – but was presum-
ably escaping from her painful feelings of victimhood and
disempowerment by moving up to rage on the emotional
ladder.
Like a radio tuned to a low frequency, you cannot hear
higher frequencies until you are within range of them. Once
you come closer they might be quiet or slightly scrambled
at first, but as you tune in more, they become louder and
clearer. Stay tuned to that frequency, and your health improves.
Your vibrations move to a new emotional set point.You have
climbed up the emotional ladder. And since the universe
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Chapter Eight
BODY LANGUAGE
DRE AM DICTIONARY
Over the past thirty years, like Louise Hay and many other
practitioners, I’ve seen common patterns in symptoms and
dis-ease, as if the body does have a language of its own. The
body speaks to us through the symbolism of symptoms and
organs. It also speaks to us through disturbances in the merid-
ians and chakras, the body’s energy channels (see Chapter 9).
And sometimes it speaks to us by mirroring our own words,
or producing symptoms that symbolise what we are doing
to ourselves, what we need or what we are avoiding. Learning
to speak this particular ‘body language’ – that is, how the
body communicates through illness – can help in tracking
down the vibrational causes of dis-ease.
clash between her school friends and her family. She did not
fully belong anywhere.
As an adult, Maya became a social worker, drawn to
helping underdogs and the disempowered because she iden-
tified with them – a work environment that replicated her
childhood. She was bullied at work as she had been as a
child; and by dealing with crisis all day long, she was constantly
thrown into the stress response. For many years, her skin
showed signs of her inner conflict. She noticed that her
skin burnt up whenever her boss was controlling or critical,
or she did not feel listened to and respected. A family-ar old
pattern. Maya realised that she didn’t love and respect herself
enough, and this was the message she was ‘broadcasting’ to
others. As we released some of the trauma from her child-
hood, she became much more positive, self-nurturing and
joyful – even at work. Her skin steadily improved, and she
found that she could eat foods that previously had caused
flare-ups of eczema.
Back pain tends to come from feeling unsupported. The
upper back is linked with whether you feel emotionally
supported, and whether you freely give and receive love. A
frozen shoulder is often a sign of feeling burdened by
responsibility (and secretly angry about it). The mid-back
is connected with guilt and lack of self-forgiveness, and
being caught up in the past. The lower back is likely to
become tense or painful when you are concerned about
money and security.
Last year, Glenda consulted me over longstanding back
pain that had been triggered by an accident several years
earlier. She had seen a variety of physiotherapists, chiro-
practors, osteopaths and other health practitioners, but the
pain remained. When someone has been trying to heal for
a long time like this, there are always subconscious block-
ages to getting better. (See Chapter 11.) We looked at the
circumstances of Glenda’s original ‘accident’. (After all, there
are no ‘accidents’ in a conscious universe! Everything is
meaningful, and everything that comes to you matches your
vibrations.) At that time, she had recently ended her marriage
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BO DY LANG UAG E
TALKING TO T HE B O DY
nature spirits, and it was prodding her towards her true path.
It also wanted her to stop pushing herself so much and being
so serious – to have more fun and to dance – which would
also help her to connect with the unseen forces of nature.
She felt excited and inspired by this message, and the boulder
then transformed into a small green balloon. If she paid atten-
tion to what she had heard, the illness would no longer be
needed in her life.
Whatever your symptom or disease, it always has gifts for
you. Doctor and healer Darren Weissman refers to symptoms
as ‘gifts in strange wrapping paper’.138 You might not welcome
them at the time, but they are calling you to expand your
consciousness and shift into the wave response – and if you
unwrap your gift with care, it will guide you towards a
healthier and happier future. (We look more at the hidden
gifts of disease in Chapter 12.)
You might choose to speak to your body intelligence as
a whole, or to an affected organ, or to the symptom or dis-
ease. Just close your eyes and relax – maybe with some soft
meditative music playing in the background – and breathe
slowly and deeply, pretending that you are breathing through
your heart. Or use whatever technique helps you to go into
a meditative state. Then imagine that you are tuning a radio
until it reaches the frequency labelled ‘my body’ or ‘my
kidneys’ or ‘the pain in my neck’ or ‘the extra weight on my
hips’ or ‘the tumour in my liver’ or whatever. Avoid calling
it ‘my tumour’ or ‘my cystitis’ since this links a disorder with
your identity. It is not what you are; it is only what you are
temporarily doing.
Once you sense that you are on the right frequency (or
even if you are unsure) ask the body part or disease, gently
and lovingly, for any information that would allow you to
heal, or anything you need to know that is blocking you
from getting better. It might speak to you in thoughts, feel-
ings, sensations, memories, images, direct intuitive knowing,
or even in sounds and colours. It all depends on how you
translate the vibrations it is transmitting. Or you can write
a letter to your kidney or left ankle or headaches or hepatitis.
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Exercise
MEETING YOUR DISEASE AND YOUR
INNER HEALER
Close your eyes, relax deeply, and imagine breathing in and out
through your heart. Then imagine that you are in a sacred
garden – the sacred garden of your bodymind. Use all your
senses to find yourself there, opening the doorway to a deeper
reality. When you are ready, go to the place in your garden that
holds the symptom or dis-ease that you wish to heal. What
does this place look like? What can you hear or sense? How
does it feel to be here?
Now ask the symptom or disease to join you – to take on
some form that you can speak to. Allow it to join you –
whatever form it takes – and greet it with honour and respect,
knowing it has been trying to serve you in some way. Perhaps it
has been trying to draw your attention to unhealthy patterns of
thought that have been dragging you down, and limiting your
potential. Perhaps it has come because you have been blocking
your own dreams and desires. Maybe it has been trying to
protect you from duties or responsibilities that you do not want
– or perhaps it is a way of asking for nurturing and support
from others, or an excuse for taking time out for yourself, or
slowing down the pace of your life. Perhaps it is drawing your
attention to needs that you have been ignoring. Perhaps it has
been a way of indirectly punishing or controlling others, or even
a way of punishing yourself. Perhaps the illness has come as a
way of waking you up spiritually, or to shift you out of stuckness.
Or maybe it has come in an attempt to resolve some conflict, or
to force you to deal with an issue you’ve been trying to ignore.
Talk now to this person, creature or being that represents
your disease, and ask why it has come into your life. Your body
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Even if you are healthy, you can still talk to your body, sending
it love and gratitude on a daily basis. This is another form
of preventive healthcare! Your body ‘hears’ everything, and
responds to loving and appreciative thoughts with the healing
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Chapter Nine
OUR CONSCIOUS BIOFIELD
ME RIDIAN TAPPIN G
Exercise
A BASIC GUIDE TO EFT
EFT can be used for any emotional or physical dis-ease. In the
Set-Up phase of EFT, you accept your starting point – that is,
that you currently have this emotional or physical symptom.
This takes you into a place of non-judgement (or unconditional
love), which allows healing to take place. After the Set-Up, you
tap through ten specific points on the body while focusing on
the problem/memory/symptom, or while saying, ‘This anxiety’ or
‘This back pain’, or whatever applies. Tap five to seven times on
each point with two or three fingers, sharply but not hard
enough to cause any discomfort. The exact number of taps is
not important. Points can be tapped on either (or both) sides
of the body, and the order does not matter. (If any point is
painful or tender, you can hold the point instead, while
breathing deeply for a couple of breaths and focusing on the
issue.)
Before you begin, assess the severity of the negative emotion
or symptom by asking where it lies on a 1–10 scale – where
10 is as bad as it could be. This is known as the SUDS level
(Subjective Units of Distress), and helps you track your progress.
When dealing with emotional trauma, it is best to guess what it
might be if you focused on it, rather than bringing up intense
feeling. (If you do ever plunge into negative emotion, just tap on
all the tapping points shown while feeling what you are feeling,
and it will soon dissipate.)
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5 4
6
7
10
11
A. The Set-Up: Tap the side of your hand (point 1 above) – the
Karate Chop point – while saying: ‘Even though I have/feel . . .
[this symptom or problem], I totally love and accept myself ’. If it
feels impossible to say, ‘I totally love and accept myself,’ you can
use ‘I really want to love and accept myself.’ Say this three times
while tapping the side of your hand – with emphasis and
conviction. (Experienced EFT practitioners tend to extend this
Set-Up phase, often for several minutes, throwing in all the
underlying issues, emotions and negative beliefs. A lot of
reframing is done at this stage.) If you are using EFT with a
young child, you can tap on their points yourself or ask them to
copy you – and use the wording, ‘Even though I have/feel . . . I’m
a really wonderful girl/boy’ (or whatever words feel right).
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had lifted, and someone across the room noticed that I suddenly
shone like a light. The whole process took about five minutes,
and – after three years of pain – my toe has never bothered
me since. The liver meridian starts at the big toe, and ends
at the exact place where the tumour developed.
(For details of the meridian pathways, see Donna Eden’s
Energy Medicine or Cyndi Dale’s The Subtle Body.)
throat
heart
solar plexus
sacral
base
TH E SE VE N CH AK RAS AN D T HEIR
ME ANING S
your eyes relax into the warmth and darkness. Hold for
a few minutes
" Open your mouth and stick out your tongue. Move
your tongue in random directions, and follow that
direction with your eyes. (Weird, but it works!) Imagine
breathing in midnight blue as you do this
" Do some meditation (see Chapter 3, the ‘Breathe!’
exercise), focusing on the third eye area
Exercise
BALANCING THE CHAKRAS
1. This is a method you can use with a partner. (You can also
balance your own chakras using step b, without the
muscle-testing procedure.)
a) Muscle-testing chakras: The person lies on their back,
and raises both arms, putting the backs of their wrists
together. Ask them to resist as you briefly try to pull
their wrists apart. This should give a strong muscle-test.
Next, tap the air just above each chakra twice, then
re-do the wrist test. If the muscle-test is now weak, that
chakra is out of balance (at least at the level you tapped;
the biofield has seven layers which move out from the
body).
b) To balance chakras: Rotate one hand anti-clockwise
above the chakra, starting with the first or base chakra
(tailbone), or with the lowest chakra that is out of balance.
Move at whatever speed feels right, and in as large a circle
as feels right, to clear the chakra – perhaps varying it as the
healing proceeds. After three to five minutes, change to
clockwise movements for one to two minutes. Then move
up to the next chakra that needs balancing. When the
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The strange flows are less well known than the meridians and
chakras, but they are essential to health and healing – and since
they also activate joy and intuition, I particularly love working
with them. (See my earlier book, Wild Love.) Also known as
the extraordinary meridians or psychic circuits, the strange flows
get their name from the quirky and unpredictable way in which
they jump around. Their energy does not follow accustomed
pathways like the meridians, but simply goes wherever it is
needed.
The strange flows work in partnership with the triple
warmer to govern our immune system. The triple warmer is
the meridian that governs the fight-flight-freeze response.
Whenever it senses danger, the triple warmer goes on red alert,
and sends signals to the hypothalamus. It prepares you for the
battlefield – perhaps to protect you from a virus or bacteria,
or a difficult conversation with your boss. The strange flows,
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So how can you calm the triple warmer and encourage the
strange flows? When I was a child, I often brushed my long
hair over the top of my ears with my fingers – which is
an intuitive way of soothing the triple warmer, since it
traces the meridian in the opposite direction to its flow.
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Chapter Ten
FINDING A GIANT
PENDULUM
TH E RO LE O F T HE HEALER
TH E NO CE BO RES PON SE
does a couple of tests, tut-tuts and shakes his head – and leaves
her anxious and distraught. Her symptoms rapidly worsen, she
loses faith in her ability to heal herself, then contacts me to
repair the damage and get back on track. At a recent meeting
the consultant told her, ‘You will not recover from this disease.’
Though I’m sure he believed he was simply telling her the
truth, this is shockingly bad medicine. It is unconscious medi-
cine. It is the nocebo response at work – and no medic who
understands the role of beliefs and the stress response in disease
would talk like this.
This woman’s diagnosis is myasthenia gravis, which conven-
tional medicine sees as progressive and incurable. Daniel Block
is a naturopathic doctor who was given this diagnosis fifteen
years ago, at the age of twenty-two, when he already had
severe symptoms. Instead of using conventional medicine, he
used alternative approaches – and healed himself. He has taken
no medication and had no surgery. He plays soccer, hockey
and golf, and also competes in karate at an international level.
Like so many others, he sees the root of illness as negative
and stressful thinking – and has found that myasthenia gravis
is often linked with self-loathing, perfectionism and other
forms of self-attack. Homoeopath Louis Klein has also cured
several cases of myasthenia gravis.156
One of the doctors in our Conscious Medicine Circle
(see the Foreword) insists that ‘diagnosis is sorcery’ (which
leaves him none too popular with some of his colleagues!).
When patients arrive with a diagnosis, he dismisses it and
asks what they are actually feeling or experiencing – then
explores healing from there. Unfortunately, most doctors are
still bound up in a materialist model that tells them that the
mind has little impact on the body, and that disease is real
and separate from the person who ‘has’ it, and are often
unaware of the potential impact of their words. As a result,
many practitioners of energy psychology are now treating
diagnosis as a trauma. If badly handled, diagnosis (and medical
procedures) can throw us into the freeze response, leaving us
dissociated and in chronic stress – which is a serious health
risk in itself, and makes healing almost impossible.
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Health is all vibrational, so how you think and feel about any
diagnosis is crucial. Even if your health practitioner fills you
with doom and gloom, you do not have to believe it. If a
doctor pronounces a condition to be terminal, incurable or
progressive, they are only talking about the limitations of
conventional medicine. If what they say makes you feel bad,
that is your emotional guidance telling you that your higher
self does not agree with them. Look for stories of people
who have healed themselves of whatever disease you have,
and remind yourself of them daily. Send copies to your doctor
– or give them a copy of this book – and if he or she is
not interested and grateful, find yourself a new doctor.
However, do remember that health practitioners are always
doing the best they can, within the limitations of their own
beliefs, training and background. No one is intending to
be harmful or obstructive; they simply do not know how
to be a giant pendulum. You might want to inspire them to
see things differently, or open them up to new possibilities –
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Exercise
HEALING YOUR ‘SICK’ BELIEFS
1. If you have a current dis-ease or diagnosis, write down all
your thoughts and beliefs about it – including what you have
read about or heard from health professionals and other
‘experts’, or from family and friends. Also, write down what
you believe in general about health, sickness and the body,
including what you learnt as a child. Which of these thoughts
and beliefs make you feel expansive, powerful and free?
Which thoughts bring you a sense of relief ? Those are the
thoughts that are aligned with your higher self. If a thought
makes you feel bad, it is not because the truth is harsh – it
is because you are thinking an untruth.
To practise conscious medicine, you need to choose
thoughts that feel good, regardless of what the reality seems
to be. Then reality morphs itself to fit your belief. It might
sound wacky, but it is how our psycho-energetic universe
works. There is a buffer of time, so reality does not change
instantly – but it simply has to come to match your vibrations.
Change your vibrations, and you change your reality. To do
this, choose some new beliefs about your illness – or about
health and the body in general – that make you feel good,
and hold those thoughts consistently. Remind yourself of
these new thoughts until you build new neural pathways that
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Doctors and nurses are not the only possible source of the
nocebo response. Family and friends can be just as dangerous.
A friend of mine was healed of a supposedly terminal illness
using alternative approaches and discharged herself from the
hospital. Instead of celebrating her miraculous return to health,
her family put her under daily pressure. ‘You should have
carried on seeing the doctors’, ‘Don’t get too hopeful’, and,
‘You should be going for regular treatment.’ Worry and concern,
even when they are well intentioned, are a form of black
magic. Her family’s negativity and pressure caused her so much
daily stress and angst that it became a self-fulfilling prophecy,
and within a few months, her symptoms began to return.
However, she had learnt her lesson and spotted the lizard
voices. She saw an energy healer and a therapist to heal the
disease again – and this time, she learnt to keep clear bound-
aries and be more assertive with her family.
Of course, outer voices are always a mirror of inner
voices. Others can influence us, for better or worse, but
only if we are open to that influence. So if your health
practitioners or family are less than optimistic and reas-
suring, this has to be a vibrational match to something in
you. Instead of complaining about them or letting them
rattle you – or even worse, believing them – take it as a
sign that you have some inner work to do. After all, if it
didn’t match some thoughts of yours, their words would
slide off you as if you were Teflon. There would be nothing
to stick to. (My client with myasthenia gravis said her
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DISTANT HE AL IN G
MAKING INSPIRED C HO IC ES
WH ICH APPROAC H?
MIRACLE S O F HEALIN G
Chapter Eleven
JOURNEY TO ITHAC A
Let’s suppose that you are now listening to your body language,
and you have worked out what a symptom or dis-ease means.
Perhaps you have also tracked down the original trauma or
underlying negative beliefs, honoured your emotions and
moved into a more positive frame of mind. Often this is
enough to allow the bodymind to get well again. But what
if the symptoms persist? What if you try many approaches
to healing and nothing seems to work? What if you feel
trapped in disappointment, frustration or even hopelessness?
What else might be blocking your healing?
Within the model of conscious medicine, we either heal
or remain healthy unless we are getting in our own way – that
is, unless we are in resistance. Resistance means there is in-
coherence (conflict) between our inner selves. One part of us
wants to heal, but another part wants to be sick. Or one part
is clinging to an unresolved conflict or toxic situation that
a healthier part wants to release. In energy psychology, this
is called psychological reversal. It is like being a cart attached
to two horses that are dragging it in opposite directions. It is
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not very comfortable, and you cannot move. From the outside,
you look stuck; and from the inside, you feel frustrated at
best and despairing at worst.
Remember that everything is a friend, and that any blockage
holds the potential for change and evolution. Resistance is
not a problem, but an opportunity for self-awareness and
growth. When you combine the sunlight of consciousness
with the rain of resistance, it produces a beautiful rainbow.
Even minor symptoms can offer helpful nudges about inner
conflict that can help us align with our higher self – and the
more serious the disease, the greater the potential hidden
within it. A serious diagnosis can throw our lives into chaos,
which helpfully shakes up whatever is negative or stuck within
our lifestyle, thoughts and energy patterns, so that we can
open up to transformation.
It’s important to know that you are not somehow ‘getting
it wrong’ if you become seriously ill, seem unable to heal
from a disease, or recovery is slow. I had to struggle with
this one myself, since it took two or three years for me to
heal from breast cancer and resolve the underlying issues. I
heard of others who healed tumours overnight, or in days
and weeks, and I sometimes beat myself up and felt like a
failure! (Yes, despite knowing all that I know!) Eventually I
realised – like Arielle Essex with her brain tumour (see
Chapter 6, page 128) – that a faster healing journey is not
necessarily a better one. There is no right or wrong path.
Instant healing is wonderful, but a longer journey has its
own benefits. It can allow much deeper personal changes
and insights that have to be slowly integrated, and which
cannot happen overnight. I have met people who have been
on a healing journey for twenty or thirty years, and who
would not have missed that journey for all the tea in China.
A serious diagnosis or prolonged healing journey simply
means that you are dealing with big issues – issues that might
date back over many past lifetimes, or back through many
generations of your family – which have the potential to
transform your life.
The Greek poet Cavafy wrote a beautiful poem about
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SE CONDARY GAIN
to track down any secondary gain that might block you from
getting well. Here are the crucial questions to ask:What advan-
tages has this dis-ease brought into your life? What might be
the downside to getting well again? And how can you meet
these needs in more direct ways?
DE ATH WISHE S
VICTIM ME NTAL IT Y
Exercise
TELLING A NEW STORY
Look at a current or recent challenge in your life – such as a
diagnosis or dis-ease, or any situation that left you feeling
disempowered, stuck or wounded. What is your current story
about this? Do you see yourself as a victim of faulty genes, or a
wandering virus, or medical mistakes, or baggage from your
childhood, or recent stress? Do you see yourself as a helpless
victim of others’ behaviour, or the economy, or anything else? Or
even as a helpless victim of your own neurosis? Or do you
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Chapter Twelve
FROM COCOON TO
BUTTERFLY
Exercise
TWELVE STEPS TOWARDS WELLNESS
1. Deal with any trauma or unresolved conflict underlying this
dis-ease. (Clues: When did it start? What was going on then?
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YO U R FU TU RE S ELF
turn into a pillar of salt. Your higher self never looks back.
It holds itself, shining and radiant as an angel, in the future
of your dreams.
One way of releasing resistance and marking a transi-
tion point between your past and future selves is to use
ritual. Fire ceremonies have long been one of my favourite
rituals – but you could also walk slowly across a long
bridge, releasing your former self with each step and step-
ping into a new life; or bury something symbolic of the
past; or plant a young shrub or tree to represent your new
future. Rituals are a simple but powerful way of letting go
of negative beliefs and old ways of being – and bringing
every part of yourself into harmony with your dreams for
the future.
Exercise
FIRE CEREMONY
You need a fireproof pot, matches, a candle or night light, a pen
and two pieces of paper. Set up a clutter-free ceremonial space
– perhaps with gentle music, extra candles and incense – or
choose a special place in nature. Decide upon an old pattern,
habit of thought or lifestyle you feel ready to release, and a new
pattern with which to replace it.
On one piece of paper, write ‘I release . . .’ and on the
other, write ‘I give birth to . . .’ For example: I release a poverty
mentality and I give birth to prosperity thinking. I release anger
and give birth to compassion. I release worry and give birth to
trust. I release neediness and give birth to self-reliance. I
release over-analysing and give birth to being heart-centred. I
release seeking approval and give birth to self-love and
authenticity. I release my hectic lifestyle and give birth to more
stillness and relaxation. I release being single and give birth to
a loving, co-creative partnership. I release victimhood and give
birth to self-empowerment. I release sickness and give birth to
health.
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When you are ready, light the candle. You might wish to call
in guides, angels or helpers from the unseen realms, sensing or
imagining them joining you. Then sit quietly with the first piece
of paper and reflect on how this pattern has played out in your
life, and why you wish to release it. Then light it and place it in
the pot. Now sit with your second piece of paper, and reflect
on how this new quality or habit will change your life. Imagine
becoming this new self. Then light the paper, and place it in the
pot. Watch the paper burning until the fire is completely
extinguished. Ask your unseen helpers to support you in
changing these old habits of thought or behaviour, and giving
birth to the new.
In the weeks and months that follow, the universe will offer
you many opportunities to practise your new habit and become
this new self. Remind yourself of your new commitment, and
step into your future self.
TH E G IFTS O F D IS - EASE
Exercise
BECOMING YOUR FUTURE SELF
Close your eyes, relax deeply, and imagine that you are in a
meadow in springtime. The sun is high in the sky, and you are
sitting in the long grass, with a soft breeze caressing your face.
Use all your senses to make this scene come alive. Then notice
that there is a bridge nearby – and make your way across the
bridge to the other side, towards your future – the highest
possible future that awaits you. It is a future in which you are
vibrantly healthy and radiantly happy, a future as unlimited and
expansive as you can imagine. Make your way to a meeting
place, a sacred place – and in this place, call your future self to
come and join you, looking much like you, yet more joyful, more
at peace, more filled with light.
Notice how it feels to be in the presence of your future
self. Know that this future self does already exist, at an energy
level. It exists in the quantum field of all possibilities, and your
consciousness can bring it into physical reality – by letting go
of fear and guilt and blame, and connecting with who you
really are, which is unconditional love, and trust, and deep
wisdom. What does this future self wish to tell you – whether
in words or thoughts, or in images, or intuitive knowing? How
has your life changed in this potential future? Allow your future
self to tell you how to step into that future – how to create
that beautiful future for yourself. What did you change so that
you shifted your old patterns and created a new future for
yourself ?
Now receive a gift from your future self, a gift that might
symbolise strengths or qualities that you need to invite in, a step
you need to take, an experience you need to have or a
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mystery you need to unravel. Accept this gift and take it into
your heart. Then allow yourself to merge with this future self,
stepping into it, or allowing it to step into you, then feeling it
within you – allowing it to merge into your mental body,
changing your thoughts and beliefs, then into your emotional
body, shifting your feelings and releasing the past, and into your
physical body and DNA, changing the genetic blueprint for your
future at an energy level.
Feel your energy changing as you merge more and more
completely with this future self . . . taking in as much of its
energy as you can . . . letting go of old patterns, old habits of
thought, old ways of being . . . and raising your vibrations to as
high a level as you can comfortably handle right now . . .
If you have a specific health issue, give yourself advice from
this future self. What do you need to hear – about what needs
to be released from the past, new beliefs that you need to hold,
new visions for the future, practical steps to take, or a creative
way of approaching this? How do you see it differently, looking
through the eyes of this future self ? Know that all the wisdom
you ever need is inside you. You have access to Infinite
Intelligence, or the Source. You can tap into limitless help from
the unseen realms – and you can create anything that you can
imagine, if only you love and appreciate ‘what is’ right now, and
trust that even better is to come.
When you are ready, bring your consciousness fully back into
your physical body, bringing the energy-consciousness of your
future self with you – feeling at peace with yourself, and full of
joyful anticipation for what lies ahead.
(A fuller version of this inner journey is available on my CD,
Your Future Self.)
H E ALING TH E W O RLD
Since we are all connected, our personal issues are also global
issues – and as we heal ourselves, we help to heal our world.
In my view, much of our personal distress can be traced back
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LOVE SE TS U S FREE
What really heals us, and helps us become our future self ?
The simple answer is: unconditional love. It is unconditional
love that allows Source, or Universal, energy to flow. Love
allows us to feel safe, and come out of the stress response.
Love dissolves the defences that stand between the ego and
our authentic self. Love turns us into giant pendulums, and
the best health practitioners simply ooze it from every pore
of their being. The poet Rumi said, ‘Love is for vanishing
into the sky’ – a wonderful description of the wave response,
which breaks down all barriers so that energy can flow freely.
Love is that which affirms, values and honours everything.
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offers, with all its ups and downs. There is no ‘me’ and ‘not-
me’, for everything is seen as a mirror. You listen to the
whispers – and give thanks. Loneliness is a distant memory.
Fear lies in another galaxy. Every day is full of delight and
wonder.
From the wave response, there is only love and oneness.
You are aware of your individuality, and value your own
uniqueness, while being aware that you are a drop within a
greater ocean, forever connected. Fun and laughter abound.
You breathe deeply into your belly. The world comes alive
to you. The rocks, clouds and dragonflies speak to you. Time
expands into the endless opportunities of a hazy summer
day. You are living your wildest dreams – free at last. You
choose whatever makes your heart sing and your spirit dance.
You are bathed in an ocean of unconditional love. And your
body shimmers with health, vitality and radiance.
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1
Bruce Lipton, The Biology of Belief, Hay House, 2008,
p. 121.
2
Gill Edwards, ‘The Psychology of Cancer’, Changes: Journal
of the Psychology and Psychotherapy Association, 1986 April,
pp. 193–195.
3
As described in my first book, Living Magically, Piatkus,
1991.
4
For an alternative view and research on cancer, see
Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not a Disease: It’s a Survival
Mechanism, Cygnus Books, 2009. Moritz suggests that
untreated cancer has a four times higher remission rate
than medically treated cancer, and that chemotherapy is
only helpful in about 2 per cent of cases. Also see Ty
Bollinger, Step Outside the Box, Infinity 510 Partners,
2006/2009, who suggests that alternative approaches to
cancer are vastly more effective than profit-driven conven-
tional medicine. Also see Jonathan Chamberlain, The Cancer
Recovery Guide: 15 Alternative and Complementary Strategies
for Restoring Health, Clairview, 2008.
5
Quote on front cover of Norman Shealy and Dawson
Church, Soul Medicine, Elite Books, 2006.
6
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. (First published
in 1865.)
7
For example, Marc Ian Barasch and Caryle Hirshberg,
Remarkable Recovery, Headline Books, 1995, pp. 159–161;
Michael Talbot, Holographic Universe, HarperCollins, 2006, p. 99;
Larry Dossey, Healing Breakthroughs, Piatkus, 1993, pp. 41–47;
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22
TAT newsletter, report from Bronia Fuchs-Willig, 2007.
Website: www.tatlife.com.
23
TAT newsletter, December 2007.Website: www.tatlife.com.
24
Psych-K newsletter from Larry Valmore, January 2008.
Website: www.psych-k.com.
25
Quoted in Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy,
Paladin, 1982, p. 215.
26
Norman Shealy, Soul Medicine, Elite Books, 2006.
27
Lynne McTaggart, What Doctors Don’t Tell You, Thorsons,
1996, pp. 7–8.
28
For example, Lynne McTaggart, What Doctors Don’t Tell
You, Thorsons, 1996; John Abramson, Overdosed America,
HarperPerennial, 2005; and Michael T. Murray, What the Drug
Companies Won’t Tell You and Your Doctor Doesn’t Know, Simon
& Schuster, 2009.
29
G. Greenberg, 2003, referred to in Bruce Lipton, The
Biology of Belief, Hay House, 2008, p. 138.
30
Allen Roses, worldwide Vice-President of Genetics at
GlaxoSmithKline quoted in Norman Shealy and Dawson
Church, Soul Medicine, Elite Books, 2006, p. 138. For orig-
inal news report, see Steve Connor (Science Editor), ‘Glaxo
chief: Our drugs do not work on most patients’, Independent,
3 December 2003.
31
For example, John Abramson, Overdosed America, Harper
Perennial, 2005; Michael T. Murray, What the Drug Companies
Won’t Tell You and Your Doctor Doesn’t Know, Simon &
Schuster, 2009, pp. 133–153.
32
Dr C. G. G. Nittinger, The Evils of Vaccination by C. C.
Shieferdecker MD, 1856.
33
For example,Walene James, Immunization:The Reality Behind
the Myth, Greenwood Press, 1989; Lynne McTaggart, What
Doctors Don’t Tell You, Thorsons, 1996, Chapter 6; Leon
Chaitow, Vaccination and Immunisation: Dangers, Delusions and
Alternatives, C.W. Daniel, 2009.
34
WHO statistics on the use of CAM (complementary and
alternative medicine) – see www.independentliving.co.uk/
tradmed.html.
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35
Amit Goswami, The Quantum Doctor, Hampton Roads,
2004.
36
Rudolph Ballentine, Radical Healing, Harmony Books, 1999,
p. 33.
37
For example, some studies have found a 40 per cent increase
in spirituality in those recently diagnosed with HIV/AIDS
– see Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes, Elite Books,
2007, p. 61.
38
Norman Shealy and Dawson Church, Soul Medicine, Elite
Books, 2006, p. 20.
39
For example, see Lynne McTaggart, What Doctors Don’t
Tell You, Thorsons, 1996, pp. 210–212; and Michael T. Murray,
What the Drug Companies Won’t Tell You and Your Doctor Doesn’t
Know, Simon & Schuster, 2009, pp. 195–205 on the risks of
drugs for hypertension and natural alternatives; also John
Abramson, Overdosed America, HarperPerennial, 2005.
40
Rupert Sheldrake, The Rebirth of Nature, Rider, 1991,
p. 32.
41
Quoted in Michael T. Murray, What the Drug Companies
Won’t Tell You and Your Doctor Doesn’t Know, Simon &
Schuster, 2009, p. 77.
42
Story told by Lewis Mehl-Madrona at a workshop – see
Recommended Reading.
43
For example, see Dean Radin, The Conscious Universe,
HarperCollins, 1997; Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe,
HarperCollins, 2006; Larry Dossey, Healing Words, Harper
Collins, 1993; David Hamilton, How Your Mind Can Heal Your
Body, Hay House, 2008, and countless other books. See
Recommended Reading for further information.
44
Dean Radin, The Conscious Universe, HarperCollins, 1997,
p. 140.
45
Books by Matthew Manning include Your Mind Can Heal
Your Body, Piatkus, 2007. See also www.matthewmanning.com.
46
Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,
University of Chicago Press, 1962.
47
James Jeans, The Mysterious Universe, Cambridge University
Press, 1937, p. 122.
48
101 Miracles of Natural Healing video. Shown at my
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within the womb and at birth later in life, and many therapies
work specifically with this, such as rebirthing, Matrix Birth
Reimprinting and the TARA Approach (see Resources for
Health and Well-being, p. 325). See also the endnote below.
90
For example, see Sue Gerhardt, Love Matters, Routledge,
2004, for an excellent overview of how stress affects chil-
dren and relationships – from pregnancy onwards.
91
Heard in a PBS lecture (2007) by Christiane Northrup
on PBS television when I was in the USA.
92
See Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes, Elite Books,
2007, pp. 58–61 for a summary of these studies by Dr Gail
Ironson. For example, Gail Ironson et al.,‘The Ironson-Woods
Spirituality/Religiosity Index is associated with long survival,
health behaviors, less distress and low cortisol in people
with HIV/AIDS’, Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2002, vol. 24,
issue 1, p. 34.
93
See my earlier books Wild Love, Piatkus, 2006, and Life is
a Gift, Piatkus, 2007, for more about ‘Does God need therapy?’
and seeing life as a gift rather than a trial or accident.
94
These techniques are based upon Psych-K, a form of kine-
siology and energy psychology developed by Rob Williams
– see website www.Psych-k.com.
95
Paul MacLean, The Triune Brain in Evolution, Plenum Press,
1990.
96
See Joe Dispenza, Evolve Your Brain, Health Com-
munications, 2007, for more about the neurochemistry of
habits and growth.
97
Darren Weissman, The Power of Infinite Love and Gratitude,
Hay House, 2007, p. 38.
98
From Lazaris, channelled by Jach Pursel – www.lazaris.com.
99
Joe Dispenza, Evolve Your Brain, Health Communications,
p. 376.
100
Candace Pert, Molecules of Emotion, Simon & Schuster,
1998, p. 265.
101
The teachings of Abraham confirm this. See Chapter 7 –
and website www.abraham-hicks.com.
102
Leonard Laskow, Healing With Love, iUniverse, 1992/2008.
103
Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness, Bantam, 1981.
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104
For example, Larry Dossey, Healing Beyond the Body, Time
Warner, 2002, pp. 146–147.
105
Interview on BBC’s Woman’s Hour. Also see Ellen
MacArthur, Taking on the World, Penguin, 2002.
106
For example, see Theodore Roszak et al. (eds),
Ecopsychology, Sierra Club, 1995, and David Abrams, The
Spell of the Sensuous,Vintage, 1997.There are countless books
about the healing power of nature, including: T. C.
McLuhan, Cathedrals of the Spirit, HarperPerennial, 1996;
Connie Goldman and Richard Mahler, Tending the Earth,
Mending the Spirit, Hazelden, 2000; and Donald Norfolk,
The Soul Garden, Overlook Press, 2002.
107
See Jeanne Achterberg, Imagery in Healing, Shambala, 1985,
p. 104.
108
Reported in Joe Dispenza, Evolve Your Brain, Health
Communications, 2007, pp. 441–442. The study was
conducted at the Department of Neurology at Bellevue
Hospital, New York in the 1970s.
109
For example, Norman Doidge, The Brain That Changes
Itself, Penguin, 2007.
110
Nora Weeks, The Medical Discoveries of Edward Bach
Physician, C. W. Daniel, 1973.
111
Excerpt from workshop in Los Angeles on 7 March 2000.
Website: www.abraham-hicks.com.
112
Hale Dwoskin, The Sedona Method, Element, 2005.
113
See my earlier book Stepping into the Magic, Piatkus, 1993.
Also books by Serge Kahili King, such as Urban Shaman,
Simon & Schuster, 1990.
114
Reported in David Hamilton, How Your Mind Can Heal
Your Body, Hay House, 2008, p. 6 – study at University of
Utah, 2006: T. W. Smith, C. Berg et al., ‘Marital conflict
behavior and coronary artery calcification’, paper presented
at American Psychosomatic Society, Denver, 3 March 2006.
115
See Dean Ornish, Love and Survival, HarperCollins, 1998,
for a good compilation of these and other research studies.
116
Susan Forward, Emotional Blackmail, Harper, 1998.
117
A useful guide to healthy divorce is Debbie Ford, Spiritual
Divorce, HarperCollins, 2002.
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118
For example, see Joe Vitale and Ihaleakala Hew Len, Zero
Limits, Wiley, 2008.
119
To learn healthy patterns of communication – beyond fear,
blame, guilt and demands – Non-Violent Communication is
an excellent starting point. Workshops in NVC are readily
available, or you can read books such as Non Violent
Communication by Marshall Rosenberg (PuddleDancer, 2003).
120
See Byron Katie, Who Would You Be Without Your Story,
Hay House, 2008. For further information about Byron Katie
and The Work, see www.thework.com.
121
Excerpt from workshop held in Atlanta, Georgia on 4
November 2000 – www.abraham-hicks.com.
122
See Gary Craig, The EFT Manual, Energy Psychology
Press, 2002.
123
See Esther and Jerry Hicks, Ask and it Is Given, Hay House,
2008. Other books by Esther and Jerry Hicks may also be
of interest or www.abraham-hicks.com.
124
Abraham calls this the benefit of ‘contrast’. I explore this
further in my books Wild Love, Piatkus, 2006, and Life Is a
Gift, Piatkus, 2007.
125
For further information about power animals and animal
messengers, see Steven Farmer, Animal Spirit Guides, Hay
House, 2007; Andrea Wansbury, Birds: Divine Messengers,
Findhorn Press, 2006; and the classic from the Native
American tradition by Jamie Sams and David Carson, Medicine
Cards, Bear & Co, 1988.
126
Workshop with Lewis Mehl-Madrona in Cumbria,
England, 2009.
127
For example, see Jim Robbins, A Symphony in the Brain,
Grove Press, 2008.
128
This is based upon the Emotional Scale in the teachings
of Abraham and used by permission.
129
Joe Dispenza, Evolve Your Brain, Health Communications,
p. 446.
130
For further information about creating our own reality,
see my earlier books such as Living Magically, Piatkus, 2006,
Wild Love, Piatkus, 2006, and Life Is a Gift, Piatkus, 2007 –
or books by Louise L. Hay, Esther and Jerry Hicks, Sanaya
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145
From chapter by Bernie Siegel in Dawson Church and Alan
Sherr (eds), The Heart of the Healer, Elite Books, 2004, p. 205.
146
See Donna Eden, Energy Medicine, Tarcher/Putnam, 1998,
p. 251.
147
Barbara Ann Brennan, Light Emerging, Bantam, 1993,
p. 177.
148
William Nolen, Healing: A Doctor in Search of a Miracle,
Random House, 1974.
149
K. B. Thomas, ‘General practice consultations: Is there any
point in being positive?’, British Medical Journal, 1987, vol.
294, pp. 1200–2.
150
Daniel Moerman, Meaning, Medicine and the ‘Placebo Effect’,
Cambridge University Press, 2002.
151
Daniel Moerman, Meaning, Medicine and the ‘Placebo Effect’,
Cambridge University Press, 2002; also Michael T. Murray,
What the Drug Companies Won’t Tell You and Your Doctor Doesn’t
Know, Simon & Schuster, 2009, pp. 27–32; David Hamilton,
How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body, Hay House, 2008, pp.
19–42; Zelda Di Blasi, ‘The crack in the biomedical box’,
Psychologist, February 2003, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 72-75.
152
A. J. M. De Craen, P. J. Roos, A. L. de Vries, J. Kleijnen,
‘Effect of colour of drugs: systemic review of perceived effect
of drugs and of their effectiveness’, British Medical Journal,
1996, vol. 313, pp. 1624–1626.
153
T. Luparello et al., ‘The interaction of psychologic stimuli
and pharmacologic agents on airway reactivity in asthmatic
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A. J. Barsky et al., ‘Nonspecific medication side effects and
the nocebo phenomenon’, Journal of American Medical
Association, 2002, vol. 287, pp. 622–627.‘The nocebo response’,
Harvard Mental Health Letter, March 2005.
154
S. I. Cohen,‘Psychosomatic death:Voodoo death in a modern
perspective’, Integrative Psychiatry, 1985, vol. 3, pp. 46–51.
155
For example, see Jane Roberts, The Individual and the Nature
of Mass Events, Amber-Allen, 1981/1995, Chapter 2.
156
Daniel Block, The Revolution of Naturopathic Medicine,
Collective Co-op Publishing, 2003.
157
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living, Piatkus, 2001.
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158
Grace Gawler, Women of Silence, Hill of Content, 1994.
159
Barbara Hoberman Levine, Your Body Believes Every Word
You Say, Words Work Press, 2000.
160
There are many techniques for distant healing, but she
used Theta Healing – see Resources for Health and Well-
being, p. 326.
161
Adam, Dreamhealer, Sphere, 2007.
162
Randolph C. Byrd, ‘Positive Therapeutic Effects of
Intercessory Prayer in a Coronary Care Unit Population’,
Southern Medical Journal, 1988, vol. 81, no. 7, pp. 826–829.
163
An excellent source of information for EFT practitioners
is Pamela Bruner and John Bullough (eds), EFT and Beyond,
Energy Publications, 2009.
164
See books by Jon Kabat-Zinn such as Full Catastrophe
Living, Piatkus, 2001 and Coming to our Senses, Piatkus, 2005;
also Saki Santorelli, Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in
Medicine, Three Rivers Press, 1999.
165
Richard Bartlett, The Physics of Miracles, Simon & Schuster,
2009.
166
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Penguin
Classics, 2003.
167
Ithaka by Constantine Cavafy, in C. P. Cavafy, Collected
Poems, edited by George Savidis, Princeton University Press,
1992.
168
John Harrison, Love Your Disease, Angus & Robertson, 1984.
169
Janice Dolley and Ursula Burton – in press.
170
For example, Bert Hellinger, To the Heart of the Matter,
Carl-Auer-Systeme Verlag, 2003 – brief therapies using family
constellations that include many examples of working with
illness, suicide and ‘accidents’.
171
I heard this story from therapist Dietrich Klinghardt at a
workshop on family constellations in 2001.
172
Rupert Sheldrake, The Presence of the Past, HarperCollins,
1988.
173
Rupert Sheldrake, A New Science of Life, Paladin, 1983.
Revised edition published in 2009.
174
Valerie V. Hunt, Infinite Mind, Malibu, 1989/1996, p. 141.
For more about how energy can be left in an environment,
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Recommended Reading
This is just a small selection of recent, classic or favourite books
from my own library that give a fresh, inspiring approach to health
and healing, or help us step into a conscious universe – plus a few
recommended DVDs.
ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY
ENERGY-BASED HEALING
KINESIOLOGY-BASED HEALING
OTHER RESOURCES
FEEL-GOOD MOVIES
GILL EDWARDS
Living Magically
Fisherbeck Mill
Old Lake Road
Ambleside
Cumbria LA22 0DH
Tel: (015394) 31943
Email: LivMagic@aol.com
Or see our website: www.livingmagically.co.uk
CDs:
Overcoming Inner Blockages
Changing Your Beliefs
Healing Your Inner Child
Healing or Releasing a Relationship
Soul Retrieval
Discovering Your Life’s Work
Owning Your Shadow
Inner Peace
The Morning CD
The 2012 CD
Healing Your Family Tree
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Index
Please note that page references to non-textual matter will be in italic print
INDEX 335
Descartes, René 21, 22, 286 Emotional Stress Release (ESR) 108
desires 172–3 emotions 33, 202, 216, 232
detached retina 73 as guidance 155–8
detoxification 268 link with meridians and tapping points
DHEA (anti-ageing hormone) 110 213–14
diabetes 3, 11, 20, 189, 263, 264 molecules of 65
diagnosis of illness negative 53, 156, 171–2, 181
effect on course of condition 234–7 and thoughts 157, 167, 169
responses 193, 249 Emoto, Masaru 54
as a verb 39–40 Emo-Trance 40
see also under life-threatening illnesses endogenous depression 76
diagnostic labels, limitations 20 endorphins 14, 78
dialogue with body 194–8 enemy, making peace with 127–9
diarrhoea 184, 189 Energetic Conscious Hologram (ECHO)
dietary factors 263, 264, 268 86
dis-ease 4, 67, 75, 216, 252–4 energy fields 63, 64, 183, 201, 262
finding trigger for 76–7 energy healing 230
gifts of 279–82 Energy Medicine (Eden) 6, 216, 229
diseases see illnesses; life-threatening illness energy psychology 9–12, 75, 84, 186,
Dispenza, Joe 6, 72, 107, 169 214, 248
dissociative identity disorder (DID) 3, 4 energy-consciousness 8–9, 29, 62, 69, 85,
distant healing 30, 64, 240–2 154, 244
Divine Intelligence (Source) 29, 31, 32, enlightenment 105
105, 157 epigenetics 62–3, 64, 265
divorce 140–1 epilepsy 189
dizziness 189 ESR (Emotional Stress Release) 108
DNA 61–2, 63–5 Essex, Arielle 128–9, 249
doctors, effect on healing 232 evolving 278–9
Dossey, Larry 1, 118 exercise 264
drama triangle 130–3, 252 exercises
moving beyond 133–5 breathing meditation 56–7
dream dictionary 183–7, 187, 191, 202 chakras, balancing 224–5
drug treatment, dangers/limitations 13, Emotional Freedom Technique
14, 16, 20, 75, 234 208–12
drug trials 13, 26 finding dis-ease trigger 76–7
dummy pills 233 fire ceremony 277–8
frontal lobes, waking up 108–10
ear problems 73, 187, 189, 191 future self, becoming 282–3
ear-rolls 100 heart coherence 36
eating disorders 55, 253 Ho’oponopono (tool for healing
ECHO (Energetic Conscious Hologram) relationships) 141–2
86 living from the heart 66
ecopsychology 117 lizard voices, spotting 165
eczema 189 meeting disease/inner healer 198–9
Eden, Donna 6, 201, 216, 229, 268 muscle-testing 97–100
EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) power animals 161–2
9–10, 74, 112, 156, 244 relaxation 59–60
exercises 208–12 shock, healing 84–5
self-help 207–8 telling new story 270–1
successes 205–7 turnarounds 147–50
ego 47, 157, 169, 170, 181 twelve steps towards wellness
ego gap 174–5 273–6
Einstein, Albert 63, 70, 105, 128, 278 extraordinary meridians 226
ELF (extremely low-frequency) 202 extremely low-frequency (ELF) 202
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) see eye problems 73, 186–7, 189
EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)
emotional intelligence 35, 171 fake operations 4
emotional ladder 167–70, 168, 181 family and friends, influence 239–40
climbing 170–2, 180 family constellations 260–3
emotional set point 167 family soul 259–60, 269
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lung disorders 73, 76, 190 Newton, Isaac 21, 22, 24, 29, 30, 286
lupus 190 Nietzsche, Friedrich 248
Nightingale, Florence 83–4
MacArthur, Ellen 117 nocebo response 233–4
‘magic bullet,’ myth of 13 Nolen, William 230
Manning, Matthew 26 Northrup, Christiane 92, 273
marriage difficulties xvi–xvii, 54, 57, 186 nosebleeds 183
see also personal relationships nutritional medicine 266
material universe 8, 21–2, 23–5, 235, 286
Matrix Energetics (quantum healing organic diet 268
system) 7 Ornish, Dean 118
Matrix Reimprinting 84, 86, 87 orthodox medicine see conventional
McCraty, Rollin 54 medicine
ME see chronic fatigue syndrome osteoarthritis of knee 4
meditation, healing power of 55–7, 110 osteoporosis 193
Meditation for Beginners (Kornfield) 55 ‘out-of-body’ experience 78
Mehl-Madrona, Lewis 23, 163 ovarian cancer 207, 256
mem-brain (cell membrane) 62, 63 over-caring/self-sacrifice 34, 35
meridians 42, 76, 184, 202–4
link with emotions and tapping points pain
212–16, 213–14 acceptance of 125, 126
strange flows 226–7 acupuncture for 204
tapping 204–8 back 185–6, 188
Meta-Medicine 73 meaning of 191
mid-brain 101 neck 190
migraine 163, 190 pancreatic cancer 240–1
mind-body medicine, as bridge 42–3 panic attacks 79
mind-body split 21, 24 paradigm shifts 26, 37, 47, 155
mind-body unity 4, 17 new physics 27, 41, 154
mindfulness techniques 244 parapsychology 25
Mines, Stephanie 82, 83, 229 parasympathetic shock 82–3, 85
miracles, healing 5–8, 26, 28, 30, 65, 129, particle response 46–7, 48–53, 71, 108, 127
183, 246–7 common signs 51–2, 56, 72
mirror neurons 111 continuum of 48, 155
Mitchell, William 22 getting stuck in 79, 83
molecules of emotion 65 and health 53–5, 154
Moritz, Andreas 267 inherited thinking patterns 92
morphic fields 261 loneliness 117
Moss, Richard 6 love and freedom 113
Mother Teresa 178 see also stress
motivation 243 particles, and waves 30–2, 46–8, 155
multiple personality 3, 4 Pasteur, Louis 38
multiple sclerosis 190 Patch Adams (film) 115
muscle-testing 10, 96–7, 256 penicillin 38
exercises 97–100, 224, 225 perceptions 94, 158
myasthenia gravis 235 Persecutor role, drama triangle 130, 131,
myopia 186 131, 132, 133, 252
Myss, Caroline 31–2, 269–70 personal growth 110
mysticism 29, 31, 33 personal relationships 124, 125–51
being your own best friend 150–1
National Health Service (NHS) 13 conventional 139
Native American viewpoint 22–3, 40 stress in 136–9
nature, healing power of 115–18 toxic 138
neck pain 190 turnarounds 147–50
neocortex 101, 102 withdrawal from 83
neural net 175 see also marriage difficulties
neural pathways 167, 175 Pert, Candace 65, 70, 110
neurochemistry 105, 111, 139, 169, 172 phantom limb pain 206
neuroplasticity, brain 120 pharmaceutical industries, profits of
New England Journal of Medicine 4 13
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