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Meta-physician on Call: Healing Through Sadness

admin — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:18:01 +0000

Sadness is a universal human emotion, a part of every day living. Although many of us view it as a dark cloud that should be avoided and denied, I believe sadness brings a gift of healing. Acknowledging our own sadness can be a crucial step in the healing process itself.

I can assure you, this is not something I learned in my traditional medical training! In fact, physicians are encouraged to avoid emotions – ours, our patients, and their families — like the plague. However, time and experience — almost 30 years in medical practice — have taught me that sadness can be a doorway to transformation.

What is sadness, really? Is it a fact? Is it an emotion? Most of us have experienced it at one time of another – in times of illness, loss, fear, stress, disappointment – as an emotional state brought on by certain circumstances. There are some whose lives are on the perpetual edge of sadness. They feel it lurking around every corner, crouching in the shadows. Some wear sadness like a second skin, or at times feel it sweeping over them like a suffocating wave. Even among those who appear outwardly upbeat and happy, it is always present, a vaguely perceived mist off in the distance.

Healing means ‘to make whole” and sadness would seem to render one fragmented and frustrated. Especially since it can lead to a vicious cycle in which sadness leads to self-pity, further sadness, lack of equanimity or peace and ultimately to dis-ease.

Kabbalah provides a compelling metaphor that can be applied to daily life: All human beings are fragmented, incomplete – yet this is no accident. In fact the entire universe is imperfect, incomplete, fragmented and in need of repair and healing. As human beings we are not expected to be perfect, only participate in the healing of ourselves and the world. Healing, from this vantage point, becomes the essence of the metaphysical journey toward wholeness.

Buddhists recognize suffering is a universal human experience, and that sadness is not punishment. Rather, it is cue from our body, mind and soul that we need to take a moment to do a reality check of our emotional state and get to the source of the feelings. Just as physical pain is necessary to alert us that our body needs immediate attention, sadness serves the same function for our emotional self. Sadness can help us diagnose our emotional ailments. Therefore, rather than deny sadness, we should welcome it as a gift for healing.

Just think of the last time you felt sad. Did you want to retreat to your bed, to lie down, to sleep? Did you want to meditate or go for a walk? How many of us actually give ourselves permission to do that? We may think of that as escapism or being wimpy. Instead many of us react by distracting ourselves with more ‘doings’—work, play, sex, drugs can become a way of avoiding facing our problems. Rather than just ‘do’ something, we should look within and ‘be there’ with our sadness.

Dr. Steve’s Prescription:

1. Revisit your concept of the ‘dark emotions’. They are normal. They are a part of every human beings life, there to teach us how to move forward in spite of them. Life without sadness would render joy meaningless.

2. Take time to rest. Rather than reach for something that will take you away from the sadness, lay down with it. Feeling sad may be your Higher Self directing you to seek to rest. It may be a moment of reflection, one that will allow you to integrate any fragmented aspects of Self, to realign that which is out of balance and to make“repairs” on a subconscious level. If you feel a strong need to step outside the flow of time, honor it.

3. Look for the lessons: Pain carries important lessons for us. In addition to the usual and normal feelings of loss, mourning, or the vague unexplained ‘blues’ that affect us all, sadness can alert us to the need to make changes in our lives. Sadness can be an early warning system regarding bigger problems, depression and anxiety which can overwhelm us.

4. Honor sadness. We live in a culture that abhors discomfort of any kind. We don’t want to see it, to face it, or acknowledge how important it is. Pharmaceutical companies and physicians contribute to the belief that we should ‘anesthetize’ ourselves to any negative feelings. The amount of anti-anxiety and antidepressant prescriptions written is mind-boggling. We want to feel ‘great’ at any cost and as a culture we do quite well at drugging ourselves into states of bliss. Excessive use of alcohol, illegal drugs, nicotine, caffeine, sex, excessive work are often used inappropriately to escape from sadness.

5. Embrace life – all of it. Sadness may show us that we need to change our lifestyles, or need more rest or relaxation. Sadness may offer clues that it is time for something new: a job change, a new relationship or attitude adjustment. All reality resides within our own minds. How we process sadness, and the world around us, is to some extent a choice that we all can make.

6. Beware, and take care of, Obsessive Sadness. Ultimately sadness can turn into depression, and can lead to physical illness. We are all aware of the science of the mind/body interaction. Our immune system is clearly impaired by chronic sadness and depression. We owe it to our bodies, as well as our minds and souls, to move through our sadness towards healing.

We need not hide from sadness if we understand that it is offering us opportunities to grow on a deeply emotional and spiritual level.

© Steven E. Hodes, M.D

What is Metaphysics and How Epigenetic Studies Will Change Health Care Forever?

admin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:43:30 +0000

Metaphysics comes from two Greek words translated as “meta” meaning “after” and “physis” meaning “nature”. The term nature in Greek has two meanings, the first “the sum total of natural things” and the second “the principle or source of natural things”. Metaphysics goes back to Aristotle, who believed a better definition of “physis” was “the essence of things which have a source of movement in them.” Metaphysics is then the scientific study of the source or essence of the sum total of nature. The Source is this original Energy or Spirituality and Nature being all things, as they are in the Physical or material world. Therefore Metaphysics is the science of reality, the source of nature, transcending the interaction between the Energy or Spirituality and Physical or Material.

This understanding of Metaphysics with more discoveries to come in the more recent field of Epigenetic studies; will bring about a major break through; between the interaction of human energy or our spiritual side and the physical body. This new understanding and evidence will be the greatest advancement in Health Care and Human Consciousness ever, as it is revealed over the next 30 years.

The revealing of the reality of your spiritual and energy side, together with the advances in scientific research into all the minute details of DNA, genes and chromosomes of the physical side of human beings will inform and enlighten scientists and spiritualists alike. As they begin to understand and research this relationship between the human energy or spiritual aspects of humanity and how they alter the physical structure of our DNA, genes and chromosomes through the science of Epigenetics

Most people are aware of the amazing break through in the understanding of DNA and the mapping and recording of genes and all the minute details of how are physical bodies are made up. The combination of this has lead to great advances in medical technology mainly through the use of drugs and chemical and surgical methods of prolong life.

Why is it that a transplant from a young and healthy person has such a limited life in a recipient, whether they are young or old, compared to the normal life of the donor? Is this because the Human Energy and Life Energy Fields of the recipient are still disturbed?

Consider Life Energy Fields as the software program that creates changes to the physical body. When this program is not perfect it is creating a less than perfect physical body. With disturbed Energy Fields, an imperfect program is still running altering DNA, genes and chromosomes, hence manifesting and corrupting the physical body, even after a transplant, creating again the original problem that necessitated the transplant in the first place.

Are we solving these problems of good mental and physical, preventative, health care or are things deteriorating in our sophisticated western society?

With all the investment and research in Health Care as a species are we getting sicker or healthier and happier?

Do we have more problems with depression and mental health in our developed sophisticated societies?

When we look at the big picture with all our new knowledge and scientific break through, we have made major advances, but we are still treating the problems after they have occurred we have forgotten to look at the source of the problem and develop adequate preventative programs and Preventative Health care.

We have for almost a century gone along a chemical path forgetting totally that we have a divinity that is pure Life Energy. This divine or spiritual side of us is more important than the physical because all disease or sickness whether physical or mental first appears as a disturbance in the spiritual and life energy side of us before that is manifested in the physical body.

The study and science of these phenomena has barely begun; compared to the chemical and drug research; however research proving this relationship has been carried out in recent times. Some References of Research by Gloria Alvina and BioEnergy Fields Foundation – Dr Valerie Hunt detailed in her book Infinite Mind – Science of the Human Vibrations of Consciousness work done by Barbara Brennan School of Healing and her books Hand of Light and Light Emerging – The Journey of Personal Healing. On going developments and work by Dr. K. Korotkov – Research with instruments that reveal real time changes in Auras and other energy fields on a computer screen. Along with many other emerging studies.

History has documented millions of observations of miracles, non chemical cures and therapies; yet these are generally ignored or dismissed by the main stream medical and health industry. Do you know of a person who has recovered from a serious health problem when their Doctor gave them no hope, is something being missed by the main stream health industry?

The Metaphysical Institute studies focus on the spiritual and energy elements of human beings and how they affect the physical. By energy healing and removing the disturbances in human energy fields this begins the natural healing of the body. The most common and known energy fields of humans are the Aura and the Chakras. The lesser known and understood are the Core Star, Tan Tien, Hara Line, Soul Seat and Intentionality Point. All these affect our well being both mental and physical and how we react to others.

Newer Energy Healing developments and systems like the Emotional Freedom Techniques, HEART Energy Healing System, Human Energy Assessment Release Treatments, Qui Gong, and Theta Healing to name a few, can dramatically improve your physical and mental health by removing disturbances and restoring and balancing your Life & Human Energy Fields.

Healing and restoring of Human & Life Energy Fields in many cases can prevent a disease or illness from manifesting in the physical body. In the past the research to demonstrate this has been difficult to prove, however with advances in instrument technology and computer software that can measure and display physical changes as Life Energy fields are restored will bring to the scientific community proof of the truth of these statements.

This technology will open the way to more research on the affect of changes to Life Energy Fields and how they change blood, tissue and even DNA, genes and chromosomes. Once this is widely accepted the World Heath focus will progressively move to prevention and treatments that find and remove the original cause.