For a long time there has been no shortage of people who have made a living pointing out the strangeness of religion. Recently they have been joined by those who have successfully made a profession out of pointing out the strangeness of science. As Douglas Adams said in a speech at Cambridge several years ago, “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered plant, going round a nuclear fireball ninety million miles away, and that we regard all this as normal, is obviously some indication of how askew our perspective on what is natural tends to be.”
Breathtaking and unwarranted assumptions about what is normal or natural have bedeviled the relationship between the world views we crudely label “religion” and “science,” with customary little regard for the variety of forms that hide under each of those descriptions.
The impact of subconscious emotions
by Dr. Darren Weissman
In the last column, I explained that symptoms are a language the body uses to speak to us; to let us know that we have a subconscious disconnection from an emotion. Any symptom of pain, fear, or stress is the body’s way of awakening us to the fact that we are out of balance, that we need a new approach; an approach based on loving ourselves unconditionally.
The subconscious makes up 98 percent of the mind. The subconscio us has an inherent survival mechanism—regulation of blood pressure, sugar metabolism, hormones, immunity, and digestion are all functions of the subconscious. Besides internal biochemical and physiological balance, the subconscious also stores emotions that we don’t have the tools or strategies to process. These emotions when triggered impact every cell of the body, resulting in symptoms. Symptoms are the conscious way the body lets us know emotions are trapped within the subconscious mind.
I would like to explain this further by sharing an experience I had with one of my clients whom I’ll call Debbie. When Debbie came to see me, her subconscious mind had been communicating with her for 10 years with the symptoms of Crohn’s (inflammatory bowel) disease, insomnia, and chronic sinus infections.
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Mapping your brain: Making the subconscious visible
by Janet Rae
After fifteen years of self-introspection, transformation seminars, and spiritual healings, “Nancy” still had episodes of irritation followed by outbursts of anger and yelling. It was the most damaging when she acted this out towards her nine-year-old son, who was the pride and joy of her life. Then she participated in a unique workshop called Mind Imaging, and learned about her “neural net” of anger and how to apply certain tools to change that behavior pattern. A week later, she and her son were running late, sitting in traffic on the way to a birthday party on the other side of town when her son accidentally ripped the birthday present he was taking. Her first reaction was, “That’s ok honey, we can tape it when we get there.” Her next reaction was to wonder, “Who just said that?” The cycle of irritation and explosive anger didn’t just shift, it had disappeared.
Mark Evan Furman, a cognitive neuro-scientist and author of The Neurophysics of Human Behavior, has distilled over two-dozen branches of science to develop and test a process called Mind Imaging. A scientific process which brings the complex and elusive matrix of our own mind from the realm of the invisible to the realm of the visible, Mind Imaging allows each participant to craft an “image” that accurately represents the structure of their unique mind. The final image is called a NeuroPrint and includes the three raw building blocks of a mind; our thoughts and beliefs, our emotions, feelings and moods and our behaviors.
The power of communication: an open heart and expanded self
by David Simon, M.D.
In the beginning we were one. This is the perspective of modern physics, which holds that the universe began as an infinitesimally small and dense point, erupting about 13.7 billion years ago in the formation of the universe. Since that moment in which time, space, energy, and matter came into being, the pieces have been trying to get back together. Subatomic particles form attachments to create atoms; atoms like to assemble as molecules; molecules congregate as biochemicals, which craft cells, tissues, organs, and living beings.
Living beings form relationships through the power of communication – the sharing of information. Information is the communication of uncertainty. If nothing unknown is communicated, no information is transmitted. The communication of uncertainty enriches every relationship across the spectrum of life.
