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Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Chemistry!

The Stoic Lucius Seneca once wrote: "It isPaul Ekman, Professor Emeritus at the
part  of  the  cure  to  want  to  be cured."University of California at San Francisco, is
a pioneer in the study of emotions and facial
This simple observation reflects our currentexpressions. His research on more than 200
understanding of the relationship betweenkinds of smiles demonstrated that you could
mind and body. There is a close correlationactually alter your emotional state and
between physical actions and mental states.immune system by smiling or frowning. When
Certain actions can impact our mentalEkman's research subjects were trained to
attitudes and our mental attitudes influencecontrol their facial muscles and voluntarily
our physical being because the mind and bodyform smiles, their physiological processes
constantly talk to one another. The brainaltered immediately and their hormones
sends all that it thinks and perceives to thechanged  drastically.
rest  of  the  body.
So when you smile, you alter your blood
An extreme example of this interconnectionchemistry. The natural opiates in your system
can be seen in the effects of voodoo. In theand your neuropeptides change. These
1940s, Harvard physiologist Walter Cannonchemicals are located not only in your brain
spent several years collecting examples ofbut  in  your  stomach  and  intestines.
"voodoo death" -- case histories of men and
women who died as a result of being theWhat  does  this  have  to  do with hypnosis?
recipient of a curse, an alleged supernatural
visitation or the breaking of some tribal orHypnosis is the most powerful tool we possess
cultural taboo. Cannon concluded that humansfor changing thoughts and attitudes. It is a
could die from "the fatal power of thetrance state characterized by relaxation,
imagination working through unmitigatedextreme suggestibility and
terror." Another researcher, Dr. J.C. Barker,hyper-attentiveness. The subject is fully
in Scared to Death -- a collection of caseconscious, but chooses to focus internally
histories of individuals who had willedwhile  ignoring  external  stimuli.
themselves or others to death -- concluded
that voodoo-like death results "purely fromHypnosis allows one to access the
extreme fear and exhaustion...essentially asubconscious mind directly. In this relaxed,
psychosomatic  phenomenon."hyper-attentive state, the subject
experiences the hypnotist's suggestions as if
How is it possible for thoughts to impact thethey were real. If told that his or her
body  so  drastically?tongue has swollen to double its normal size,
the subject will have difficulty talking. If
It is possible because the central nervoustold that his/her hands are glued together,
system and the body's immune system arethe subject cannot pull them apart. By the
hard-wired together. In 1981 neurobiologistsame token, the subject is receptive to
David Felten and a team of researchers at thesuggestions that are designed to change
Indiana University School of Medicine founddestructive thought patterns and habits such
the first concrete example of the mind/bodyas anxiety, depression, stress, smoking and
connection -- a bridge between the body'seating  disorders.
immune system and the central nervous system
that is under control of the brain. WhileA potent example of hypnosis' power to affect
tracing nerves to bone marrow, lymph nodesphysiology through the brain connection is
and the spleen, Felten's team discovered aits medical use. Since all pain is
network of nerves leading to blood vessels astransmitted through the brain, the pain
well as to cells of the immune system. Theyassociated with surgery or medical conditions
found that nerves in the thymus and spleenresponds well to hypnosis. Hypnosis is an
terminated near clusters of lymphocytes andeffective anesthesia for surgeries, dental
mast cells, which help control immuneprocedures, childbirth and migraines. It also
function. In other words, the brainhelps patients to manage nausea and symptoms
absolutely communicates with immune-systemfrom chemotherapy by enhancing control over
cells.their  body  responses.
This establishes a close correlation betweenThe mind/body connection is the key to why
a person's mental state and physicalhypnosis can be used so successfully to
reactions. You can generate an emotion simplymanage our physiology. Hypnosis gives us the
by going through the appropriate musclepower to alter our mental attitudes for the
movements. For example, if you clench yourbetter; this in turn positively impacts our
fist and scowl, you will begin to feel anger.physical  being.
Force yourself to laugh and you will begin to
feel good. The specific muscle action is anIn light of this potent interplay between
integral part of the corresponding emotion.mind and body, we would do well to take
You cannot hold your features in theseriously the old Cole Porter song:
expression of one emotion and call up the"Accentuate the positive; eliminate the
feeling of a different emotion at the samenegative; latch on to the affirmative." And
time.  It  is  impossible  to  do.enjoy happy body chemistry as your reward!



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