Stress is a killer and that’s no idle comment, its a fact. Stress ages our bodies, causes cells to die in the millions, creates unhappiness and tiredness, affects our health, as well as creating many illnesses that would not otherwise have appeared in a normal healthy body. Following on from the last post Alternative Cures by Belief, alternative cures exist to deal with stress, but there are also some very average, very mundane and normal everyday things you can do to reduce the amount of stress in your life and improve your health at the same time.
Start by simply changing some of our habits.
Make an effort to slow down, like eating, walking and even talking more slowly and watch stress levels go down. Allow yourself extra time to do things. Avoid tensing your body unnecessarily and if you notice that your jaw is tight, then relax it and massage gently just below your ears to release tension and stress.
Altering your diet can make a big difference to your stress levels. Try avoiding some of the foods and drink that make you edgy or hyperactive, such as coffee, excess sugar, chocolate, yeast products and alcohol, although the occasional glass of wine (preferably red) is beneficial.
I know I’ve harked on about this before as a not so alternative cure for many ills, but drink two litres of plain water a day - this is because dehydration raises the heart rate which will make you feel even more anxious and stressed.
Try eating more of the cooling foods, such as melon, yoghurt, parsley, squash, spinach and fish. Herbal teas are also very good for helping you to relax and de-stress, especially camomile or lemon balm (melissa).
Often stress accumulates as tension in our neck and shoulders, so its a good idea to get someone to gently massage these areas. Indian tradition tells us that gaining control is all about letting go of stressful feelings. Yogic deep breathing exercises are easy to do. Try this simple exercise:
Breathe deeply in for three to four seconds, then breathe slowly out for the count of six, then hold your breath for a count of six and repeat the cycle for two minutes.
This deep breathing exercise can be used as a pre-meditation aid to help you to disperse all of the day’s stresses and troubles by taking some time out just for yourself - meditation is a wonderful way of re-balancing the body through deep relaxation.
No one needs to suffer from stress when there are so many simple measures that anyone can take to reduce stress from their lives. When stress levels are low, happiness levels soon rise, which can only ever be a good thing!
I’m going to follow up my last badly spelled (!) post here at Alternative Cures about The Power of Belief, with some more powerful proof that as alternative cures, the mind’s ability to create health or illness depending on what it is led to believe.
It is a fairly well known fact that surgeons and staff around the operating table are told not to talk about the patient’s state of health unless is it positive. The old days of surgeons joking to each other that “This one won’t live through the night” or joking quips of similar sentiment are long gone thanks to evidence that proved that a patient under anaesthetic can hear and remember conversations between the people surrounding the operating table upon waking up.
Imagine going to your doctor with chest pains and him saying to you “Just go home and give up, because you’ll be dead in the morning.” What do you think your chances of making it through the night would be after hearing that?
Much better to hear “Take these pills and you’ll be fine in a few days,” even if the pills won’t do much by themselves. Or going to an alternative cures specialist and being given certain herbs to take that will heal the illness. Just hearing words of positive reassurance convinces the mind that that by taking them you’ll recover from whatever it is you are suffering from, so that’s what is most likely will happen.
Ok, it doesn’t always work like a textbook case. Life isn’t like that. No two people are the same and what will work for one person may not for another. Alternative cures are no different in that they may work for one person and not another.
In the past in my alternative cures profession as a hypnotherapist, I’ve had people come to see me wanting to quit smoking and would have put money on them stopping and staying stopped - but only to be surprised when they book a second session a week later because they thought they were going to waver and return to the evil weed. On the other hand I once saw this guy who was in his 60s and had smoked 80 to 100 a day all his life and only decided to quit because his granddaughter had pleaded with him. Well, I normally expect someone who truly wants to quit to quit, but if they don’t want it in themselves but are forced into it by others, they rarely stay quit.
Well, that old guy walked out of my consulting rooms a non-smoker and his daughter actually telephoned my two years later to thank me (on behalf of her own daughter) as her little girl’s grandfather hadn’t even the slightest inclination to smoke in all that time.
The power of belief is incredible as it is devastating. I watched my own father dying of stomach cancer 4 years ago and there was nothing I could do to stop it - I think he had simply given up and accepted he would die.
That’s part of the problem and why you hear of seeming miracles when people go into full remission from what doctors believed were terminal illnesses and others don’t. The cure in the miracle cases could only have come from within - where the person was so strong or believed so completely that they would be cured that they recovered. Yet in other cases the belief surely is not there, or worse the belief inside is that they will not survive the illness, lending strength to the illness and not to the cure.
My grandmother is one of those people who simply will not believe she will be ill. At the age of 93 she had pert of her bowel removed in what for most people half her age would be considered a life-threatening operation. Yet she recovered from it with a few weeks totally amazing her doctor and set about returning to her usual daily routine which included running for the bus to go to her beloved bingo session three times a week.
She’s 96 now and doesn’t look like hanging her hat up anytime soon!
That’s the power of will and of belief for you. She doesn’t need any alternative cures because her remedies all come from inside her head.
I just hope I’ve inherited her genes and not my father’s!
This is not so much of an alternative cure as a cold hard fact. The power of belief is incredibly strong when it comes to matters of health.
When you believe that something will cure an illness, then most often that will be the case. When you believe that a particular diet or special program will help you to lose weight, then most often you will lose weight.
When the mind believes, you will achieve…
As a once alternative cure for many illnesses, the placebo eventually found its way into mainstream medicine when scientifically carried out studies were done on a huge variety of scenarios and in each one, the placebo was eith as effective or even more effective than the propriety medicine proscribed to treat the illness.
This shows the true power of belief - the people in these exhaustive trials that took the placebo believing they were taking a medicine that would cure their illness most often recovered from that illness as quickly or even faster than the people who took the medicine.
When I was practicing hypnotherapy in England several years ago, there was no more convincing phenomenon than women who would come to see me in order to lose weight and withing a few weeks would have lost a considerable amount of weight without any form of special diet or exercise routine whatsoever. It was built purely on the power of belief. They believed that my hypnosis sessions would make them lose weight without them having to do anything themselves. And because they believed that as fact, then the weight came off as if by magic.
I don’t have to prove anything to myself, because I saw it with my own two eyes. I know beyond any shadow of doubt that when a person truly believes something, then that something is as real as a chair or a table.
Conversely, when you believe you have a terminal illness, well what do you think will happen?
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