STUDY - Technical - New Dacian's Medicine
How
it Works... Our "Whole" (3).
Translation Draft
Summarizing the "information" presented in the previous posts, we come to perceive the polarity of all the basal actions at the level of our "whole".
Summarizing the "information" presented in the previous posts, we come to perceive the polarity of all the basal actions at the level of our "whole".
And
in this bipolar manifestation, the most important "polarities"
stand out to be love vs fear, parasympathetic vs sympathetic,
relaxation vs. activity. This is where our entire activity is
all about a kind of rocking chair, a two-tale balance, where
only balance is important. On the one hand it is that of love,
accumulation, relaxation which, of course, must be in perfect
balance with that of the other, that of fear, discharge and
activity. So you perceived correctly, paradoxically, it is not
good that this balance is in imbalance.
I will start with "unbalance" in a positive sense, the one dominated by parasympathetic activity, the pleasant one, the useful one, the one related to love, construction, repair, relaxation. Remember the cat experiment featured in previous posts? The group of cats that were trained to do so had carried out an almost general "activity" of immobility. Or, from ancient times, man has as his basic accumulation the idea that what you do not use will be taken from you (by God or by someone else). And then what's the point of love if you don't eat it?!? Isn't the clearest and most effective manifestation of love that is about what's around you?!? Isn't self-love more harmful than useful?!?
Why it is proven, both experimentally and from practice, that the love "given" to those around it has a increased net impact on the self-oriented one?!? For example, why does the new medicine tell us that the disease called allopathic medicine to be diabetes is closely related to self-love in its various manifest forms?!? Then, what's the existential point of having if you opt for immobility and complete relaxation?!? We are created to be a part and part of a whole. We are born from the participation of several parts of this whole and not by division into a single action. So we're created for interaction.
For example, why does it "melt" (atrophy), literally, our body when we opt for immobility, for inactivity, for complete relaxation or, worse, why obesity occurs when we have everything we need to act but we do not do it enough or correlated and in harmony with our real needs?!? What's the use of saving and accumulating power if you don't download it?!? So, the parasympathetic, described by scientists as the system dedicated to "love and build" activities, what's the point of interaction with everything that surrounds us?!? I think I'm getting all these questions that I'm going to answer in the posts that follow. I will "draw" only a small conclusion: everything is a kind of necessity to achieve a balance between the accumulation and the permanent and correct discharge of love within us.
Now, let us turn our attention to the other side of the balance, the one that appears in opposite conditions to the first, unbalanced in a negative sense, the one dominated by sympathetic activity, the pleasant one sometimes (when it does not cause too large imbalances and has a correct "source"), the useful one sometimes (in conditions where it is correctly oriented and has a correct "source"), the one related especially to fear , consumption, impairment, activity. Strange as it may seem, being the activity described by all scientific "branches" as the "fight or run", "win or lose" or any other similar description, it all comes down to... poison of the fears in us. Yes, you read well, the poison of the fears in us.
But unlike the other side of the balance, unlike the love that must be permanently unloaded, fear must be permanently undone, its discharge being a total mistake because fear attracts fear as love attracts love. Strange operation of our "whole", isn't it? This is why the engine of our entire existence is the love and nightmare of our entire existence is fear... And therefore, this is why any imbalance or misguided, selective orientation of their manifestation gives rise to stress.
Moreover, the study of the influence of the spirit on the body has always been connected with that of stress, a notion that, like that of information, has, as I said, exceeded the threshold of research laboratories entering into the language of general use. It is the body's reaction to emotions and generally to events that tend to disturb the balance balance that I mentioned above, which tend to disturb the internal balance of the body.
Walter Cannon and H. Selye are the first to study "organized and attested" the body's reactions to emotions. To remember here is a study in which Cannon studied the changes produced by fear by confronting a cat with a dog. Fear of the dog caused an avalanche of effects that were shown to be similar to those that occur after the administration of adrenaline: tachycardia, tachypnea, pupilodilation, piloerection, increased blood glucose, etc. It is understood in context that even the idea of imminent danger will trigger the same changes in the body (if you have gone through previous posts, the relationship between idea/thought and substance is demonstrated). Then, through his famous experiments on dogs, I.P. Pavlov noticed that the most aggressive effect on the nervous system is fear.
Incidentally, it in everyday life, from time immemorial, are often used phrases like "I died of fear" or "Frozen with fear" (with their multiple alternatives). Expressions are used figuratively, of course, but they also happen to be similar to the concrete manifestation of the human body (and not only), some people even dying of fear (I don't have to give examples of this – physiologically, the discharge of catecholamines is so brutal that it can cause death by heart attack or strokes or others). It is also said that, to demonstrate the effects of fear, a thousand years ago, the Arab scholar Ibn-Sina (Avicenna) placed a wolf next to a lamb, separating animals through a fence that allowed them to be seen at all times. Although he had enough food, the lamb began to lose weight at an accelerated rate, the wolf theme cutting off any appetite. And the examples could go on...
So fear, fear of danger, of unachieving, imaginary or real, straining us, poisoning our cells moment by moment, consuming our energies and, consequently, shortening our days and diminishing our yields. Moreover, any mental or physical aggression tends to disturb the internal balance of the body. As a result the body will respond through a series of reactions that tend to restore lost balance. This is the phenomenon of stress, in general terms, through stress, by understanding the suite of worries, worries, conflicts, etc. that occur daily, leaving their mark on the performance in activity, on our affective mood, which it upsets, and on the health that deteriorates over time. By the excess catecholamines it entails, stress can result, depending on the reactive peculiarities of the individual, the appearance of gastric/digestive ulcers, essential hypertension, colopathy, cardiac and cerebral accidents, various psychiatric disorders, etc.
In conclusion, stress is an inherent part of our lives, that we love or fear. The reactions involved, depending on the emotional coloration, will have favorable or unfavorable echo, defining what was eustres (the pleasant part that causes imbalances for pleasure, from the manifestations characterized by "love", such as, for example, the emotion tried at the thought of making a superb ascent on the mountain) and distress (anxiety that dominates you when you get stuck by a storm on the mountain slope). Although the biochemical echo of emotions seems to be the same, regardless of their coloration, the biological echo is, with rare exceptions, different. Our cells necessarily need, for their optimal functioning, the positive echo of emotions, because each cell, having its own intelligence, rejoices and suffers with us, as we die in every cell that dies.
Beyond the statement, each of us knows that in happy moments we fly, we are as easy as we are, our face is relaxed, our eyes have the glow of joy ("behearing" to everyone around us), and in moments of unhappiness we are more cumbersome, tense, dark in the face or "green" of annoyance. This is a physiological need for joy, not a simple pleasure that, if we don't, nothing bad will happen to us. Hence the need for the "joy to live" that we will discuss later, now it is necessary (in terms of the approach of the post) to focus on the negative echo of stress.
The man of modern life, by the degree of overwork to which technological civilization submits, the fast pace imposed on today's life, much faster than that of biological adaptation, through social uncertainties and tensions, by the permanent change of the "rules of the game" during the game itself, pays a heavy tribute to the pathology of stress. For this reason, it is necessary to develop a stress control strategy. And since stress cannot be avoided, psychologists have thought of a strategy of controlling it or "adjusting". One of the creators of this "current" was R. Lazarus, who published a series of works on the subject "delimiting" this phenomenological "effort" with the help of the term "coping".
After Lazarus and Folkman (1984), the term stress refers to a "particular relationship between the person and the environment, in which the person evaluates the environment as imposing demands that exceed his own resources and threatens his well-being, an assessment that triggers coping processes, namely cognitive, affective and behavioral responses to the feedback received". This definition brings to the fore several defining attributes for the person-stresser relationship, the latter seen as "physical, chemical, emotional, (and biological, n.e.) factor, producing bodily or mental tension" (Webster New Collegiate Dictionary, 1989), the most representative of which is the term "coping".
Coping refers to a "cognitive and behavioral effort to reduce, master or tolerate internal or external requests that exceed personal resources" (Lazarus and Folkman, ibid.). The analysis of this definition highlights an essential feature : coping is the illustration that stress emerges only from the relationship between subject and situation, being unthinkable outside the triad action-cognition-disadaptive behavior. The above definition is somewhat restrictive in relation to the broader notion of "adaptive strategies", which would also include the defensive mechanisms of unconscious sorghum, not subject to voluntary control.
As for the characteristics of coping, the cognitive paradigm starts from at least two essential premises: 1. coping requires conscious effort, directed at how the stressful situation is perceived, processed, stored; 2. coping implies a certain processuality, staging, which results in: a) anticipation of the situation (assessment of the cost of confrontation); b) the actual confrontation and the redefinition of the situation through the prism of confrontation; c) analysis of the personal significance of the post-confrontation situation.
There is a certain hierarchy at the level of the coping structure: cognitive coping occurs when the usual behavioural strategies become ineffective, too costly, when the possibilities of concrete intervention in the environment are limited, or when the time required for such intervention is too short. Distortions in the processing of information, redefining the stressful situation in convenient terms, acquire, in cognitive vision, a high adaptive value, although it can sometimes happen that there is a disagreement between what sets the subject "threatened" in its inner forum and the demands of pregnancy. Perceived from the outside sometimes as "self-deception" mechanisms, coping techniques of this type are commonly found in the clinic.
Overestimating the chances of healing and minimizing symptoms that announce a poor prognosis, without taking any real measures to remedy the status that attracted the condition (e.g. increased weight loss in a neoplastic patient, etc.) or unjustified optimism, generically referred to as "positive illusions" (Taylor and Brown, 1994), against the background of a failure to correct the status that attracted the problem, would make a definite modulating contribution to the stress caused by the disease. Not infrequently, a number of evaluations/distortions of this type can be followed by reassessments that no longer address the initial situation, but the imagined one, mentally constructed by the sick.
This phenomenon reaches its peak in the case of the formation of certain mental illnesses, and explains the increasing distance from reality of these patients (e.g. defensive mechanisms of the projective type, applied non-selectively, especially on a disarmonic personality type, such as the paranoid one); however, we also encounter it in various somatic diseases, with real psychological impact, a situation in which hypocompliance can be reached and aggravation of the initial prognosis.
In practice, even the exclusive and non-selective application of a single adaptive technique inevitably leads to disadaptation and breaking from reality. The essential attributes of the cognitive coping mechanisms in a healthy person would therefore represent flexibility and adequacy. The teleological orientation (towards purpose) of coping mechanisms should not in principle prevail over flexibility.
But, this is a theory that also has some "problems"... Mainly, those who support the limits of cognitive theory (psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, but also some somatic doctors) rely on the incompatibility between notions such as information processing, conscious cognitive restructuring, etc., and the possible underground evolution of a stressor (sometimes strictly unconscious), or its brutal evolution, which does not allow sufficient time for the mechanisms of conscious filtration and adaptation to act. Iamandescu (1993) considers that all stressors (physical, chemical, biological) ultimately induce a "secondary" psychological stress.
The stressful effect played by strong affective stimuli (e.g. violent disgust or brutal emotion at the sight of an accident) is evoked, as well as the psychological stress installed during an action with pleasant affective resonance for the subject, which insidiously generates a "state of fatigue, with the attributes of stress" (ibid.). After Shaffer (1982), quoted by L. Alexandrescu (1997), silent, insidious stressors "can trigger SGA (general adaptation syndrome) directly, without a conscious cognitive assessment", and "inevitable" agents (such as air pollution, continuous street noise, etc.) are automatically processed without the involvement of higher cognitive processes.
These points of view are opposed by other authors, who, also relying on previous research (the study of subception, the analysis of perceptual defense, the implicit, unconscious learning of artificial grammars) postulate the image of a cognitive unconscious (Miclea, 1997), which goes far beyond the classic "warm, moist, primitive and irrational" (ibid.) content of the Freudian unconscious. The cognitive unconscious would have certain informational and adaptive properties. This controversy, between the psychiatric – psychoanalytic point of view, and that of cognitive psychology, is still far from resolved. And eventually we will then study what is needed about this "coping".
The fact is that the defence strategy against stress includes several elements from which we will retain only what we find essential. Thus, one can act either directly on the stressful element or indirectly on the emotion generated by stress. The most effective solution is the attitude of avoiding the stressful event, of course, when possible. When the stressful event cannot be avoided, other paths can be adopted such as conscious minimization of effects, rationalization of the situation with finding a causal explanation, imaginary situation outside the situation (external observer, neutral) or instead of the opponent with an attempt to understand his motives and reaction. Finally, with a little will to impose in the psychic plane, the "subject" can distract from the effects of inevitable stress by switching to a real or imaginary happy event.
We can imagine in the most pleasant and impossible situations, watching sequence by sequence their effects on us. As bizarre as this strategy may seem to us, you will see that with only a little effort to master it becomes very effective. Our cells do not need the biochemical poison of unpleasant events which, with the exception of hereditary diseases and physical traumas (which, as the new medicine has demonstrated, also have their determinism), condition the ground on which our entire pathology is grafted, but on the beneficial effect of peace and satisfaction achieved psychologically. Control over the emotion generated by stress can be exercised by tempering your own reactions, aware of their consequences on us.
Turning to the "polarity" used as the initial argument of this post, we will look at the reaction of hyperactive cats in antithesis with the quiet ones. Two cardiologists, Rosenman and Fridman, studied the type of human behavior in relation to the incidence of myocardial infarction. In a category "A" included those who were found to have an increased frequency of coronary accidents. Here it was found that we are dealing with "hyperactive cats", being subjects (human) who are in constant alert, in competition with time, ambitious, eager to control any situation they find themselves in, to dominate, to conquer the top of the hierarchy (and the like).
Selye calls them "racehorses", being in constant motion, running. On the opposite pole is the type of behavior "B", slow, relaxed, willing to "delay for tomorrow what can not do today", individuals who are likened to "turtle" by their slow, unprecipitated walk, without the anguish of time that drains irreversibly. And, why not, there is a third category, as can result from the arguments so far, from this very post, that of balance, the one between these two types of behavior (A and B) and which is the ideal one. Returning, the risk of disease of category A is obvious and not only for coronary heart disease.
The state of permanent crunching, tension, is accompanied by an increased release of catecholamines that exceeds the amount that the body can use. Their excess leads to the suffering of all our cells, and the prolonged demand leads to the exhaustion of the sources of synthesis, leading to other pathological consequences. The ideal of defence would be to switch the type of behaviour from A to B, especially since we "benefit" from an organic inertia that will attract a slow progress towards B and thus place us in the most optimal position, that of balance (which, once we feel it, obviously, will be fine and we will stay there without skidding in B).
Therefore, to constantly adopt calm conduct, to act at our own biological pace regardless of imaginary or real "emergencies" of the moment. Exceeding our biological rhythm is easy to perceive due to the signals emitted by it represented by fatigue, crunching, exhaustion of good mood, etc. To have the power to abandon those situations for which we are not created. But these are words that only rarely does reality want to listen to. However, it was found that the action has a chance of success not by advising on the risk of disease but, unfortunately, only after the stroke (for example) has occurred.
Of course, it is easy to give advice to people, especially since it is very difficult for them to be followed in the context of interaction with individuals who have already formed their own conceptions of life, who are involved without exit in different situations of life. Moreover, our capacity for self-control is different from man to man. Some succeed, some don't. But even if we cannot radically change our type of behavior, being ultimately dictated by our biological structure, we still have a possibility of diminishing the effects of our permanent stress. Let us create breaks to restore our energy reserves by introducing moments of real relaxation, which will be like a purifying bath after a dusty road on a summer's day. It's the least you can hope for.
And, we always forget that our thought can replace reality (as we have demonstrated in previous posts, as the experiments have demonstrated, as science firmly states). I was saying the universe is thought, information. Man belongs to the universe. As a result, he himself is thinking, information. We are a set of energy quants, made after the project of an intelligence to which our intelligence is limited, foreign. If man is not perfect, despite the crystallized intelligence in him, the explanation is a matter of paradox. Man commits errors precisely through the instrument by which the Creator made it available to him to evolve.
This is free will, its possibility of option, of discerning between Good and Evil, between useful and useless, between fast and evil. Without this faculty at his disposal, which he possesses to the highest degree, even in relation to other animals, he would never have been able to develop a civilization, to separate us from the patterns of conduct imposed by nature, too little mobile to allow his involvement in creation. This is the paradox: we make mistakes through what our spiritual evolution should determine.
Hence the need for control of thought, of self-controlled direction of our psychic activity, which is directly related to the subconscious in which all the functional patterns or models of the organism are present. These patterns are at the heart of our entire physiology. Being themselves information, thought stored in the structures of the unconscious, can be controlled at will by the techniques of control of thought.
We have pointed out, we believe, enough so far, that any thought sent/issued by our brain, beyond semantic content, has a triple functionality through the support involved. It is, first, an energy field modulated into information-carrying signals. It then involves a biological change and a substantial molecular change. as a result, the spirit has the ability to control the health of its own body through the energy information model involved, through the biochemical and molecular changes it develops.
Consequently, we are how we think... That's why control of thought is the key to our transformation, to our whole future. A key role in this is what has been referred to as positive mental imageria. Each psychic event necessarily corresponds to a physical event, as I pointed out. As a result, the physical events within us will reflect the content of our mental images. Let's not forget that we come to this world with all those programs necessary for conduct in life. And, there's a need for clarification here.
It is necessary not to confuse the program with learning. It is known that these issues have long been debated and have been the subject of many disputes. if a human descendant did not have from birth the structures necessary anatomically and physiologically for the appropriation of articulated language, he would never speak (as, unfortunately, it happens both in a negative and positive way – remember the example of the student discovered that he does not have a brain, literally, the case presented in previous posts). So we have, in us, in cells and subconsciously, inscribed the programs of action, including those of healing. These programs can be triggered spontaneously, or directed, in the case of those trained by specific techniques.
If a process of curing a disease is imaginatively anticipated, we can achieve outstanding performance in serious, even incurable diseases, or shortenings, according to some authors with an average of 30% of the healing time in other sufferings (average means that it eliminates fast and quick healing times by performing the media – we have "forced" this statement because, obviously, the real healing times are much shorter but depend on the one who "applies" them. , the mode of application and not the status of the disease). it is as if we create through our thoughts a guide pattern inscribed in an energy field preceding the healing process. The formation of a positive mental image (as an action) that is part of that of the "self-images", already commented, is valid for our entire psychology, with implications in learning, affective living, social conduct, health and disease.
I mentioned above (possibly in previous posts) that during the state of relaxation there is a modified state of consciousness, intermediate between sleep and wakefulness, characterized by a generalized stabilization of brain functions on that of alpha rhythms (and with some training on the intrinsic alpha-teta state).
The technique of positive mental imaging consists in the formation during the state of relaxation of images that have as their inner universe. Consequently, through the technique of mental imaging we gain a dialogue with our own subconscious. There are numerous scientific records and comments of various authors (there is already a relatively extensive literature in this respect, exploited more by psychologists but also by the "adherents" of the new medicine) who describe at length the benefits of positive mental imaging starting from the different specialization of the two cerebral hemispheres. Thus, the left cerebral hemisphere is considered to be the seat of logical, rational, analytical and discursive thinking.
It is also the seat of decoding verbal and graphic messages, i.e. articulated language and writing. gives us a digital, sequentialized representation of the world. The right cerebral hemisphere would be the seat of symbolic, metaphorical language, intuitive thinking, analog representations, artistic and imaginative experiences. Our clear consciousness, conditioned by wakefulness, dominantly demands the left cerebral hemisphere while mental imaging involves putting it to rest, with the activation of the right cerebral hemisphere.
According to Jung, the right brain is the seat of language through which our unconscious/subconscious expresses itself. That's why it's a symbolic, metaphorical and intuitive language. Through mental imaging, a bridge is obtained between the consciousness dominantly oriented outwards and the modified consciousness, oriented towards our interior. This strikes a balance between our inside and the outside, between conscious and unconscious, a harmonization of our being, achieving much-needed harmony within and outside of us.
The development of inner consciousness allows us access to the only source of truth about us, which is inscribed in the depth of our subconscious. Being the expression of cosmic intelligence in us, it contains information not only about our own person but also about the Universe, because we witness its evolution from the "first wave of light" that was at "beginnings". That's why the book of the universe itself is inscribed in our subconscious. We have in our blood, in our cells, in our psyche the memory of all the beings that preceded us and the sign of the demiurge that created us. that is why, by developing this method of plunging into the darkness of our subconscious, we gain access to the world of symbols within us, of the truths that reach us to the light of reason, to the most complete source of knowledge.
Here lie the latent forces that are an extension of the cosmic force within us, here there is a library (be it akasha) that contains all the necessary data about us regarding our potentialities, desires, fulfillments and unfulfillments, conflicts, frustrations, causes of diseases and ways of healing. Here lies a world that we will initially be frightened of, because it represents the trace of all the events that our spirit witnessed in its cosmic odyssey.
And, that's enough for today... No more today's odyssey!!!
I will start with "unbalance" in a positive sense, the one dominated by parasympathetic activity, the pleasant one, the useful one, the one related to love, construction, repair, relaxation. Remember the cat experiment featured in previous posts? The group of cats that were trained to do so had carried out an almost general "activity" of immobility. Or, from ancient times, man has as his basic accumulation the idea that what you do not use will be taken from you (by God or by someone else). And then what's the point of love if you don't eat it?!? Isn't the clearest and most effective manifestation of love that is about what's around you?!? Isn't self-love more harmful than useful?!?
Why it is proven, both experimentally and from practice, that the love "given" to those around it has a increased net impact on the self-oriented one?!? For example, why does the new medicine tell us that the disease called allopathic medicine to be diabetes is closely related to self-love in its various manifest forms?!? Then, what's the existential point of having if you opt for immobility and complete relaxation?!? We are created to be a part and part of a whole. We are born from the participation of several parts of this whole and not by division into a single action. So we're created for interaction.
For example, why does it "melt" (atrophy), literally, our body when we opt for immobility, for inactivity, for complete relaxation or, worse, why obesity occurs when we have everything we need to act but we do not do it enough or correlated and in harmony with our real needs?!? What's the use of saving and accumulating power if you don't download it?!? So, the parasympathetic, described by scientists as the system dedicated to "love and build" activities, what's the point of interaction with everything that surrounds us?!? I think I'm getting all these questions that I'm going to answer in the posts that follow. I will "draw" only a small conclusion: everything is a kind of necessity to achieve a balance between the accumulation and the permanent and correct discharge of love within us.
Now, let us turn our attention to the other side of the balance, the one that appears in opposite conditions to the first, unbalanced in a negative sense, the one dominated by sympathetic activity, the pleasant one sometimes (when it does not cause too large imbalances and has a correct "source"), the useful one sometimes (in conditions where it is correctly oriented and has a correct "source"), the one related especially to fear , consumption, impairment, activity. Strange as it may seem, being the activity described by all scientific "branches" as the "fight or run", "win or lose" or any other similar description, it all comes down to... poison of the fears in us. Yes, you read well, the poison of the fears in us.
But unlike the other side of the balance, unlike the love that must be permanently unloaded, fear must be permanently undone, its discharge being a total mistake because fear attracts fear as love attracts love. Strange operation of our "whole", isn't it? This is why the engine of our entire existence is the love and nightmare of our entire existence is fear... And therefore, this is why any imbalance or misguided, selective orientation of their manifestation gives rise to stress.
Moreover, the study of the influence of the spirit on the body has always been connected with that of stress, a notion that, like that of information, has, as I said, exceeded the threshold of research laboratories entering into the language of general use. It is the body's reaction to emotions and generally to events that tend to disturb the balance balance that I mentioned above, which tend to disturb the internal balance of the body.
Walter Cannon and H. Selye are the first to study "organized and attested" the body's reactions to emotions. To remember here is a study in which Cannon studied the changes produced by fear by confronting a cat with a dog. Fear of the dog caused an avalanche of effects that were shown to be similar to those that occur after the administration of adrenaline: tachycardia, tachypnea, pupilodilation, piloerection, increased blood glucose, etc. It is understood in context that even the idea of imminent danger will trigger the same changes in the body (if you have gone through previous posts, the relationship between idea/thought and substance is demonstrated). Then, through his famous experiments on dogs, I.P. Pavlov noticed that the most aggressive effect on the nervous system is fear.
Incidentally, it in everyday life, from time immemorial, are often used phrases like "I died of fear" or "Frozen with fear" (with their multiple alternatives). Expressions are used figuratively, of course, but they also happen to be similar to the concrete manifestation of the human body (and not only), some people even dying of fear (I don't have to give examples of this – physiologically, the discharge of catecholamines is so brutal that it can cause death by heart attack or strokes or others). It is also said that, to demonstrate the effects of fear, a thousand years ago, the Arab scholar Ibn-Sina (Avicenna) placed a wolf next to a lamb, separating animals through a fence that allowed them to be seen at all times. Although he had enough food, the lamb began to lose weight at an accelerated rate, the wolf theme cutting off any appetite. And the examples could go on...
So fear, fear of danger, of unachieving, imaginary or real, straining us, poisoning our cells moment by moment, consuming our energies and, consequently, shortening our days and diminishing our yields. Moreover, any mental or physical aggression tends to disturb the internal balance of the body. As a result the body will respond through a series of reactions that tend to restore lost balance. This is the phenomenon of stress, in general terms, through stress, by understanding the suite of worries, worries, conflicts, etc. that occur daily, leaving their mark on the performance in activity, on our affective mood, which it upsets, and on the health that deteriorates over time. By the excess catecholamines it entails, stress can result, depending on the reactive peculiarities of the individual, the appearance of gastric/digestive ulcers, essential hypertension, colopathy, cardiac and cerebral accidents, various psychiatric disorders, etc.
In conclusion, stress is an inherent part of our lives, that we love or fear. The reactions involved, depending on the emotional coloration, will have favorable or unfavorable echo, defining what was eustres (the pleasant part that causes imbalances for pleasure, from the manifestations characterized by "love", such as, for example, the emotion tried at the thought of making a superb ascent on the mountain) and distress (anxiety that dominates you when you get stuck by a storm on the mountain slope). Although the biochemical echo of emotions seems to be the same, regardless of their coloration, the biological echo is, with rare exceptions, different. Our cells necessarily need, for their optimal functioning, the positive echo of emotions, because each cell, having its own intelligence, rejoices and suffers with us, as we die in every cell that dies.
Beyond the statement, each of us knows that in happy moments we fly, we are as easy as we are, our face is relaxed, our eyes have the glow of joy ("behearing" to everyone around us), and in moments of unhappiness we are more cumbersome, tense, dark in the face or "green" of annoyance. This is a physiological need for joy, not a simple pleasure that, if we don't, nothing bad will happen to us. Hence the need for the "joy to live" that we will discuss later, now it is necessary (in terms of the approach of the post) to focus on the negative echo of stress.
The man of modern life, by the degree of overwork to which technological civilization submits, the fast pace imposed on today's life, much faster than that of biological adaptation, through social uncertainties and tensions, by the permanent change of the "rules of the game" during the game itself, pays a heavy tribute to the pathology of stress. For this reason, it is necessary to develop a stress control strategy. And since stress cannot be avoided, psychologists have thought of a strategy of controlling it or "adjusting". One of the creators of this "current" was R. Lazarus, who published a series of works on the subject "delimiting" this phenomenological "effort" with the help of the term "coping".
After Lazarus and Folkman (1984), the term stress refers to a "particular relationship between the person and the environment, in which the person evaluates the environment as imposing demands that exceed his own resources and threatens his well-being, an assessment that triggers coping processes, namely cognitive, affective and behavioral responses to the feedback received". This definition brings to the fore several defining attributes for the person-stresser relationship, the latter seen as "physical, chemical, emotional, (and biological, n.e.) factor, producing bodily or mental tension" (Webster New Collegiate Dictionary, 1989), the most representative of which is the term "coping".
Coping refers to a "cognitive and behavioral effort to reduce, master or tolerate internal or external requests that exceed personal resources" (Lazarus and Folkman, ibid.). The analysis of this definition highlights an essential feature : coping is the illustration that stress emerges only from the relationship between subject and situation, being unthinkable outside the triad action-cognition-disadaptive behavior. The above definition is somewhat restrictive in relation to the broader notion of "adaptive strategies", which would also include the defensive mechanisms of unconscious sorghum, not subject to voluntary control.
As for the characteristics of coping, the cognitive paradigm starts from at least two essential premises: 1. coping requires conscious effort, directed at how the stressful situation is perceived, processed, stored; 2. coping implies a certain processuality, staging, which results in: a) anticipation of the situation (assessment of the cost of confrontation); b) the actual confrontation and the redefinition of the situation through the prism of confrontation; c) analysis of the personal significance of the post-confrontation situation.
There is a certain hierarchy at the level of the coping structure: cognitive coping occurs when the usual behavioural strategies become ineffective, too costly, when the possibilities of concrete intervention in the environment are limited, or when the time required for such intervention is too short. Distortions in the processing of information, redefining the stressful situation in convenient terms, acquire, in cognitive vision, a high adaptive value, although it can sometimes happen that there is a disagreement between what sets the subject "threatened" in its inner forum and the demands of pregnancy. Perceived from the outside sometimes as "self-deception" mechanisms, coping techniques of this type are commonly found in the clinic.
Overestimating the chances of healing and minimizing symptoms that announce a poor prognosis, without taking any real measures to remedy the status that attracted the condition (e.g. increased weight loss in a neoplastic patient, etc.) or unjustified optimism, generically referred to as "positive illusions" (Taylor and Brown, 1994), against the background of a failure to correct the status that attracted the problem, would make a definite modulating contribution to the stress caused by the disease. Not infrequently, a number of evaluations/distortions of this type can be followed by reassessments that no longer address the initial situation, but the imagined one, mentally constructed by the sick.
This phenomenon reaches its peak in the case of the formation of certain mental illnesses, and explains the increasing distance from reality of these patients (e.g. defensive mechanisms of the projective type, applied non-selectively, especially on a disarmonic personality type, such as the paranoid one); however, we also encounter it in various somatic diseases, with real psychological impact, a situation in which hypocompliance can be reached and aggravation of the initial prognosis.
In practice, even the exclusive and non-selective application of a single adaptive technique inevitably leads to disadaptation and breaking from reality. The essential attributes of the cognitive coping mechanisms in a healthy person would therefore represent flexibility and adequacy. The teleological orientation (towards purpose) of coping mechanisms should not in principle prevail over flexibility.
But, this is a theory that also has some "problems"... Mainly, those who support the limits of cognitive theory (psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, but also some somatic doctors) rely on the incompatibility between notions such as information processing, conscious cognitive restructuring, etc., and the possible underground evolution of a stressor (sometimes strictly unconscious), or its brutal evolution, which does not allow sufficient time for the mechanisms of conscious filtration and adaptation to act. Iamandescu (1993) considers that all stressors (physical, chemical, biological) ultimately induce a "secondary" psychological stress.
The stressful effect played by strong affective stimuli (e.g. violent disgust or brutal emotion at the sight of an accident) is evoked, as well as the psychological stress installed during an action with pleasant affective resonance for the subject, which insidiously generates a "state of fatigue, with the attributes of stress" (ibid.). After Shaffer (1982), quoted by L. Alexandrescu (1997), silent, insidious stressors "can trigger SGA (general adaptation syndrome) directly, without a conscious cognitive assessment", and "inevitable" agents (such as air pollution, continuous street noise, etc.) are automatically processed without the involvement of higher cognitive processes.
These points of view are opposed by other authors, who, also relying on previous research (the study of subception, the analysis of perceptual defense, the implicit, unconscious learning of artificial grammars) postulate the image of a cognitive unconscious (Miclea, 1997), which goes far beyond the classic "warm, moist, primitive and irrational" (ibid.) content of the Freudian unconscious. The cognitive unconscious would have certain informational and adaptive properties. This controversy, between the psychiatric – psychoanalytic point of view, and that of cognitive psychology, is still far from resolved. And eventually we will then study what is needed about this "coping".
The fact is that the defence strategy against stress includes several elements from which we will retain only what we find essential. Thus, one can act either directly on the stressful element or indirectly on the emotion generated by stress. The most effective solution is the attitude of avoiding the stressful event, of course, when possible. When the stressful event cannot be avoided, other paths can be adopted such as conscious minimization of effects, rationalization of the situation with finding a causal explanation, imaginary situation outside the situation (external observer, neutral) or instead of the opponent with an attempt to understand his motives and reaction. Finally, with a little will to impose in the psychic plane, the "subject" can distract from the effects of inevitable stress by switching to a real or imaginary happy event.
We can imagine in the most pleasant and impossible situations, watching sequence by sequence their effects on us. As bizarre as this strategy may seem to us, you will see that with only a little effort to master it becomes very effective. Our cells do not need the biochemical poison of unpleasant events which, with the exception of hereditary diseases and physical traumas (which, as the new medicine has demonstrated, also have their determinism), condition the ground on which our entire pathology is grafted, but on the beneficial effect of peace and satisfaction achieved psychologically. Control over the emotion generated by stress can be exercised by tempering your own reactions, aware of their consequences on us.
Turning to the "polarity" used as the initial argument of this post, we will look at the reaction of hyperactive cats in antithesis with the quiet ones. Two cardiologists, Rosenman and Fridman, studied the type of human behavior in relation to the incidence of myocardial infarction. In a category "A" included those who were found to have an increased frequency of coronary accidents. Here it was found that we are dealing with "hyperactive cats", being subjects (human) who are in constant alert, in competition with time, ambitious, eager to control any situation they find themselves in, to dominate, to conquer the top of the hierarchy (and the like).
Selye calls them "racehorses", being in constant motion, running. On the opposite pole is the type of behavior "B", slow, relaxed, willing to "delay for tomorrow what can not do today", individuals who are likened to "turtle" by their slow, unprecipitated walk, without the anguish of time that drains irreversibly. And, why not, there is a third category, as can result from the arguments so far, from this very post, that of balance, the one between these two types of behavior (A and B) and which is the ideal one. Returning, the risk of disease of category A is obvious and not only for coronary heart disease.
The state of permanent crunching, tension, is accompanied by an increased release of catecholamines that exceeds the amount that the body can use. Their excess leads to the suffering of all our cells, and the prolonged demand leads to the exhaustion of the sources of synthesis, leading to other pathological consequences. The ideal of defence would be to switch the type of behaviour from A to B, especially since we "benefit" from an organic inertia that will attract a slow progress towards B and thus place us in the most optimal position, that of balance (which, once we feel it, obviously, will be fine and we will stay there without skidding in B).
Therefore, to constantly adopt calm conduct, to act at our own biological pace regardless of imaginary or real "emergencies" of the moment. Exceeding our biological rhythm is easy to perceive due to the signals emitted by it represented by fatigue, crunching, exhaustion of good mood, etc. To have the power to abandon those situations for which we are not created. But these are words that only rarely does reality want to listen to. However, it was found that the action has a chance of success not by advising on the risk of disease but, unfortunately, only after the stroke (for example) has occurred.
Of course, it is easy to give advice to people, especially since it is very difficult for them to be followed in the context of interaction with individuals who have already formed their own conceptions of life, who are involved without exit in different situations of life. Moreover, our capacity for self-control is different from man to man. Some succeed, some don't. But even if we cannot radically change our type of behavior, being ultimately dictated by our biological structure, we still have a possibility of diminishing the effects of our permanent stress. Let us create breaks to restore our energy reserves by introducing moments of real relaxation, which will be like a purifying bath after a dusty road on a summer's day. It's the least you can hope for.
And, we always forget that our thought can replace reality (as we have demonstrated in previous posts, as the experiments have demonstrated, as science firmly states). I was saying the universe is thought, information. Man belongs to the universe. As a result, he himself is thinking, information. We are a set of energy quants, made after the project of an intelligence to which our intelligence is limited, foreign. If man is not perfect, despite the crystallized intelligence in him, the explanation is a matter of paradox. Man commits errors precisely through the instrument by which the Creator made it available to him to evolve.
This is free will, its possibility of option, of discerning between Good and Evil, between useful and useless, between fast and evil. Without this faculty at his disposal, which he possesses to the highest degree, even in relation to other animals, he would never have been able to develop a civilization, to separate us from the patterns of conduct imposed by nature, too little mobile to allow his involvement in creation. This is the paradox: we make mistakes through what our spiritual evolution should determine.
Hence the need for control of thought, of self-controlled direction of our psychic activity, which is directly related to the subconscious in which all the functional patterns or models of the organism are present. These patterns are at the heart of our entire physiology. Being themselves information, thought stored in the structures of the unconscious, can be controlled at will by the techniques of control of thought.
We have pointed out, we believe, enough so far, that any thought sent/issued by our brain, beyond semantic content, has a triple functionality through the support involved. It is, first, an energy field modulated into information-carrying signals. It then involves a biological change and a substantial molecular change. as a result, the spirit has the ability to control the health of its own body through the energy information model involved, through the biochemical and molecular changes it develops.
Consequently, we are how we think... That's why control of thought is the key to our transformation, to our whole future. A key role in this is what has been referred to as positive mental imageria. Each psychic event necessarily corresponds to a physical event, as I pointed out. As a result, the physical events within us will reflect the content of our mental images. Let's not forget that we come to this world with all those programs necessary for conduct in life. And, there's a need for clarification here.
It is necessary not to confuse the program with learning. It is known that these issues have long been debated and have been the subject of many disputes. if a human descendant did not have from birth the structures necessary anatomically and physiologically for the appropriation of articulated language, he would never speak (as, unfortunately, it happens both in a negative and positive way – remember the example of the student discovered that he does not have a brain, literally, the case presented in previous posts). So we have, in us, in cells and subconsciously, inscribed the programs of action, including those of healing. These programs can be triggered spontaneously, or directed, in the case of those trained by specific techniques.
If a process of curing a disease is imaginatively anticipated, we can achieve outstanding performance in serious, even incurable diseases, or shortenings, according to some authors with an average of 30% of the healing time in other sufferings (average means that it eliminates fast and quick healing times by performing the media – we have "forced" this statement because, obviously, the real healing times are much shorter but depend on the one who "applies" them. , the mode of application and not the status of the disease). it is as if we create through our thoughts a guide pattern inscribed in an energy field preceding the healing process. The formation of a positive mental image (as an action) that is part of that of the "self-images", already commented, is valid for our entire psychology, with implications in learning, affective living, social conduct, health and disease.
I mentioned above (possibly in previous posts) that during the state of relaxation there is a modified state of consciousness, intermediate between sleep and wakefulness, characterized by a generalized stabilization of brain functions on that of alpha rhythms (and with some training on the intrinsic alpha-teta state).
The technique of positive mental imaging consists in the formation during the state of relaxation of images that have as their inner universe. Consequently, through the technique of mental imaging we gain a dialogue with our own subconscious. There are numerous scientific records and comments of various authors (there is already a relatively extensive literature in this respect, exploited more by psychologists but also by the "adherents" of the new medicine) who describe at length the benefits of positive mental imaging starting from the different specialization of the two cerebral hemispheres. Thus, the left cerebral hemisphere is considered to be the seat of logical, rational, analytical and discursive thinking.
It is also the seat of decoding verbal and graphic messages, i.e. articulated language and writing. gives us a digital, sequentialized representation of the world. The right cerebral hemisphere would be the seat of symbolic, metaphorical language, intuitive thinking, analog representations, artistic and imaginative experiences. Our clear consciousness, conditioned by wakefulness, dominantly demands the left cerebral hemisphere while mental imaging involves putting it to rest, with the activation of the right cerebral hemisphere.
According to Jung, the right brain is the seat of language through which our unconscious/subconscious expresses itself. That's why it's a symbolic, metaphorical and intuitive language. Through mental imaging, a bridge is obtained between the consciousness dominantly oriented outwards and the modified consciousness, oriented towards our interior. This strikes a balance between our inside and the outside, between conscious and unconscious, a harmonization of our being, achieving much-needed harmony within and outside of us.
The development of inner consciousness allows us access to the only source of truth about us, which is inscribed in the depth of our subconscious. Being the expression of cosmic intelligence in us, it contains information not only about our own person but also about the Universe, because we witness its evolution from the "first wave of light" that was at "beginnings". That's why the book of the universe itself is inscribed in our subconscious. We have in our blood, in our cells, in our psyche the memory of all the beings that preceded us and the sign of the demiurge that created us. that is why, by developing this method of plunging into the darkness of our subconscious, we gain access to the world of symbols within us, of the truths that reach us to the light of reason, to the most complete source of knowledge.
Here lie the latent forces that are an extension of the cosmic force within us, here there is a library (be it akasha) that contains all the necessary data about us regarding our potentialities, desires, fulfillments and unfulfillments, conflicts, frustrations, causes of diseases and ways of healing. Here lies a world that we will initially be frightened of, because it represents the trace of all the events that our spirit witnessed in its cosmic odyssey.
And, that's enough for today... No more today's odyssey!!!
Love,
Gratitude and Understanding (Namaste)!!!
Dorin, Merticaru