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Dr. Amir Farid Isahak, located in New York, is currently studying how
energy control relates to the mind and body, and ailments that are still
not understood today, but I'm sure there is a pill for it, if you
habitually follow others. The use of the mind in controlling diseases is
a new field of study much over due.
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Balancing Energy and the Mind
25 February 2007 - thestar.com
Psycho-neuro-energetics (PNE) is the science of how the
workings of the mind affect the energy balance and health of the
organs, and how your energy status reflects on your state-of-mind,
emotions, behaviour, character, and health.
RECENTLY I received a letter from a qigong and martial arts exponent
in New York, the united States, who wanted to share his experience
with using qigong in helping people with traumatic brain injuries
and fibromyalgia. He reported much improvement in these patients
after using a combination of integrated concepts and techniques,
including qigong, which he found to be “very helpful”.
Fibromyalgia (FM) is an intriguing and complex syndrome, and remains
a medical enigma. Symptoms include widespread musculoskeletal aches,
pain, stiffness, soft tissue tenderness, general fatigue, and sleep
disturbances. Severe migratory pain and profound fatigue are the two
major problems that make FM a mentally and physically debilitating
condition.
Doctors still don’t know why it happens, though research has
revealed some clues. Most researchers agree that it is a disorder of
the brain’s central processing and the
neuro-endocrine/neuro-transmitter regulatory systems.
While analgesics and other drugs are used for treatment (in
conjunction with exercise and physiotherapy), the lack of
successful, long-term results have made complementary therapies
useful adjuncts in the overall care of the sufferers.
The role of complementary therapies in fibromyalgia probably
reflects the situation with many other medical conditions where
modern medicine cannot offer satisfactory treatments or cures.
Qigong and other energy-healing methods should be tried more often,
especially since no chemicals or needles are involved.
Another medical enigma is chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), a
condition that is similar to FM and continues to baffle doctors.
While pain is the dominant symptom of FM, fatigue is the hallmark of
CFS. In practice, many physicians do not distinguish the two.
CFS is diagnosed by three criteria:
1. Severe chronic fatigue of six months or longer duration with
other known medical conditions excluded by clinical diagnosis;
2. Concurrently have four or more of the following symptoms:
substantial impairment in short-term memory or concentration; sore
throat; tender lymph nodes; muscle pain; multi-joint pain without
swelling or redness; headaches of a new type, pattern or severity;
unrefreshing sleep; and post-exertional malaise lasting more than 24
hours;
3. The symptoms must have persisted or recurred during six or more
consecutive months of illness and must not have predated the
fatigue.
The cause of CFS remains unknown, despite vigorous search.
Currently, it is believed that CFS represents a common endpoint of
disease resulting from multiple precipitating factors, including
infective agents, immune-defects, neuro-endocrine imbalance, and
neuro-transmitter malfunction.
Like FM, symptoms vary considerably over time, and managing CFS can
be as complex as the illness itself. There is no drug specific for
CFS, and definitely no cure. As such, even the US government’s CDC
(Center for Disease Control) recommends a combination of
conventional and alternative (complementary) therapies!
You would have realised that fatigue or severe lack of
energy/exhaustion are common symptoms of both syndromes, and that
neuro-endocrine and neuro-transmitter problems are high on the
suspicion list of both (as causative or contributing factors).
So today, I shall introduce psycho-neuro-energetics (PNE) – the
science of the inter-relationships of the mind, the nervous system
and the energies in your body; how the workings of your mind affect
the energy balance and health of your organs; and conversely how
your energy status reflects on your state-of-mind, emotions,
behaviour, character, and health.
In Mind Over Matter, (see www.sperqigong.com) I had explained about
neuro-endocrinology (NE) and psycho-neuro-immunology (PNI). Through
the brain, the mind uses neuro-transmitters and hormones to
influence and command cells and organs, and thus no cell or organ
is free from the mind’s control. The mind also uses energy to
influence all the cells and organs, and also to influence events
beyond the body.
The mind, stress and disease
Mental stress is very much underestimated as a cause of ill-health.
Many physical illnesses have stress as the underlying cause, or
major contributing factor. Cancer, heart disease, hypertension,
stroke and diabetes are some of these. With better understanding of
the mind and how it ultimately controls the functions of the rest of
the body, more and more diseases and syndromes will be blamed on
mental stress.
Modern living and the adoption of secular goals have made humans so
stress-prone. The abandoning of spiritual values means everybody is
never satisfied with what they have, and profit-and-success-driven
mentality means everyone is working harder to achieve more and more,
often at the expense of other more important things in life, and
increasing stress.
When dealing with stress, my advice has always been to change
mindsets, goals, values, and to be more spiritual. And of course I
include qi-breathing and qigong exercises as stress-busting
techniques as well.
Being spiritual does not just mean being more religious (many
religious bigots and fanatics cause everyone more stress by their
actions), but being wiser and more godly. If the paramount
attributes of God are love, mercy and compassion, then the spiritual
person will exude love, mercy and compassion in his (or her)
personality. Such a person brings peace to himself and to everyone
around him.
If you are religious and spiritual, you are more likely to be more
understanding, tolerant and compassionate, and your relationships
should last through the most difficult crises.
Nowadays, couples with children have to leave their kids under the
care of maids (or grandparents if they are lucky) since both have to
work to cope with the ever-spiralling cost of living. Even if the
children go to school or college, they have little time with their
parents who are always out at work or busy with their many business
or social meetings. And when the parents do realise this, they find
out that their children have become strangers who don’t take their
advice anymore. They just don’t understand one another. More stress!
Healthcare is eating up the budget of many countries (and
individuals) as the modern stressful lifestyle contributes heavily
to diseases. This causes more stress on the patient, family, and
employer. What is surely not fully realised is the mental distress
borne by many of us who do not yet have physical symptoms or overt
health problems.
The role of stress in causing disease is now better understood,
especially with the emergence of NE, PNI and psychosomatics. Dr Ryke
Geerd Hamer, a German doctor, has brought this concept to the
extreme. After many years of extensive research, he concluded
that most diseases, including cancer, are brought about by extreme
stress or shock for which we are totally unprepared for.
Twenty years ago, he had received a call in the middle of the night.
His 17-year old son Dirk had been shot while on holiday in the
Mediterranean. Three months later, Dirk died and shortly after, Dr
Hamer, who had been healthy all his life, but who was utterly
devastated by this catastrophe, found he had testicular cancer.
Rather suspicious about this coincidence, he set about doing
research on the personal histories of cancer patients to see whether
they had suffered some shock, distress or trauma before their
illness (for the full story, see www.newmedicine.ca).
According to him, cancer is a biological response to an unusual
situation, and when the “shock” situation is resolved, the body
sets about returning to normality. Most importantly, if we can
in any way be prepared for the stressful event, we will not become
ill.
His ideas were of course controversial, and got him into trouble
with the medical authorities. As a result, his license to practise
medicine was withdrawn, and he has been in and out of jail. Dr Hamer
believes very strongly that the present methods of dealing with
cancer are barbarous, cruel and completely unnecessary. This opinion
does not make him many friends among his colleagues.
I am relating this story to highlight the thousands of cases he
researched that showed the very strong connection between stress and
cancer.
Even if we reject his conclusion, we cannot reject this fact that
there is a strong correlation between the two. And since stress is a
state-of-mind, then modifying this mindset should be able to modify
the risks of the stress translating to disease.
The mind, stress and fatigue
Most of you will be familiar with the feeling of being drained of
energy whenever you are stressed or depressed. Negative emotions
shut out the mind’s command over the energies that it normally
controls.
The qigong master must be in total control of his emotions to be
able to control his qi. Positive emotions, like happiness, on the
other hand, enhance this control. To smile and be happy are
pre-requisites to practising qigong!
At the molecular level, we know that all cellular activities
important for survival and good health are energetic processes. So,
even scientifically, it is expected that anything that disrupts the
availability of energy to the cells can cause disease.
But science only talks about caloric and photonic energies, which
are not enough to explain why people get fatigued, even if they
drink glucose or have so much stored energy (fat deposits)
available.
If the availability of qi (life-force) is brought into the equation,
then a lot more can be explained. Perhaps when science catches up
with qi acnd metaphysics, we will have better understanding of the
mysterious syndromes, and have more hope of relief or even cures for
the millions of sufferers.
The mind can have absolute control over the workings of qi, but much
less influence on the metabolic production of energy (from sugars
and fats) in the body.
I believe we can solve many health problems by combining our
knowledge of neuro-endocrinology, psych-neuro-immunology, and
psycho-neuro-energetics. The answer lies in understanding what the
different kinds of bio-energy can do for you. Energy Medicine is
indeed the next frontier of medicine!
# Dr Amir Farid Isahak is a medical specialist who practises
holistic, aesthetic and anti-ageing medicine. He is a qigong master
and founder of SuperQigong.
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