Swami Vijnananand vision.
In series of Blogs under “Disease Cure”, we saw in
details the relation of Health with Emotions directly and Mind indirectly. The
theory of ‘Recipropathy’ is also explained in details. The advice of Swami Vijnananand
to “add peace to the prescription” is seen to be acceptable as per the
latest findings in the field of human health. Swamiji often mentioned while he
put forward his analysis fifty and odd years earlier, that “I am telling the
facts which shall be appreciated in 21st century”.
While the mental stress related reasons have assumed
major base for the ill-health and as depression has become the second largest
disease of 21st century, thinkers in the field are required to go
into the details of remedies and peruse the policy makers to evolve suitable
policies for implementation.
In the first part we reviewed latest research in this
field. We shall see some more developments in the field of health in light of
the information provided under the articles in this series.
From the
book: Mind over Medicine: Foreword By - Kris Carr New York Times best-selling author. (Author –
Lissa Rankin, published 2013)
As
technology and science continue to make remarkable advances, we have so much at
our fingertips, advantages our ancestors never had. And yet, it’s common to
experience heightened stress and anxiety. We feel separate, afraid, and alone.
These feelings and more lead to tangible physical changes in the body. Contrary
to what we previously believed, our genes are not fixed. The study of
epigenetics proves that our genes are actually fluid, flexible, and highly
influenced by our environment. External life- style triggers like nutrition, environment,
exercise, positive or negative thoughts, and emotions literally affect your
DNA.
About
gratitude and appreciation, or belittlement and abuse? Change your thoughts,
change your behaviors. Change your behaviors, change your biochemistry. As Lissa
explains, our minds can make us sick and they can make us well. Our feelings
and beliefs impact our every cell. She
explains, using some of the latest scientific research.
Excerpts
from book:
“The
peer-reviewed medical literature, where I sought scientific proof that you can
heal yourself in journals like the New England Journal of Medicine and the
Journal of the American Medical Association”. Is there scientific data to
support the seemingly miraculous stories of self-healing that float around?
There’s
proof that you can radically alter your body’s physiology just by changing your
mind. There’s also
proof that you can make yourself sick when your mind thinks unhealthy thoughts.
And it’s not just mental. It’s physiological. How does it happen? Un-
healthy thoughts and feelings translate into disease and healthy thoughts and
feelings help the body repair itself. One positive shift in your mental
attitude can make you live ten years longer, one work habit can increase your
risk of dying, and that a pleasurable activity you probably never linked to a
healthy life can dramatically reduce your risk of heart disease, stroke, and
breast cancer. These are just a few of the scientifically verifiable facts
shared in this book.
(FOR MORE
DETAILS SEE VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcai0i2tJt0)
Other
findings in the latest research substantiate role of Mind in Health.
1 Happiness and Satisfaction Might Lead To Better
Health.
2 Patients' perceptions of
illness make a difference.
3
Sincerity Can Improve Our Health.
4
Mind with Purpose Preserves Brain Health.
5
Health-care providers are prescribing nontraditional medicine: Use of mind-body
therapies on the rise.
6 From Bruce
Lipton May 2015 Newsletter. On Medical profession and death.
1 Happiness and Satisfaction Might Lead To Better Health
Date: September 2, 2008. Source: Center for the Advancement of
Health
It's the opposite of a vicious
cycle: Healthy people might be happier, and a new study shows that people who
are happy and satisfied with their lives might be healthier.
“We found
strong evidence that both happiness and life satisfaction have an effect on our
indicators of health,” Siahpush said.
Story Source: The above post is reprinted from materials provided by Center for the Advancement of Health.
2 Patients' perceptions of illness make a differenceJanuary 27, 2012, Association for Psychological Science
Whenever we fall ill, there are many different
factors that come together to influence the course of our illness. Additional
medical conditions, stress levels, and social support all have an impact on our
health and well-being, especially when we are ill. But a new report suggests
that what you think about your illness matters just as much, if not more, in
determining your health outcomes.
In the February issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal
of the Association for Psychological Science, Keith Petrie, of the University
of Auckland, and John Weinman, of the Institute of Psychiatry at King's
College, review the existing literature on patients' perceptions of illness.
The authors find that people's illness perceptions bear a direct relationship
to several important health outcomes, including their level of functioning and
ability, utilization of health care, adherence to treatment plans laid out by
health care professionals, and even overall mortality.
In fact, some research suggests that
how a person views his illness may play a bigger role in determining his health
outcomes than the actual severity of his disease.
The bottom line, says Petrie, is
that "patients' perceptions of their illness guide their decisions
about health."
3 Sincerity Can Improve Our Health. The Templeton Report, September 30, 2014
Telling
the truth is good for your health, and conversely, lying can undermine it,
studies in the science of honesty suggest. The work has been conducted
by Anita Kelly and Lijuan Wang, professors at the University of Notre Dame, and is funded
by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
Reporting to the American Psychological
Association, Kelly showed that a “sincerity group,” who told fewer lies over
five weeks, described having fewer physical health complaints, such as sore
throats, headaches, and nausea, than a control group. “Because the only
difference between the two groups was the sincerity instructions, we can
conclude that these instructions actually caused the health benefit,” Kelly
writes in Psychology Today.
The research also implies that there
seems to be an element of training oneself to be more honest. Those who take
part in the studies report that there is no longer a need to exaggerate when
describing their daily accomplishments. They may also sense they do not need to
make excuses. “Being sincere is a process and you will get there with
practice,” Kelly says. “And when you do, you will see that you are becoming
more humble, more open to learning, and less sensitive to rejection.”
4 Mind with Purpose Preserves Brain Health, The power of
purpose
To
study the connection between purpose in life defined as having goals and
objectives that give life meaning and direction, and brain health during aging
researchers collected information on psychological well-being from 951
dementia-free older people. After seven years of annual tests, researchers
found that compared with people who expressed no sense of purpose in life,
participants who had a sense of purpose were:
- 52% less likely to develop
Alzheimer disease
- 2 1/2 times more likely to remain
free of dementia
- 29% less likely to develop mild
cognitive impairment, a diagnosis given to people whose brain function is
below normal for age, but does not interfere with daily functioning
Purpose
in life remained the most important predictor of healthy brain aging even after
taking into account other things that affect brain health, such as gender,
education level, depression, chronic medical conditions, and social network.
5 Health-care providers are prescribing nontraditional medicine: Use
of mind-body therapies on the rise
May 11, 2011, Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center.
Prior research suggests that mind-body
therapies, while used by millions of patients, is still on the fringe of
mainstream medical care in America. New research suggests that attitudes are changing.
More than a third of Americans use
some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and that number
continues to rise attributed mostly to increases in the use of mind-body
therapies (MBT) like yoga, meditation and deep breathing exercises.
In a study from Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School, researchers found
that one in 30 Americans using MBT has been referred by a medical provider.
"There's good evidence to
support using mind-body therapies clinically," said lead author Aditi
Nerurkar, MD, Integrative Medicine Fellow, Harvard Medical School and BIDMC.
"Still, we didn't expect to see provider referral rates that were quite so
high." The results of the study appear in the May 9 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Nerurkar and her colleagues
collected information from more than 23,000 U.S. households from the 2007
National Health Interview Survey. They found that nearly 3 percent
(representing more than 6.3 million Americans) used MBT due to provider
referral and that these Americans were sicker and used the health care system
more than people who self-referred for MBT.
"What we learned suggests that
providers are referring their patients for mind-body therapies as a last resort
once conventional therapeutic options have failed. It makes us wonder whether
referring patients for these therapies earlier in the treatment process could
lead to less use of the health care system, and possibly, better outcomes for
these patients," said Nerurkar.
6 From Bruce
Lipton May 2015 Newsletter. Medical profession and death
Firstly, taking
the truths of the medical profession as being equivalent to the “Word of God”
is patently inappropriate considering that even the Journal of the American Medical Association published an article condemning the
medical profession as the third leading cause of death in the U.S. (Barbara
Starfield, JAMA. 2000;284(4):483-485, Read article. While
this conclusion was based on what the author described as “conservative
estimates,” a more recent assessment using actual statistics completely
contradicts that conclusion, for it reveals that conventional medicine is
actually the leading cause of death in the States. (Gary Null et al, Death By
Medicine 2003, Read article.
Conclusion:
We
observe from above several latest findings that due role of mind has to be
given importance in the disease cure. That is what Swami Vijnananand has
emphasized in his visionary writing way back in 1960s. While concluding we may
say:
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We located
emotion as an immediate cause of disease in scientific terms.
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What is the
way out to avoid this abuse of emotions?
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Obviously a
non-emotional state of mind.
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Which in simple words, mean a ‘truth-patterned’
behavior.
Recipropathy
proves its hypothesis that there specifically exists a causal link between
emotion and disease. And if there are some difficulties in actually observing
the intermediate phenomena between emotion and disease that constitutes a
limitation from which science itself suffers.
“Recipropathy
provides an excellent frame-work. Details can be allowably replaced or altered
by medical science. But let no one lose sight of the aspects, positive aspects
brought about by Recipropathy. Experience, again and again, shows that
Recipropathy is the only method which relieves the patient of his disease in
the real sense. It radically, scientifically drives home the fact that health
protection lies in supposing that desire for ease is disease, while real cure
is the process of disease.”
(This blog concludes
the series on Dis-Ease – Cure.)
Vijay R. Joshi.
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