Lori L. Barr / D. Think & Grow Well

Create and Preserve Your Total Health
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4835-2153-4
Verlag: BookBaby
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

In Think & Grow Well, Dr. Barr shares fourteen stories of moments where people make decisions that either make or break their vitality. Deconstruct their stories and learn exactly what steps to take to strengthen your physical and non-physical faculties to create and build your better than ever life before a health challenge. You will learn how to: reset the subconscious controls responsible for unhealthy habits; act with confidence in the moments where health is in the balance; communicate your vitality needs to your wellness team; erase mental tattoos that keep you stuck in your current thinking; replace three feelings that crush creativity and imagination. Live stronger, longer and more vibrantly than you ever imagined possible and do it in a surprisingly short amount of time. You set your own pace for health creation and preservation. After reading this book, you will have a different vitality conversation with yourself and your healthcare provider.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lori L. Barr, M. D.

D., M.

Leseproben

Chapter 2 The Illness Wears Prada (Strip Away Malaise) You better stay away from him; he'll rip your lungs out, Jim. Huh. I'd like to meet his tailor. —Warren Zevon Lesson Summary • Three uncharacteristic emotions accompany disease: worry, fear, and doubt. • Recognition of the nonphysical portions of your being helps you to understand from whence these emotions arise. • These emotions arise from three primary sources: your genetic programming, your environment, and your paradigms. • Awareness to sensory triggers increases when one reflects on past shocking events. Darcie's Story "This turkey is just moist enough to make a great sandwich," thinks Darcie as she chews. She enjoys the new smell of the remodeled kitchen that mingles with the turkey. Suddenly, tingly prickles assault a spot of mayonnaise and black pepper at the right corner of her mouth. Her eyes widen. She sighs in disbelief that it has started again: her tongue feels like a slug sliding over a grain of salt. A dentist's numbing needle could not have been more effective in spoiling this solitary meal. This is not supposed to be happening. The doctor said the swelling and numbness were side effects of medicine she used to take, so six months ago she had stopped all of her medicines, and it had not happened in all that time. She quickly rises and moves to a place of safety. She knows that she has only a few minutes before the darkness comes and the world slips away. Darcie is afraid. The last time she was in her car, luckily in her driveway, when her neighbor found her. Her tongue feels like a balloon nursing a helium tank. She calls her husband. "It ith happening again!" she musters, and speaks as clearly as she can as her tongue swells. "I hope it isn't a stroke," she thinks, because strokes run in her family. "Don't worry," he reassures, "this is no different from the last spell." Tears stream from her eyes as a blinding pain seems to pierce her skull base. Even though she has not fallen, her head hurts as if the floor reached up and smacked her. From the safety of her pillow, she quietly squeezes back the tears of frustration as she wonders if she will ever be truly free of this mysterious pain. Who is this unknown assailant robbing her of her vitality? Worry, Fear and Doubt An illness, conjuring emotions as powerful as an otherworldly specter, has just paid Darcie a visit. He is a tall, brooding stranger in dark yet stylish trappings. He and all of his relatives, all manner of diseases, injuries, and illness clothe themselves in the same stylish garb. Illness stalks the unaware in a kilt of fear, a cloak of worry and a hood of doubt that aids the illness as it abducts vitality. Just as Darcie struggles with her feelings (she still doesn't have an answer), so does every other individual who experiences unnamed diseases. Action Interlude Reread Darcie's story and identify the following: What did she fear? What caused her worry? What did she doubt about herself? Why are diseases so frightening? You Are More Than Just a Body The main reason we become victims in this cycle is that as modern, self-absorbed, fashion-conscious individuals, we identify more with our bodies than we should. You are not a body; you have a body. It is an instrument of your being. It is yours to use for a time, just like your blunt-tipped scissors from the first grade. Your body is a tool designed to serve you for a finite time as you interact with other living beings and your world. So if you are a not a body, what exactly are you? Your Non-Physical Self You are a spiritual being that has unbounded potential for connection, creation, and translation. Don't believe it? Consider the effect of death. Death is the cessation of animation of the body. Within three years of our marriage, Steve and I adopted a beautiful cat that was a medical-research refugee. He had long, soft white fur with scattered beige spots and a bushy tail. His research name was Beige Tail, we called him B. T. He was the most intelligent cat of all of the cats with which I've shared time. He enhanced our lives for about ten years. During summer vacation, we left B. T. and our other cats with a pet sitter, she found B. T. unconscious in our backyard and rushed him to our veterinarian, but it was too late. He died and we never knew exactly why. After death, B.T.'s body didn't do him any good, because all of the animation that made him so enchanting had ceased—the body is a useful tool only when animated by a well-balanced animator. What do you call the myriad of movement that animates the body? Spirit. Spirit exists completely separate from the physical realm and is always moving toward creation and expansion.* Let's continue the distinction of our nonphysical portions into a separation of soul from spirit, mind, and awareness. The soul is our individuality on the nonphysical plane of existence, whereas the spirit simply represents all of the nonphysical factors about us as animate beings. If the word soul causes you discomfort, persona or psyche might be other words to describe the part of our spirit that is unique to each of us as individuals. Mind is the movement that translates our energy on the spiritual level to the concrete manifestations in the physical realm. Awareness is the ability we have to recognize the effects of our actions on both the physical and nonphysical world. Action Interlude Write an acknowledgment to all parts of yourself either in this book or in your journal. I, (fill in your name), am a spiritual being, a unique soul who uses my mind through resonating frequencies to animate my body into actions that produce the results I see around me. I have within my power the ability to use all parts of my being to create the results I desire. Can you begin to see yourself in those terms? What Your Mind Looks Like Crossing this mental hurdle may take time. An image helps. That is what it took for me to embrace my mind in a way that skyrocketed my ability to use it more efficiently. Join me for a trip to our family farm in north Alabama, the summer of 1994. It is ten years past my medical school graduation. As a practicing radiologist, I look at millions of images of different parts of the body: bones of the hands and feet, livers and spleens, lungs and hearts, brains and spines. The average number of exams each radiologist in my practice reads per year is 23,000. Exams range in image count from 1 to 1,000 pictures of the body. It is June, and in the evening calm, thousands of toads, frogs, and crickets perform with symphonic precision. June bugs bump against the kitchen window. I watch a praying mantis, still as a statue. My parents and I are visiting at the oak pedestal kitchen table, a focal point for farm activity. My father asks me one of the most pivotal questions of my life: "Lori, will you draw me a picture of the mind?" "Sure," I confidently reply, and I draw a brain covered with squiggles that we in medicine pompously call a convo-lutional markings." He states, "That looks like a brain. Can you draw a picture of the mind?" I answer humbly after several minutes of contemplation. "No." He then picks up a short golf-score pencil standing on its head and draws a picture of the mind and its relation to the body that was first drawn by Dr. Thurman G. Fleet.* The Stick Man The image (Figure 1) consists of a large circle bisected into an upper and lower half and a smaller stick-like body dangling from the bottom. The upper half represents the conscious mind; the lower, the subconscious mind. The circle is larger than the body because the nonphysical self (spirit, mind and awareness) is much larger than what is encompassed by a physical being. Figure 1. Artist's rendering of Dr. Thurman Fleet's idea popularized by teachers of Concept Therapy, Curtis Sliwa, Bob Proctor, and the Proctor Gallagher Institute. My father had studied Bob Proctor's "The Born Rich Learning System" program. Daddy explained that the conscious mind is the thinking part of the mind that takes in information through our senses. It is also the place where we have the freedom to choose how we respond to information received. We can choose to accept, reject, or neglect any idea we give ourselves or receive from outside. The subconscious mind is the feeling part of the mind where emotions are generated and memories are stored. Subconscious readily accepts any idea turned over to it from the conscious mind. It stores those ideas in a filing system shaped by our paradigms. Feelings are resonations with either memories or hopes. These vibrations cause physical responses within and without our bodies.* Three Sources of Worry, Fear and Doubt We just crossed a hurdle. Did you feel it? It feels more comfortable now to accept that we are more than our physical bodies. Next, recognize who exactly provides diseases with their trappings of worry, fear, and doubt. Just where do those illnesses "shop"? You already know the answer. It is fashion designed with more foresight, skill, and precision than Prada. We each provide the clothing that disease models. It shops in a storehouse of the subconscious mind. Our memories are stored in the subconscious mind. Our genetic programming, interaction with the world and our paradigms are three parts of the subconscious mind that empower disease. Genetic Programming Through humanity's collective consciousness, human...