Holographic Blood: A New Dimension in Medicine by Harvey Bigelsen M. D. & Aren Howell

Author:Harvey Bigelsen M. D. & Aren Howell
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Medical eBooks, New Age, Mental & Spiritual Healing, New Age & Spirituality, Medical Books, Religion & Spirituality
Published: 2015-09-25T22:00:00+00:00

Stress and Armoring

Every person interacts uniquely with his or her terrain. The person, their interaction, and the terrain cannot be separated. Everything within and outside us is in a constant dance of balance, imbalance and counterbalance. We are products of our environment as much as our environment is a product of us. The term “allostatic load”5 describes the biological cost (stress) of adapting to terrain. After an emotionally challenging event, a certain amount of time passes before we resume normal physiological activity. Allostatic load quantifies our ability to adapt to the change and return to homeostasis. It is a way to describe our personal emotional parameters. Our experiences initiate emotional expression or repression, which results in physical reactions and compensations.

The synaptic patterns in the brain are dynamic and organic. We control them. Stressors such as disease and certain types of social interactions dramatically increase the load on our physiological and mental response systems, and they may “break.” Often the result is an angry outburst, withdrawal or anxiety.6 If we continually react this way to similar stressors, our neuroendocrine system reinforces and strengthens that response until others are unavailable. With no neural connections to alternative reactions, we become “habituated”—we develop a pattern of behavior tied to a particular event or situation.

Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), a psychoanalyst and student of Sigmund Freud, connected emotions and energy when he postulated the concept of body “armoring.” In certain types of stress, we respond by tightening one or more muscles. Reich used that term because when we tighten up, we attempt to protect ourselves from a situation that we want to escape from. For example, when Mommy yells and you can’t talk back, you tighten up, clench your mouth and run away. Clenching and tightening like this is called armoring, Armoring, after a period of ten, twenty or more years, reshapes the body and creates what we know as disease. Energy by nature tends to expand; holding it in requires muscular effort. Anxiety affects the sympathetic nervous system and contracts energy flow through the body; pleasure expands the flow and acts upon the parasympathetic nervous system. Sustained release of adrenalin degenerates the body, while habitual relaxation regenerates it. Armoring is a physical shutdown that keeps energy from radiating naturally beyond the skin’s surface.7

The effect of armoring is to restrict the primary respiratory mechanism, much like applying a tourniquet. It disrupts structure, causing the terrain to favor stagnation and disease. We can look at fibromyalgia as an example of armoring. If you were to clench your fist tightly, within five to ten minutes, your whole hand would begin to hurt. Do that to other muscles of the body for five years and someone will diagnose you with fibromyalgia.

Disease Is Not Accidental

Yet while we often feel at the mercy of our habits, we need also to recognize we can choose to cut detrimental connections and construct new, healthy ones. Disease is psychogenic, not psychosomatic. Structural dissonance stagnates flows in the terrain. Emotions shape structure, and our structure in turn reinforces our emotional patterns.

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