3-31-15 Post: How can alternative therapies help psychological change?

Question/Comment: How can body work, meditation and other alternative therapies help me when I am working to make changes to my thinking and beliefs?

Response: Each cell in the body has a kind of intelligence. Cells respond to chemicals that circulate in the body and they respond to vibration. There are specific responses to specific kinds of stimuli. The cells have various subdivisions within them that have various functions which start or stop in response to stimuli. 

Negative experiences in addition to negative beliefs, thoughts, feelings produce certain chemicals in the body and brain. These chemicals tend to have a deleterious effect of the body. Positive experiences along with positive beliefs, thoughts and feelings produce a different set of chemicals in the body and brain. These chemicals tend to aid in feeling happy and having a healthy body.  Given the choice, which would you rather have circulating in your body? We do have a choice. We make choices everyday that bring more happiness, more health, more good into our lives or we don’t. 

Often past traumas can “get stuck” in parts of the body. The cellular memory may tune into a trauma and unless “told that the trauma is over” will continue to react as if the trauma is ongoing. An example might be a limb that has been severed from the body for what ever reason, but continues to hurt. Another example is, a part of the body that has been injured in an accident and continues to be weak although completely healed.

Some of the continued pain or weakness might be due to the mind having habitual patterns that are hard to get change. By creating new pathways in the brain with new thoughts and by creating different chemistry in the brain and body, we can create change for the better. Some of the ways alternative therapies can bring about different brain and body chemistry is through, a wider or different view of the world. 

The act of mediation brings about a change in chemistry as does experiencing beauty, homeopathic and flower remedies, positive affirmations, tapping, massage and other body work. These are just a few of the many alternative therapies find one or more natural, health promoting methods of increasing happiness chemicals in your body and brain. Please, note that I am not suggesting abuse of medication or drug or alcohol use. I am suggesting the opposite.