| EdgeWork Exploring the Psychology of Disease  Read More….  Dr. Ronald Peters has 30 years of research and experience in holistic medicine. He has studied with enlightened spiritual teachers, leading to a detailed understanding of the formative power of the conscious and unconscious mind, which he summarized in his ground-breaking book, Edgework, Exploring the Psychology of Disease. He empowers people to restore the wisdom of the body using nutritional therapies and then helps them understand the governing influence of consciousness. In this manner, disease becomes a messenger offering greater levels of health both physically and psychologically. Since the publication of Edgework, several popular books have restated this paradigm shifting truth: consciousness creates reality. These include The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne, Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle, and Ask and It is Given, by Esther Hicks, to mention a few. Edgework applies this timeless truth to the world of medicine and healing. Since 2003, many patients have appreciated the life changing guidance that comes from the concepts and exercises in Edgework, thereby heeding the message of disease and creating greater health in their lives. From the Introduction to Edgework: The mind controls the body. We have heard about this paradigm-shifting notion time and time again in the last half of the twentieth century. Research in immunology has contributed to dozens of books telling us about improved immunity based on positive states of mind and, conversely, reduced immune function due to negative states of consciousness. Physicians and psychologists have told us about the hostile aspects of Type A behavior and the epidemic of heart disease that plagues our society. Many other researchers have spoken, a bit more cautiously, about features of the cancer prone personality. Anxiety and depression contribute to numerous other illnesses, and continue to afflict up to one quarter of the American population. Books have been written on the psychosomatic aspects of common diseases like asthma, hypertension, ulcerative colitis, peptic ulcers, and diabetes, just to mention a few. Yet none have stated the essence of the mind/body issue as succinctly as the great psychoanalyst Dr. Franz Alexander, when he wrote: "The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life..." But in spite of this outpouring of information on the mind/body relationship, little has changed in the doctor's office to reflect this new understanding. Doctors still devote most of their time trying to find out what is wrong with the body, and patients still try to get rid of their symptoms with the latest offerings from the drug industry. Many of us take vitamins and minerals, try to exercise and relax more, perhaps meditate occasionally, but really little has changed, and the problems in health care continue on. Indeed, paradigms shift slowly as they bear the weight of institutional, social and personal belief systems. Based on my twenty years of holistic family practice, I too have learned that the origins of most physical disease are within consciousness - the body is the messenger of the conflicts, sustained fears, suppressed emotional traumas, disturbed patterns of thinking, and other imbalances that lie within the conscious and unconscious mind. I have learned this by listening to thousands of patients tell the stories that preceded the onset of their illness. I have heard again and again of childhood patterns of neglect, smothering control, abandonment, and emotional, physical and sexual abuse. I have heard of the failed relationships, years of marital conflict, and the pain of loneliness. I have heard about decades of unfulfilling employment, foiled personal creativity and the quiet desperation of a slowly dying spirit. I have heard about relentless anxiety, depression, denied emotions, destructive beliefs, hopelessness, helplessness, "giving up", and an endless variety of recurrent stresses. Most importantly, I have seen patient after patient backtrack into consciousness and find the dis-ease within the mind that precipitated the dis-ease in the body. The answers may not come quickly as many issues are hidden in the shadow, or unconscious mind, but they do come and the results of such personal in-depth healing are transformational. I have seen cancer, multiple sclerosis, colitis, hepatitis, high blood pressure, heart disease, depression, and all types of chronic and often "incurable" diseases go into remission or quiescence. These are the reasons I have written Edgework. Edgework refers to the edge between what you know about yourself and what you do not know. Dis-ease of any kind is the body's way of getting your attention and inviting this self-exploration, thereby offering true healing. The path maybe scary, as change itself is scary for most of us. It is easy to understand what the noted English poet W. H. Auden meant when he wrote: "We would rather be ruined than changed; we would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die." |
Pulsed Electro Magnetic Field Therapy Healing at the Cellular Level and the Future of Pain Relief Your body has about 100 trillion cells and each of them depends on the flow of ions, or energy, in and out of the cell, which in turn creates a magnetic field. This dance of electromagnetic energy governs cellular energy production, which in turn allows the organs in your body to orchestrate the unfathomably complex wonder of your body, resulting in the experience you call life. When the electromagnetic field of any part of the body is disturbed, we experience dis-ease, which is often felt as pain, inflammation, swelling, fatigue, disorientation, depression, and the wide range of physical and psychological illness and injury. Pulsed Magnetic Therapy (PMT) is a revolutionary treatment that produces healing at the cell level. Magnetic field therapy creates bio-currents which improve the flow of blood and oxygen to the tissues and the flow of ions and nutrients into the cells, thus improving cellular bioenergetics and healing. Over the past 50 years, scientists from around the world have investigated the effects of Pulsed Magnetic Therapy on nearly every organ and every disease in the body, resulting in thousands of published studies, nearly all of which show benefits and many with remarkable outcomes, including the following:
THE FUTURE OF MUSCOSKELETAL PAIN RELIEF Since Pulsed Magnetic Therapy is effective at improving the cellular conditions associated with pain, it has been used successfully to treat a range of muscle and joint problems, both acute and chronic, including:
Dr. Bassett (researcher at the Bioelectric Research Center of Columbia University) has studied pulsed magnetic fields on the cellular function of connective tissue and function and concludes with: “A wide variety of challenging musculoskeletal disorders has been treated successfully over the past two decades. These include nerve regeneration, wound healing, graft behavior, diabetes, and myocardial and cerebral ischemia (heart attack and stroke), among other conditions. Preliminary data even suggest possible benefits in controlling malignancy (cancer).” WHAT ABOUT CANCER? The cellular conditions that allow renegade cancer cells to grow are in some ways similar to the painful inflammation and swelling of muscle and joint pain, but more complicated because of the primitive metabolism of cancer cells. Every cell in the body is a tiny battery with a transmembrane potential, or TMP, which is a measurement of the electrical charge of the cell. In order for a cell to bring in nourishment and let metabolic waste out, the cell membrane potential needs to be fully charged. In cancer cells, the cell voltage drops from a normal of 70 millivolts to less than 40 millivolts. At this low level of cell energy only five substances can pass in or out of the cell: water, sugar, potassium, cesium, and rubidium. Oxygen cannot enter the cell. In 1937, Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgi won the Nobel Prize for his discovery that cancer cells obtain energy for growth from anaerobic (no oxygen) or, fermentative, metabolism, using sugar without oxygen. Actually, cancer cells cannot grow in the presence of oxygen. In fact, many cancer therapies focus on re-establishing oxygen based metabolism within cancer cells which will cause them to undergo programmed cell death, or apoptosis. Pulsed Magnetic Therapy improves the transmembrane potential of cancer cells, helping them to activate aerobic metabolism, as well as to reduce inflammation, improve blood flow, enhance immune function, and the like. OTHER MEDICAL CONDITIONS Medical doctors from around the world have studied Pulsed Magnetic Therapy in many diseases and have found promising and beneficial results with the following conditions:
Mindbody medicine is the future of healthcare because it focuses on promoting health in the mind and body as the best treatment for disease. Only by changing diet, using nutritional therapies, stress management and fitness training will the epidemic of chronic disease plaguing our society begin to reverse. This stands in sharp contrast to the conventional “disease care” using symptom suppressing medications. Pulsed Magnetic Therapy applies the principles of health promotion to the cell level by improving blood flow, reducing inflammation, increasing oxygenation, boosting immunity and more. |
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