| 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." |
Evox & Perception Reframing EVOX Perception Reframing A New Tool for MindBody Health EVOX is a powerful and highly effective new biofeedback technology that helps people release emotional pain that is related to some stressful life experience or physical disease. Everyone has emotional pain and trauma from past life experiences which contribute to our stresses and problems in life. The EVOX process releases deep-rooted emotional blocks that keep us stuck in repetitive patterns of emotional and physical disharmony. Extensive research has shown that your voice carries the frequencies of your body. And missing frequencies in your voice can reflect emotional and physical problems. EVOX records your voice as you speak about a problem for only a few seconds. At the same time the process monitors your stress using galvanic skin resistance. The computer uses the data to create a “voice map” which shows you the nature of the emotional problem and then “feeds back” missing tones to help correct the mindbody blockage. EVOX restores inner harmony when dealing with issues such as: Repeated negative behavior Stress disorders Weight problems Physical diseases Addictions Work or athletic performance Post-traumatic stress disorder Relationship problems Chronic pain Psychological problems Every person has an individual voice pattern. This voice pattern is comprised of various tones and reflects the state of your mind and body. When you have a health problem, can’t break a habit, or have emotional challenges, you will find a frequency missing in your voice. How EVOX produces lasting changes: EVOX records a 10 second slice of your voice as you speak about the problem or issue and then maps the voice recording in the computer. Using long-established Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) technology, EVOX selects the appropriate missing frequencies. EVOX plays these missing frequencies back into your body creating an unconscious mindbody shift. Almost immediately, your voice shifts and you feel a shift within the mind as well, breaking free from unconscious blocks, leading to lasting and positive change. An initial EVOX session lasts about one hour and follow-up sessions can be done in 30 or 40 minutes. The history behind EVOX Calvin Young is a NASA scientist who initially developed voice mapping after extensive research in sound and healing. His research included the work of Shari Edwards who is well known for her exceptional sense of hearing, which allowed her to recognize which frequencies are missing in a person's voice. In her work as a healer, Shari uses tuning forks and other instruments to play those frequencies back to her clients – the toning evidently helps in the healing process. Alfred Tomatis is another one of the early pioneers in voice therapy, who was able to change people’s personalities using sounds that impacted deeply within the mind. Calvin Young collaborated with Vaughn Cook of Zyto, Inc., resulted in an integration of voice mapping with the style of biofeedback stress assessment used by doctors, psychotherapists and other healers to assist in physical healing of the body – an exquisite partnership of blending mind/body resources. Vaughn recently released the EVOX, the newest technology in the realm of voice mapping. Why we all need emotional healing From the moment of birth throughout childhood, children automatically suppress intense emotions such as fear, anger, sorrow, grief and sadness. This is a built-in protective mechanism because they are too young to handle the powerful emotions associated with abandonment, emotional, physical or sexual abuse, excessive control and myriad other stressful experiences that often happen in childhood. It is much like a soldier who discovers a horrific battle seen and blocks out the intense feeling. However, the emotions are not gone; they are simply stored in the unconscious mind as emotional wounds. Later in life the mind tries to heal these unconscious wounds by creating circumstances in life that would allow the stored feeling to surface, be expressed and thereby “owned”, or released. “What is revealed is healed.” This is a natural process and occurs for every person and explains the challenging stressful dramas that we all experience as adults. For example, the child of an alcoholic will often marry an alcoholic. The conscious mind chooses a good person, but the unconscious mind decides on a mate because this is the person that will help me heal the wounds of childhood. |
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