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Now an atom has a nucleus around which orbit electrons. The space between the nucleus and the electron is a vacuum; or at least our current technology can not detect anything. This provides the calculation that an atom is 99.99% vacuum. Which means that we are 99.99% vacuum. (Plimmer & King, 2004) Now our atoms make up our cells of which there are probably over 50 trillion cells in the human body. (Lipton, 2005) Except for the cells in your brain which scientist now believe can be replaced under the right conditions, 50,000,000 of the cells in your body will have died and been replaced with others, all while you have been reading this last sentence. Every cell, except the red blood cell, has a nucleus and D.N.A. and it is the manipulation of the cell that creates the feelings and moods that we experience. The hypothalamus in the brain is the source of the changes. Consider the hypothalamus to be a small factory buried inside your brain, and in the factory is assembled certain chemicals that match all the emotions that you experience. These chemicals are called peptides, (or neuropeptides); these are small chain amino acid sequences. (Pert 1997) The hypothalamus role is to control the body functions like heart rate, blood pressure, stress hormones, sex hormones and so forth. It regulates your immune system and the key elements of the autonomic nervous system. It does this by responding to your thoughts by manufacturing a specific peptide to correlate to the emotion that you attach to your thought so that your body functions can feel what you instruct it to feel through your thought process. So there is a peptide chemical chain for anger, sadness, victimisation, lust and all the other emotions you generate with your thoughts; there is a chemical equivalent for every emotional state that we experience. The moment we have a thought which triggers an emotion the hypothalamus will immediately assemble the appropriate peptide and release it into the blood stream. The moment it gets into the bloodstream it then finds its way to the different centres, different parts of our body, (i.e. autonomic nervous system and immune system) and each peptide seeks out a cell. Now each cell can have over 1,000 receptor sites; these are like a spike on the cell. The peptides seek out and find cell receptors that it can link to, and they then attach to the cell, and lock on to the cell sending a signal into the cell, this changes the structure of the cell and the cell responds with a feeling (a chemical reaction) which emulates the emotion from your thought. We are a chemical entity and we respond to chemical stimulus. That is how we work; this is how our bodies are wired. The stimulus is propagated by an external feedback which can be generated by what we eat, drink; the substances we put into our bodies, and or it can be motivated by pure thought; you are that powerful. For those who are trapped in a spiral of stress, anxiety, depression, or negative habits then the solution is to undergo a process to develop a new way to be. Learning is making new connections in the hypothalamus and manufacturing new peptide chains with new feelings; remembering and living in the past is maintaining the old connections and therefore if you do not change what you have got you will continue to get what you already have. Sounds easy? The problem comes when you become immersed in the feelings of certain experiences because those experiences become the means of your thinking. When that happens, you are only living from the past because by definition a feeling is associated with some past event. So if we determine our future based on feelings then we are trying to create a future situation from a past situation. Therefore by recreating the future based on the past we tend to recreate more of what we already have; it can go by a different name, but it is the same. If you are wired into victimisation, insecurity, suffering or any other addiction then your feelings become your measure of reality. Your future thinking becomes based on how you are wired and therefore you will recreate your addiction in your life because it is the only thing you know. Addiction! Yes addiction. My definition of addiction is something that you can not give up; and you can not give something up if you do not know how. In order to create a new future you have to leave feelings of the past behind. You have to learn to abandon the way in which feelings are your means of thinking, and when you are able to do that you will break the association in the neurological network that are attached to that thinking and those feelings. Then you will be able to focus on your dreams that you have no experience of because you have no emotions to associate to them. Your experiences colour what you know, so it is difficult to objectively appraise anything because our appraisal of everything has to do with our previous experiences and emotions. Every experience has an emotional weighting attached. By generating negative feelings in the body through negative thoughts (i.e. victimisation, depression) you record this feeling in the cells of your body through release of peptides made by the hypothalamus. Your body does not have judgement and does not recognise right from wrong, your body responds to external stimulus it receives, the external environment; this can be through your mouth, your skin, the air you breathe and or through your thoughts; it can be through the people you associate with, parents, teachers, friends; it can be through the media or anything external to your body. If you reinforce this stimulus your body accepts that it needs it and will send messages to the brain to continue sending the chemical agent to enable it to continue feeling whatever it is feeling. For example you may feel infatuated or in love with a particular person, this situation will generate a peptide in your hypothalamus to equate to the feeling, and it will enable your body to experience that feeling every time you invoke a thought relative to the person or an external event triggers the feeling, like you see the person or read about the person. The brain will instigate memory which will regurgitate a thought which will activate an emotion which will then authorise the hypothalamus to make the appropriate peptide which it will do, and then the brain will release the peptide automatically into the body reinforcing your instructions. We are a chemical entity and work through messages and signals sent via a chemical network. You are not controlled or protected by God, you are responsible for you. Why does your brain respond to your thoughts; because your brain does not know the difference between what it sees and what it remembers? (The same areas of the brain light up and respond when you see something and when you think you see something. Consequently your brain will react in the same way and try and give the body what it wants. The cells in your body are sustained by a constant feeding of chemicals from the brain. (DVD - What the Bleep? Down the Rabbit Hole, 2006) Your mind creates your body and it all starts in the cell. What is a cell? Well each eukaryote (a cell containing a nucleus) possess the functional equivalent of the bodies nervous system, digestive system, respiratory system, excretory system, endocrine system, muscle and skeletal systems, circulatory system, integument (skin), reproductive system and an immune system. Remember you have approximately 50 trillion cells in your body with this awesome power, minus the red blood cells which do not. Who gives the cell the orders? The Neuronet is based on experiences that have been filed in the subconscious memory by connecting them to emotions which have generated their own peptides in the hypothalamus. To change your body image you have to change your Neuronet; this will change your attitude and the way you interact with the environment. If you partake in alcohol or drugs or poor eating habits then your own ability to make you own internal endorphins declines and the receptors on your cells start to become sub-sensitive. By continually repeating the stimulus to your cells with your current life-style choices and the same attitude (peptides) time and time again, when the cells divide, that is when it produces a daughter cell and the old cell dies, that daughter cell will have more receptor sites for those particular emotional neuropeptides and less receptor sites for vitamins, nutrients and fluid exchange or release of waste products or toxins. If your cells can not function at a healthy level by disposing of toxins or taking on vitamins, then disease will be the outcome. Another consequent of abusing our cells is that cells that do not operate well contribute to aging. We actually make a peptide called sadness which mixes with the normal peptide protein amino acid chain and that becomes a cheaper grade of protein, a weaker protein. This protein is used by our cells, and as cells reproduce identical copies of themselves then die, it is natural that this cycle of cell replacement will lead to weaker and weaker cells. The human body ages because the proteins that we produced when we were young are now a cheaper grade of protein as we get older and take on more negative thoughts, poor eating habits and abuse our bodies with substances like drugs and alcohol. This degrading of our cells is a product of our own personal attitude. Genetics do not cause disease it is the environment that stimulates the genetics that cause disease. So if we change our attitudes we will change the effects neurochemically which means we would change our effects biologically, which means that we would change the effects of the receptor sites on our cells, which means we would change the response from the D.N.A. within the cells, which means we would change the make up of the protein chain which means we would change the health of the physical body, which means we would change our life. So our attitude has an affect on the cellular level of the body. To change means a chemical change, a chemical withdrawal and that is why many of us find it hard to change because the body produces a chemical need in us which is past driven and future inhibiting. Unless you are truly enlightened you have a chemical addiction and it depends how strong or negative that addiction is, as to your attitude and health. Gordon F Gatiss (PhD) www.mindforlife.co.uk Gordon F Gatiss (PhD) is a UKCP Registered Psychotherapist in the UK. 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By Rich MacKenzie Overcoming Jealousy is one thing that all sufferers want to achieve. Jealousy is one of the cruellest behaviours that someone can conflict on themselves and their friends and family around them. If you suffer from jealousy at the moment you will understand exactly what I mean and just how devastating it can be to yourself and your relationships with people that you love. Each and every year in my Hypnotherapy clinic here in Oxfordshire I treat hundreds of individuals and couples that have suffered at the hands of jealousy for years. By the time that they come and see me the jealousy has certainly taken its toll on everything that they love and care about. It is amazing that something that starts off in our imagination can soon spark out of control and cause such devastating damage. Jealousy can be caused by many things; however it nearly always sparks from some type of insecurity. I have worked with many individuals where their jealousy started because of their partner having an affair. I have also treated individuals that put the whole thing down to being bullied at school or a parent leaving when they were young. Whatever the reason if jealousy is not dealt with then it will grow and cause major problems within current and future relationships. With clients that want my help in overcoming jealousy I use Hypnotherapy and Emotional Freedom Technique. Both therapies are very successful in treating jealousy. The Emotional Freedom Technique can work fast to alleviate all of the negative emotions associated with jealousy, while the Hypnotherapy can help them to rebuild their lives. If used over only a short period of time, Hypnotherapy and Emotional Freedom technique can help you to completely overcome your jealousy and to move on in your life. Just imagine being able to do all of the things that make you happy instead of having all of those negative thoughts and emotions running around inside your head. Imagine not having to obsess and worry over every little thing. So if jealousy is a problem for you and you would love to get rid of it and move on, then these treatments could be right for you. When picking a practitioner, make sure that they are fully qualified and insured, either contact a local Hypnotherapy or Emotional Freedom Technique organisation to get more information and to find a practitioner that is local to you. Richard MacKenzie is a leader in the field of Self Hypnosis. He is also the author of a book on Self Hypnosis called Self-Change Hypnosis. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Rich_MacKenzie http://EzineArticles.com/?Overcome-Jealousy&id=468384 buy anax valium anax buy valium from india buy anax valium anax valium where to buy

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By Kevin Ferguson Europes greatest continental divide the chasm between scientific research and theology has begun to close, as scores of university institutes and medical associations from Arkhangelsk to Zurich are gathering to see how the two fields might help each other. The movement, though, is at a glacial pace, as an increasingly secular Western Europe and a post-communist Eastern Europe continue to resist any efforts that smack of church and state collaboration. Croatias University of Zagreb Medical School is typical. Candid discussions concerning religion and medical science take place but never in a formal research environment, said Lucija Fabijanic, a medical student who recently graduated from the school. Some medical doctors do speak about this topic, but it is mainly not acknowledged by the university and hospital staff, said Fabijanic. From the medical point of view, I understand that after a long era of communism a lot of people still think that religion is something personal and that it has nothing to do with science and medicine. Similarly, in Swedens Karolinska Institutet, where 40 percent of the countrys medical academic research is conducted, religion and science are only rarely mentioned in the same breath. Of the 2,814 dissertations published since 1995, only half a dozen mention the words together, and only two a 2005 study on Islams perpetuation of female genital mutilation in Sudan, and a 2000 paper on mortality and injury rates in Northern and Western Europe look at religion with more than a passing glance. Across Europe, empirical research has been conducted primarily in the areas of mental health and ethnography. In both cases, though, the research has taken place in isolated institutional pockets and with little academic or media fanfare. Most European researchers, instead, host symposia, satisfied to conduct what is often among the first science-and-religion dialogues in their institution or country. In many instances, the discussions are funded by Metanexus Institutes Local Societies Initiatives, or LSI. Metanexus, in turn, is funded by the John Templeton Foundation, which also funds Science & Theology News. For example, Austrias Universitt Innsbruck, an LSI grant recipient, has formed a society called The Complementarity of Science and Theology within the prestigious Austrian Academy of Science. The society, chaired by renowned mathematical physicist Walter Thirring, aims to study the concept and meaning of life. But to date its been all talk and no research. The same holds true in former Soviet states. At Ukraines National University in Kharkiv, philosophy professor Ivan Tsekhmistro chairs a newly formed, and LSI-funded, East-Ukrainian Center of Science and Religion. Its charge, he said, is to eradicate communisms legacy of aggressive atheism in the public consciousness and in the sphere of interrelations between science and religion. And while Tsekhmistro has written extensively on the subject in June delivering his most recent paper, Scientific Picture of the Word in the Last 25 Years, at the Metanexus Institute in Philadelphia the university center offers no empirical research. Likewise, in 2002, Estonias University of Tartu founded the Collegium of Science and Religion to revive the tradition of science and faith dialogue that was forgotten during half a century of imposed atheism, according to its mission statement. The LSI-funded collegium has long-term plans to conduct empirical studies, but immediate plans only include seminars, colloquiums and college courses. Given the centuries-old struggle between science and religion to define European culture, the research torpor is understandable, said Harald Walach, editor of Swiss research journal, Forschende Komplementrmedizin und Klassische Naturheilkunde (Research in Complementary and Classical Natural Medicine). What has to be borne in mind historically is the fact that especially for Germany there are great fears of intellectuals and academics of the culture and the political stage being again hijacked by ideology, as happened during the Nazi regime, said Walach. Indeed, Adolph Hitler insisted to the very end that his actions were inspired by providence. Hence, the connotation of religion and any official institution, such as politics and academia, does not go down well in European culture, understandably so. That has certainly been true in the Netherlands, where academia often recoils from the authoritarian habits and influence of organized religion. This criticism prevented the approval ofefforts to study the subject scientifically, said Dr. Arjan Braam, a researcher at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. The criticism has softened noticeably in the Netherlands since the mid-1980s, thanks largely to the prolific Braams research. One of his oft-cited papers, published in 2004 in the Journal of Aging and Health, involves a six-year study of prayer and depressive symptoms in older Dutch adults. The study of 1,840 adults, aged 55 to 85, found that church attendance and religious inclinations eased the symptoms of depression. The interest on the subject of religion and health is increasing, but slowly, said Braam, who chaired a symposium on prayer and depressive symptoms, at the 13th World Congress of Psychiatry, held last September in Cairo, Egypt. Also in the Netherlands, the Catholic Study Centre for Mental Health, acts as a clearinghouse for scientists conducting primary and secondary research on mental health and religion. Although founded in 1972, the lions share of its work has been done in the past five years. As of 2005, the Catholic center counted more than 2,400 members and benefactors from mental and physical health care, spiritual and pastoral care, the churches, social services, and education, according to its Web site. Barriers are falling in Switzerland as well. For example, the University Hospital of Geneva recently investigated the importance of religion as a coping mechanism for psychiatric patients. The study found that clinicians dealing with psychotic patients might neglect religious issues, even if religion may constitute an important means of coping, said Sylvia Mohr, the hospital researcher who led the study. Half the clinicians perceptions of patients religious involvement were inaccurate, Mohrs team found, even though a majority of the patients reported that religion was an important aspect of their lives. 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