Stress – A phenomenon that exists only in your head or a disease that leads to your death?

Protective systems
The immune system is our protection against dangers that have breached the outer barrier and reached the inside, while the adrenal glands and associated stress hormones are protection against threats from outside the body. Thus, the body must turn off the immune system because it’s not involved in the outer protection when facing an external danger, or what your brain perceives as threatening.

When the immune system is turned off or only working at half speed we’ll get a less then optimal internal environment. For example the internal environment will be too acidic due to the stress hormone cortisol increasing bile acid production, this leads to an optimal environment for worms and bacteria to grow and flourish.

You’ve then got a pile of rubbish. This pile seems to attract rats. One day you get tired of the rats so you sprinkle some rat poison around the rubbish and all the rats die. After a few weeks new rats come along and you sprinkle some more poison, whoops, no more problems. As long as the garbage heap remains the rats will return. It is not the rats fault, they didn’t created the pile of rubbish, they were simply attracted to the dysfunctional environment. No rat in the world can create the environment they need for survival. Rats are opportunistic creatures, they seek out bad environments. A little Tip: remove the pile of rubbish…

It’s not the bacteria’s fault that they get a foothold in our bodies, it’s the bad environment that enabled them to settle and grow. You can poison the bacteria, but they will come back if you don’t remove the bad environment. If you continue to poison the bacteria, they will become “super-bacteria”, like penicillin-resistant streptococci. Worms seek out their natural habitat, diseased tissue. It’s not the worm that creates the diseased tissue, it’s the bad environment (diseased tissue) that allows the worms to gain a foothold.

Almost done.
So what could, should we do. If you run 100 meters, you can interpret this in different ways. One, you run a 100 meter race at a meet, two, you run 100 meters to escape a robber.

Both of these events will create internal stress, a decreased blood supply to the stomach and intestines and an increase of the same to your arms and legs, so that you can complete the task in hand better. The first event is perceived as positive, while the second event is interpreted as a threat. With the second event your brain interprets the situation (stimulus) as threatening and “goes into” a defensive position or survival mode. How you interpret the external signal is the key factor to how your body will respond, i.e. which hormones will be produced. Some interpret a whip against their buttocks as painful whilst others perceive that as stimulating and even arousing. It all depends on how you interpret the signals. Learn and understand what daily situations you perceive as threatening and learn to deal with these accordingly. You will probably need help initially, but over time you should be given tools from your therapist that will help on a daily basis. A QINOpractic Medicine Master practitioner can help you with this or someone working with EFT, PSYCH-K, NLP or Rapid Eye Movement Therapy.

A quote from the world-renowned cancer researcher Bernie Segal “There are no incurable diseases, only incurable people”