1. Between Health & Illness
The Progression of Disease
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2. Stress Links
There is a well-accepted link between stress and illness. The problem is that few actually know exactly how to measure stress, determine its effects, and manage its impact.
Stress increases aging, reduces vitality, and is at the root of chronic diseases.

3. Stress is Killing Me!
Most people acknowledge that stress is a major aspect of their life. Yet, as a population we do less for stress than we should because it can be difficult to believe that stress can impact the body.
Why? Because everyone has stress, but not everyone dies from it—the “it won’t happen to me” syndrome.

4. I’m Stressed – So What?
Stress is responsible for over 80% of all doctor’s office visits.
Stress effects can kill us.
Stress is linked to virtually all known diseases including: heart disease, ulcers, hypertension, IBS, phobia-anxiety, endocrine dysfunction, lowered immune function and cancer.

5. Stress is Misunderstood
The least understood of all causes of illness
Limited ways of measuring its impact
Known to influence people but doesn’t have the same effect on everyone
Creates an individualized problem- solution scenario

6. Infectious Diseases
50 to 100 years ago the major causes of death were infectious diseases:
Chickenpox, Smallpox,, Polio, Typhoid, Measles, Diphtheria

7. Diseases Now Lifestyle Related
Chronic diseases are caused not by infection, but are lifestyle related. These diseases can be traced directly or indirectly to stress.

8. Stress Research
Hans Selye, M.D., pioneered stress studies in the 1940s and 1950s.
Selye found that when living organisms are stressed they react reflexively and biochemically in a stereotyped way that causes most of the body changes we associate with looking sick and feeling sick— regardless of the precise cause.

9. What is the real problem?
“The phenomenon of stress involves so many different sub-specialties of medicine and psychology that no comprehensive, unifying concept of its nature has yet been presented, and so the seriousness of the consequences cannot be fully appreciated. It is almost beyond our ability to comprehend the idea that stress, as the familiar, common stresses of life, can be the cause of the great majority of human ills. “
Barbara B. Brown Ph. D.

10. The Real Problem: Common thoughts: It won’t happen to me!
I can overcome anything!
Stress is no big deal!
If you can’t measure it, it doesn’t exist.

11. Glucocorticoid Testing
Measures the amount of cortisol in the saliva.
If there is increased sympathetic nervous system activity it will affect cortisol levels in the saliva.

12. Other Stress Tests
EKG
EMG
GSR
HRV
PET Scan
Bionetic Stress Testing

13. Is it real if you can’t see it?
What if the effects take several years to manifest?
What if the effects are difficult to measure?
How do we know what the stress effects are doing to the body?
How do we know what health is?

14. True Health What is true health? How can it be evaluated?
Is it merely the absence of disease?

15. True Health
The state in which the body is vital, composed, balanced and adaptive to its environment.
True health is:
Responsive
Auto-Self Regulating
Homeodynamic

16. Loss of Health Gradual loss of vitality Loss of regulation
Loss of adaptation
Not feeling well, but not certifiably “sick”
Continual energy drain
Flawed state of being

17. Adaptation Capacity Hans Selye stated:
“Adaptability is probably the most distinctive characteristic of life.”

18. Stress Illnesses
Caused by the breakdown of mind and body systems worn down by living with stress.
Stress does not cause the illness but its effects lead to lowered vitality.
Loss of vitality limits an organism’s ability to adapt to the environment.

19. Failed Coping Mechanisms
“It is the failed or frustrated coping mechanisms in dealing with stressful situations or chronic stress that cause the mind and body systems to first be distressed then damaged.”
Barbara B. Brown Ph.D.

20. Indirect Stress Symptoms
Tension Headaches
Migraine Headaches
Muscle Cramps
Arthritis
Digestive Disorders
Arteriosclerosis
Cardiovascular Illness
Fatigue
Depression
Anxiety

21. Direct Stress Symptoms
Ulcers
Allergies
Asthma
High Blood Pressure
Colitis
Insomnia

22. Living With Stress
Living with any kind of stress diminishes well being and saps the energy from both the psyche and the body.
Covering up the early symptoms creates greater impact on the vitality of the future function of the regulatory systems of the body.

23. Definitive Diagnosis
“The lack of a definitive diagnosis of stress states before they break down mind and body systems is largely because stress is a rather new cause of disease that has its first effects on mood and mind rather than on the body, effects that cannot be easily detected.”
Barbara B. Brown Ph.D.

24. Late Diagnosis
Stress-induced illnesses raise an ugly head only after years of maladaptation and emotional struggle. By the time the patient is diagnosed, they have felt poorly for years when something positive could have been done. Instead, they took prescription or over the counter medication in an attempt to cover up the early stress warning signals.

25. Stress Ills
Stress wears down the body systems, including the brain substrate of feelings and emotions and is felt as “stress”
In actuality stress-related feelings are caused by disturbed physiological functions within the body, not by the stress itself.

26. Identifying Covert Signals
Difficult to measure vitality
Identifying changes in vitality
Recognizing the signs:
Headaches
Tiredness / Fatigue
Memory Loss
Insomnia / Emotional Worries
Fox--

27. Failed Coping
Both flawed states of being and acutely dangerous stress ills are products of the same mental task of striving to deal with the stresses of life.
Failed coping undermines health in two main ways:

28. Devitalization Process
Phase One—The frustrating struggle to cope erodes well being and drains the emotional energy, causing feelings of underachieving, lack of fulfillment, and predisposes one to other ills.

29. Devitalization Process
Phase Two – The growing anxieties and body tensions that follow the failure to cope with excessive or endured stress ultimately disable the physical functions of mind and body, creating the “official stress ills.”

30. Unique and Uncommon
The unique way stress saps the vitality of the psyche and erodes the physical apparatus of the body leads to signs and symptoms of un-wellness that are very different from the signs and symptoms of recognized medical and psychological ills.

31. George Vithoulkas
Every organism possesses a defense mechanism which is constantly coping with stimuli from both internal and external sources. This defense mechanism is responsible for maintaining a state of homeostasis, which is a state of equilibrium between processes that tend to disorder the organism and processes that tend to maintain order.

32. Defense Mechanism
“If the defense mechanism were always functioning perfectly, there would never be any suffering, symptoms, or disease.”
George Vithoulkas

33. The Core of Human Existence
“…depends on the ability of the organism to keep its dynamic equilibrium with a minimum of disturbance and in maximum constancy. The defense mechanism is constantly trying to create and maintain this balance, but it is not always completely successful.”
George Vithoulkas

34. Incubation Period
The stress disease process operates covertly and can incubate for years before the disabling stress ills surface. It becomes an important health issue to examine the disease process of stress in detail.

35. The Stress of Life -First
Psyche Becomes Wounded
Intellectual Drain
Disrupts Logical Thought
Creates Subtle Changes
Loss of Coping Strategies
This activity begins before the emotions are aroused.

36. The Stress of Life- Second
Psychological effects
Emotional changes
Mind patterns
Mood swings
Behavioral changes
Reduced coping mechanisms

37. Progression of Disease
Psyche
Incubation
Psychological
Attempts at coping
Failed coping
Physiological strain
Biological systems become weakened
Stress ills begin
Total loss of vitality—greater loss of coping
Disease

38. Official Stress Ills
Appear only after the stress process has damaged some important function of mind or body seriously enough to interfere with a vital function. Once the damage is done the stress ill can be diagnosed -- after years of loss in vitality which was not foreseen.

39. Treatment
After diagnosis, the traditional treatment is directed at the particular body function that has become disordered, and not according to the stress that actually caused the function to become disabled. The medical cause is determined as ulcer, hypertension, colitis, depression, etc. and treated as such.

40. Subtlety of attack Trojan Horse Effect
The distress of stress is the diminishing potential caused long before stress ills emerge. States of diminished well being arise out of the struggle with everyday stress. They come from wear and tear on psyche, mind, and body as they strive to cope with the inconveniences and feelings of dissatisfaction with life.

41. Perceptive Illness
Stress is a phenomenon generated by perceived threats or of being thwarted or impeded in meeting our needs of safety, love, satisfaction, or happiness.
Stress begins when we perceive life to be different than we believe it should be.

42. Stress Components Dissatisfaction Emotional Wounds
Lack of Control in Outcomes
Victimized Attitudes
Lack of Hope
Fear, Hate, Anxiety—Strong Emotions
Lack of Love, Lack of Emotional Support
Not Being Understood
“Unknowingness” – Angst over the future

43. Worries “For every worry under the sun, There be a solution
Or there be none.
“If there be one,
Hurry and find it,
If there be not one
Never mind it.”

44. Measuring the Vital Force
Equilibrium of the dynamis through
Bionetic response.
Monitoring C’hi vitality and meridian energy flow.
GSR-HRV-EMG

45. SpectraVision
Because the stress signature is complex, a complex testing system is needed to determine the stress signature. Normally the psycho-physiological responses are too vast, making conventional analyses inefficient.

46. Psycho-Physiological Stress Inventory
By measuring bionetic stress responses, the physiological relationships are easily seen. Although complex in nature, the first glimpse into the psycho-physiology stress signatures can now be identified.

47. Where Stress Can Hit Circulation Bones, Teeth, Jaw
Muscles, Ligaments, Cartilage
Immune
Endocrine
Digestion
Respiratory
Brain
Skin
Reproductive / Urinary
Emotional and Nervous Systems

48. Circulation Cardiovascular Hypertension Arteriosclerosis Arrhythmia
Angina
Heart Attacks

49. Bones and Teeth Structure Alignment—Form and Function
Teeth -- Skeletal System
TMJ, Dental Caries, Bite
Excessive wear and tear
Acidosis
Free calcium excess

50. Muscles – Connective Tissue
Strain—torn / worn muscles and ligaments
Pain
Insomnia
Fibrocysts and Myalgias
Dysplasia, Breasts and Soft Tissues (free calcium excess)

51. Immune Function Candida Cancer Infections Reduced Immune Function
Weakened Resistance
Lupus – Connective Tissue

52. Endocrine Adrenals Brain pH regulation Hypothalamus
Pineal Pituitary Axis

53. Nervous System Heightened Acuity -- Senses Anxiety – Mental -- Disease
Regulatory – Autonomic System
Sympathetic Nervous System
Parasympathetic Nervous System

54. Digestion Irritable Bowel Syndrome Colitis Ulcers Impaired Digestion
Indigestion

55. Respiratory Shortness of breath Asthma Anxiety pH regulation
Lack of oxygen

56. Brain
Depression
Weak memory
Weak mental acuity
Insomnia
Somnolescence

57. Skin
Eczema
Psoriasis
Excessive sweating
Itching
Scratching

58. Reproductive/Urinary
Stress related miscarriage
Inhibited Ovulation
Weakened Immune
Inhibited Libido
PMS
Amenorrhea – loss of cycle
Incontinence

59. Emotions Allergy Anxiety Phobia
Intense drain on nervous and mental systems causing a browning out effect.

60. Chinese Model and Body Systems
Element: Wood
Yin: Liver ; Yang: Gallbladder
Muscular System
Lymphatic System

61. Chinese Model and Body Systems
Element: Earth
Yin:Spleen ; Yang: Stomach
Nervous System
Digestive System

62. Chinese Model and Body Systems
Element: Metal
Yin:Lungs ; Yang: Lg. Intestine
Respiratory System

63. Chinese Model and Body Systems
Element: Water
Yin: Kidney ; Yang: Bladder
Skeletal System
Urinary System
Endocrine System

64. Chinese Model and Body Systems
Element: Fire
Yin: Heart ; Yang: Sm. Intestine
Cardiovascular System
Reproductive System

65. Autonomic Nervous System
Stress induced diseases
Neuroblastoma – tumors of the nervous system.
Reduced resistance to disease
Heart disease
Digestive problems
Hypertension

66. Autonomic Nervous System
Regulates the body’s automatic, involuntary functions to maintain or quickly restore homeostasis (to the dynamic system– homeodynamics)
All organs are directly innervated by the ANS. They directly receive fibers from both the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions.

67. Sympathetic Division
“In short, when we must cope with stress of any kind, sympathetic impulses increase to many visceral effectors and rapidly produce widespread changes within our bodies. Heart, vessels, muscles, glands, organs all become ready to either flight or fight.”
Human Body in Health and Disease – Thibodeau/Patton

68. Sympathetic Division Emergency system for the body
Takes control of many internal organs under conditions of strenuous exercise, strong emotions such as anger, fear, hate, or anxiety.

69. Prolonged Exposure
Excessive exposure or constant exposure of the nervous system to extreme emotions puts undue pressure on the nervous system and its capacity to vacillate as required between parasympathetic and sympathetic activities.

70. Psychical Assault
“Stress begins as an intangible blow to the psyche, the center that functions to preserve the well-being, wholeness and harmony of the being.”
Barbara B. Brown Ph.D.

71. Psyche
psy·che (sº“k¶) n. 1. The spirit or soul. 2. Psychiatry. The mind functioning as the center of thought, emotion, and behavior and consciously or unconsciously adjusting or mediating the body's responses to the social and physical environment. [Latin psþch¶, from Greek psukh¶, soul.

72. Vital Force
Without the vital force the material organism is unable to feel, or act, or maintain itself. Only because of the immaterial being (vital force) that animates it in health and disease can it feel and maintain its vital functions.
Hahnemann – Organon of Medicine

73. Vital Force
In the invisible interior of the body, the suffering of the untuned spirit-like dynamis animating the organism and the totality of perceptible symptoms representing the disease are one and the same.
Hahnemann: Organon of Medicine

74. Psyche = Vital Force
The vital force is the body’s psyche or control center that enables the body to maintain a state of wellness. It is only when energy is disrupted and the body’s vital force is damaged that an illness can take hold.

75. Healing Dimensions
“Scientists recognize from the uses of the mind in healing that the mind must play a role in the cause of human ailments. While there is a consensus that the mind does influence the course of emotional and physical difficulties, most orthodox practitioners and theorists tend to cling to the axiom that every aspect of health and illness is chemically ordained.”
Barbara B. Brown

76. Healing Dimensions Cont.
“The changing consciousness of professionals about healing, along with the growing evidence for the effectiveness of non-invasive, non-physical, non-medical healing techniques has conspired to gain at least informal recognition of a nonphysical factor in health and illness.” Barbara B. Brown

77. Healing Dimensions Cont.
“The emergence of the concept of ‘stress’ as a potent influence on the health of human beings is a heartening sign of improved understanding of health and illness.”
Barbara B. Brown

78. Prolonged Psychic Trauma
Stress evokes the arousal response.
Being threatened for survival
Reflexive excitation of the body
Worry drains energy

79. Stress is Intellectual
People under stress do not always become rigid with tension and have a continually pounding heart; chronic stress is brain drain.
It is hard to express feelings of concern and to describe the faint body signals of distress.

80. Stress Signatures
Added to the confusion, the specific psycho-physiological stress response is different for everyone.
Hypothalamic-Thalamic
Pituitary-Adrenocortical
Sympathetic-Adrenomedullary
ACTH secretion

81. Physiological Relationships
Stress Aspects
Toxicity
Maladaptation
Body systems stress
Nutritional deficiencies
Loss of homeodynamics
Stress Pattern – Homotoxicology
Reduced meridian energy flow

82. Stress Path
All stresses must pass through the brain where they are measured, recorded and classified. Based on previous experience, the brain/mind determines a course of action. If no action can be taken, this “non-event” marks the beginning of unresolved issues creating an imbalance in the vital force.

83. Homotoxicology
Imbalances in the vital force follow the emotional relationships of “progressive vicariation” as defined by homotoxicology.
The principles of homotoxicology were first developed by Hans- Heinrich Reckeweg in the 1950s.

84. Phases of Homotoxicology
Excretion
Reaction
Secretion/Deposition
Impregnation
Degeneration
Neoplasm

85. Homotoxicology

86. General Adaptation Syndrome
Hans Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome (G.A.S.) showed three phases:
Alarm Reaction Phase
Stage of Resistance
Stage of Exhaustion

87. Graph of G. A. S.
Alarm Resistance Exhaustion

88. G. A. S. and Homotoxicology
First Phase
G.A.S.:
Alarm Reaction
Homotoxicology:
Excretion-Reaction

89. G. A. S. and Homotoxicology
Second Phase
G.A.S.:
Resistance
Homotoxicology:
Secretion- Deposition/ Impregnation

90. G. A. S. and Homotoxicology
Third Phase
G.A.S.:
Exhaustion
Homotoxicology:
Degeneration-Neoplasm

91. Bionetic Stress Response
We believe that the data most indicative of the psychophysiological response system as measured by the SpectraVision, is the Delta Change response.
Maximum Rise and Fall
Regulation of Body Systems

92. Single Channel – G.A.S. Alarm Reaction Resistance Stage
Hypertonic Response Over 50
Resistance Stage
50 or Less and Points Falling
Exhaustion Stage
Points are below 43
(may or may not be falling)

93. Holmes-Rahe Scale Significant Sources of Stress: Spouse 30%
Family / Friends 22%
Self-Expectations 14%
Work 14%
Community 9%
Financial 7%
Home 4%

94. Stress Interventions Relaxation Response HeartMath Meditation
Detoxification
Lifestyle modification
Natural therapies
Homotoxicology

95. Stress Interventions Reclaiming Control & Connection Emotional
Ideological
Intellectual
Spiritual
Energetic
Physical

96. Stress Interventions
Stress intervention through natural therapies centers on providing the necessary and adequate resources to the body in an effort to stimulate the reclamation of an adaptogenic state. The inability to adapt leads to disease and death.

97. Healing Dimensions
“Most of the new therapeutic healing techniques depend upon using the mind to help or heal itself or they depend on becoming aware of the fine tuning of the body and the feelings and insights these awarenesses create.”
Barbara B. Brown

98. Impediments to Adaptation
Psyche—Beliefs, Perceptions
Thought Patterns– Brain Memory
Exogenous Toxins
Endogenous Toxins
Mal-excretion
Nutritional Deficiencies
Improper Diet and/or Lifestyle

99. Aids For Adaptation Homeopathy Flower Essences Nutritional Supplements
Vitamins / Minerals
Enzymes / Food Choices
Herbs / Detoxification
Education / Lifestyle Changes
Meditation / Relaxation
Awareness / Consciousness

100. Homeopathy: Match the Person, not the Disease
The remedy is used more to harmonize the individual’s vital force and to help them cope better with the stresses of their environment. The focus isn’t in determining the type of illness but in the the type of client having the illness.

101. Successful Adaptation
As organisms, if we can successfully adapt to our environment, we will thrive.
We can reclaim our vitality!

102. George Vithoulkas
There is a return to the ancient vitalistic concept of living organisms, but this time with technology to precisely measure biological electrodynamic fields and their actions.

103. George Vithoulkas
Health is having attained a state of well-being; having a dynamic state of serenity and calm; and having a total unification with truth.

104. Strengthening Vital Force
The vital force aligns the body, the mind, and the spirit. It is strong when it is fully aligned with truth.
May the Vital Force be with you!