Mind Body Diabetes Type 1 and Type 2

A positive, powerful and proven solution to stop diabetes once and for all

Emma Mardlin

• Publisher: Findhorn Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781844096879
• eBook ISBN: 9781844097968
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Diseases & Allergies

Positively refreshing, this practical resource book offers unique information and support to emotionally and physically break free from diabetes now. Written with extensive experience of type 1 diabetes and top professional expertise in mind body medicine, this book provides a very new and exciting way of thinking about this condition, creating profound and positive change on so many levels. It also outlines ground-breaking practical resources that can help to improve the condition and even stop it, if we choose to take it that far. This is applicable to all types of diabetes, and to all circumstances. This book provides the tools to develop a completely different and inspiring mind-set to change and conquer the common perception and often daunting baggage of diabetes that can prove challenging for anyone to get to grips with. It demonstrates how we do not just have to 'manage' this condition and the vast array of emotions that go with it; it shows you how to fully release them and live a life without limits. From dramatically improving diabetes and successfully taking control, to completely reversing it, it is all out there with the knowledge to explain why, the information to cover what diabetes is and what we mean by it, to the very practical resources explaining how to do this whilst making life easier in the process, the encouragement to inspire positive change, and the reassurance of what to do if things do not always go according to plan. "Mind Body Diabetes Type 1 and Type 2" is written in an easy-to-follow step-by-step format and supportive manner with down-to-earth personal experiences and research along the way; including managing the worst of this condition through to taking it in hand and experiencing extraordinary results and progress. The writing integrates humor, character and dialogue throughout as it engages with the reader, as well as containing facts, information, and practical resources.

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Lifting the Lid on Diabetes –

Understanding the Mind-Body Connection

So what has our physical health got to do with our minds? Well the answer to that is … everything! That is in no way exclusive to diabetes, but those of us with the condition can dramatically benefit from how our minds directly affect us physically.

Here’s why.

Although everything I’m about to explain might be completely new information to you, and possibly a lot to digest (generally, because we’re not taught this stuff in school), this knowledge has actually been around for some time. Even so, it’s often little known, acknowledged, or practised in general medicine, although that is changing.

We’re talking about indisputable science – how the human body functions in terms of the health we experience, and how our mind and body interconnect to give us the various physical results we experience every moment of our lives.

I’ll explain this in greater detail throughout this chapter, and offer evidence throughout the book, but in a nutshell, this is what you need to know:

Every single thought and emotion we have affects every single cell in our body, because the same electrochemicals that carry our thoughts also bathe every single cell in our body. That’s what we mean by the mind-body connection. Our mind and body are constantly communicating with each other in order to function and create our health – mentally and physically (whether we like it or not).

From a scientific point of view, everything we think about affects us physically – from a smile or a frown to health or dis-ease – and as we know, the state of our physical health in turn affects our thoughts and emotions. And so the cycle continues, as shown in the following graphic.

This piece of information is massively exciting. In fact, I would go so far as to say that it’s one of the most powerful pieces of information known to man (if properly understood and positively acted upon), as it offers us control over our health and the results we get in life. This is because the way we think, the words we speak, the pictures, sounds, and feelings we hold in our minds are reflected throughout our entire body, and therefore directly affect our physical health.

A Small Practical Exercise You Can Do to Understand How Particular Thoughts Affect Us Physically

First, think of something really funny, such as the last time you nearly lost control laughing. If you’re struggling here’s one of mine to help.

Rob the Ripper

We were once delivering a business training in a pretty formal setting, and we were yet to break the ice. As we were talking our way through the introduction, one of the most formal-looking people in the room suddenly let off the loudest, longest trump I’d ever heard! And once I start laughing, I can’t stop.

Even worse was that no one else in the room flinched, so I couldn’t help but think, Fair enough. Ranging rippers are obviously the norm around here. Then just as I continued talking in order to distract myself quickly, the same gentleman got up and popped out of the room pretty sharpish. All we heard were consecutive long, loud rippers (a bit like a moped bike). At this point, I couldn’t even look at my partner in case I started laughing. Thank God, someone else finally had a sense of humour and said aloud, ‘It’s Rob the Ripper’ and everyone started laughing. Phew.

Needless to say, poor ‘Rob the Ripper’ left for that day, so we never saw him again. One of the most natural things in the world can just be so funny in certain situations, and I have to say that was one of them.

Now, as you’re hopefully thinking of something funny, try looking sad whilst thinking and feeling amused at the same time. Generally, if you really get into the state of thinking funny thoughts, you’ll find this second part of the exercise nigh on impossible to do. That’s because if you’re thinking funny thoughts, this tends to automatically be physically reflected as a smile, a laugh, and a good feeling. This is a small but important example of how the way we think affects our emotions and physical state.

On the whole, if you think negatively, you’ll feel negative emotions and then display or manifest them physically by either looking flat, crying, being angry, and/or eventually being ill. Basically, a conflicted mind will create conflicted health.

At some point, most of us will have experienced this, such as when we may have been really nervous about something. It will have begun by thinking about the situation in a worried or panicking way, thinking about all the negative ‘what if’s’ (whether this was immediately conscious to us or not); consequently, we’d begin to feel worried, nervous, and anxious. That would then result in us behaving differently (such as forgetting words, having mental blocks and so on). This would then begin to affect us physically, possibly displayed as nausea, shaking, sweating and so on. Then we’d begin thinking about feeling ill, and the negative spiral would continue until eventually a positive distraction breaks the cycle.

But if we think positively to start with, this allows infinite possibilities for exceptional health outcomes; especially where diabetes is concerned.

How?

Well, if we have pleasant, happy, or funny thoughts, this stimulates the release of feel-good chemicals such as endorphins for example, and we experience happy feelings, which in turn create optimistic, relaxed, and fun behaviour. Physically, we experience this as a pleasant glow, positive energy, and even pain relief, because endorphins also act as natural painkillers (‘endogenous morphine’).

The Science Behind This Connection

Such a cycle occurs between the mind and body because all the information that is carried to and within the body is done so in the form of electrical impulses. These electrical impulses are messages (information) that are carried from one nerve cell (neuron) to the next using an electrochemical called a neurotransmitter via one cell communicating with the other, as it transfers this information (a synapse).

When neurotransmitters were first discovered, scientists thought that they were only found in the brain; in fact, it is now acknowledged that neuro-transmitters connect every single neuron in the body, thus forming a network of electrical circuits. Hence, the same electrochemicals that carry our thoughts also carry the very same messages to other cells throughout the body.

Quantum biologists and physicists tell us that neurotransmitters bathe every cell in the human body; therefore, what we think affects every single cell in the body. Effectively, we are constantly sending messages and talking to our bodies. It is this exciting link that brings us to the mind-body connection that makes self-healing, full health, and being free of dis-ease possible. At some point, an unconscious link is formed as to exactly how we will react physically to our thoughts and emotions; hence we manifest dis-ease, illness, and conditions differently. This physical manifestation has metaphorical significance when we take the time to analyze this link.

Energy and Emotions

Through the mind-body connection, our emotions (instigated by our thoughts and all that we hold in our minds) become a form of energy, and when this energy is negative, it manifests in the body as dis-ease or illness. The negative message is sent to every cell in the body, causing us to physically reflect a negative health state.

In this respect, bad backs can often be an example of being weighed down by something and reflect that we don’t have a particular support in life that we’re looking for – emotionally, financially, or in whatever way is relevant. Similarly, stomach ulcers may reflect something eating away at a person. Shoulder problems may represent carrying a burden in life.

More importantly, we can change this at any point in order to achieve full health and healing; in this case, to stop diabetes.

How Is It Possible For Us To Change Our Health Once Our Cells Have Already Been Affected In a Particular Way?

All our cells have intelligence and memory. It is widely reported that 98 percent of atoms in the body are different from what they were a year ago, as confirmed and clearly explained by Dr. Deepak Chopra, although the structure of the bone cells may remain fairly constant:

• The skin is new every month;
• The stomach lining is new every four days;
• The liver is new every six weeks;
• Our red blood cells are new every three months;
• We are therefore constantly changing.

As a pioneer within mind body medicine, Dr. Chopra highlights how science has even proved that damaged nerve cells can actually sprout new growth (Deepak Chopra, 1989¹). From such information, we see how the body has infinite healing possibilities. We can liken the body in this way to the water cycle; a constant flow of new water, ever changing throughout its journey, hence you never get wet by the same rain. This also highlights how change is naturally a sign of life. Change is what allows us to positively move forward and progress. Change within the body is no different.

So Why Do We Still Look the Same and Hold Onto Dis-ease? What Is Cell Memory?

The only reason we still look, sound, and feel the same and hold onto disease, illness, or chronic conditions is because we have ‘cell memory’: our cells remember what to do – good and bad. We already know that organ donors can pass on character traits and memory through their organs, and that cellular memory can be inherited, as well as the notion of muscle memory, so we know that our cells hold memory.

Supporting this notion of cell memory is a particular experiment conducted by a French immunologist, Dr. Benveniste². He created what was effectively ‘a bad allergy’ in a test tube. When pushing the boundaries of this experiment by reaching the point of only adding water rather than the original trigger used and needed to evoke the reaction, he found the reaction was still set off with the same power as before.

This experiment therefore found that you can trigger the immune system without anything actually (physically) being present! Basically, the same reaction as before occurred completely from memory. Human white blood cells still acted as if they were being attacked, leaving cellular memory as the main plausible answer. So when it comes to the mind-body, unless we can learn from our memories and release any linked negative emotions that are held as negative cell memory, we are likely to incubate the memory of dis-ease and experience its effects continually.

What is interesting is that this memory isn’t just of cell functionality but of emotional memory, too, and it is the emotional memory that consequently alters the functionality. This is pertinent to diabetes and any chronic (long-term) conditions – the cells are remembering to malfunction, and must rely on external intervention (injecting or medicating) in order to function effectively.

In considering the concept of memory, scientific studies showed that after rats had been trained to run a maze and then had nearly all their brain tissue removed, they still remembered how to run the maze, albeit a little slower (Karl Lashley 1929, 1950³). This led neuroscientist Karl H. Pribram⁴ to postulate that memories were not stored in a single neuron or exact location in the brain, but were spread over the entirety of a neural network; effectively memory is stored holographically, sporadically throughout our entire body (and brain). Again, this emphasizes the undeniable mind-body connection and its significance.

It is therefore vital to fully resolve any negative emotions attached to memories, rather than storing them within the body. If we continue to transmit negative messages throughout our nervous system in this way, they will only manifest physically as dis-ease.

The exciting news is that when cell memory is not ideal or healthy, we can reprogramme it by releasing stored negative emotion and using guided visualization, as well as many other techniques to retrain the functionality of the cells. Such processes and techniques will be discussed in detail later. They are resources you can use to experience positive changes, and that will inevitably lead to phenomenal results in stopping diabetes.

In releasing stored negative emotions we can then get the positive and productive, healthy results we want. It’s probably also worth mentioning here that the longer our cells have learnt to do something, the longer they may take to retrain. Everything is a process, a positive step towards our end goal, so keep taking action, keep positive, and keep focused.

As part of my own personal research in this field, I addressed and released many different negative emotions and traumas that had manifested throughout my past (some very severe to me and some not at all), as well as applying other techniques. As a result, I witnessed some amazing results. My health consistently and dramatically improved to the point that I only required 16 units of insulin per day with a HbA1C of 5.7 percent (approx. average of 6.7 mmol/l and 120 Mg/dl) and eating a regular, balanced diet.

Then emotional disruption hit – in a pretty big way, too – and I was sent off course! I was aware of the effects of this, and I had the resources to manage it very well, but just to give you some idea of the impact of negative emotion on health, I suddenly required 40 units of insulin/ day, had a HbA1C of 7 percent (8.5 mmol/l & 154 Mg/dl), and I wasn’t eating any more or less...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• A Word From the Author
• A Brief Personal History
• 1. Lifting the Lid on Diabetes – Understanding the Mind-Body Connection
• 2. The Question Set – A Good Starting Point
• 3. What Is Diabetes, and What Do We Mean By Stopping It?
• 4. The Components of an Indestructible Mind-Set
• 5. Resources and Techniques
• 6. The Acceleration Plan – Diet, Lifestyle, Healing Foods, and Complementary Medicine
• 7. Dealing With the ‘Negitudes’ – and Some Amazing Mind-Body Case Studies to Inspire You
• 8. Doing Something About Complications – From Dealing With Them to Getting Rid of Them
• 9. Piecing It All Together and Getting Exactly What You Want
• 10. A Final Word
• Appendix A: Troubleshooting Guide – Help With Getting to the Root of Unexplained Conundrums When Things Go Astray
• Appendix B: Resources
• Bibliography
• End Notes
• About the Author
• Progress Notes