Your cells are listening to your thoughts

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Jo

I am reading more and more stuff about how the cells in our bodies are able to respond to our thoughts whether they be negative or positive.

There is more and more scientific evidence available to read up on to understand how your physical body reacts and responds to your thought processes.

I am understanding more and more that to become well physcially you need to heal your mind and to do this you need only to concentrate on your own healing and withdraw any energy you are placing in other people.   This is easier said than done but must be worked on mentally to achieve your own peace of mind.

Basically, according to quantum physics and the new sciences, anything in the material world has to start off its life as a thought, somewhere in somebodies mind.  To manifest your own reality to become what you desire it to be you have to start thinking about it first and then you have to apply your belief that it will begin to happen for you.

If your mind is constantly full of negative emotions relating to others or even to yourself, such as anger, jealousy, insecurity, rage, fear, lack, impatience, frustration then you are in a perpetual state of stress and this is then a hormone racing around your body creating havoc.

If you can permit yourself the time to switch off from all that stuff and relax your mind by focussing on deep breathing, then your brainwaves will change and slow down and whilst in this different brain wave pattern you can reprogram your body by thinking about good things, progress, health, wealth, love and joy.  Your cells in your body also pick this message up and respond instantly.  The more time you can invest on being in this constant state of  joy, the better off your cells will become and hence the healthier your body will become.  Your energy levels will rise because you are not wasting any of it thinking about pointless things that dont need to count in your life. 

You owe it to yourself to become “selfish” in this matter and to drop all outside negative influences in your life.  If people are negative toward you then just emotionally detach yourself from them.  Let their stuff be their stuff and know that you are OK and you are good and you are strong and you are heading in the right direction.

To reprogramm your mind you just need to be relaxed and then you just need to start to daydream about what you do want out of life and focus only on what you want and stop thinking about what  you dont want.  As you withdraw your energy from  these things they will shrink and wither away.  As you put more enrgy into what you want it will become bigger and bigger and brighter and brighter.

Good things to research:-

The Backster effect

The Silva Mind Control Method

Dr Emotos water experiments  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqWzEd2fI_Y&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

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Progress report for January 2012

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Jo

I just wanted to update on how my January is going so far and what I am doing to improve my health situation.

Since a long spell in hospital in October 2010 which left me unable to weight bare or to walk I have spent 2011 trying to regain my strength and health of my body, my mind and my spirit.  It is safe to say that the  period between October 2010 and November 2011 was the worse time of my life so far but in November 2011 I snapped out of it and made a monumental shift in my way of thinking again.

Before November I was still in the mode of “why is this happening to me?? what have I done to deserve this?? why aren’t people around me more understanding??, etc etc  My state of mind is a battle I face every day, it isnt easy to remain chilled and relaxed and happy when your health is disappearing down the pan, but I do know that there is a corolation between feeling this way and my health deteriorating.  It is such a subtle shift in my state of mind and I seem to  jump between the two ways of being, almost daily or even during the day several times, I go in and out of “just being and accepting” to “stewing and wishing things were different, and then getting fed up”.

I was  placing an enormous responsibility on my husbands shoulders to provide me with the happiness I was missing inside and I was resentful if he couldn’t manage it. I was holding a lot of anger towards him.  By using the techniques of EFT to tap on these emotions and by going to a trained counsellor I was able to see that I needed to change my ways.

I decided that I needed a sense of purpose again and arranged with my social worker to do some voluntary work, as I realise that by giving to others you in fact give to yourself and it is through the act of giving that you receive.  (see the link about the lady who cured her MS by giving)

At the end of that week which was early December I went along to a centre for people with various types of disability and had a look around with a view to becoming a volunteer.  Now, on a Friday I get picked up from my house and go up there for the day.  I help out on the reception in the morning and then in the afternoon I am in the art room and my aim to is encourage people to have a go at painting, even if they think they can’t do it, just to experience the happiness it can give you by just mucking about with paint. Letting go and just being, letting go of fear and just allowing life to flow through you.  FEAR is that thing that stops you achieving your dreams, and it is something you have made up for yourself, depending on your own beliefs about yourself.  You can push through FEAR and realise that it is just False Expectation Appearing Real, when you push through it, it disappears.  It is but a figment of your imagination.  The more you feed FEAR, the worse and bigger it gets. 

I got such a buzz out of being there and really look forward to going there and seeing where it will take me.  This is looking after my emotional side as it is giving me a sense of purpose and something to aim for.

My physical side continues to gain strength, even though right now my feet are still not able to lift so techniqly I cannot walk right now, but my strength in my core is improving steadily and my ability to stand up and sit down is markedly different.  My balance is so much better, my energy levels are high.  I had problems with my bladder as I expect a lot of people with MS have.  Urgency and frequency being a big problem and also a very irritable bladder almost every day feeling as if i was getting an infection by the end of the day. I wonder if this was because of sitting in a wheelchair.

The latest thing I am looking into is getting my spine realigned to give my body the best chance of functioning correctly.  I have been for an assessment and I had problems at the top, with the atlas being way out and C2 and C3 being turned in and stuck together.  I had these adjusted last week along with my pelvis and hips and the result is that this week I have had no issues with my bladder.  Is it coincidence? I will wait and see.

This week I am going for a thermal imaging of my entire body to find out if in fact I have vein issues in my legs as well as in my neck (CCSVI)  It stands to reason to me that if my jugular vein can be blocked and twisted, then I could also have problems in my leg veins, which if I have proof then I can get my doctor to refer me to a vascular specialise, hopefully.  I will update…..

I googled THERMAL IMAGING AND MS.  There are some fascinating reports by  B.J Palmer, a chiropractor who used Thermal Imaging and corrected the upper cervical spine  in people with MS with some fantastic results.  One man who was wheelchair bound and unable to feed himself, got back to walking and full use of his body.  He had had a neck trauma when he fell 10 feet off a building onto his head at age 16. 

www.erinelster.com/articles.aspx?ArticleID=278&mid=57

I will let you know how I get on.

I continue to have Alexander Technique lessons which are helping my body to become less rigid and to re learn how to relax my muscles.

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New Year, renewed focus and new research, 2012 is going to be a good year

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Jo

As the end of 2011 draws to a close I am looking forward to 2012 as I firmly believe that this is going to be a good year all round.  I have been gathering renewed focus and strength over the past two weeks for the task ahead and that is to remain focussed on health, to remain positive, to follow up on further CCSVI treatment as I am convinced that my vein health is playing a major role in the symptons that I am experiencing.  It is going to be a challenge to get treated in this country for vascular problems when you already have been labelled with MS, as the Health Service is geared up to only treat people if a positive outcome is already proven.  This is why it is so difficult to get Physio on the NHS if you have MS, because they won’t treat you long term and the outcome cannot be measured by some randomn controlled trial, so you are a statistic instead of a person, with a life to live and you are up against the machine.  This is why it is so important to take control of your own path and make things happen that need to happen. Do not be complacent and just accept the answer your GP or neurologist gives you because they are governed by money, lack of resources, Big Pharma input as to what drugs to prescribe you, even if they don’t work and give you horrible side effects.

Nothing is as it seems anymore, and putting your whole trust into a medical system to do its best for you is no longer a valid option. You have to be researching your own stuff and following up on  things that get good results.  If it feels right for you then go for it…live by your own truth and not by what someone else thinks you should do or not do.

When I had the CCSVI treatment in Poland in March 2010 I thought it would be the answer for me.  For eight weeks post treatment, I saw improvement in my walking, so much so that I was able to walk down a corridor without using any sticks, which is something I  hadn’t done in a long while.  I had a hefty fall in the kitchen one day and the following day I noticed that my left leg could no longer lift into the car by itself, I needed to lift both legs into the car.  A couple of months later I was suffering with serious stress and very down due to the fact that I had put so much into the CCSVI treatment that I was now lost as to what to do.  My doctor put me on to some antidepressants and within a week my legs reacted so badly that I ended up in hospital  for 3 weeks unable to move my legs or to bend them, they were totolly rigid. The chemist at the hospital noted that a side effect of the medication I had taken was “rigidity in the legs”.

For  the whole of 2011 I have been rehabilitating and trying to get my strength back again.  It has taken over a year now and I am still wheelchair bound or shuffling along with a zimmer frame, however, although I have had ups and downs along the way I believe that my strength is slowly returning bit by bit and because I believe this to be true I have faith in my self that I will continue to get better in 2012. 

I have looked at every aspect of my life and taken steps to deal with each and every one of them and I believe I am now in a place where serious change can start to take place.  I believe that MS is a whole collection of different aspects that come together and create this disease.  This is why I think it is so difficult for researchers to nail one particular thing as the reason. Below is a list of the parts that make up me and my life that I have tried to get in order.

Physical Aspect – Venous  flow, or poor flow in my case  2012 – continue to look into ways of getting blood to flow better.  This can be through surgical procedure such as CCSVI angioplasty, diet can considerably change the consistancy of your blood.

CCSVI – Continue to follow this treatment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycdmyN1ikv8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Iyl9LSkoJI

Diet. Terry Wahls continue to work toward a Paleo Diet

http://www.terrywahls.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc

Emotional Aspect – Continue with Emotional Freedom Technique to get rid of blocked emotions that are stored in the body somewhere.  By working on this the body is literally becoming more free and it is amazing that stuff you even forgot about consciously is still in there somewhere and when it comes out you just get lighter and more at ease, which is where you want to be (dis -ease or at ease) This aspect cannot be ignored or poo pooed anymore as much scientific evidence is out there that proves that your cells store memories and your cells react to negative emotions. It is not just goo goo gah gah.  You just need to look, if you presently dont believe this aspect has a role to play, then look into it and you will find much evidence by scientists.

Candace Pert – Molecules of Emotion      a pharmacologist 

http://candacepert.com/sample-page/

Bruce Lipton scientist The Biology of Belief   – what you believe gives you your experience of life

http://www.brucelipton.com/biology-of-belief

The Healing power of Belief – Gregg Braden YOU MUST WATCH THIS ONE!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8DeBePK3Wg

SPIRITUAL ASPECT – continue to strive to bring into my life PEACE, HOPE and CHARITY and open my mind to new possibilities by way of meditation and open my heart to allow LOVE to flow.  TO continue to drop judgement of others and allow things to be, just as they are at this moment in time, but to have faith that things are changing all the time and the right person or thing will come into your life at the right moment. I am thankful for the people that popped into my life in 2011 and helped me along my bumpy path..you know who you are. xx

I think that just about wraps up 2011 and I wish you all a Happy and Healthy 2012.

BELIEVE IN SELF…BE STRONG….BE HAPPY

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Vitamin D

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Jo

Another issue that I have is with my Vitamin D levels as these are currently 38 and should be about 80. My GP put me onto vit d tablets which are 400iu each and i was to take 2 tablets per day. If you read up on the web there is plenty of pages and information about taking far greater quantities than this to try and elevate your Vit D Level up. Consequently I now take 10,000iu per day and I hope that this will help the situation. If you get onto Facebook there is a group on there called MS Friends and these sorts of issues are discussed widely, with helpful tips given.
There is a new report out showing the link between VIt D levels and the occurance of MS.

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B12 update

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Jo

Since having the B12 injections from GP I have noticed a considerable upturn in my energy levels and fatigue situation. Having had the course of injections over 2 weeks my levels went from 167 up to 1500!! so this ought to last me a the 12 weeks until I get another injection. I have been getting up at 7:30am and going to bed at 11:00pm each day with no tiredness during the day. I feel that this is down to the injections so if you suffer from fatigue stopping you getting through the day it is definatey worth asking your GP for a simple blood test to check your vitamin B12 levels and if they are less than 200 i would push to get the injections. To be honest I would push even if they were nearer to 300 as there is evidence that people can have symptons of b12 deficiency below this level.

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Continuing to move forward with focus and vision

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Jo

I am moving closer to my dream of teaching people about the art of putting paint onto paper and the joy it gives you when you create something unique to  you.  I am pushing myself to get out of my comfort zone and back into the world again, with an element of helping others to feel good keeps my energy levels up up and away.

A lot about healing is in the “Belief” that you are indeed getting better and although this is a constant battle in my mind and my conscious mind would have me believe all sorts of negative things, I have an underlying belief that I am just fine, just the way I am, and I am improving every day.

Where the mind goes, the body follows.

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Vitamin B12

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Jo

Whilst in hospital I was asking if I could try a b12 course of injections to get my level up.  My blood test level was 167 and the levels in the Uk for “normal” B12 is 150-900.  I believe I am at the low end and as I am presenting with neurological symptons ie MS, I believe it to be worth a try to see if it helps my symptons.  I was told I was in the normal range and it wasnt necessary. Iwas even asked “what symptons did I have?”  even though B12 deficiency has symptons EXACTLY the same as MS, even down to stripping the myelin sheath around the nerves.

No go in the hospital, no justification, but I persisted with my GP and she agreed to give it a go even though it was not normal practice. The levels in the US are set at 200-900 with deficiency occuring with levels under 400, so I would be classed as deficient in the US.

Vit b12 had also been linked with Depression,Bi-Polar, Schizophrenia, Alzheimers and people can make good recovery once their levels are brought up.  Maybe 5 years ago when I was diagnosed with MS I got different label and got B12 deficiency instead, things may be a different story today….who knows…but no one even looked to see what my levels were.  It is only because I have researched it and asked for it that I have got it.

watch this BBC Inside Out program and listen to Doctor Chandy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klobLSxv6i0

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FEAR (of acceptance)

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Jo

I haven’t posted for a while now, mainly down to the fact that I lost my way again and started to doubt myself again.  The title of the blog reads “Jo Chant  Road to Recovery” and I am thinking “who am I to make such a bold statement when I start to doubt it myself and then I feel like a fraud” . I also have a fear of being laughed at, this is a deep seated fear that stems from my childhood and stubbornly seems to refuse to want to go, so ingrained that it is.

Fear of not being accepted by others, rears its ugly head every  once in a while.  Sometimes I merrily go along and start to open up to others around me and be how I want to be and say what I want to see and not be bothered whether or not its “the right thing” or not.  I feel much happier and free when I am like this, but I go into a cycle of starting to doubt my own thoughts and perceptions about everything around me and this makes me feel anxious and uptight.

Uptight-ness is deeply damaging to this condition as it stiffens me up, mentally, physically and spiritually and I lose my way…

In September I spent 3 weeks in a neuro rehabilitation unit and I was admitted from home for a course of “intensive” physio which was going to help me to become a bit more mobile than I currently am.  Well I hoped it would anyway.

I went down there for a visit and was shown around by a consultant, a very nice lady and obviously very capable at her job.  I asked if she thought she could help my mobility and was told that “we often see people here whilst they are in the phase of walking a bit, but not quite in a wheelchair fulltime, but when they become wheelchair dependant then we dont see them again”

I was quite shocked by this answer and found it to be totally depressing and it nearly put me off going there, but I decided to give it a try.

The first week was a write off as they were short staffed and interviewing for a physio so i didnt get to see anyone until Wednesday.  The sessions were 3 times a week and not every day as I had been led to believe.  my sessions were quickly eaten up with assessments and opinions and to be honest didnt really get much actual physio.  My stay was lengthened to 3 weeks  from 2 because of the first week staff shortage and  very quickly i got into the “swing” of hospital life but wasn’t getting too much intensive physio and was eating diabolical food, all stodge every day,jacket potatoes on every day for dinner and tea with one other choice at either meal. Cooked dinner at lunch time and salad at tea time.  not a lot of nutritional input and as such I lost 4lbs.

ALthough I cannot fault the staff, they were all lovely, lovely people , but the system leaves a lot to be desired.  AT a cost of maybe £1000 a week i got maybe 2 decent physio sessions.  The NHS motto seems to be “Prepare for the worst and HOPE for the best” which I also found to be SO depressing as I have always tried to maintain my positivity and aim high not low. But it was drummed into me about being prepared equipment wise and getting a tilt recline chair and maybe changing car to the next stage on even if I dont need it quite now.  ie a car I can drive whilst still sitting in a wheel chair. AT the moment I drive in the car and use hand controls, but transferring  into the car is tricky right now. 

I feel like I am up against a wall with bright lights being shined on me and I am desperately trying to remain sane and composed and dignified yet I want to scream “WHY CANT SOMEBODY HELP ME” 

WHilst I was in the hospital I remained busy with my painting and got a table set up in a corridor by a door so that i could paint away to my hearts content. This is what keeps me sane.  If I didnt have something like this to become lost in then my thinking brain would take over.  I painted a couple of paintings for some fellow patients which cheered them up no end and was a joyfull experience to give somebody something that makes them smile, even when they are going through some seriously tough times in there.  This is what I love about painting, it makes people smile and happy which makes me happy too.

When I came home after the 3 weeks I was back to being in the house on my own again most of the time, which i really do not like at all.  I became very down in the dumps this week but the good news was that i got to restart the ALexander Technique with Bill again I came to the conclusion that the hospital experience had taught me once again, that my health remains entirely in my own hands and as soon as I give over my power to others and their opinions I become weaker in spirit and in turn in body. 

I needed to get back on track again with my positive attitude and outlook.  Only look at today, don’t think about the future and takes steps to become healthier each day through diet, exercise and meditation.  This, I know works for me to keep me happy and enjoying my life as it is instead of focussing on what I have lost.

When I was in the hospital someone said that there was nothing you can do for MS as your body cannot re make myelin.  THis person commented on the “silly” people going to Poland for the liberation treatment and I then piped up that I was one of those “silly” people.  Maybe I am silly but this person did nothing all day but lay on their bed pressing the buzzer and yet their mobility was the same as mine.  They could be right, they could be wrong, who knows?? I certainly don’t but I am willing to try and help myself.

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Finding your passion

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Jo

 A big boost to healing power is to find your passion, whatever this may be…for me it happens to be painting and I use it to take me away from “thinking”.

Thinking is what gets me into trouble as “thoughts” tend to turn negative and before you know it you are carried away by a thread that leads to no where.

If it helps then make a list of everything ever in your life that ever made you feel passionate and happy inside.  Then you just start to incorporate these things into your life again.  If you can’t do it phyically then start to dream about it and get the feeling back in your heart again.  It is this feeling that will take you out of depression and fear and into joy and peace.

Another great one for me is music and I have a list of music on my computer that I find very inspiring ( In Spirit) to me.  ie it resonates with my inner soul and makes me feel good inside.  A good thing to have on a computer is Spotify and you can keep lists of music to play whenever you feel like.  Have a great sing along and bellow out some good vibes to whatever it is that makes you tick.

In fact it can be anything that is linked to creativity and brings you joy.  Painting, Gardening, Walking, Singing, Dancing.  All of these things have something else in common in that people always say “Oh I can’t paint”  “Oh I can’t sing”  “Oh I can’t dance”  Well the truth is “YOU CAN”  just don’t worry about the outcome and the result, just enjoy doing it.  No one is judging it,  just your own critical eye, based on your own inner fear.  Usually rejection in some form or another. You can only start and become better with practise.

If you think back to being a child and remembering what your passions were then, before you got into the “ADULT” thing and “BECAME RESPONSIBLE”  you could start to re-energise yourself once more by re-visiting these things once more.

Whilst you are thinking about these things you could also start to write down all the things that you feel good about yourself, things that you have achieved in your life, people you have helped along the way, good attributes to your character, ways that you have contributed something to the world.  Maybe you can start to make the list a longer one by concentrating on doing things to help out others.  This also takes your mind away from the focus on your own troubles and starts to  bring your energy levels up as you apply yourself to helping others.  It can be in many different ways, by giving your time to your children – your full attention, not one eye on the TV, by giving your unwanted possessions to charity, by helping out at schools, by being nice to your neighbours and sharing the time of day with them.  GIVING is the new TAKING and makes you feel SOO much better!!!

See the following link of a lady who turned around the MS by GIVING.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/multiple-sclerosis-studies-probe-role-clogged-neck-veins/story?id=13374572&page=2

Its the 3rd video down but the others are good to watch too!!!

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The Stress Link

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Jo

When you get to a point in your life when you realise that everything has become a struggle and you are just getting through the days, it seems as if you are just waiting for God.  Life becomes grey and meaningless and it feels like you are on the outside looking in, but not really in it, taking part. 

If we can move away from the thought that we are  just  a random bunch of organs and bones, controlled by a brain and start to look at ourselves in a totally different way, that of an energy system that links  into other energy systems.  When we look at ourself honestly and ask ourself where on the scale of negative to positive energy we sit, then invariably it will be more to the negative end.

I am making this bold assumption because I believe that it is this negative energy coursing through your body that is causing it to be sick in the first place.

If you go to the doctors and complain of pain the ankle, you may go and see an ankle specialist.  If the pain moves up to your knee then they will refer you on to a knee specialist and if one day you get a pain in the backside then they will throw their arms up in the air, call you a difficult patient, and refer you to a backside specialist.  At no point in any of this will any connection be made as to why you are in PAIN.  They do not speak to each other and treat you as a whole person who is in pain, but as a set of symptons that need addressing individually.  This is usually via medication first and then surgery.

Nobody asks what is going on your life, or your stress levels, or your emotional well being or your fear levels or your anxiety levels and all of these factors bring on PAIN.  The mere fact that the stress hormones are running through your veins at a higher level than normal will increase the risk of all sorts of problems in your body.  Yet no doctor ever asks you about your stress levels or your personal home circumstances. I remember once being told I was a difficult patient “What are we going to do with you?” When no one could work out what was wrong with me.  Turns out 15 years later I had undiagnosed Multiple Sclerosis going on with me and it went undetected for 15 years with numerous trips to the doctor with patches of numbness, weakness, pain and paralysis.  I also had serious bouts of Ulcerative Colitis which is also an inflammatory immune condition much like MS, but affecting the bowel and on several occasions I made the comment about it being odd that I had two different auto-immune disorders and was told that I wasn’t the only one but that no connection could be made between them.

If you want to see how stress affects your body then take a look at these websites and see

http://www.fi.edu/learn/brain/stress.html

http://stress.about.com/od/stresshealth/a/cortisol.htm

Back to the negative energy or stress, whichever way you would like to look at it.

If you want to take control of your health  situation then the first step in making this change of energy in your system is “To take control of your own path” or to “Set your intention to acquire better health then you have at the moment”

When you have made this decision for yourself it automatically changes your energy and empowers you straight away.  You may not know at this moment how you are going to do it, but now you know that you are going to do it, and this is a massive step to take and one that your body will recognise and react to in a positive way. Your energy levels will start to rise immediately and you will have a sense of purpose again, instead of being passive in your diagnosis you have now become active and there is a world of difference in this energy alone.

A Quote by Lao Tzu “ A journey of a 1000 miles begins with one small step”

“When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time” Quote by Orison Swett Marden

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