Estratto del libro The Dynamics Of Disease and Healing: The Role That Perception and Beliefs Play In Our Health and Wellness (De Donato, 2015) (pp. 16, 17)

Estratto del libro The Dynamics Of Disease and Healing: The Role That Perception and Beliefs Play In Our Health and Wellness (De Donato, 2015) (pp. 16, 17) [Italiano: La dinamica della malattia e della guarigione: Il ruolo che percezione e credenze esercitano sulla nostra salute e sul nostro benessere – Pubblicato in versione inglese – pp. 16, 17]

CAPITOLO 1: INTRODUZIONE

Situazione di sfondo

La salute è indubbiamente l’aspetto più importante della vita umana. Benché molti ne abbiano cura, coloro che non lo fanno sono costretti a comprenderne l’assoluta necessità non appena questa è seriamente compromessa e, forse, persa per sempre. Malgrado per millenni l’uomo abbia cercato l’Albero della Vita per poter ripristinare quella che molti ritengono essere stata la condizione originale dell’uomo sulla terra, ossia uno stato caratterizzato molto probabilmente da un benessere fisico e psicologico totali, questa tanto ambita mèta continua a sfuggirci. Recenti statistiche mostrano che i paesi oggi più colpiti da malattie debilitanti sono paradossalmente proprio quelli i cui sistemi sanitari si basano sulle più moderne tecnologie e pratiche mediche.

Benché la medicina tradizionale abbia scientificamente dimostrato che stile di vita, dieta e condizioni ambientali degradate hanno ripercussioni sulla salute umana, come consulente olistica della salute, credo fermamente che altri elementi, più tangibili, possano rivestire un ruolo fondamentale nella dinamica della salute e della guarigione. Mi sono chiesta: La percezione e le credenze svolgono un ruolo nella nostra salute, e se sì, in che misura?

Questo studio inizia con l’esame di cosa siano realmente salute e malattia. Guarda attentamente l’effetto placebo ed il potere di suggestione. Esplora il potere che mente e spirito esercitano, così come suggerito dalle pratiche di culture antiche e primitive, ed anche il livello di coscienza e consapevolezza dell’individuo. Infine, attraverso l’analisi e l’osservazione di 7 casi studio, tenta di identificare e dare un nome a quei fattori responsabili dell’elevazione del benessere umano al suo livello ottimale.

Descrizione del problema.

Troppo spesso la gente si rassegna all’eventuale diagnosi della malattia come conseguenza di geni ereditati e malattie croniche presenti tra familiari. Malgrado fattori genetici possano rendere una persona più prona di un’altra ad una certa condizione di salute, ciò non significa necessariamente che l’individuo sia destinato ad incorrere in essa. La convinzione che non abbiamo alcun controllo sulla nostra salute è, infatti, la conseguenza di attitudini negative e passive che denotano mancanza di conoscenza e di informazione, basso livello di consapevolezza di chi siamo realmente e di come i nostri corpi funzionino e comunichino con noi, scarsa comprensione di come il sistema di credenze dell’individuo influenzi la vita umana e la salute ed, infine, scarsa comprensione/conoscenza della potente capacità che possiamo avere di evitare potenzialmente in todo alcune situazioni o quantomeno di sanarle. Certamente molto spesso la gente si ammala e non guarisce a causa dello stress psicologico da cui è afflitta quale conseguenza del modo in cui interpreta e percepisce la realtà. Tuttavia, non appena si rende conto di questa dinamica e migliora il proprio modo di pensare risultati fisiologici positivi hanno spesso luogo, a volte persino immediati.

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“Ho appena finito di leggere questo meraviglioso libro “Disease and Healing Dynamics” [Italiano: Dinamica della malattia e della guarigione, De Donato, 2015 – Disponibile in versione inglese]. Lo ADORO! L’autrice, Dr.ssa Maria Teresa De Donato, comunica un potente messaggio circa la salute ed il benessere. Questo estratto dalla sua dissertazione “The Dynamics of Disease and Healing: The Role that Perception and Beliefs Play in Our  Health and Wellness” [Italiano: La dinamica della malattia e della guarigione: Il ruolo che percezione e credenze esercitano sulla nostra salute e sul nostro benessere – De Donato, 2015 – disponibile in lingua inglese], anch’esso pubblicato, si concentra su credenza, percezione e consapevolezza circa la malattia. Mi ha spinto a riflettere su molte cose, specialmente sul cammino spirituale di una persona verso “il risveglio”. L’autrice provvede eccellenti casi studio citati, descritti nel capitolo 7 dove veniamo informati circa la malattia quale aspetto centrale e a livello cellulare. L’autrice mette anche in evidenza le nostre tendenze umane legate al nostro modo di pensare, sentire e percepire con i sensi. Sono tutti e tre questi ingredienti necessari per la trasformazione?

Molto penetrante, spinge alla riflessione, demistificante. Ottima ricerca.”

Francesca Durham – Imprenditrice Spirituale

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Excerpt from the book The Dynamics Of Disease and Healing: The Role That Perception and Beliefs Play In Our Health and Wellness (De Donato, 2015)

Excerpt from the book The Dynamics Of Disease and Healing: The Role That Perception and Beliefs Play In Our Health and Wellness (Published July 10, 2015) (pp. 16, 17)

     

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Background   

Health is undoubtedly the most important aspect of human life.  Though many

treasure it, those who do not are forced to realize its absolute necessity as son as it is

seriously compromised and, possibly, lost forever.  Despite the fact that for millennia

Man has searched for the Tree of Life to restore what many believe might have been the

original human condition on earth, a state most likely characterized by total physical and

psychological well-being, this much sought-after goal continues to be elusive.  Recent

statistics show that the countries worst affected today by debilitating diseases are,

paradoxically, those whose healthcare systems consist of the most modern medical

practices and technologies. 

Though traditional medicine has scientifically proven that lifestyle, diet, stress

and degraded environmental conditions do impact human health, as a holistic health

practitioner, I firmly believe that other, more intangible elements may play a fundamental

role in the dynamics of health and healing.  I asked myself, Do perception and beliefs

impact our health, and, if yes, to what extent?

This study starts with an examination of what health and disease really are.  It

looks closely at the placebo effect and at the power of suggestion.  It explores the power

that the mind and spirit exert, as suggested by the practices of ancient and primate

cultures, as well as the individual’s level of awareness and consciousness.  Finally,

through analyzing and observing seven case studies, it attempts to identify and name

those factors responsible for elevating human well-being to its optimal level.

             

Statement of the Problem

Too often, people resign themselves to eventual diagnoses of disease based on

inherited genes and chronic illness among their relatives.  Though genetic factors may

indeed render a person more prone than another to a certain health condition, it does not

necessarily follow that the individual is destined to express it.  The belief that we have no

control over our health is, in fact, the consequence of negative and passive attitudes that

denote a lack of knowledge and information, low awareness of who we really are and

how our bodies function and communicate with us, poor understanding of how the

individual belief system influences human life and health and ultimately, of the powerful

ability we may have to potentially avoid altogether or reverse certain conditions. 

Certainly, very often people get sick and do not heal under conditions of the

psychological stress they experience as a consequence of the way they interpret and

perceive reality.  However, as they become aware of this dynamic and improve their

mindset, favorable physiologic results often occur, some nearly immediately.

….

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"Finished reading this wonderful book, “Disease and Healing Dynamics”. I LOVED IT!! The author Maria Teresa De Donato, PhD. delivers a powerful message about health and wellness. This extract from her dissertation “The Dynamics Of Disease and Healing: The Role That Perception and Beliefs Play In Our Health and Wellness”, also published, focuses on belief, perception and individual awareness about illness. It got me thinking about many things especially a persons spiritual path to “awakening”. The author provides excellent sourced and cited case studies, revealed in CH 7, where we learn about disease at a core and cellular level. As well, the author brings to light our individual tendencies related to thinking, feeling, and sensing. Are all three ingredients necessary for transformation? Very insightful, thought provoking and demystifying. Great research here." Francesca Durham ~ Spiritual Entrepreneur

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Your Kingdom come

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the Kingdom of God. What is it … how can one find it? In this regard, there are different interpretations of it with the major being:

1] Kingdom of God is here and also with God

2] Kingdom of God is not the church

3] Kingdom of God is a place where God’s will happens; that is what makes any place part of the God’s Kingdom
4) Kingdom of God is a real place and a government which will have great impact also on the Earth and its inhabitants.  

How can I say that you may ask. Well, think about it; the most known prayer from the New Testament is the Lord’s Prayer. In it we pray: ‘Your Kingdom come, your will be done’.  So there you are – this is what everybody prays because this is what Jesus told us to pray.

In our world it doesn’t look like the Kingdom of God is expanding or taking over. We have many distressing situation – even in our personal lives not to mention the bigger problems like famine, wars, terrorism and so on. And we should not forget that there are some horrible things within the churches; in so many countries, this including also the United States of America there are many known cases of child sexual abuse by the clergy – there is no Kingdom of God found in these churches nor they can represent it. Everybody in their right mind can see that things are bad, very bad. 

So, you may ask, where is God – where is His kingdom? 

Many among us have been longing for the Kingdom of God to be fully manifested also on Earth, so that His good and perfect will might be accomplished "as above so below' or "as in Heaven so on Earth". 

Hence, you are in charge of the spreading of God’s will. You do something good; you are nice to another person or yourself; you show kindness to others – and then you will foretaste how your life will be in God's Kingdom in its fullest and most perfect fulfillment.

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Venga il tuo Regno

Recentemente ho pensato molto al Regno di Dio. Cos'è...e come lo si può trovare?
Ci sono diverse interpretazioni al riguardo e le maggiori sono:

1) Il Regno di Dio può essere qui ed anche con Dio
2) Il Regno di Dio non è la chiesa
3) Il Regno di Dio è un posto dove la volontà di Dio si adempie, questo è ciò che lo identifica come tale
4)Il Regno di Dio è un posto ma anche un governo reale che avrà un grande impatto anche sulla terra e sui suoi abitanti.

Come posso affermare ciò? ti chiederai. Bene, rifletti su questo: la preghiera meglio conosciuta del Nuovo Testamento è la preghiera di Gesù (Padre nostro). In essa noi preghiamo : "Venga il tuo Regno, sia fatta la tua volontà...come in cielo così in terra."
Ecco dunque - questo è ciò che tutti i cristiani pregano perché questo è ciò che Gesù ci ha insegnato a pregare.

Nel nostro mondo non sembra che il regno di Dio si stia espandendo o che stia dominando. Ci sono molte situazioni che ci affliggono - persino nelle nostre vite personali senza menzionare problemi maggiori quali carestia, guerre, terrorismo e simili. E non dovremmo dimenticare le cose orribili che accadono all'interno delle stesse chiese, In molti Paesi al mondo così come negli Stati Uniti d'America ci sono molti casi risaputi di abuso sessuale sui bambini perpetrati dallo stesso clero. Non c'è alcun Regno di Dio che possa essere trovato all'interno di queste chiese né si può dire che esse lo rappresentino. Ogni persona dotata di buon senso è in grado di vedere che le cose stanno andando male, molto male.

Dunque vi chiederete, Dov'è il Regno di Dio? Dov'è il suo Regno?
Molti fra noi desiderano ardentemente che il Regno di Dio si manifesti pienamente anche sulla terra, cosicché la Sua buona e perfetta volontà possa aver luogo "così sopra come sotto" o "come in cielo così in terra."

Tu sei chiamato a diffondere la volontà di Dio. Compi una buona azione, sii amorevole verso il prossimo e verso te stesso, sii gentile con gli altri - e allora potrai pregustare come sarà la vita nel Regno di Dio nella sua forma più piena e perfetta.

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Love never fails

There are too many expressions of love in our world today. Actually it can be said that there is a confusion of love, of what it is. How do we know what true love is like? This question has been unanswered despite many attempts in literature, poetry, visual arts and cinema to portray this elusive thing we call love.

And still, despite many unsuccessful attempts to define love, we humans have never given up our search for 'real love'.

In the Bible the true love, unique love or Divine love is called agape.

Andres Nygren in his tome ''Agape and Eros'' wrote that 'Agape love is unmotivated in the sense that it is not contingent of any value or worth, in the object of love. It is spontaneous and heedless for it does not determine beforehand whether love will be effective or appropriate in any particular case.'

According to the Bible this is how God loves and how we also are supposed to love everybody and everything. As conseguence, Love [agape] never fails because divine love always takes into account the object of its love. In fact, what this kind, true agape love is and how it can and should be applied is beautifully summarized by the verses in 1 Corinthians, Chapter 13:4-8 where we read

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, it always perseveres. Love never fails.

If you wish to deepen into the topic love/Agape love and how to apply it in all areas of your life, you are invited to read

Hunting for The TREE of LIFE (De Donato & Sinkko, 2016) and

DARE to RISE - Reshaping Humanity by Reshapoing Yourself (De Donato & Gorce-Bourge, 2016)

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L'Amore non viene mai meno

Ci sono troppe espressioni d'amore nel mondo di oggi. In realtà, si può dire che c'è confusione in quanto all'amore e a cosa sia... questa domanda non ha ancora avuto una risposta malgrado i molti tentativi in letteratura, poesia, arti visive e cinema perché questa cosa sfuggente che chiamiamo amore potesse essere rappresentata.

Ciononostante, e malgrado i tanti tentativi senza successo nel definire l'Amore, non ci siamo arresi nel cercare il 'vero amore'.
Nella Bibbia il vero amore, unico amore o amore divino è chiamato agape.

Andres Nygren nel suo tomo "Agape ed Eros"scrisse che l'Amore Agape non ha un motivo nel senso che non è legato ad alcun valore o merito in quanto all'oggetto dell'amore. È spontaneo e noncurante in quanto a determinare a priori se l'amore sarà effettivo o appropriato in alcun caso particolare.

Secondo la Bibbia questo è il modo in cui Dio ama e come anche noi dovremmo amare a nostra volta tutti e tutto. L'amore agape è, quindi, perfetto amore. Di conseguenza l'amore [agape] non viene mai meno in quanto quale amore divino prende sempre in considerazione l'oggetto del suo amore. Infatti, ciò che questo tipo di vero amore è, e come può e dovrebbe essere applicato, è riassunto molto bene nei versi riportati in 1 Corinti, Capitolo 13:4-8 dove leggiamo

L'amore è paziente, l'amore è gentile. Non invidia, non si vanta, non è orgoglioso. Non disonora altri, non cerca il proprio interesse, non si arrabbia facilmente, non tiene conto degli errori. L'Amore non si rallegra del male ma della verità. Protegge sempre, crede sempre, spera sempre e persevera sempre. L'Amore non viene mai meno.

Se volete approfondire l'argomento Amore agape e capire meglio come potete applicarlo in tutte le aree della vostra vita vi invitiamo a leggere

Hunting for The TREE of LIFE (De Donato & Sinkko, 2016) e

DARE to RISE - Reshaping Humanity by Reshaping Yourself (De Donato & Gorce-Bourge, 2016)

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Alternative Health Care Systems: The German New Medicine (GNM)

Maria Teresa De Donato, Ph.D.,

Traditional Naturopath, Homeopath, Life Strategist, Author

Alternative Health care Systems: The German New Medicine (GNM)

In my March 21st,  2014 and January 4th, 2015 articles we have considered respectively Herbal Medicine (http://holistic-coaching-dedonato.blogspot.com/2014/03/wisdom-from-past-journey-intoherbal.html) and Homeopathy (http://holistic-coaching-dedonato.blogspot.com/2015/01/alternative-health-systems-homeopathy.html), which are two major health care systems.

In this article we are going to take a look at the pretty unique, yet quite controversial New

German Medicine (NGM) of Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer.

As a Traditional Naturopath and Classical Homeopath having a holistic and multidisciplinary approach to life and health, I believe there are a few main points in the NGM that are worth exploring since they might contain some deep truths that could help us to better understand the dynamics of symptoms, disease (especially cancer),  and, consequently, of the healing process.

The Five Biological Laws identified by Dr. R. G. Hamer, in fact, along with his understanding that each kind of cancer is the result of a specific type of trauma that manifests psychologically and biologically in a specific area of the brain that controls that kind of cancer is not only fascinating but also makes much sense when confronting typology of cancer, area where it manifests, and the kind of trauma as the root cause that might have determined it.  Although not denying that many debilitating and degenerative diseases may be caused by environmental pollution or other factors, Dr. Hamer maintains that each cancer is the consequence of a specific trauma or ‘conflict shock’.

During the years that he practiced medicine, and after having experienced cancer himself, Dr. Hamer was able to come up with a pretty detailed classification through which he identified the kind of conflict shock each cancer is related to and the exact area where each kind manifests accordingly.  He was able to accomplish that by scanning the brain of each patient of his affected by cancer and by checking which area of the brain was linked to what kind of cancer affecting a specific area where the disease showed up.

His findings can be summarized as follows:

1)        Glandular Breast Cancer – Nest-Worry Conflict

            2)         Colon Cancer – Indigestible Morsel Conflict

            3)         Lung Cancer – Death-Fright Conflict

            4)         Kidney Cancer – Abandonment Conflict

            5)         Intraductal  Breast Cancer – Separation Conflict

            6)         Cervical Cancer – Female Sexual Conflict

            7)         Ovarian Cancer/Testicular Cancer – Profound Loss Conflict

            8)         Bone Cancer – Self-Devaluation Conflict

9)                  Prostate Cancer – Male Sexual Conflict

Quite interesting is that according to this theory

a)      when cancer manifests the healing process has already started and

b)      the more traumatic the conflict shock is at the beginning when the individual is unexpectedly confronted with an experience he/she is not prepared for the more aggressive the manifestation of the cancer will be.

As consequence of point b) it is highly recommended, as soon as the individual becomes aware of the level of shock they went through and the consequent insurgence of the cancer, that they work the best they can as to downgrade the level of shock they went through initially in order to limit as much as they can the consequent impact of cancer on their health and make the healing process easier.  It goes without saying that in this regard GNM sees, therefore, treatments such as chemo- and radiotherapy as interfering with the natural healing process.

As for the Five Biological Laws which constitute the core of GNM theory, they can be summarized as follows:

1)         The First biological law - also defined as DHS (Dirk Hamer Syndrome), after Dr. Hamer’s son Dirk who died after being shot in 1978 and whose death led Dr. Hamer himself to get cancer - states that every kind of cancer or cancer-like disease is caused by a trauma as consequence of an event the individual could not anticipate and was not prepared for.  This first biological law is articulated on three criteria:

Ø      Every Significant Biological Special Program (SBS) originates from a  Dirk Hamer’s Syndrome (DHS), which is an unexpected, highly acute, and isolating conflict shock that occurs simultaneously in the psyche, the brain, and on the corresponding organ;

Ø      The conflict content determines the location of the Hypothalamic Hamartoma (HH) in the brain and where exactly on the organ level the related Significant Biological Special Program (SBS) will run its course;

Ø      Every Significant Biological Special Program (SBS) runs synchronously on the level of the psyche, the brain, and the organ;

2)         The Second biological law, according to which each cancer or cancer-like disease articulates in two phases:

            a)         The first phase, called ‘active conflict phase’ in which the sympathetic nervous system dominates and is characterized by cold skin and extremities, stress, weight loss and sleep disorders.  Once the person overcomes this phase he or she enters the so called ‘post-resolution healing phase’ in which the parasympathetic nervous system dominates, and which to the contrary is a warm state;

b)         The second phase is the one in which the individual encounters more risks due to the intensity of the shock experienced at an emotional level, so that basically the rule is that the more intense the trauma was at a psychological level the more dramatic the manifestation of the symptoms will be during the healing phase.  This implies that as soon as one is faced with a conflict shock he or she should try either to solve the problem as fast as possible or at least to do his or her best to downgrade it in order to limit the impact of the disease on his or her health during the healing phase (that is when cancer manifests);

3)         The Third biological law, also called the Ontogenetic System of Cancer and Cancer-Equivalents, highlights that the progression of the disease is controlled primarily by the brain, either by the ‘old brain’, which includes brain stem and cerebellum, or by the ‘new brain’, or cerebrum, with the old brain controlling survival functions such as breathing, eating and reproduction, and the new brain managing more elaborated ones as personal and social issues and conflicts;

4)         The Fourth biological law – defined the Ontogenetic System of Microbes – sees

microbes as being not the cause of diseases but rather as helpers for they are used by the

body, and coordinated by the brain, to facilitate the healing process, assuming that the

necessary microbes are available at the time they are needed;

5)         The Fifth biological law, or the Quintessence, states that the conflict active phase

and the healing phase of the disease prove to be ‘special meaningful programs of nature’

which include the intervention of bacteria, fungi, and viruses. 

In conclusion we need to acknowledge that the GNM has several merits. It has been able to eventually find the link among typologies of cancer, traumas that cause it and the related area(s) where the disease manifests; it has understood the dynamic of cancer itself, the reason for its aggressive manifestation and the importance to downgrade the psychological and mental anguish and shock that might have accompanied it from start in order to favorite and speed up the healing process. By identifying the Five Biological Laws regulating the whole process, GNM has helped, in my view, the medical field to move several steps forward in its understanding of the dynamics of this disease as well as to prepare potential victims to be better equipped to face it, cope with it, and eventually to

promote healing from within.  

Although I recognize and appreciate the validity of this method, as a holistic practitioner

and action person I do feel that sometimes just staying still and looking at the manifestation of the disease and consequent expected natural healing to occur might not be enough but that some further help might be needed.  The latter could be in the form of healthier lifestyle and nutritional regimen, herbal or homeopathic remedies, emotional and spiritual coaching or a combination of them. This could not only facilitate healing from within but also play a major role in restoring optimum health.

IMPORTANT!!! The present material is for educational purpose only and not intended as medical advice. Whatever your circumstances and health issues, consult with your physician first. To know more about how naturopathy and homeopathy can help you, you can contact me at info@dedoholistic.com or holistic.coaching.dedonato@gmail.com