Psychologists say there is an optimum stress level in which we perform our best. Any less and we get depressed. Any more and we get chronically anxious. They have even made a scale that you can use to tally your stress level and can say with a high degree of certainty that if you pass a certain level you will suffer some physical illness. So a link between stress and illness has been proven in countless clinical tests.
Stress isn’t all bad, though. Consider stigmata, the phenomenon that happens when a very spiritual person gets so stressed out carrying the worries of the world on their shoulders that he or she begins to bleed at the places where Christ was injured – the wrists and ankles where he was nailed to the cross; the spear in the side; the crown of thorns; the lashes on the back. In our Christian society I believe a lesser phenomenon – petite stigmata – happens to highly spiritual people: they habitually send their stress to these areas of the body. Thus we are a society who suffers from a high degree of chronic back pain, whose hands and joints are riddled with arthritis; and we have high levels of heart failure and baldness. Perhaps Christ was able to use this stress collected in his own joints ~ after all, he was psychological victim to the Roman practice of crucifixion as much as we are in the modern day ~ maybe that’s why they had him killed (ditto for the so-called witches and other dissidents tortured and burned at the stake by the Inquisition for practicing the “dark arts”); because they feared the people would learn how to heal themselves without the benefit of a physician. For example, the stress in Christ’s ankles could have aided in his “walking on water,” the stress in his hands in his acts of spontaneous healing. In any event, stress isn’t necessarily a bad thing, unless you allow it to collect and remain in your body over a long term. The remedy isn’t necessarily walking on water or practicing healing; but it IS important to exercise, to practice muscle relaxation techniques, to have a strong family and social support network, and to otherwise endeavor to keep stress out of your system. Perhaps, given the duality of stress, it’s healing properties can even be used to reverse the damage caused such as from arthritis or baldness.
Back to the main thread, I did not say this thing about stress collecting in these critical locations without personal experience. I was born six weeks premature, and premature babies are known to have many, many more nerve endings in their skin and surface tissues. I can quite literally FEEL stress in these places I have mentioned; and I can feel it go away too. I believe anybody can develop this level of awareness of their body – and, when you do, you will find that your mind is very much in control of where the stress goes in your body!
The next and final affect of stress unchecked is cancer. I believe deep hypnosis can be used in controlling cancer. Cancer is universally characterized by cells that have an extremely high metabolic rate. Self hypnosis can be used to slow this process down. There are any number of mechanisms the person can use, anything that means “slow” to them. I realize the general population scoffs at self hypnosis; I did too until I was diagnosed with an inoperable condition in which a nerve in my jaw presses against my teeth, causing excruciating pain. The only solution has been self hypnosis, in which I gently tell the aching nerve that “It’s OK, I get the message – no harm will be done; please stop hurting.” It comes back every few months; then I go into self hypnosis, and all’s well. A person should be able to make the same kind of suggestion to cancer cells that have been detected ~ to s l o w down.
In summary, I have shown that cancer may be caused by a localized concentration of stress. Successful prosecution of the diseased cells is therefore more than destroying them with radiation therapy or chemotherapy. The stress must also be gotten rid of. As the cells are weakened by the therapy the stress will be released into neighboring tissue – and can potentially cause the problem to spread. The stress must be stopped from doing that. The likely solution is exercise of the affected region in a physical therapy situation, for an individual unversed in self hypnosis or meditation. For those who are expert, they may have the capability of using the major muscle groups of the body to get rid of the stress even faster (assuming here that strenuous exercise uses up stress from the body).
These ideas are borne out by the latest theories in psychology. The medical community believes the panoply of symptoms associated with the Gulf War Syndrome – which include cancer type complications – is caused by nothing more than stress. This is a confirmation of all I have stated here. If stress can cause such severe problems, up to and including some types of cancer, then managing stress should be able to alleviate the problems. All that must be done is to train the mind to help make the chemical or other treatment more effective.