Once in a while, you come across a made-up word (in truth, all words are made-up) that not only catches your attention, but says something really important for humankind. That is what happened when I read one of the current news reports about more evidence that routine mammograms make healthy people sick. You can check the facts about that if you are interested, but this tip is about the word in the heading of the article, Misfearing Breast Cancer.
Misfearing is the word, and here is a concept vital to every one of us. From the article:
The Rosenbaum commentary explores a phenomenon that Cass Sunstein dubbed “misfearing”—our human nature to fear instinctively, rather than factually. Rosenbaum’s patient’s first answer is correct—heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined, yet breast cancer seems to invoke far more fear among most women.
For political issues, you can go avoid misfearing by going to factcheck.org to get objective reporting on a wide variety of questions. You would most likely agree it would be wonderful to have something to prevent misfearing for questions about your health, lifestyle, and personal choices. The great news is YOU DO. It is called your body.
In Your Body is Your Subconscious Mind, Candace Pert, Ph.D., the bestselling author and world-class neuroscientist who discovered neuropeptides (See Molecules of Emotion), helps you recognize how emotions affect our bodies. If this is new to you, check out some related terms including: applied kinesiology, muscle testing, or biofeedback. In short, there is wisdom in your body far greater than in your conscious awareness.
This week, discover or maximize your own ability to move beyond “misfearing” to hearing (or seeing or feeling or knowing) what is truly true for you. Your well-being depends upon it!
Many tools exist to help you access other-than-conscious information. Below, you will find an easy and fun exercise for calibrating yourself (observing unconscious communication from your body).
Exercise: Calibrating Yourself
You can begin to understand how this works by calibrating yourself for yes and no. If you’ve lost your keys, for example, it’s usually a matter of your conscious mind’s not remembering where you left them. The chances are good, however, that your unconscious will have retained that information. You can use a series of yes/no questions to discover their location.
Because fear and desire—attachment to a specific outcome—make accurate calibration more difficult, begin learning how to calibrate yourself and others by asking about situations with little or no emotional content. Asking your unconscious mind to help find your car keys, for example, is more likely to produce clear responses than asking about whether you should marry a certain person or which treatment to pursue for a serious illness.
Begin by asking a series of questions for which you know the answers, such as your name, your age, your gender, your marital status, the number and sex of your siblings, and similar sorts of things for which you can phrase the question so that either a yes or a no could result.
Once you have convinced yourself that your unconscious mind is cooperating, ask questions to which you do not know the answer but for which you will be able to confirm whether the answer you receive is correct. If you have misplaced your keys, for example, you might ask yourself a series of questions to help you locate them, beginning by asking your unconscious whether it knows their location.
When you have narrowed the possibilities using yes or no questions, go look in the place your unconscious has directed your attention. Once you trust your unconscious to provide you with good information, you can use this technique to learn more about possible courses of action, including the best business decisions.
Your internal response may be in any of the representational systems. You may see something, such as an exclamation mark or the color blue; hear something; or feel something. Use a number of checks to ensure that the message you are receiving is coming from your unconscious mind rather than your conscious mind, which tends to confirm your fears and desires.
If your internal calibration is kinesthetic, for example, make sure that you can answer the following questions: What does “yes” feel like? What does “no” feel like? What do “I don’t know” and “I don’t want to tell you” feel like?
For each of those, you will have a different kinesthetic response: Yes may be higher in your body than no, or yes may be to your right, while no is on your left. Yes may be a specific color, with no being a different color. It is also possible for yes and no to be images, such as a smiling face or a frown.
Pay attention to what it feels like, and then continue to ask yourself yes/no questions until you have determined the ways in which your responses are consistent.
Exercise information from Healing with Language: Your Tool for Effective Mind Body Communication, by Joel. P. Bowman and Debra Basham.
This week’s health tip originally appeared online at https://scs-matters.com/misfearing/.
While there, you can sign up to receive posts automatically.
Tips from 5 April 2010 to 6 August 2012 are here: Archived Tips
 |
Rev.Debra Basham
Voice: (269) 921-2217 Email: debra@scs-matters.com https://scs-matters.com http://ImagineHealing.info http://SurgicalSupport.info Small Changes … Infinite Results™
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ~Mother Teresa |