PLACEBOS / ENDORPHINS / ALLERGIES / CRAVINGS
A Naturopathic practitioner named Gene, who was a Bowen classmate, told me of a technique to remove allergies. He told me that if you know what you are allergic to, you can hold that substance in your left hand and shine a red laser light on the allergy point at the apex of the right ear for 30 seconds. Then, continue holding the substance for 20 minutes, and then discard it, but don't come in contact with it for 25 hours. I asked. "Why 25 hours?" My friend told me that there are 12 main meridians which have 2 hour cycles during the 24 hour day. You don't know which meridian is affected by the allergen, and if you come in contact with the substance while the affected meridian is processing it will make you sick in some way or another. You'll see when you come to the Rosemary part.
My first experience with the technique proceeded as follows. Monday mornings I always sneezed and got a runny nose upon arriving at my office. I guessed that I was allergic to the toenail dust that is ever present in a podiatry office, even though we have vacuums attached to our nail drills. So, one Friday afternoon I caught some nail dust on a piece of adhesive tape. After patients I did the treatment with the helium beam on my CO2 laser and drove home holding the tape, which took exactly 20 minutes. When I went to the office Monday and Tuesday I was unaware of anything different. Then on Wednesday, it occurred to me that I had done the allergy treatment the previous Friday and, that I had no runny nose or sneezing so far that week. As I write this, I no longer have any toenail dust symptoms.
Eggs - My Introduction to N.A.E.T.
A friend of mine who practices Naturopathy - natural healing with supplements, herbs, homeopathics, aroma therapy, essential oils, and other natural methods, told me of a technique she uses to remove allergic responses by the mind – body. Dr. Devi Nambudripad is an RN., Chiropractor & Acupuncturist. Dr. Devi accidentally discovered that by holding an allergen in the left hand and stimulating some acupoints along the bladder and governing vessel meridians, up the back and along the spine, the mind-body association can be repaired or replaced. Her book is titled, "SAY GOODBYE TO ILLNESS". N.A.E.T. is an acronym for, "Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Technique".
My Naturopathic friend Jean, determined that I was allergic to eggs, plus some other things. When she told me so, I recalled that whenever I ate eggs, which I really enjoyed, I felt very sluggish and spaced out the rest of the day until around 4:00 PM. After she did the N.A.E.T. clearing on me, I've had no further symptoms after eating eggs.
Rosemary – A lesson in the body processing process.
My third significant experience came from a self-treatment which turned out to be rather bizarre. I learned that I was allergic to sillymarin and rosemary, both of which were in my multiple vitamins. One afternoon I used the laser light on the ear point technique, held on to the vitamin tablet for 20 minutes, then discarded it. The following morning I made sure not to take the multiple vitamins which had not passed the 25 hour mark, so I took all of my other morning supplements. I was in a bit of a hurry so I didn’t fix anything for breakfast but grabbed a piece of leftover fish from the fridge, and was on my way. When I arrived at my office, all of a sudden I felt like I’d been hit by a truck. I got achy, my head pounded, I got chilled, and my nose bled. We had to cancel my morning appointments. I laid down for a rest on one of my massage tables and covered with a blanket. When I awoke at 11:00 AM, I felt better. And, as I got up, I detected a strange taste in my mouth. ROSEMARY! The fish had been breaded with seasoned bread crumbs and I ingested them as the stomach meridian was cycling from 7:00 – 9:00 AM.
Another visit with N.A.E.T.
An unusually interesting case occurred with a patient of mine. It has nothing to do with Bowen Therapy, but I am including it so that someones may benefit from the information. I diagnosed her foot problem with Morton’s neuroma, which is an enlarged nerve between the 3rd and 4th metatarsals. This is a fairly common foot condition, and I felt quite proficient in its diagnosis and treatment options. She had the usual numbness, tingling, and occasional burning in her 2nd, 3rd, & 4th toes in both feet. I performed my usual and customary non-surgical treatments and she seemed to improve. I the made her orthotics to keep pressure from the nerves and instructed her to return in two months if any problems still occurred and we would discuss surgical treatment.
About two years hence a friend of hers was seeing me for a problem, and she told me the rest of the story. Apparently my patient with the neuromas experienced progression of symptoms up the ankles and legs. Her family doctor referred her to a neurologist who diagnosed Multiple Sclerosis and prescribed drugs for this. She went to Stanford University for a 2nd opinion, and was again diagnosed with M.S. She tried other medications which did not help. Then, a year or so later it began affecting her hands. At this point she went to the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, and again she was diagnosed with M.S., and was given some other medications. About the time she lost the use of her thumbs, she went to my naturopath friend, Jean.
After Jean completed her work-up she was surprised that the lady did not show any of the usual findings that go along with neuropathies. She then asked our patient about what was happening in her life when all of this began. As it turns out she was building her dream home at the time of a real estate slump, and she was the not so proud owner of two houses built on speculation, which were not selling. All kinds of stress were abundant in her life at the time. She recalled the first sign of the tingling in her toes when she walked bare footed across the Mexican paver’s tile in the hallway of the new home. Jean then tested her for allergy to the tile, and sure enough, she was. Within days following a clearing her symptoms began to reverse, and within a month she was totally symptom free. However, as soon as she went back to walking on the tile floor the tingling in the toes returned so, she ended up selling the house
My version of N.A.E.T.
I got thinking one day about the N.A.E.T. technique. It occurred to me that many of the Bowen Therapy moves are over the same meridian points along the spine.
I discussed my allergy theory with a patient whom I was doing some Bowen sessions on. Her 12 year old son had multiple allergies and was seeing the local allergist for allergy shots. One of his main allergens was shellfish. If he ate any shellfish whatsoever, he suffered laryngospasms and hives. He also often craved shellfish. The allergist was afraid to give him allergy shots for shellfish for fear of a serious reaction. I had mother bring him for a Bowen session during which I had him hold a shrimp in his left hand during the treatment. When mother came back the following week she told me that his allergy skin test for shellfish had reduced by 80%. Unfortunately, they moved to Texas shortly after, so I did not get to follow up with them.
Emotional clearing with Bowen / N.A.E.T.
Although this experience did not involve a substance, I include It because it seems to be relevant. My naturopath friend Jean, referred me a patient that she was having trouble keeping cleared of the issues which were causing her headaches. Jean suspected that there might be an emotional block that was keeping her from attaining lasting relief. The patient had an anger issue with her father. It came from an incident when she was five years old. Her father and his friend went duck hunting and locked her in the car at the hunting spot for about four hours. She recalls the fright and feeling of abandonment which resulted in a long and deep anger toward her father. Although she had forgiven him and was at peace on a conscious level, she knew that there was some inner resentment that lingered. The first Bowen session, my intent was for me to initiate a somato-emotional release if that was what she needed. Nothing happened. The next visit, on a hunch, I had her write her desire to be rid of the anger toward father on a piece of paper. She held it in her left hand while I performed a full Bowen session on her. She returned a week later and was over it. She had experienced two days of extreme anger, especially with her two children. She was a single mom who doted over her kids, and hardly ever got upset with them. But, for the two days just about everything they did or said upset her. The last I heard, she was still pain free, and her life was good.
Other Cases of interest.
Another of my patients mentioned that whenever she drank a glass of red wine she developed a panic attack right after. This didn't happen to her with white wine. However, she didn't like white wine. She only liked red. So, we wrote red wine on a post-it note. She held this in her left hand while I did an abbreviated Bowen session using procedures 1-2-3. When she returned a month later for her Bowen “Tune-up”, she was no longer sensitive to red wine.
A friend of mine began experiencing headaches after drinking only a sip of red wine. I performed the same clearing for him, and he has been fine ever since.
My naturopath friend, Jean had a client who she was treating. She suffered headaches during the week. But, not on the weekends. After it was all said and done, Jean found that her client was sensitive to the color orange. She worked for Cal Trans and they had to wear orange vests while at work on the freeways and roads in California. She had the option to wear purple instead, and as soon as she switched colors, her chronic headaches cleared.
Another interesting case occurred recently at the cancer clinic where I used to do therapy. Mandy had sugar cravings, and I cleared her of those. Then she told me that she was unable to tolerate fried eggs. She could eat eggs in any other form, but she vomited after eating fried eggs. I did the clearing, and she now can eat fried eggs with no problem.
Cravings.
I was moderately addicted to potato chips. I always ate a small bag on my way home from work. I went to the pantry soon after arriving home and got more chips, and then some more. This went on most every day. After a hypnotherapy session, I was okay with it for a couple of years, but the cravings came back. I wrote potato chips on a small piece of paper and had a Bowen session with a practitioner whom I traded with. The same day I drove home empty handed. When I got home I did not feel even slightly inclined to go to the pantry and get some chips! To this day, some 15 years hence, I don't crave potato chips at all.
One of my Bowen patients confessed to craving diet sodas. She drank upward to 12 a day. We wrote "diet soda pop" on a piece of paper and did her Bowen session as she held the paper in her left hand. When she returned the following week, she had not had but three diet sodas all week. The next week she had none!
I also eliminated my cravings for crackers and cheese a couple of years ago.
Other cravings eliminated in patients.
Marijuana
Cookies
Cake
Chocolates
Coffee
Doesn't work for nicotine
THE SUGAR CONNECTION
After breast milk, one of the first substances we come into contact with is SUGAR! If there is a moderate amount of stress and turmoil during infancy, there is a possibility that sugar may turn out to be a stressing substance for that individual throughout the years. I have released the craving for sugar in a number of my adult patients. I am looking forward to doing a study on children for the release of the sugar connection. My theory is, that this disconnection process to sugar may be responsible to ADD and ADHD. I surmise that we all might be afflicted by the sugar connection to some degree. It may be possible, that the more the stress was at first contact, the greater the subsequence reactions
How can any of this be possible?
My theory is that the process works like this. First, let’s assume that you have never been in contact with root beer. Then during a time of stress and duress you eat your first dose of root beer. From now on your mind associates root beer with stress. And, even though you now are stress free, whenever you come in contact with root beer the body goes into a stress reaction pattern. Depending on which meridian was initially affected symptoms will be the same each time of exposure to root beer. I may be sensitive to root beer and experience headaches from it. You may be sensitive to root beer and you experience diarrhea when you come in contact with it. This is a different type of allergy than the poison oak type, whereby the substance causes the formation of antibodies which attack the allergen and thus cause an inflammatory reaction.
Secondly, my problem with eggs came from my stint in the U.S. Army. I ate eggs for breakfast at least five days a week. I was under stress for most of the two years I served. I was home-sick, love-sick, overworked, underpaid, harassed by the "Officers." I remember eating eggs while in high school without any problems. But, they affected me my entire adult life, until Jean did the clearing for me. So, it was a repeated exposure over a long time frame under stress in this instance.
For patients, I have performed this for all kinds of actual food allergies as well as emotional holdings, and it almost always works. How it really works is beside me, but I remember that my patients really only care if it works, not how. For those of us who must have an explanation, I propose one. I stumbled on to a book titled, "The Molecules of Emotion:", by Candace Pert, Ph.D. She points out that endorphins which are our very own narcotic/tranquilizer substance, are in part, contained in the nodal points along the spine. These are the precise locations for many of the Bowen moves. My patients tell me quite often that during the Bowen session and the day following their treatment, they felt a kind of "Runner’s High", and for the remainder of the week a sense of well-being. Dr. Pert further discovered that the endorphins are one of the mechanisms by which the immune, central, and endocrine systems network with each other. In other words, the mind-body connection, maybe. So, if you have a negative mind- body connection to a food, chemical, substance, or color that becomes a stressor and the meridian system will react to the stimulus of it. If you hold that same substance in your left hand in the presence of endorphin release that substance is now equated with a sense of well being and the old negative program is cancelled out, or over-ridden. In some circles it is accepted that one craves what one is allergic to, i.e. sugar / alcohol.
Why would any changes take place from merely holding something written on a piece of paper? If the ice crystal experiments by Masuro Emoto responded to the vibratory rate of the written word in his experiments. Maybe that's why this has had some influence on patients while having a Bowen Medical Bodywork session?
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My first experience with the technique proceeded as follows. Monday mornings I always sneezed and got a runny nose upon arriving at my office. I guessed that I was allergic to the toenail dust that is ever present in a podiatry office, even though we have vacuums attached to our nail drills. So, one Friday afternoon I caught some nail dust on a piece of adhesive tape. After patients I did the treatment with the helium beam on my CO2 laser and drove home holding the tape, which took exactly 20 minutes. When I went to the office Monday and Tuesday I was unaware of anything different. Then on Wednesday, it occurred to me that I had done the allergy treatment the previous Friday and, that I had no runny nose or sneezing so far that week. As I write this, I no longer have any toenail dust symptoms.
Eggs - My Introduction to N.A.E.T.
A friend of mine who practices Naturopathy - natural healing with supplements, herbs, homeopathics, aroma therapy, essential oils, and other natural methods, told me of a technique she uses to remove allergic responses by the mind – body. Dr. Devi Nambudripad is an RN., Chiropractor & Acupuncturist. Dr. Devi accidentally discovered that by holding an allergen in the left hand and stimulating some acupoints along the bladder and governing vessel meridians, up the back and along the spine, the mind-body association can be repaired or replaced. Her book is titled, "SAY GOODBYE TO ILLNESS". N.A.E.T. is an acronym for, "Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Technique".
My Naturopathic friend Jean, determined that I was allergic to eggs, plus some other things. When she told me so, I recalled that whenever I ate eggs, which I really enjoyed, I felt very sluggish and spaced out the rest of the day until around 4:00 PM. After she did the N.A.E.T. clearing on me, I've had no further symptoms after eating eggs.
Rosemary – A lesson in the body processing process.
My third significant experience came from a self-treatment which turned out to be rather bizarre. I learned that I was allergic to sillymarin and rosemary, both of which were in my multiple vitamins. One afternoon I used the laser light on the ear point technique, held on to the vitamin tablet for 20 minutes, then discarded it. The following morning I made sure not to take the multiple vitamins which had not passed the 25 hour mark, so I took all of my other morning supplements. I was in a bit of a hurry so I didn’t fix anything for breakfast but grabbed a piece of leftover fish from the fridge, and was on my way. When I arrived at my office, all of a sudden I felt like I’d been hit by a truck. I got achy, my head pounded, I got chilled, and my nose bled. We had to cancel my morning appointments. I laid down for a rest on one of my massage tables and covered with a blanket. When I awoke at 11:00 AM, I felt better. And, as I got up, I detected a strange taste in my mouth. ROSEMARY! The fish had been breaded with seasoned bread crumbs and I ingested them as the stomach meridian was cycling from 7:00 – 9:00 AM.
Another visit with N.A.E.T.
An unusually interesting case occurred with a patient of mine. It has nothing to do with Bowen Therapy, but I am including it so that someones may benefit from the information. I diagnosed her foot problem with Morton’s neuroma, which is an enlarged nerve between the 3rd and 4th metatarsals. This is a fairly common foot condition, and I felt quite proficient in its diagnosis and treatment options. She had the usual numbness, tingling, and occasional burning in her 2nd, 3rd, & 4th toes in both feet. I performed my usual and customary non-surgical treatments and she seemed to improve. I the made her orthotics to keep pressure from the nerves and instructed her to return in two months if any problems still occurred and we would discuss surgical treatment.
About two years hence a friend of hers was seeing me for a problem, and she told me the rest of the story. Apparently my patient with the neuromas experienced progression of symptoms up the ankles and legs. Her family doctor referred her to a neurologist who diagnosed Multiple Sclerosis and prescribed drugs for this. She went to Stanford University for a 2nd opinion, and was again diagnosed with M.S. She tried other medications which did not help. Then, a year or so later it began affecting her hands. At this point she went to the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, and again she was diagnosed with M.S., and was given some other medications. About the time she lost the use of her thumbs, she went to my naturopath friend, Jean.
After Jean completed her work-up she was surprised that the lady did not show any of the usual findings that go along with neuropathies. She then asked our patient about what was happening in her life when all of this began. As it turns out she was building her dream home at the time of a real estate slump, and she was the not so proud owner of two houses built on speculation, which were not selling. All kinds of stress were abundant in her life at the time. She recalled the first sign of the tingling in her toes when she walked bare footed across the Mexican paver’s tile in the hallway of the new home. Jean then tested her for allergy to the tile, and sure enough, she was. Within days following a clearing her symptoms began to reverse, and within a month she was totally symptom free. However, as soon as she went back to walking on the tile floor the tingling in the toes returned so, she ended up selling the house
My version of N.A.E.T.
I got thinking one day about the N.A.E.T. technique. It occurred to me that many of the Bowen Therapy moves are over the same meridian points along the spine.
I discussed my allergy theory with a patient whom I was doing some Bowen sessions on. Her 12 year old son had multiple allergies and was seeing the local allergist for allergy shots. One of his main allergens was shellfish. If he ate any shellfish whatsoever, he suffered laryngospasms and hives. He also often craved shellfish. The allergist was afraid to give him allergy shots for shellfish for fear of a serious reaction. I had mother bring him for a Bowen session during which I had him hold a shrimp in his left hand during the treatment. When mother came back the following week she told me that his allergy skin test for shellfish had reduced by 80%. Unfortunately, they moved to Texas shortly after, so I did not get to follow up with them.
Emotional clearing with Bowen / N.A.E.T.
Although this experience did not involve a substance, I include It because it seems to be relevant. My naturopath friend Jean, referred me a patient that she was having trouble keeping cleared of the issues which were causing her headaches. Jean suspected that there might be an emotional block that was keeping her from attaining lasting relief. The patient had an anger issue with her father. It came from an incident when she was five years old. Her father and his friend went duck hunting and locked her in the car at the hunting spot for about four hours. She recalls the fright and feeling of abandonment which resulted in a long and deep anger toward her father. Although she had forgiven him and was at peace on a conscious level, she knew that there was some inner resentment that lingered. The first Bowen session, my intent was for me to initiate a somato-emotional release if that was what she needed. Nothing happened. The next visit, on a hunch, I had her write her desire to be rid of the anger toward father on a piece of paper. She held it in her left hand while I performed a full Bowen session on her. She returned a week later and was over it. She had experienced two days of extreme anger, especially with her two children. She was a single mom who doted over her kids, and hardly ever got upset with them. But, for the two days just about everything they did or said upset her. The last I heard, she was still pain free, and her life was good.
Other Cases of interest.
Another of my patients mentioned that whenever she drank a glass of red wine she developed a panic attack right after. This didn't happen to her with white wine. However, she didn't like white wine. She only liked red. So, we wrote red wine on a post-it note. She held this in her left hand while I did an abbreviated Bowen session using procedures 1-2-3. When she returned a month later for her Bowen “Tune-up”, she was no longer sensitive to red wine.
A friend of mine began experiencing headaches after drinking only a sip of red wine. I performed the same clearing for him, and he has been fine ever since.
My naturopath friend, Jean had a client who she was treating. She suffered headaches during the week. But, not on the weekends. After it was all said and done, Jean found that her client was sensitive to the color orange. She worked for Cal Trans and they had to wear orange vests while at work on the freeways and roads in California. She had the option to wear purple instead, and as soon as she switched colors, her chronic headaches cleared.
Another interesting case occurred recently at the cancer clinic where I used to do therapy. Mandy had sugar cravings, and I cleared her of those. Then she told me that she was unable to tolerate fried eggs. She could eat eggs in any other form, but she vomited after eating fried eggs. I did the clearing, and she now can eat fried eggs with no problem.
Cravings.
I was moderately addicted to potato chips. I always ate a small bag on my way home from work. I went to the pantry soon after arriving home and got more chips, and then some more. This went on most every day. After a hypnotherapy session, I was okay with it for a couple of years, but the cravings came back. I wrote potato chips on a small piece of paper and had a Bowen session with a practitioner whom I traded with. The same day I drove home empty handed. When I got home I did not feel even slightly inclined to go to the pantry and get some chips! To this day, some 15 years hence, I don't crave potato chips at all.
One of my Bowen patients confessed to craving diet sodas. She drank upward to 12 a day. We wrote "diet soda pop" on a piece of paper and did her Bowen session as she held the paper in her left hand. When she returned the following week, she had not had but three diet sodas all week. The next week she had none!
I also eliminated my cravings for crackers and cheese a couple of years ago.
Other cravings eliminated in patients.
Marijuana
Cookies
Cake
Chocolates
Coffee
Doesn't work for nicotine
THE SUGAR CONNECTION
After breast milk, one of the first substances we come into contact with is SUGAR! If there is a moderate amount of stress and turmoil during infancy, there is a possibility that sugar may turn out to be a stressing substance for that individual throughout the years. I have released the craving for sugar in a number of my adult patients. I am looking forward to doing a study on children for the release of the sugar connection. My theory is, that this disconnection process to sugar may be responsible to ADD and ADHD. I surmise that we all might be afflicted by the sugar connection to some degree. It may be possible, that the more the stress was at first contact, the greater the subsequence reactions
How can any of this be possible?
My theory is that the process works like this. First, let’s assume that you have never been in contact with root beer. Then during a time of stress and duress you eat your first dose of root beer. From now on your mind associates root beer with stress. And, even though you now are stress free, whenever you come in contact with root beer the body goes into a stress reaction pattern. Depending on which meridian was initially affected symptoms will be the same each time of exposure to root beer. I may be sensitive to root beer and experience headaches from it. You may be sensitive to root beer and you experience diarrhea when you come in contact with it. This is a different type of allergy than the poison oak type, whereby the substance causes the formation of antibodies which attack the allergen and thus cause an inflammatory reaction.
Secondly, my problem with eggs came from my stint in the U.S. Army. I ate eggs for breakfast at least five days a week. I was under stress for most of the two years I served. I was home-sick, love-sick, overworked, underpaid, harassed by the "Officers." I remember eating eggs while in high school without any problems. But, they affected me my entire adult life, until Jean did the clearing for me. So, it was a repeated exposure over a long time frame under stress in this instance.
For patients, I have performed this for all kinds of actual food allergies as well as emotional holdings, and it almost always works. How it really works is beside me, but I remember that my patients really only care if it works, not how. For those of us who must have an explanation, I propose one. I stumbled on to a book titled, "The Molecules of Emotion:", by Candace Pert, Ph.D. She points out that endorphins which are our very own narcotic/tranquilizer substance, are in part, contained in the nodal points along the spine. These are the precise locations for many of the Bowen moves. My patients tell me quite often that during the Bowen session and the day following their treatment, they felt a kind of "Runner’s High", and for the remainder of the week a sense of well-being. Dr. Pert further discovered that the endorphins are one of the mechanisms by which the immune, central, and endocrine systems network with each other. In other words, the mind-body connection, maybe. So, if you have a negative mind- body connection to a food, chemical, substance, or color that becomes a stressor and the meridian system will react to the stimulus of it. If you hold that same substance in your left hand in the presence of endorphin release that substance is now equated with a sense of well being and the old negative program is cancelled out, or over-ridden. In some circles it is accepted that one craves what one is allergic to, i.e. sugar / alcohol.
Why would any changes take place from merely holding something written on a piece of paper? If the ice crystal experiments by Masuro Emoto responded to the vibratory rate of the written word in his experiments. Maybe that's why this has had some influence on patients while having a Bowen Medical Bodywork session?
THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. CONTENT MAY BE ADDED DAILY. FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT:http://www.drmitchellmosher.com