March 2003
How we feel
by Dr. Ted Morter
We
all know what "feelings" are. Up or down. Buoyant or blue.
Delighted or depressed. Many levels of feelings and moods color our
outlook and activities. Feelings and emotions are non-specific physical
and mental sensations that we may not be able to describe but we know are
there.
Since
we see ourselves predominantly as physical beings, most of us are more
comfortable talking about how we feel physically 'good, tired, achy'
rather than about how we feel emotionally 'happy, sad, grief-stricken,
disconsolate.' But emotions have a physiological base as well as a mental
base. Emotions are products of the limbic system which Guyton describes as
"...the entire basal system of the brain that mainly controls the
person's emotional behavior and drive."
Long-term
and short-term emotions and feelings come in varying degrees of intensity.
The effect particular emotions or feelings have on your life and
physiology is directly proportional to the strength, or intensity, of the
emotions. And how is "intensity" manifest? As variations in
energy flow.
Emotions
are internal energy fluctuations prompted by mental interpretations of
sensory perceptions and thoughts. Very strong emotions, such as those
experienced by victims of natural catastrophes, wars, violent crimes,
irreparable loss, or other psychic shocks, stimulate strong internal
energy activity and often change the life of the person involved. Minor
emotional disturbances, the ho-hum variety of missing a favorite TV show
make few ripples on the vast flowing ocean of energy feelings. The degree
of emotional intensity determines the degree of energy disturbance in body
and field.
Strong
emotions and feelings are the cement of memory. Boring is not memorable.
Excitement is. Feelings attached to a major emotionally-packed incidents
weld the physiological response pattern to the memory of the incident.
Positive-radiating
feelings are less likely than negative feelings to interfere with
healthful physiology. Negative feelings throw a kink in your link with
your power-generating field. And negative feelings can interfere with
health-promoting smooth, well-regulated internal physiological function.
Feelings
such as shame, irritation, jealousy, frustration, guilt, resentment,
loneliness, inadequacy, greed, despair, fear, and hate, keep the body on
alert and act as resistors to creative energy. Constant negative feelings
keep you constantly defensive in attitude and physiology. Intense negative
emotions and feelings introduce energy-depleting organization into your
personal field. Since your field is the template for the rest of your
body, and your feelings can affect your field, your best strategy for
health, happiness, and success is to make sure you feel your way through
life positively!
Major
trauma and emotional upsets can set up a chain reaction to disease.
Folklore and intuition have held this view for centuries. A German doctor
who had a personal experience of cancer has provided evidence that the
turmoil of negative feelings can be, and often is, the root cause of
severe physical problems.
In
October 1981, Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer summarized his research with the
statement, "I searched for cancer in the cell and I have found it in
the form of a wrong coding in the brain." Dr. Hamer presented his
findings at the
Tubingen
University
in
what was then
West Germany
.
He reported finding evidence of a link between psychic (mental) trauma and
disease. His information came from studies he had conducted involving
15,000 cases. That's a lot of cases, and behind cases are real people.
Dr.
Hamer found that behind each real person's developed case of cancer was
"a strong stimulus, a brutal psychic trauma, which hits the patient
as a major event in his life, an acute dramatic conflict, lived in a
complete psychic isolation." The primary constant Dr. Hamer found
among these cases was that the cancer started with "an extremely
brutal shock, a dramatic and acute conflict, experienced in loneliness and
sensed by the patient as the most serious he has ever known." Psychic
isolation is a state of mind and emotion. It is perceived rather than
physical isolation. It is a state of severe loneliness in the midst of
multitudes.
While
brutal physical trauma from accidents or assaults may leave scars on your
body, the incident is over quickly and your body can repair and rebuild
tissue and bone in a few weeks or months. Psychic trauma experienced in
loneliness is persistent; it leaves no visible scars, but it can
"cripple" your physiology and your field.
Strong,
negative, people-directed feelings -- anger, guilt, jealousy, and the like
-- mixed liberally with defense physiology make for a potent
symptom-sustaining cocktail. Feelings that erupt in response to people can
be on-going. These are the feelings that can get you into physical and
emotional trouble.
(Dr.
M.T. Morter, Jr. is the founder of the revolutionary Morter HealthSystem,
based on his Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique -- B.E.S.T. For
information on B.E.S.T. seminars offered all over the country in 2003,
call 800/874-1478, or visit the Morter HealthSystem website at
www.morter.com.)
