Mind and Body Workshop

Stress, depression and other psychological factors can alter our vulnerability to many diseases including bacterial and viral infections, heart disease and cancer.  Relationships between mind and health are mediated both by our behaviour and by our biological connection between the brain and the immune system.  These connections work in both directions, so our physical health can influence our mental state and vice versa.

In the land of the sick, emotions reign supreme.  Hormones released under stress such as adrenaline, noradrenaline, cortisol and prolactin, as well as beta-endorphins and enkephalins all have strong impacts on our immune cells.  This is because stress suppresses immune resistance temporarily as an energy conservation.  If stress is of a protracted period the suppression can become serious.

The autonomic nervous system contacts the immune system via lymphocytes and macrophages, therefore thoughts impact on immunity.  Tests with the cold virus, cancer and heart disease reveal increases due to stress and depression of 174%, 550% and 400% respectively (New England Journal of Medicine 1991, No 325).

Two implications of the above are:

1. Helping people manage their upsetting feelings is a form of disease prevention

2. Many patients can benefit measurably when the psychological needs are attended to along with their purely medical ones.

With all of the above in mind, this seminar deals with techniques to help delegates reach their true mind-body link potential.

“Healing is accomplished the instant the sufferer no longer sees the value in any pain”.

A Course In Miracles

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”  Albert Schweitzer

“The mind is a great healer.”  Hippocrates

“Genetic disease is ancestral stress”.  Dr. Deepak Chopra

“The immune system, like the brain, can learn”.  Robert Ader, Univ. Rochester

“All illnesses have psychological and emotional consequences and causes….”  Dr. Paul Martin – The Sickening Mind

The purpose of the workshops, seminars and training offered by the Foundation is to give yourself the ‘breathing space’ to reflect on your  life, go within and develop your self awareness, identify limiting beliefs which are holding you  back and leave feeling more relaxed, joyful and centered with a clear way forward.

Click here to watch video feature of Rod Briggs 

discussing the origins of happiness

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