***Family Caregivers: Mind-Body Connection Crucial in Understanding Degenerative Aging Disease

In 2003 my husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, and I learned that the allopathic medical system has no answers. It’s heartbreaking to be a caregiver in this situation, especially when faced with this warning from Dr. Andrew Weil.

Weil, quoted in Dawson Church’s latest book, The Genie in Your Genes, warns against relying on allopathic medicine for health problems that are not well-served by this “body as machine” approach. Yet our loved ones are at the mercy of the allopathic medical and pharmaceutical industries.

In fact, I understand that Parkinson’s Disease is a syndrome and has no actual test that determines if it is Parkinson’s. Rather, it is totally at the discretion of the doctor by a visual observation — based in part on how a person walks.

For people with Parkinson’s, the only answer to date, according to allopathic doctors, is a medication that, in my observation, simply numbs out the symptoms of Parkinson’s. Maybe we’ve all been too numbed out all along! Maybe that is the problem.

Parkinson’s Disease and the mind-body connection involved in this degenerative aging disease seems to be ignored by researchers beholden to the allopathic medical model. In my observation, there’s too much money involved for an allopathic “cure” to ever be found.

This is where I, as caregiver, along with my husband, have turned onto a side road away from the allopathic superhighway of drugs, degenerative disease, and death.

What is the alte
ative?

I learned from experience that to change things from the toxic way we were brought up meant I had to learn to express my genuine feelings and speak from the truth of my own experience. This was a message I received as a young wife and mother, when my husband and I were recreating the same kind of dysfunctional families that we’d grown up in. Ever since then (and I’m now 78), I have followed my inner knowing and have done my best to express from my genuine feelings, while sharing with others how important it is to do this.

My husband did not go down the road of expressing his feelings. After we went to therapy together for our marriage, he always listened to me, but did not himself articulate his feelings in the moment. His inability to express his genuine feelings has turned into a lifetime of emotions trapped in his body. (In his mouth alone, there are more than 300 trapped emotions, which we are slowly releasing.)

Since March, I have been working both with my husband and on myself using the releasing techniques pioneered by Dr. Bradley Nelson and explained in his book and process called The Emotion Code. These trapped emotions that we are releasing for my husband reflect a lifetime (and then some) of layers of toxic emotions like low self- esteem, blaming, frustration, anger, forlorn, vulnerability, worry, horror, and many more.

The Power of Releasing Negative Emotions Trapped In Our Bodies

Scientific studies are showing that we have a natural ability to heal our selves. As caregivers, we are well served in developing and using our natural intuitive abilities so that we are able to draw to us to the alte
ative healing techniques that are right for us and our loved ones. Providers of alte
ative healing modalities candidly acknowledge that they are providing “a tool you may use to heal yourself.”

As we release the trapped negative emotions on myself, my husband, and my clients, I am observing (and getting feedback) that people are experiencing lessening or disappearance of immediate aches and pains. The process seems to be having an effect on longer-term issues of our health and well-being as well.

For us to be in a state of health and well being, we need to be in balance and alignment both physically and emotionally. The Emotion Code is a powerful tool that caregivers can learn to use to help our loved ones feel better by releasing old toxic emotions. I invite those who would like more information on this process to contact me at bsetnow@sonic.net.