Is stress making your child sick?

As adults we recognise that there is a link to stress and illness but does this link apply to children as well?  Is the school your child attends making them sick?

Being a parent involves making a host of choices everyday for your children.  This year my husband and I decided to change the school our 6 year old daughter attended.  

Little did we know that this would result in a whole host of issues causing her stress and leading to ongoing illness.  In the new school she was seen as just one of many little bodies to be educated in the class.  Individuality was shunned in favour of conformity and “obedience” (that came directly from the school newsletter).  

Our child is a master of giving teachers all they expect and nothing more and this led to her slow decline in growth educationally over the course of 3 terms at this school. Not only was she unable to be an individual but it appeared one of the school’s goals was to have every student become a mirror of every other student within the class or classrooms. Now I am not saying that she failed to learn but I am saying that her capacity to learn far exceeds what was allowed and expected of her.

Now back to my main point, which is, my daughter was sick nearly the entire 3 terms she was in attendance at that school.  She was unhappy there and worried about going to class each and every day.  She often had tummy aches in the morning and had sore this or sore that on a constant basis.

To the teachers she was a model student.  Conforming perfectly.  But the child I got home off the bus was often in tears, upset and angry yet unable to explain why.

Finally an incident led us to remove her from that school and go back to the school she had been in the previous year.  Just as suddenly she feels well, she doesn’t have headaches, tummy aches or other ailments of a somatic nature and she is happy at home.  She doesn’t have that long ongoing runny nose and she feels well.  The most important discovery in the whole situation is that we saw the influence this stressful situation was having on her as when she is so young wellness, confidence, creativity and passion are keys to her future.  We are very very pleased that we didn’t feel powerless to alter the course of her schooling as sometimes...the school does not know best!

If your child has been sick more than a “normal” amount, have look at the situations in their lives that may be causing stress and see if you can make any changes for a better outcome.

Contact me now to help alleviate stress for your child.

Lisa Wheeler

www.scopehypnosis.com

Consciousness and the Internal Reality

What is consciousness and the internal reality?

Neuroscientist Candace B. Pert purports that the biggest thing that was and continues to be happening at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century isn’t the internet.  It’s the change in thinking about consciousness.  This shift in the belief that consciousness, rather than being something abstract, is real and central to human well-being.  That emotions and consciousness are central to health, healing and wellness; that our state of consciousness affects our well-being both in positive and negative ways is why I have come to talk to you today.

That we don’t really know what consciousness is and the impact it has on human health and that we can offer hope and solace to those that seek to understand how they can change the physiological relationship of the body and mind.  That I empower my clients to do exactly this.

Take for example some documented cases of Multiple Personality Disorder where the expression of certain antigens and ligands are altered with the various personalities as they display.

There was a case in which one personality was allergic to orange juice and the other was not, both in the same body. When the immune personality was inhabiting the body, there was no reaction at all to orange juice. However, when the allergic personality would consume orange juice, his body would break out into hives. Further, if the allergic personality would take over even during digestion of orange juice, not having consumed it himself, his body would break out into hives. And then if the immune personality took over, the itching and even the hives would subside. All in the same physical body.

In some cases one personality is colourblind and the other is not. In other cases two or more personalities require different prescriptions for their glasses, and sometimes their eye colour is even different. These are all documented cases, and there are thousands more if you care to research them. I can email some links for interesting reading.

So what is the nature of consciousness?  And this is the question we have no answer to.  What we do know is that every psychoactive drug prescribed works within the body because it mimics an already present internal information substance that the body/mind naturally generates. Endorphins, hormones made externally can fit into receptors which are already present within the mind body and that these psychoactive drugs can drastically change moods, thinking and behaviours when taken.  But what happens when we take these drugs that they do not target specific area areas where receptors are located but blanket target all receptors within the body where antigens are present for those ligands.

As we go through our day we have tremendous changes in the expression of these antigens and receptors which are in constant feedback with all the systems of the body/mind.  But so sensitive and fine. And this feedback is created from the emotional changes we go through within our day.  Again, Candace B. Pert has documented and studied and research for over 20 years to identify what she terms “the molecules of emotion”.  She’s proven in her research that certain emotional states release certain peptides and proteins which change the physiological state of the body/mind.

Now the body and mind are smart and this is where my view is.  That we can use the body/mind to alter and change moods, thinking and behaviours naturally, in many cases, by encouraging the body/mind to actively affect the release of the naturally occurring ligands.

Emotions can manifest in the body or the mind when we look at the release of the peptides this is a feedback system.  Our digestive system, immune system and other physical systems all have neurons that have endorphins, neuropeptides, hormones that both release and and bind to informational substances.  These substances are released as we change emotional states.

My work focuses on teaching clients how to manage emotional states, to promote healing, lower blood pressure, create better sleep states,  manage anxiety and depression, and many other issues.  All clients I see have issues with tension within the body/ mind and all have issues with confidence around their individual problems or issues.  

If you or someone you know needs support to get the body mind system working for you and not against you, please contact me know and get started on the road to wellness.

Lisa Wheeler

Scope Hypnosis

www.scopehypnosis.com