WELLNESS


seen as the answer to many diseases. Yet Bruce Lipton’s work in the field of cell biology and epigenetics has proven that the environment influences our genes, not the other way round. Why is this still largely ignored? Furthermore, only 5% of illnesses are due to genetic heredity. So what about the other 95%? Nutrition: There is ongoing debate


about what constitutes a healthy diet and how certain foods may encourage or avert disease. For the vast majority, nutrition is an important factor affecting our vitality, yet cannot in itself be seen to cause or prevent disease. Smoking: The media emphasises the


link between smoking and many diseases, yet research is inconclusive. Many of us know people who have smoked for years and still outlive their peers. Stress: This is another popularly cited


cause of ill health. Even the medical profession say that 95% of disease is caused by stress, but I would like to ask the following questions: What does ‘stress’ actually mean?


Beyond risk factors – conflict shock as the beginning of dis-ease


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12 MAY 2011


Are you tired of hearing about risk factors, genetics, toxins, diet, stress and germs all being the cause of disease? Do you suspect that there must be something more fundamental behind a


given disease process? Is there a ‘missing link’? By Rolf and Christa Krahnert


ave you ever wondered why you are sick? Was it a virus, a bug you caught or just some mistake that your body made? Have you ever gone


to your doctor and asked, ‘Why do I have this problem?’, only for him to say, ‘I don’t know’. In 16th century, Descartes proclaimed that


mind and body were separate. Conventional medicine has focused on understanding the mechanical and chemical aspects of disease, while the cause seems to remain a mystery. Medical dictionaries describe almost all diseases as ‘idiopathic’, meaning ‘of unknown cause’, or ‘autoimmune’, meaning the ‘immune system attacks’ the body. Beyond this, medicine can only offer hypotheses in the form of risk factors, including germs, genetics, lifestyle, mechanical malfunction


and stress. Some therapists look deeper, exploring body type, psychology, energy systems, our milieu, astrology and various other data. Yet, even within alternative and complementary approaches, there remains a gap in understanding: a definitive and scientifically robust explanation of why specifically we attract a disease. Why does one person develop a cancer


while another person remains healthy? Why do some people have chronic digestive issues, while others get frequent colds or heart problems? And why do people get a particular illness at a specific time in their life?


THE CURRENT RULING PARADIGM It is believed by many that our genes, unhealthy nutrition, toxins, stress levels and germs are the causes of disease. Genetics: The ‘primacy of DNA’ is the latest media bandwagon and increasingly


Can it be that specific kind of stress is related to a specific illness? What may cause a stress-related illness


for one person that doesn’t for the next? How can we explain different reactions


and tolerance levels? Germs: viruses, bacteria and other


microbes Louis Pasteur is often glorified as the


saviour of humanity for his twin triumphs of pasteurisation and vaccination. What underpins both is his ‘germ theory’, the foundation of Western medicine and Pasteur’s legacy. However, the most pioneering areas of science are now showing that the germ theory is based upon faulty assumptions. Even Pasteur realised this, when, on his deathbed in 1895, he said: “The pathogen is nothing. The terrain is


everything.” Pasteur’s denouncement came too late


to stop the burgeoning medical-industrial complex. Yet mounting evidence, particularly from ‘dark field microscopy’, is proving that viruses, bacteria and fungi are continually present within our blood environment; so after all our blood is not sterile like Pasteur proclaimed. So this begs the question of why we sometimes get ill, while at other times the presence of viruses, bacteria and fungi has no effect. Advertisements encourage us to use disinfectants to kill 99% of germs – what about the remaining 1%? Other advertisements makes us believe that the regularly intake of bacteria is good for inner health. There is no doubt that each of the


mentioned factors can have a debilitating effect on the body-mind and result in lowered vitality and weakened self- regulatory mechanisms. However, none can be considered, even in combination, to be the root cause of a disease. None of these risk factors satisfactorily explains why or when some people get ill while others remain healthy.


SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE PROVES THE CONNECTION BETWEEN AN EMOTIONAL SHOCK AND DISEASE If you’ve ever read books by Dr. Deepak Chopra, Louise Hay, Dr. Caroline Myss, you will be aware of the mind-body connection and emotional links with ill health. It has been shown that a conflict shock


or ‘significant emotional event’ (SEE), always precedes disease. A SEE is an experience that happens unexpectedly, is dramatic and emotional, and we don’t know how to deal with it or express it adequately for a period of time. It can range from an argument to receiving bad news, such as a bleak medical prognosis, to a life-threatening situation like being involved in a car crash, or someone close to you leaving you. . At the moment of the SEE, there are


changes at all levels: psyche, nervous system, organ, brain and our interaction with the social environment. The latest diagnostic tools like Bio-Decoding, New Medicine or Meta-Medicine map the specific emotions felt at the time of the shock, via the brain, to a specific organ, allowing you to understand the cause and the precise process of disease and healing. Each area of the brain corresponds to


a specific organ, and the impact of the SEE is observable on a brain CT scan (computer tomography). The specific emotion experienced will determine which organ reacts. For example, the epidermis (upper skin) is affected by a loss-of-contact conflict, while the lung alveoli are affected by a fear-of-death conflict. Ultimately the felt emotion is the driver of the disease. It was in Germany in the late 1970s


when a medical doctor made this fascinating and profound discovery. Two events in his own life, first the death of his son and secondly a testicular tumour, led him to ask his patients very different questions. His findings were remarkable – all the women he interviewed, who were on a gynaecological ward for ovarian issues, had experienced a significant emotional shock, in this case, a profound loss, shortly preceding their illness. Furthermore, the patients’ CT scans showed visible brain relay changes in the exact location of the brain responsible for directing the ovaries. Since then over 40,000 case studies have demonstrated the connection between significant emotional events, brain relay changes and specific diseases.


A PARADIGM SHIFT – SYMPTOMS ARE BIOLOGICAL AND MEANINGFUL Even if we accept that an emotional experience can cause disease, a question still remains about why specific emotions trigger specific disease processes. Let’s look at a couple of examples. Imagine a mother walking along a


street with a young child in tow. The child is bouncing a ball, drops it, and the ball rolls onto the road. The child instinctively runs after it. Imagine at that


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