The Link Between Kindness and Illness

Doctor Gabor Mate: The Shocking Link Between Kindness & Illness!

To read:

• Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences: here

• No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model : here

• The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture: here

• When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress: here

The Connection Between Emotion and Physical Health

The Connection Between Emotion and Physical Health

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Sexual Double Standards

The Bias Against Understanding the Biological Foundations of Women's Behavior.
"Combating the forces that make people back off of scientific findings that might be controversial."

A Conversation with Martie Haselton, here.

We don’t know enough about important issues that impact women. We don’t know enough about potential side effects of using hormonal contraception. There’s a lot of speculation about it, but most of that speculation is problematic. If you eliminate women’s hormone cycles, what are the implications? That’s an important question. We still don’t know enough about hormone supplements for women later in life. We don’t even know enough about fertility. The data are also problematic. The data on fertility in women’s third, fourth, fifth decades of life are based on ancient records, 200 years old. The statistics that doctors will cite when they are telling women whether they need to see a fertility specialist or not are from a period before modern medicine was really in place, which is outrageous. More recognition of the biological influences on women’s behavior is going to awaken these areas of research, and that will have a positive impact. ​MARTIE HASELTON is a professor of psychology and communication studies at the Institute for Society and Genetics and UCLA. She is the author of Hormonal: The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones—How They Drive Desire, Shape Relationships, Influence Our Choices, and Make Us Wiser.

More about Martie Haselton

"We have a study that shows that women, when they start new relationships and then they say that they have fallen in love with their partner, their immune gene transcription profile suggests that they are increasing their anti-viral resistance." [min29:12]

How learning is shaping immunity

Mais sobre Manfred Schedlowski

How to train your immune system

Como as emoções afectam a nossa saúde física

A depressão... A raiva, etc


Porque não tem que ser assim...

"There is a physical component to a feeling, but there is also a cognitive overlay. There's beliefs, there's values, ethics, there's morality, there's predictions about the future that are linked to memories in the past..."

do sistema imunitário

"There is mounting evidence that this might be possible. A whole new field has emerged in the past ten years, known as psychoneuroimmunology, or PNI, beautifully described for the layperson in the book The Healer Within by Dr. Steven Locke of the harvard Medical School, and Douglas Colligan. Simply put, studies in this new field are showing tht our body's many exquisite cellular and molecular defense mechanisms against infection and disease, known collectively as the immune system, do not operate in a vacuum to keep us healthy. As the term psychoneuroimmunology suggests, the immune system is now known to be regulated in parte at least by the nervous system, which integrates all the organ systems of the body so that we can function harmoniously as a unified organism. And of course, the nervous system makes the life of the mind possible. So there appear to be important interconnections, as yet only poorly understood, between the brain and the immune system. This means that science now has at least a plausible working model to explain how our thoughts and emotions and life experiences might, under some circumstances, influence our susceptibility or resistance to disease."
Jon Kabat-Zin, in Full Catastrophe Living

PNI

Corpo são em mente sã

The Immune System: The Mind-Body Connection: Who Gets Sick And Who Stays Well?

Margaret Kemeny, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco, the Principal Investigator, is an internationally recognized expert in the field of psychoneuroimmunology, particularly the impact of cognitions and emotions on physiology and health.

MESMO MUITO INTERESSANTE!!!!
Sobre Margaret Kemeny

The tape that insists on sticking /balanços /Guerras que não comprei

[Acho graça ao comentário final do vídeo: "No cats were hurt". Gostaria de perguntar a quem teve esta ideia, o que é para si o significado da palavra hurt]

Eram cinco da manhã. Acordei.
A cabeça já se encontrava a 200.
A palavra maldade corria-me no pensamento sem que eu a pudesse banir de lá.
A palavra maldade não chegava para abarcar o seu próprio significado.
Não chegava para abarcar o mal-estar causado por atitudes racionalmente incompreensíveis.

O dia que nascia ia ser muito atarefado.
A folga dada no emprego vinha mesmo a calhar.
Deitei-me cedo pois o corpo tem-me pedido mais descanso do que o habitual.

Mas a maldita palavra atormentou o meu inconsciente e acordou-me.
Dei voltas na cama, tentando enganar o pensamento e a ansiedade que daí crescia.

Nada.

Às oito da manhã levantei-me. Batalha perdida.
Tanto que fazer...

Logo vai ser a passagem de ano. Uma noite em que quero investir.
A do ano passado foi muito triste e este ano, que está a acabar, foi muito difícil.

Como fazer para banir pensamentos invasivos?

O sentimento de impotência perante a injustiça é devastador.
Corrói-nos por dentro. Tira-nos o sono.

É tão importante, para mim, dormir.

Há estudos que demonstram que as vítimas de desprezo têm muito mais possibilidades de virem a contrair doenças.

Não consigo digerir as palavras desprezo, maldade, prepotência.
Prevejo mais noites de insónia.

Tenho que reformular algumas coisas no meu coração.
Não queria.
Não é confortável.
Vai-me tirar ainda mais sonos.

Sinto-me presa por ter cão e presa por não ter.

Poderá parecer tudo tão ridículo... Mas há atitudes que não consigo digerir.
Atitudes.
Atitudes incompreensíveis, perante pedidos tão simples.
Tão simples.

Não acredito que a vaidade, a necessidade de afirmação, possam assumir proporções tão enormes. Tão grandes ao ponto de ignorar sentimentos e convicções.
Tão grandes ao ponto de se disfarçarem de argumentações mirabolantes.

Podia estar para aqui a dissertar e a dissertar... Mas nem por isso me sinto mais aliviada.

E no final de contas o corpo é que paga!
Essa é que é a verdade.