SUMMER 07

The Physiology of Intuition: 
Your Body's Intuitive Responses 

By Laurie Nadel, Ph.D. 
Author of Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power

"I consider Dr. Laurie Nadel to be one of the best writers contributing to our planet today. I have read her books and done several interviews with her. Laurie's work is always impeccable and intelligent; she has my utmost respect." - Wayne W. Dyer

Do you find yourself losing concentration during certain times of the day? Perhaps it comes as a sudden touch of fatigue, or a subtle mental fuzziness. All of a sudden, you feel droopy. Your eyes may tear. You can't stop yawning, or you sigh. 

Maybe you find yourself staring out the window, your mind faraway from the tasks at hand. If somebody speaks to you, you find yourself startled by the sound of his voice. Or you don't understand what was said the first time and ask the speaker to repeat himself.

These are signs that your body is entering an ultradian rest response. If you observe yourself carefully during the day, you will find that this pattern recurs approximately every hour and a half. Noticing this pattern can help you tap into your intuition during the times when your physiology is naturally attuned to it. 

During those periods when you lose concentration or get tired, the four main regulatory systems that link mind and body realign.

These four physiological systems are:

1. The autonomic nervous system that regulates most of your body's important functions. 
2. The endocrine system that regulates production of your pituitary, thalamus, hypothalamus, and thyroid hormones, amon others. 
3. The immune system. 
4. The system of information substance chemicals (neuropeptides) in your brain. 

Your drowsiness and loss of attention are telling you that these important changes are taking place. These feelings of distraction occur in part because of a shift in cerebral lateralization, that is, the right hemisphere of your neocortex becomes dominant during the ultradian rest response. The parasympathetic nervous system becomes activated, too, producing changes in moods and feelings.

This is a time when you are more likely to say "Aha!" or get a rare, sudden insight into yourself.

According to Ernest Rossi, author of The Psychobiology of Mind/Body Healing, "during the ultradian rest response, your body goes into an intuitive mode. You are more receptive to impressions from your unconscious."

If you try to ignore these signals by pretending that they do not exist, you may find yourself feeling irritable, uncomfortable, and depressed. If, however, you recognize and accept your body's messages, you can use the ultradian rest period for relaxing, creative intuitive work.

Take An Intuition Break

This is the best time to take a break rather than forcing yourself to push through the fatigue. You can think of it as your intuition break, time to take a deep breath, close your eyes, and allow impressions from your intuitive right hemisphere to flow through your mind. If you are working on a project and would like help from your intuition, this is the time to ask for it. It is also a good time to meditate or work with some of the techniques in this book.

As you become more aware of the physiology of intuition, you will find that your body's natural rhythms can help you ease into an intuitive state. You can meditate productively at any time during the day, but by recognizing the onset of your ultradian rest response, you can enhance your results by spending time in silence while your body does its neurophysiological work. 

By meditation, we mean spending some quiet time with yourself, perhaps as little as ten minutes a day. Along with meditation, an ultradian rest period is an optimum time to do visualization, self-healing, or any other technique that makes you more conscious of information from your unconscious mind.

Not only will you be more receptive to your intuition during this period, but the inner work will flow without any effort on your part. Says Rossi, "This is the time when it's easiest to access our own intuition, your own internal imagery. Thoughts are most likely to be closer to the unconscious. This is a time when the unconscious wants all the energy it can get. If you train yourself to just watch and observe and not intrude, you're going to fall into what is called reverie or hypnagogic state, what I call its more naturally intuitive state."

The ultradian response is a time when all the mind-body communication systems are most fluid, most flexible, and also most vulnerable to being damaged if we interfere with them too much. 

If we let the ultradian response have all the energy, it can most efficiently do all the healing it needs to. Rossi observes, "Most forms of healing, including shamanism and the holistic forms of healing are rituals for helping you to get into this ultradian response because it's so easy to entrain."

In The Psychology of Mind-Body Healing, Rossi proposes that you take a break every hour and a half. The traditional English workday reflects this pattern with coffee served at 10:30 AM, lunch at noon, and tea break in mid afternoon. "You work until, say, 10:30. Then an hour and a half after that it's lunchtime. Throughout the day you should take those breaks, even thought most of us don’t take them as seriously as we need to," Rossi says.

You can start by observing your own rhythms and noting down the signals your body presents to you at particular times of the day. Become familiar with your own patterns so that you can recognize and tap into your own ultradian rhythm. You may want to keep a list for a couple of days to identify your own ultradian indicators.

A Brief History of Ultradian Research

As far back as 120 years ago, scientists reported periodic changes in physiological processes and noted their effects on human productivity. The Basic Rest-Activity Cycle was identified in 1969 after EEG experiments on sleeping subjects revealed nine-minute patterns of low- and high-frequency brain-wave activity. 

During the rapid eye movement (REM) stage, scientists noted changes in heartbeat and respiration, and some muscle contraction and expansion. Although it is harder to observe the Basic Rest-Activity Cycle during waking hours because of other distractions, these sleep researchers concluded that the same cycle occurs during waking hours, as well.

In the 1970s, the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the Veterans Administration, and the military spent millions of dollars to research ultradian rhythms because they suspected these cycles might be connected to periodic decreases in workers’ efficiency.

The government studied the effects of shift changes, continuous tasks, and long-distance flights. The flight studies noted the existence of twenty-four-hour circadian rhythms in some of the human regulatory systems that, when out of synch, produced jet lag symptoms such as disrupted sleep cycles. The 90-minute ultradian rhythms were identified by Daniel Kripke, a psychologist working at the US Naval Base in San Diego.

Naturalistic hypnosis, as practiced by Milton Erickson, M.D., might be a natural physiological process, part of your body's normal rhythm. More than a century ago, the French psychologist Pierre Janet, one of Sigmund Freud's teachers, attributed the spontaneous lowering of mental energy as the source of psychological problems. During that state of lowered mental energy, impressions from the outside world imprint themselves with a particular vividness. Rossi believes you can use your ultradian rest period to heal those traumatic state-dependent memories.

Ultradian rhythm experiments are now underway at a South Carolina clinic and the Himalaya Institute. One project seeks to determine whether people experience psychosomatic symptoms when they ignore their ultradian rhythms. "I do have experimental evidence for everything I do say," Rossi says, "But the evidence was not designed to test this hypothesis." Rossi's theoretical model is the integration of findings that already exist.

"After a century of observation, we now have a psychobiological framework," he says, pointing out that with the outlines of a theory, "we known where to pursue some research."

Excerpted from Dr. Laurie Nadel's Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power with Judy Haims & Robert Stempson (ASJA Press). Copyright 2007, Viking Rain, Ltd. 

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Audrey Krapf is the Director of the Health and Wellness Clinic at SUNY Farmingdale (where I conduct the NorthShore Hypnosis and Reiki Clinical Practice Programs).  Over the years, I have been impressed by her professionalism and progressive programs.  Last year, when her daughter, Amy was diagnosed with cancer, her strength and depth of her love touched me deeply.  With great respect and admiration, I publish a poem she wrote for her daughter. Amy is well now and a mommy!  Audrey is a proud grandma!  - Carol Denicker

Amy's Journey
by Audrey Krapf

The dark cloud appeared, the storm was on its way
She said: “I have no choice, I'll do whatever it takes”
Never hesitating along the way.

The needles, the cutting, the pain, the nausea and vomiting
Could not permeate the strength of her spirit and soul
Any fears, frustrations, and other emotions
Could not interfere with her role.

She lost her hair, her eyebrows, and eyelashes
Sometimes her rosy cheeks
But she never lost her determination
That was evident whenever she would speak.

She said: “Its not so bad, really.  I can handle it
It is what it is and I have no choice
So don’t feel bad.  I’m okay”

The cloud surrounded all of us, we were devastated, afraid, and sad
But Amy only saw sunlight, she focused only on the good, and never the bad.
She supported the rest of us throughout it, reassuring us all along the way
She rarely complained or showed her emotions, just focused on getting through each day.

She said: “Its not so bad, really.  I can handle it
It is what it is and I have no choice
So don’t feel bad.  I’m okay.”

The sun is now shining for everyone, as the treatments are reaching an end
But it never stopped shining for Amy
Amazing both family and friends.

She said: “Its not so bad, really.  I can handle it
It is what it is and I have no choice
So don’t feel bad.  I’m okay.”

Now when we all hear her say it, we think: “Maybe her words are finally true”
But the reality is they always were for her, even if not for me and you.

Written by Audrey Krapf (aka-Mom)
6/16/06

Stress Management 

What is Stress?

Stress is the ‘wear and tear our bodies experience as we adjust to our continually changing environment; it has physical and emotional effects on us and can create positive or negative feelings. As a positive influence, stress can help compel us to action; it can result in a new awareness and an exciting new perspective. As a negative influence, it can result in feelings of distrust, rejection, anger, and depression, which in turn can lead to health problems such as headaches, upset stomach, rashes, insomnia, ulcers, high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke. With the death of a loved one, the birth of a child, a job promotion, or a new relationship, we experience stress as we re-adjust our lives. In so adjusting to different circumstances, stress will help or hinder us depending on how we react to it. 

How Can I Eliminate Stress from My Life? 
As we have seen, positive stress adds anticipation and excitement to life, and we all thrive under a certain amount of stress. Deadlines, competitions, confrontations, and even frustrations and sorrows add depth and enrichment to our lives. Our goal is not to eliminate stress but to learn how to manage it and how to use it to help us. Insufficient stress acts as a depressant and may leave us feeling bored or dejected; on the other hand, excessive stress may leave us feeling ‘tied up in knots.’ What we need to do is find the optimal level of stress which will individually motivate but not overwhelm each of us. 

How Can I Tell What is Optimal Stress for Me? 
There is no single level of stress that is optimal for all people. We are all individual creatures with unique requirements. As such, what is distressing to one may be a joy to another. And even when we agree that a particular event is distressing, we are likely to differ in our physiological and psychological responses to it. 

The person who loves to arbitrate disputes and moves from job site to job site would be stressed in a job which was stable and routine, whereas the person who thrives under stable conditions would very likely be stressed on a job where duties were highly varied. Also, our personal stress requirements and the amount which we can tolerate before we become distressed changes with our ages.

It has been found that most illness is related to unrelieved stress. If you are experiencing stress symptoms, you have gone beyond your optimal stress level; you need to reduce the stress in your life and/or improve your ability to manage it.

How Can I Manage Stress Better? 
Identifying unrelieved stress and being aware of its effect on our lives is not sufficient for reducing its harmful effects. Just as there are many sources of stress, there are many possibilities for its management. However, all require effort toward change: changing the source of stress and/or changing your reaction to it. How do you proceed? 

1. Become aware of your stressors and your emotional and physical reactions.

Notice your distress. Don't ignore it. Don't gloss over your problems. 
Determine what events distress you. What are you telling yourself about meaning of these events? 
Determine how your body responds to the stress. 
Do you become nervous or physically upset? If so, in what specific ways? 

2. Recognize what you can change. 

Can you change your stressors by avoiding or eliminating them completely?
Can you reduce their intensity (manage them over a period of time instead of on a daily or weekly basis)? 
Can you shorten your exposure to stress (take a break, leave the physical premises)? 
Can you devote the time and energy necessary to making a change (goal setting, time management techniques, and delayed gratification strategies may be helpful here)? 

3. Reduce the intensity of your emotional reactions to stress. 

The stress reaction is triggered by your perception of danger...physical danger and/or emotional danger. Are you viewing your stressors in exaggerated terms and/or taking a difficult situation and making it a disaster? 
Are you expecting to please everyone? 
Are you overreacting and viewing things as absolutely critical and urgent? Do you feel you must always prevail in every situation? 
Work at adopting more moderate views; try to see the stress as something you can cope with rather than something that overpowers you. 
Try to temper your excess emotions. Put the situation in perspective. Do not labor on the negative aspects and the ‘what if's.’

4. Learn to moderate your physical reactions to stress. 

Slow, deep breathing will bring your heart rate and respiration back to normal. Relaxation techniques can reduce muscle tension. Electronic biofeedback can help you gain voluntary control over such things as muscle tension, heart rate, and blood pressure. 
Medications, when prescribed by a physician, can help in the short term in moderating your physical reactions. However, they alone are not the answer. Learning to moderate these reactions on your own is a preferable long-term solution. 

5. Build your physical reserves. 

Exercise for cardiovascular fitness three to four times a week (moderate, prolonged rhythmic exercise is best, such as walking, swimming, cycling, or jogging). 
Eat well-balanced, nutritious meals. 
Maintain your ideal weight. 
Avoid nicotine, excessive caffeine, and other stimulants. 
Mix leisure with work. Take breaks and get away when you can. 
Get enough sleep. Be as consistent with your sleep schedule as possible. 

6. Maintain your emotional reserves. 

Develop some mutually supportive friendships/relationships. 
Pursue realistic goals that are meaningful to you, rather than goals others have for you that you do not share. 
Expect some frustrations, failures, and sorrows. 
Always be kind and gentle with yourself--be a friend to yourself. 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
Reprinted by permission of the Counseling Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Where do you start? 

DIET AND CANCER 

The foods you choose each day are one of the most important factors in helping protect you against cancer. Most Americans eat a diet that is far too high in fat and calories. Even more important is what the average U.S. diet is lacking - a variety of fruits, vegetables and high fiber foods.

Eating a healthier diet, one that not only can help protect against cancer, but also against heart disease, stroke and a variety of other health problems, is easier to do than you may think. A good starting point are the AICR Diet and Health Guidelines for Cancer Prevention:
 

Choose a diet rich in a variety of plant-based foods. 
Eat plenty of vegetables and fruits. 
Maintain a healthy weight and be physically active. 
Drink alcohol in moderation, if at all. 
Select foods low in fat and salt. 
Prepare and store foods safely. 
And, always remember...Do not smoke or use tobacco in any form. 

YOUR FOOD CHOICES, EXERCISE AND A HEALTHY WEIGHT 

Your overall health and cancer risk are very much affected by the things you do in your life. Choosing healthy foods, particularly a diet rich in vegetables and fruits, gives your body not only the nutrients it needs for good health, but a whole arsenal of compounds within food that help protect you from the naturally occurring cancer risks you face every day. 

Similarly, maintaining a healthy weight and staying physically active have also been shown to be important in helping your body protect itself against cancer. There's nothing magic or difficult about these types of lifestyle choices. Don't smoke, eat right, stay active and watch your weight -- put them all together and they add up to a formula that can cut cancer risk by 60 to 70%.

The AICR Diet and Health Guidelines for Cancer Prevention are a good foundation for a healthy diet that can help one reach and maintain a healthy weight.

If you are currently overweight or physically inactive, check with your physician on the best approach and changes for a healthier you. You may also want to order some of the free AICR educational publications related to making changes for better health and lower cancer risk.

SMOKING 

Smoking is the most publicized of cancer risks, and there is no question that smoking, or using tobacco in any form is one of the worst choices you can make from a health perspective. Not only does the use of tobacco greatly increase the risk for lung cancer, but it also appears to influence some other forms of cancer, and significantly increases your risk for cardio-vascular disease and stroke. 

If you currently are not a smoker, don't start. 

If you do smoke, stop. 

And yes, we recognize that while that is easy to say, it is not always easy to do. However, today there is more help for those who wish to stop smoking than ever before. Your doctor or local hospital can help you find assistance in breaking the smoking habit. From nicotine patches and gum to special counseling programs to new drugs, there are a variety of aids which have successfully helped millions of people stop smoking. However, as with virtually anything related to your health, the first step is always going to be the hardest, and only you can take that step. 

AICR - American Institute for Cancer Research 

The American Institute for Cancer Research is the nation's third largest cancer charity and focuses exclusively on the link between diet and cancer. The Institute provides a wide range of consumer education programs that have helped millions of Americans learn to make dietary changes for lower cancer risk. AICR also supports innovative research in cancer prevention and treatment at universities, hospitals and research centers across the U.S. The Institute has provided over $50 million in funding for research in diet, nutrition and cancer. Visit the Institute online at www.aicr.org

American Institute for Cancer Research
1759 R Street NW
Washington, DC20009
1.800.843.8114

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