Mind Over Symptom Lishui Springford

"Incurable Symptoms"
Those of us who care about health are pretty good at handling an occasional sniffle or muscle spasm or other temporary illness. But what about those symptoms that we get that we never find out the cause of …or cure for.
We go from one specialist to another, we try various “out of the box” alternative health solutions. But for too many of us, too often, and even too soon …we begin to accept that the symptom is just part of how our life is going to be from now on.
The reason we give up on overcoming illnesses and instead just start living with the symptom permanently is that modern medicine today rests on a set of “proven facts.” Scientifically-proven facts like the Germ Theory of Disease, or the concept of the so-called “selfish gene.” Why go looking for a cure for MS when it’s a medical “fact” that this condition is incurable?
I’ll tell you why.
Because it’s NOT a proven fact.
There’s no such thing as a proven fact! (Scientific or otherwise)
But not understanding this, conventional medical approaches to diagnosis and care make 5 terrible mistakes:
Assuming that if the cause isn't removable, the patient must switch her goal to “coping." The conventional approach is to give up on the goal of healing.
Assuming that the health "condition" is a thing. Once it afflicts you, the treatment goal is to last as long as you can with this condition. Conventional care will have you increase treatment and decrease other activities in life.
Assuming that our symptoms arise from strictly physical factors, such as anatomical defects including brain chemistry defects, which combine in a perfect storm with outside triggers. Conventional medicine says this is random, now that body part is damaged.
Bad luck.
Assuming that, since the environment is a "cause" or "trigger" of the symptom, the only way to control the symptom is to avoid the environmental triggers. Again, the conventional approach recommends that we avoid life to avoid our symptom.
Assuming that if a symptom doesn't respond to treatment, it's simply an incurable condition and that's just life. The conventional response is to point out small possibilities that might make your condition a little more bearable.
These mistakes come from a false dogma. Escaping that dogma is a huge step in the direction of finding a true cure, no matter the symptom.
Listen to Episode 13 of the Mind Over Symptom Podcast to find out how religious dogma has created a massive bias in health care today …and also how a new scientific discovery spreading around the world today can overthrow that dogma and help you achieve a “medical miracle” today.
More about the Law of Relevance and how to determine why you have the symptom in the part of the body it is in http://mindoversymptom.libsyn.com/3-anatomy-made-simple-the-mind-body-code-revealed
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The Thing About Unsolvable Problems...
Everyone, sooner or later, gets stuck with a chronic, repeating, or “incurable” health condition for which there is no known cure.
(And incurable symptoms happen not just in our bodies but in other aspects of our lives as well)
Underlying any condition that we believe we've "tried everything" to fix is not an incurable condition but another, deeper belief.
That's a belief in the status quo.
A belief that your outcome - your current state - is a result of statistics. A belief that you are a statistic.
How can you know that this is the case? Because you and I live in a society that dismisses the outliers for being "abnormal" and irrelevant.
Outliers like the 10% (or more) of lung cancer patients who survive and recover.
The people with Down syndrome who have above-average IQ's.
The women who have remained fertile into their 50's.
These kinds of anomalies are thought to be the exceptions that "prove" the rules. You're not encouraged to try to be one of these (because that would be giving you false hope).
So it's normal, when you want to make a change, to try all the standard approaches first.
Not that it will lead to those amazing (but anomalous) results you really want ...but it's what everyone does.
The Danger of the Easy-Button
While we wait for the outside-in solution, we’re not doing what we actually need to do to heal. We're too busy doing the "normal" things instead, and that's a big part of why the statistics are the way they are.
Following the usual options, following the norm, puts our focus on trying to be normal, instead of on resolving the symptom at its source.
While we wait for the outside-in solution, we decrease the likelihood of healing.
Screw the Status Quo
To truly heal, you have to learn a new skill, something that you currently are very bad at. Plus, there are obstacles in the way of you learning this new skill.
But this new skill - a skill most people in your situation never even bother to look for because they're looking for the silver bullet instead - is how you will heal.
Listen to Episode 12 of the Mind Over Symptom Podcast, "Do You Really Want to Heal?" to learn how to overcome the 3 obstacles preventing you from having the healing you desire.
The real source of your symptom: http://mindoversymptom.libsyn.com/1-radical-self-healing
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Getting the Sleep You Need Insomnia is when you can't fall asleep ("nighttime insomnia") or you can’t stay asleep ("morning insomnia").
Acute insomnia is when you're having trouble sleeping due to a recent traumatic shock experience (stress).
Chronic insomnia is when you have trouble sleeping more than twice a week for more than 3 months
Insomnia isn't when you can't sleep because you keep getting woken up.
It's when you can't sleep even if you get rid of all distractions, like light, noise, stimulants and sedatives, heavy meals, uncomfortable bed, poor routine/schedule/habits, discomfort from pain or restless leg syndrome or apnea, and all the other things we blame for our sleeplessness.
So insomnia is when you can't fall asleep or stay asleep during the time when you should be sleeping.
The result of not getting the sleep you need is fatigue, low energy, difficulty concentrating, mood disturbances, and decreased performance in work or at school.
You might start to feel anxiousness, dread, or panic at just the prospect of not sleeping. Your anxiety and insomnia can feed each other and become a cycle as you lay awake at night freaking out about how little sleep you’re getting and how tired you’re going to be at your important event tomorrow.
Not getting the sleep you need will produce physical health problems within days. Psychologically, you can last up to a week without sleep ...but then you're going to have a complete mental breakdown.
Why Conventional and Most Alternative Health Approaches Don’t Work The current health paradigm doesn’t understand how sleep works.
Sleep isn't the absence of wakefulness, and wakefulness isn't the absence of sleep. Nor are wakefulness and sleep a matter of turning your brain on or off.
Sleep is a complex process of resolving and healing the stresses you experienced during the waking part of your day.
Insomnia occurs when you're working through a big traumatic stress experience. It also occurs when you're recovering and repairing your body after you've worked through a big traumatic stress experience.
These are emergency biological response mechanisms, and trying to interfere with them can easily make insomnia worse.
We live in a time dominated by a mechanistic understanding of the natural world. So the research and treatment remain focused on trying to turn your brain on and off according to a “normal” schedule, regardless of your current biological needs.
Medications for insomnia try to disrupt brain chemicals and turn your brain off, in the belief that sleep is the absence of wakefulness. Some newer medical approaches try to disrupt your sleep urges during the day in the belief that being awake is the absence of sleepiness.
Either way, these kinds of brain-chemistry-disrupting treatments can be helpful if you're suffering acute insomnia due to a recent traumatic stress ...but they should never be used for chronic insomnia because they are addictive, have unhealthy side effects, and it's difficult to come off these meds.
Is There Any True Cure? The best treatments for insomnia focus on lifestyle changes, self-discipline, and even cognitive behavioural therapy. However, these treatments don't work by forcing your body into a "normal" rhythm.
In fact, trying to force yourself to be normal is actually the CAUSE of insomnia!
The real reason that conventional and most alternative treatments for insomnia “work" - if they work - is because they can give you a burst of self-confidence that empowers you to take control of your time for your own personal, selfish reasons ...instead of trying to be normal.
Listen to "Mind Over Insomnia: Stop Counting Sheep and Get the Z's You Need" to discover how to build a schedule around YOUR “normal sleep system,” so you can feel great and love your life.
Standard beliefs about cause of insomnia: https://sleepfoundation.org/insomnia/content/what-causes-insomnia
Medical treatment of insomnia: h

Modern medicine is absolutely brilliant at saving your life when you’ve got a gross anatomical problem, like injury, poisoning, or malnutrition.
Or in the healing phase and especially the healing crisis after you resolve a major biological conflict.
But conventional and even most alternative treatment regimens do not resolve symptoms for organically-generating diseases that aren't a result of injury, poisoning, or malnutrition.
Diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, AIDS, stroke …or even the common cold.
As a result, organically-generating symptoms are almost always incurable. At least with conventional treatment.
But we’re very attached to our treatments. We’re so attached to the idea of “fighting” the symptom that we actually try even harder …but doing the wrong thing.
The reason why this philosophy of treating symptoms does not cure our illnesses is that organically-generating symptoms are a result of a traumatic stress experience.
The symptom is your body’s attempt to resolve that traumatic stress experience. To make you whole again.
The word “heal” means “to make whole.” Your body is constantly striving to do this.
The symptoms are your body’s emergency response mechanism, your body’s way of helping you to heal the trauma. Your symptoms are your body's attempt to heal.
But treatment seeks to defend against, resist, or outright battle those symptoms.
Sometimes this "fight" helps people to focus on and resolve the original stress that the symptoms are trying to heal.
If it doesn’t, though, the result of treatment can be more stress, more trauma, and more symptoms.
Listen to Episode 10 of the Mind Over Symptom Podcast to find out how to heal your symptoms at the source and use treatment to help that process.
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What Are You Fighting With or Fleeing From?
It's been almost a century since Charles Banting's discovery that high blood sugar (diabetes mellitus) has to do with the production of insulin by islet cells located in your pancreas.
Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) is to this day rarely even diagnosed as a medical condition, and when it is, it's usually thought to be a consequence of incorrect use of diabetes medication.
Diabetes makes you feel heavy, slow. Hypoglycemia makes you feel shaky, restless, hungry.
If blood sugar goes high for too long (diabetes), ketoacidosis, which is slow poisoning from metabolic waste products, will make you increasingly ill. If blood sugar goes too low (hypoglycemia), death occurs within hours. Your brain simply cannot keep functioning without adequate energy supply.
Medically, diabetes is controlled either by controlling sugar intake (dietary restrictions) or by taking medically-prescribed insulin (or both).
Hypoglycemia, much more dangerous than diabetes but rarely diagnosed except as a complication of diabetes, is treated by eating constantly. A snack every 20 minutes during an episode. (And by avoiding carbs the rest of the time)
Normal blood sugar fluctuates around a setpoint so that the range of "normal" blood sugar is 70-110 mg/dL or 700-1100ppm. Normal blood sugar level will go up or down within this range according to whether we’ve just eaten, whether we’ve exercised recently, and other daily activities.
What Causes Low or High Blood Sugar?
Conventional understanding of the blood sugar mechanism is that, when we eat food, the sugars in the food would flood our bloodstream, if not for insulin, a hormone released by islet cells in the pancreas.
It’s believed that insulin causes the cells of the body to “open” and store the sugar, which takes the sugar out of circulation. So the conventional story is that diabetes is a condition in which the islet cells of the pancreas don’t “work” properly, that something goes wrong with the pancreas, and thus, when we eat sugar, it just floods into our system without any controls.
The conventional story about low blood sugar is that, if the blood sugar goes below the normal range, it must be because we have too much insulin. Most health practitioners believe this to be a medical complication from taking the wrong amount of insulin for treating diabetes.
The official story is wrong.
Both the amount of sugar going into our blood and the amount of sugar being taken out of our blood are tightly controlled by hormones. One hormone - glucagon - to put sugar into the blood. Another hormone - insulin - to take sugar out of the blood.
Each of the hormones involved in making your blood sugar go up or down is produced by its own type of islet cell in the pancreas. Alpha islet cells release glucagon, beta islet cells release insulin.
When your blood sugar goes higher and lower than the normal range of 700-1100 parts per million, it’s because these islet cells are producing less or more of the hormone than normal.
However, it’s not because the pancreas or the islet cells are broken or damaged or dysfunctional.
Your blood-sugar regulating hormone levels change for a good reason.
That reason is that your brain is telling your islet cells to change their level of hormone output.
And why would your brain want to make your blood sugar go up or down?
Your brain raises your blood sugar levels to fuel your muscles to fight or defend yourself. Your brain lowers your blood sugar levels to help you escape.
Blood sugar changes are the first biological changes you make in the fight-flight response.
Listen to Episode 9 of the Mind Over Symptom Podcast, "The Ups and Downs of Blood Sugar," to the discover the true source of your symptom ...and how to get off the roller coaster of the fight-flight blood sugar response.
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AIDS was a terrifying new disease that first appeared in 1981, and then exploded into a global epidemic that killed its victims very rapidly. A cure and vaccine have not yet been found.
Health care professionals quickly pinpointed a retrovirus called "Human Immunodeficiency Virus" and the American Food and Drug Administration approved a blood test to identify the presence of the virus. Then AZT, a chemotherapy drug designed in the 1960's, was approved as a treatment to try to prevent HIV from developing into AIDS.
Unfortunately, the drug was very expensive. And it produced harsh health effects of its own.
Fortunately, the illness began to decline in most areas of the world by the mid-90's ...however, sub-Saharan Africa still lists AIDS as its number one killer. This makes AIDS the 4th leading cause of death worldwide and it's still an enormous health emergency.
The solution is elusive, because HIV is elusive.
The virus has never been isolated. The HIV test only measures antibodies against proteins which are believed to be part of HIV.
The progression of AIDS remains poorly understood. Nobody knows how the virus makes one person get one symptom and another person get another symptom ...or why some people never get any symptoms at all.
Or why people can have AIDS symptoms and but test negative for HIV.
Or why people can have HIV and even AIDS ...and then test negative or overcome their symptoms.
Why all the questions? Because HIV-AIDS was always handled as a medical emergency, and so the response was technological.
The SCIENTIFIC response has only just begun.
Listen to Episode 8 of the Mind Over Symptom Podcast, "HIV Positive? Your Biggest Threat (and What You Can Do About It) to take a refreshing look at what AIDS is really about, why it happens, and how it's possible to resolve this collection of symptoms right at the source.
HIV-AIDS timeline: https://www.aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/hiv-aids-101/aids-timeline/
 
How AZT works, and side effects: https://www.drugs.com/sfx/zidovudine-side-effects.html#refs
 
“Out Of Control: AIDS and the corruption of medical science” published in Harper magazine, 2006, by Celia Farber http://www.duesberg.com/articles/2006%20Harper's,%20Farber%20on%20AIDS%20&%20cancer.pdf
 
Does HIV cause AIDS? http://consciousdr.com/the-documentation/why-hiv-was-never-discovered/
 
About Amyl/Butyl Nitrite, or “poppers” - http://poppersguide.com
 
About the ELISA test - http://www.healthline.com/health/elisa#Overview1
 
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