Healing illness with the subconscious mind | Danna Pycher | TEDxPineCrestSchool (2)

When the subconscious mind heals, it allows the nervous system to relax.

When the nervous system relaxes, there are less erratic signals.

When there are less erratic signals,

the endocrine system does not need to be in a chronic state of fight or flight,

therefore sending out inflammatory hormones like cortisol and adrenaline.

You see all this is all coming together?

OK, I know I overloaded you with a ton of information.

So I want to finish up with this.

A bit of an experience I had with a client who came to see me.

There's a woman, she came to see me, and she came to see me for weight loss,

which many people do,

many people come to see hypnotists to lose weight.

And I asked her: "What's the issue?

No motivation to get to the gym, you don't have a taste for healthy food;

what's going on?"

So she said, "No, I have motivation get to the gym.

Yet every time I go, I get into more pain."

So I asked, "Why are you in pain?"

I said, "Oh, am I familiar?"

So I said to her, "Let's start from the inside out.

Instead of working on your motivation to get to the gym,

we should work on your fibromyalgia pain first."

I asked her: "Where do you feel most of it right now?"

She said in her neck.

I said, okay, let's go for it.

We did a regression session around the pain in her neck.

And the memory that came up was at the time she was 12 years old,

her and her brother got into a fight.

He pushed her down the stairs

and she essentially got a stiff neck for a few weeks,

and then it went away.

Ten years later, it came back,

and she told me that for 20 years she couldn't move her neck.

We resolved that trauma -

the trauma surrounding that memory and a few others.

When we finished, she came up out of hypnosis,

and she went like this.

For the first time in 20 years, she moved her neck.

My mouth dropped and so did hers.

We carry our lives with us not only in our minds

yet all over our body.

Our bodies and minds are intrinsically connected.

There's so much more detail I can go through on this topic,

yet really, this is the takeaway I want to give to you today:

The mind and body are resilient

and have the innate ability to heal themselves.

Yet sometimes they just need a bit of guidance.

My wish for you is to be informed

and to know that there are resources out there

to help you feel like the best you.

I was told, time and time again, that I would be sick or have PTSD forever.

I was told by many doctors

that I'd have to be on high-level antidepressants,

that there was no hope for me -

this was the pathway of my life.

Yet, in reality, I knew,

and I was determined with every ounce of my being

to get back to who I knew I was:

that girl that existed somewhere deep down inside me.

And now, I speak about chronic illness and PTSD in the past,

behind me, no longer part of me.

If there's someone you know who doesn't feel good,

please tell them that there is hope.

If you can heal your mind, you can heal your life.

So here's to you, your healthy mind and body,

and here's to never give up the fight for your vitality.

Thank you very much.

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