Why past experiences affect our health.

Research is being conducted globally to understand how and why our past experiences directly affect our health.

Our emotional responses to past events can impact the body as if we were experiencing the original event. This trauma or event is stored in the subconscious mind as a survival memory because it was perceived as threatening. The hypothalamus helps with survival by triggering a reaction or engaging the fight or flight response.

This mechanism protects us from perceived future dangers by activating the survival response. It halts all healing and homeostasis processes, increasing blood flow, heart rate, and releasing cortisol and adrenaline to prepare the body for rapid reaction. This response can harm the body, impairing healing and conscious or intelligent thought, as it is a subconscious reaction that often occurs before our conscious mind is aware.

In today's world, this response is less necessary for survival due to fewer threats. As we experience life, survival-related information is stored from traumatic experiences like sexual abuse, assault, attacks, bullying, childhood neglect, abandonment, or betrayal. These experiences become ingrained as beliefs, shaping our world and reactions. Consequently, similar triggers can provoke the fight or flight or stress response even without a real threat. This mirrors how the body reacts to thoughts of past events or experiences, activating the same response as if we were reliving the moment. Since prolonged stress responses are harmful to health, our thoughts can inadvertently cause harm by revisiting past events long after they occurred. Each time this response is triggered, it harms the body. Not only is this response unhealthy, but these experiences and reactions can be encoded within cells, causing damage to the body and organs.

Frequent revisiting of past events causes similar effects on the now-coded cells, causing deep damage. This is how diseases and illnesses can develop in the body. It's as if the old traumatic program is constantly replaying in the mind, repeatedly activating the fight or flight response and further damaging the cellular code.

We are essentially making ourselves sick through the beliefs we hold. Dr. Bruce Lipton has extensively researched gene activation through thought, a study known as epigenetics.

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov's study, known as Pavlov's dog, demonstrated conditioned reflexes. By repeatedly associating a bell with feeding, the dog began to salivate at the sound of the bell alone. This illustrates how our past experiences, involving sound, smell, and taste, not just vision, can trigger encoded experiences, causing repeated damage to cells and the body.

This highlights the importance of examining how past events affect our health. Recognizing which false beliefs trigger our stress response is crucial, as they ultimately damage our cells and lead to diseases and illnesses.

We have the tools and exercises to reshape or eliminate these beliefs, transforming them into healthier and more healing responses within ourselves.