Turning Straw Into Gold

by Dean Shrock PhD - 

People Need to Feel Heard and Understood:

My research with cancer concluded that people lived longer because they felt listened to, cared for and supported. I also discovered that the role of social support, communication and listening had been given decided support from psychologist, Dr. James Lynch. 

His more than thirty years of research demonstrated that people’s cardiovascular and neuromuscular systems are directly affected by their communication.

Blood pressure rises (within 30 seconds) almost always 10-50% when people begin to speak.

This is true for all people, healthy and unhealthy (except for schizophrenics). Blood pressure surges are greater while talking than when walking on a treadmill at maximal capacity! 

However, blood pressure drops rapidly when listening to others in a non-defensive way. This held true for deaf mutes using sign language, also.

Their blood pressure increased just like all others, suggesting that it is not talking per se, but the act of communicating that’s vital.

The key here is that when people feel heard and understood, their bodies respond in a far healthier way than when the conversation is not “heartfelt”. 

When people speak without “heart”, without any real feelings of connection to another, the cardiovascular data are very clear: They are at much higher risk for heart disease and premature death.

Dr. Lynch believes that love and felt dialogue are essential for good health. His research concluded that people will search (unconsciously), to the point of physical exhaustion (death), to feel loved and understood. 

excerpt from 'Why Love Heals' 

Turning Straw Into Gold

"Human existence has been referred to by metaphysicians as “a veil of tears.” It seems to be a given that life is going to have its turmoil. However, if life is about learning to love, which I believe is best exemplified by demonstrating compassion, then human existence with all of its seeming tragedy and suffering, may be just what the doctor ordered. 

I like the quote from Jack Cornfield's book, 'A Path With Heart':

"Like the young maiden in the fairy tale “Rumpelstiltskin” who is locked in a room full of straw, we often do not realize that the straw all around us is gold in disguise.  

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love."

excerpt from 'Doctor’s Orders: Go Fishing'

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Quantum Physics: Why Love Heals

by Dean Shrock, PhD -

Picture two lines together perfectly parallel. Then imagine them moving and waving together in perfect synchrony. Whatever one line does, the other does at the precise moment of the other. In fact, there is no way to determine which line moves first. They both follow each other or follow some invisible force that conducts them in total harmony.

Now imagine a bunch of lines moving, waving and vibrating in similar form. All peak and trough, move up and down, in absolute unison. These wavelengths can be all sizes, large and small but all are perfectly aligned.

All are singing and dancing and moving as one.

This is a way to begin to understand the unity that underlies all of creation. At the most fundamental level, all atomic and subatomic matter work and exist in harmony and order. Everything is interconnected and functions as one.

Quantum physics has established this scientifically.

This is how our bodies work as well, when they're healthy. Most of the time the trillions and trillions of cells in our bodies work together in unbelievable harmony. They cooperate beautifully to keep us breathing, living, growing and thriving.

When we do things like eating nutrient-rich foods and exercising our muscles in appropriate balance, it contributes to the harmony and growth of our cells. When we are joyful and "going fishing," this emotional state also resonates with the natural harmony of our cells and contributes to our health.

When we are practicing wellness, all the electrons that comprise our bodies are dancing together in the greatest line dance you could ever imagine. Think trillions and trillions of Fred Astaires and Ginger Rogers waltzing and spinning and swaying as one.

However, when we experience dissonance or stress, the harmonious movement and activity of the cells is disrupted. 

When we eat something that cannot be properly absorbed and used by our cells - and when we don't exercise our muscles appropriately - and when we experience "negative" emotions - all of this causes the vibration of our cells to not be able to dance the same dance in harmony.

The cells can then weaken, and the systems in our bodies stop operating optimally. Disease is now able to thrive in the environment of our bodies, where normally it would be sitting out the dance.

The quantum field, Life Force, and Qi energy described in ancient wisdom texts are all ways to label or understand the fundamental "glue" of the universe that flows through and connects everything.

When you are aligned or resonating with this energy matrix of harmony and order, you allow for a greater flow of this life-giving energy through your body.

The key is to get the cells of the body back to vibrating as one. 

Love is the expression or experience of oneness - this is why I define love as oneness. Love expressed as listening, caring, compassion, hope, etc. literally bathes the cells of our bodies with exactly what they need to return to their natural state of oneness.

When we experience love, it's like getting a "tune-up." 

For example: Remember in science class when iron filings were scattered on a card held over a magnet? They always arranged themselves in the pattern of the "lines of force" of the magnet's field.

Similarly, love functions like a magnet's force field, and realigns the molecules of our bodies with their fundamental, natural state of harmony and order.

This is why love heals.

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