Learn how the mind and body axis work to gather in health and disease; particularly how negative mental patterns, thoughts and emotions are linked to various human ailments from acne to AIDS and from common cold to cancer.

1. MIND – BODY CONNECTION
DR. KIRAN N. SHINGLOT
M.B.,B.S. D.C.H.
Vadodara – Gujarat - India
PHONE: 9426392888
Email: kshinglot@yahoo.co.in

4. “I THINK THEREFORE I AM.”
Rene Descarte (1596 – 1650)
Father of Modern Philosophy

5. BODY
MINDSPIRIT

6. Universal Design
(Levels of External Reality)
✓ Conscious
✓ Psychic
✓ Physical

8. Levels of Realities in a Human Being
• Conscious - Soul
• Psychological – Mind
• Physical – Body

9. As human beings, we are endowed with three distinct bodies
• Causal Body (कारण शरीर)
• Subtle Body (सूक्ष्म शरीर)
• Physical Body (स्थूल शरीर)

10. Conditions of Health and Disease in a human being also exist
in three distinct realities:
• Causal Body (Childhood script of illness)
• Subtle Body (Thought patterns and emotions)
• Physical Body (Clinical Disease)

11. Mind Over Matter (The Philosophy of Mind)
Dualism
Monism

12. Mind over Matter (Philosophy of Mind)
Monism
• Mind and brain are the same thing.
• Two Types
- Materialism
Mind is just the product of physical
and chemical brain activity.
- Idealism
There is no physical world and
everything is in our head.
Dualism
• Mind and body (brain) are two
separate entities (Cartesian duality).
• Though both are separate, the body
and mind are in a state of interactive
dualism. The body affects the mind
just as the mind affects the body.
• Our body and mind interact through
a master switchboard called brain.

13. Mind Body Debate

14. Mind Body Connection
Body Processes
• Organisation
• Differentiation
• Metabolism
• Growth
• Responsiveness
• Movements
• Respiration
• Digestion
• Excretion
• Circulation
• Immunity
Mental Processes
• Perception
• Memory
• Thinking
- Ideation
- Imagination
- Belief
- Reasoning
• Volition
• Emotion

15. Conscious / Unconscious (Subconscious) Mind
Subconscious
Conscious
Habits and Patterns
Creativity
Emotions
Protection
Long Term Memory
Automatic Body
Functions
Cellular Memory
Planning
Will Power
Critical
Thinking
Short Term
Memory
Judgment/Decision
Bodily Movements

16. In Computer terminology
our brain is a hardware
whereas
the mind is its software.

17. We are what we think all day long.

18. The thoughts we have
and
the words we use everyday
create our lives, affect our health
and
shape our experiences.
our attitude to life
and
the language we use
cause our ailments.

20. THOUGHTS
+ / -
EMOTIONS
+ / -
BEHAVIOUR
WINNER/LOSER
OUTCOME
+/ -

21. The body achieves what the mind believes

22. Positive Emotions and Their Effects on Body Parts
Kindness, Generosity
Fairness, Openness,
Trust
Courage, Righteousness
Gentleness, Calmness, Silence
Love, Joy, Happiness

23. Negative Emotions and Their Effects on Body Parts
Anger, Frustration,
Jealousy, Envy
Sadness, Depression
Worry, Anxiety, Mistrust
Fear
Hate, Cruelty, Impatience

25. The Brain – Body Connection
Cerebral Cortex
Limbic System and
Hypothalamus
Endocrine System
Immune System
Thinking and Logical brain
Emotional Brain
Hormonal regulation of body
surveillance and protection of body
through cells and chemicals
Brain Stem BasicVital Functions

26. The Mind – Brain – Body Link
There is a molecular or chemical link between the body and the mind.
The Nervous system sends information to different parts of body
through chemicals referred to as Information Substances (IS) or
Neuropeptides.
These natural chemical messengers called neuropeptides are present
on the cells of brain as well as the immune system.
Every thought, emotion, idea, attitude or belief has a neuro-chemical
consequence.
In turn, these information substances affect our emotions as well as
physiology.
The cells of body including the immune system respond to these
chemicals by receptors that act like satellite dishes.

27. Mind – Body Medicine
Psycho-somatic Medicine
Metaphysical Medicine

28. Psycho-Somatic Medicine
• A scientific approach to human health and disease.
• Studies the influence of stress on our physical health.
• Does not exactly describe one-to-one relationship between a particular
stress and a particular disease.
• Stress reduction methods act as adjuvant techniques to control disease.

29. Metaphysical Medicine
• Adopts a philosophical approach to disease causation.
• Deals with the effects of life processes, mental patterns and emotions on
human health and disease.
• Attempts to establish one-to-one relationship with a particular mental
pattern and a disease.
• Offers complete healing in a disease pathology by correcting causative
mental patterns.

30. Basic Premise in Metaphysical Medicine
•The mind and the body are not two independent
entities; they are intimately connected with each other.
•Mind is the root of every disease and suffering in man.
•We create every so-called illness in our body.

31. Contributors in the Field of Mind Body Medicine
Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939)
(Father of Psychoanalysis)

32. Contributors in the Field of Mind Body Medicine
Wilhelm Reich (1897 – 1957)
(Known for Freudo-Marxism, Body Psychotherapy, Orgone)

33. Contributors in the Field of Mind Body Medicine
Fritz Perls (1893 – 1970)
(Known for Gestalt Therapy)

34. Hans Selye
(1907 – 1982)
• American Canadian and
Endocrinologist
• Formulated the
General Adaptability
Syndrome (GAS)
theory of stress
Contributors in the Field of Mind Body Medicine

35. Contributors in the Field of Mind Body Medicine
Dr. Edmund Jacobson (1888 – 1983)
• A physiologist and Physician.
• Studied the functional interaction
between the mental and motor
systems.
• Founder of Progressive Muscular
Relaxation.
• Established that thought and
behaviour, impulse and action ate
the two components of the same
whole.

36. Contributors to the Field of Mind Body Medicine
Walter B. Cannon (1871 – 1945)
• Neurologist, Physiologist and Scientist.
• Worked at Harvard Medical School.
• Studied bodily effects of emotional
excitement.
• Developed the concept of homeostasis and
coined the term “Fight or Flight Response.”

37. Contributors to the Field of Mind Body Medicine
Dr. Dean Ornish
(July 16, 1953)
Preventive Medicine
Research Institute in
California
• Developed lifestyle
driven approach to
the control of
Coronary Heart
Disease including
Yoga and
Meditation.

38. Neal E. Miller
(1909 – 2002)
• American Psychologist
• Worked with Yale University,
University of Washington and
Stanford University.
• Known for Biofeedback.
Contributors to the Field of Mind Body Medicine

39. Contributors in the Field of Mind Body Medicine
Louise Hay
(Internationally renowned metaphysical healer, speaker and
inspirational writer)

40. Louise Hay
• Our mind is responsible for all our experiences.
• Both the good in our life and the disease are the results of
mental thought patterns and emotions which form our
experience.
• Our consistent negative thought patterns create all
suffering and illness in us.

41. The Mind/Body Connection
• Every disease pre-exists in a negative thought pattern or an
emotion.
• Every physical ailment – from acne to arthritis, headache to heart
disease, cold to cancers – is influenced by a negative thought
pattern and emotion.
• Unless this mental pattern is corrected, one can not become well
and healthy.

42. All the suffering and diseases in man are caused by one or combination
of the following reasons –
1. Lack of harmony with the body.
2. Maintaining a state of mental warfare.
3. Social and relationship crises.
4. Negative thoughts and mental patterns create a mental block
causing obstruction to the flow of psychic and life energy.
5. Traumatic Life Experiences.

43. Life Experiences That Can Disrupt our Emotional Balance
• Traumatic Early Childhood
Experiences
• Being laid off from job
• A major financial breakdown
or money problem
• Getting a job promotion
• Moving to a new home or
place
• Getting divorced or married
• Having a baby
• Death or illness of a loved one
• Own illness or injury

44. “Man is a confused animal.
He prefers to live in duality.”
 Aristotle

45. Basic Human Instinct
Life Instinct Death Instinct

46. Human Destiny
• An average individual lives a script of suffering, pain, disease
and death.
• This script is decided in his childhood based on early parental
influences and childhood experiences.
• This script is hidden in his unconscious mind and therefore he
is largely unaware of it.

47. The Emotional Pain Body
Moral Body
Intellectual Body
Emotional Body
Psychic Body
Pranik
Body
Physical
Body
Pain Body
The origin of
uncoscious
longing for
disease, pain,
suffering and
death.

48. The Notorious Pain Body
From the beginning,
the child learns politics;
the politics of
looking miserable and ill
in order to get
sympathy and attention.
The Little Professor

49. Every body hurts … … …
Times of India
5th October 2011

50. How Emotions Affect Our Health
• Back pain
• Change in appetite
• Chest pain
• Constipation or diarrhoea
• Dry mouth
• Extreme tiredness
• General pains and aches
• Headaches
• High Blood Pressure
• Insomnia
• Lightheadedness
• Palpitations
• Sexual problems
• Shortness of breath
• Stiff neck
• Excessive sweating
• Upset stomach
• Weight loss or gain

51. Relationship Between Emotions And Disease
The mental thought patterns and emotions that cause most diseases
in the body –
Criticism Arthritis
Anger Infections
Resentment Cancers
Guilt Pain

52. Emotions and Health
"I never get angry –
I just grow a tumor instead."
- Woody Allen

53. Types of Emotions
Non – Self Conscious
(Uncontrollable)
•Anger
•Fear
•Disgust
•Surprise
Self Conscious
(Controllable through
cognitive processes
•Guilt
•Shame
•Pride
•Envy

54. Types of Emotions
High Energy
Emotions
Anger
Hatred
Envy
Greed
Happiness
Low Energy
Emotions
Sadness
Depression
Frustration
Fear
Guilt

55. Link between emotions and diseases
• High Blood Pressure
• Essential Tremors
• Aggressive Behaviour
• Insomnia
High Energy
Emotions
• Low Blood Pressure
• Hyperacidity
• Lack of Confidence
• Inferiority Complex
Low Energy
Emotions

56. You can’t live a positive life with a negative mind

57. Common Symptoms and Their Metaphysical Causes
Symptom Probable Cause
Cold Too much going on at once. Mental confusion,
disorder. “I catch cold in rains” type of belief.
Constipation Refusing to release old ideas. Stuck in the past.
Depression Anger you feel you don’t have a right to have.
Hopelessness.
Vomiting Violent rejection of ideas. Fear of the new.
Headache Self-criticism. Fear. Invalidating self

58. Common Symptoms and Their Metaphysical Causes
Symptom Probable Cause
Female health problems Rejecting femininity. Denial of self.
Fever Anger. Burning up.
Insomnia Fear. Not trusting the process of life. Guilt.
Rheumatism Feeling victimised. Lack of love. Resentment.
Chronic bitterness.
Neck stiffness Stubbornness, inflexibility. Refusing to see
other side of an issue

59. Common Symptoms and Their Metaphysical Causes
Symptoms Probable Cause
Lower Backache Fear of money. Lack of financial support.
Allergies Who are you allergic to? Denying your own
power.
Anxiety Not trusting the flow and the process of life.
Menstrual problems Rejection of femininity. Guilt, fear. Belief that
genitals and menstruation are dirty and sinful.
Menopausal problems Fear of no longer being wanted. Fear of aging.
Self-rejection.

60. Some Common Diseases and Their Metaphysical Causes
• Long standing unsolved emotional
problemHypertension
• Longing for what might have been.
• Deep sorrow.
• No sweetness left.
Type 2 Diabetes
Mellitus
• Clogging the channels of joy.
• Fear of accepting joy.
Atherosclerosis

61. Some Common Diseases and Their Metaphysical Causes
• Anger you feel you do not have right to have.
• HopelessnessDepression
• Rebelling against authorityFractures
• Anger of the past
• Feeling burdenedHaemorroids

62. Some Common Diseases and Their Metaphysical Causes
• Lumps of undissolved anger.Renal stones
• Stubborn ego and pride.
• Inability to bend. Inflexibility.
• Won’t give in.
Knee
problems
• A belief that women are powerless
over opposite sex.
• Anger at the mate.
Leucorrhoea

63. Some Common Diseases and Their Metaphysical Causes
• Dislike of being driven.
• Sexual fears (can usually be relieved
by masturbation).
Migraine
Headaches
• Fear. Need for protection.
• Insecurity. Self-rejection.
• Seeking fulfillment.
Obesity
• Deep criticism of authority.
• Feeling very put down.
Rheumatoid
Arthritis

64. Some Common Diseases and Their Metaphysical Causes
• “What is the use?”
• Feeling of futility, guilt, inadequacy.
• Self-rejection
Alcoholism
• Humiliation.
• “I never get to do what I want to do.
When is it going to be my turn?”
Hypothyroidism
• Fear. Fear. Fear.
• A belief that you are not good enough.
• Anxious to please.
Hyperacidity and
Peptic Ulcer

65. Disease Prone Personality
Certain illnesses
occur to individuals
who build
a typical way
of
thinking,
feeling
and
behaviour
right from their childhood.

66. Disease Prone Personality
• Type A Personality
• (Meyer Friedman and Ray H. Rossenman)
Coronary
Heart Disease
• Nervous, Anxious, Hyper-irritable
• Suppressed anger, Too sensitive
• “Cry for lost mother
Bronchial
Asthma
• Passive, Emotionless
• Loveless childhood
• Deeply hurt, Long standing resentment
Cancer
• Unable to speak up for self
• Belief in violence. Rebellion against authority.
• Pre-occupied with problems of life
Accidents

67. “The soul always knows what to do to
heal itself. The challenge is to silence the
mind.”
Caroline Myss

68. Employing Mind Body Connection Fruitfully
You can
•listen to your inner wisdom.
•Live in perfect harmony.
•Take better care of yourself.
•Facilitate healing through Body – Mind – Spirit axis

69. How to Tap Inner Wisdom
• Listen to your body wisdom.
• Watch your thoughts, moods and feelings.
• Write down your dreams.
• Write your diary.
• Use art to express your unconscious.
• Watch for signs/signals

70. • Love your body
• LISTEN to your body
• Develop a Healthy Lifestyle
• Eat well
• Exercise
• Practise deep breathing
• Get lots of sleep
How To Strengthen the Body Mind Connection
Caring for the Body

71. Strengthening Body Mind Connection
What to do for the Mind
• Love yourself unconditionally.
• Learn Relaxation Techniques to de-stress
• Continue to learn new things – Always.
• Engage in activities that you love.
• Undertake a selfless social service activity.
• See a counsellor if there are signs of trouble.

72. Going Beyond Body Mind – Be Spiritual !
• Pray
• Meditate
• Celebrate your existence
• Connect with everyone and everything around you
• Find a greater purpose to your living
• Live a life of high values

73. Connecting
the mind and body
is not just a health strategy.
It is a movement of consciousness
that can change the world.
- Matthew Sanford

74. Suggested Reading