Whole Health by Dr. Mark Mincolla Page B

knows how to “listen.”
    Health care can be reduced into two divergent systems: intervention and prevention. If, as the old adage goes, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” our present approach to health care in America should be classified as a lightweight in the fight against disease. If we are truly committed to prevention, more reliable early detection and diagnosis methods—made available to everyone—are essential. The key to better early detection and accurate diagnosis is to include and to better equip the patient to be a diagnostic listener. The more we enable the average person to listen at the subtlest energy levels, the better the health of our nation will be.
    INTUITIVE NEUROFEEDBACK
    We live in a dualistic universe of opposites: yin and yang, male and female, hot and cold, old and young. With that in mind, we might do well to remember that all human beings are dualistic by nature, possessing both a logical and an intuitive mind. Our culturalinfluence would have us only believe in a five-sensory world of sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. We tend to overlook the fact that we have access to a sixth sense that enables us to engage our mind at an extrasensory, intuitive level. And while most of us have had experiences with lucid inner knowing, few of us are aware of just how much time our mind tends to spend on such activities.
    Hundreds of cognitive studies over the past three decades have confirmed that those human brain processes that occur automatically, without our conscious awareness, constitute most of our mental life.
    Consider that the conscious mind can process 2,000 bits of information per second. Pretty impressive until you realize that our unconscious mind can easily process 400 billion bits of information per second! Most of our 300 to 1,000 thoughts per minute come from our unconscious mind, and our unconscious mind is the domain of direct knowledge, immediate insight, and subliminal perception. The question isn’t whether these remarkable properties are innate to us. The question is whether or not we can get comfortable with the idea of harnessing their horsepower.
    So how might one consistently and reliably tap into a sixth-sensory place of inner knowing? It’s really quite simple. Ask your muscles. Sound confusing? Allow me to explain. . . .
    When it comes to our unconscious mind’s flow of information, it goes something like this: The heart tells the mind, the mind tells the brain, the brain tells the nervous system, the nervous system tells the muscles. The most consistently reliable information system we possess is our nervous system. Our nerves and muscles make up the perfect biofeedback loop. The human nervous system is a highly sensitive alarm system, designed by nature for the survival of a species. If the mind detects trouble, it relays stress signals to the brain. The brain then transmits nerve signals to mobilize the muscles for emergency. If the mind senses safety, it relays nerve signals to the brain that tell the body to relax. The brain thenmobilizes the body for efficiency. So I say we have two distinctly different nervous systems: emergency and efficiency. Thus, your unconscious mind sends messages to you through your nervous system and muscles, based on its assessment as to whether things around you are good or bad, safe or unsafe. Moreover, it’s wired to do so every waking and sleeping moment of your life. It’s what awakens you in a cold sweat with an elevated heart rate following a bad dream. Your biofeedback system never turns off and is therefore ever reliable. Your unconscious mind and nervous system know everything you need to know at all times. And they’re always generating positive energy during the good times and negative energy during the bad.
    The next question is, how does one learn to dialogue with their all-knowing, unconscious mind via the nervous system? The answer to that question