Friday, September 15, 2006

THE PHYSIOLOGY OF INSANITY: Why the Teachings Must Evolve, The Conclusion

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F.: Therefore, when humans do not follow the specific food plan designed for their specific body type, unstable emotions and insane behavior and reduced effectiveness will result, but several other problems exists: (1) even if a person knows his body type, which few do, and (2) even if one follows the food plan for his type, which most don’t, (3) there is still the fact that most food is contaminated, and (4) there is still the fact that the food which is not contaminated still provides less nutritional value than needed; therefore, natural, nutritional supplements as prescribed by a licensed professional are required by most. [Please note: No e-mails to the contrary will be answered. After years of discussing this topic, the ego level of many teachers, gurus, preachers, priests, step-workers, and spiritual advisors has been observed as they protest and claim that their method alone is all that is needed. Seeing the scientific facts and seeing thousands of laboratory results to the contrary prove otherwise.]

Next, there is no argument with those who point out that treating the body is all relative existence “stuff.” So was allowing doctors to treat the multiple fractures sustained in a motorcycle accident in October of 2005. In touch with reality, it was a sane decision to accept treatment for the body. While such "tending to the needs of body organs" is the stuff of relativity, as long as the consciousness is manifested and as long as persons are attempting to get back into touch with reality, this aspect cannot be ignored if persons want to find and address everything that contributes to misery and suffering in the relative. Why?

Most believe that insanity deals only with mental components. Fewer understand that there is a physiological component to insanity and to what professionals call “mental and emotional disorders.” To review, the pointer is this: there is a physiological as well as a mental-emotional component to instability and/or insanity…to being out of touch with reality. For specific examples, the following conditions that are taken by most persons to be “mental” are actually a result of “physical,” nutritional deficiencies:

**If a thyroid is not receiving all it requires from a food plan, one effect can be a tendency toward depression and a lessened ability to make clear decisions or to take constructive actions.
**If the adrenal medulla is under-active as a result of nutritional deficiencies, then motivation will be lacking.
**If the adrenal cortex is under-functioning, it can rob one of a sense of serenity, can cause a sense of feeling overwhelmed, and can cause one to lose the ability to cope with stressors.
**If the hypothalamus is under-active, that can cause persons to believe that false fears are real threats, can prevent differentiating the true from the false, can cause one to be unnecessarily anxious, can cause an inability to make choices and adhere to them, can cause an inability to follow through on decisions, and will deprive persons of the ability to differentiate important stressors from insignificant or mild stressors.
**Other physical imbalances and/or chemical imbalances and/or nutritional deficiencies can cause persons to be restless, irritable, discontent, hostile, obsessive, self-destructive.
**Other physiological imbalances can result in such conditions as being bi-polar, ADD or ADHD, OCD, or anxious.

If all of that sounds too unfamiliar to be believable, then one need only observe how a male or a female who is in "high spirits" can eat food at lunch that is high in alkaline properties and then becomes moody or "down" after lunch. Or one can look at the physical changes that take place in females each month and be reminded of how those physical changes affect the mental-emotional state of some.
In conclusion, while persons might understand that the insanity of programming and conditioning and enculturation contribute to many of the conditions of insanity or instability among persons, few are aware of the physiological components involved with insanity and with being unstable and with being out of touch with reality. Thus, the teachings must evolve to include a holistic approach to Realization since the bastardization of the plant food supply has, in turn, bastardized the plant-food body. Forget “spiritual” food plans which demand that one not eat pork, that one only eat vegetables, that one only eat this food on “this day” but not that food on “that day.” Food choices should be determined by an awareness of your specific body type, not by any spiritual or religious advisor who is telling you what you should and should not eat without even the slightest grasp of the scientific principles that should actually determine what you consume and what you do not consume. The effects on you are too significant to forfeit control of your dietary decisions to the untrained or to those driven by magical rather than scientific thinking.

Another step on the path to being restored to sanity always includes the rejection of all nonsensical beliefs, including those that try to link diet with religious or spiritual beliefs. Because of the current state of the food supply and because there are three different body types that require different food plans, most humans require a professionally-designed program of a specific food plan combined with natural, nutritional supplements to allow the body to function optimally and thereby remove another obstacle to being stable and sane and living an AS IF existence until the consciousness is no longer manifested. Persons can visit as many gurus as they choose and seek Realization with an unlimited degree of dedication, but if they are not addressing the fact that their body organs can be contributors to conditions such as depression, bi-polar disorder, ADD or ADHD, OCD, anxiety, or an inability to differentiate true from false, then that which is being sought will never be fully found. [For those interested in more information, visit http://www.marielachney.com/ and click on “FAQ’s.”] Please enter the silence of contemplation.

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