SIGNS • SYMPTOMS • KNOWLEDGE OF THE ANCIENTS • CYCLES OF NATURE • HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE

Information, knowledge, and wisdom are terms for human acquirements through reading, study, communication, and practical experience. Information applies to facts told, read, or communicated that may be organized into a body of information that leads to action and human development. It leads to the comprehension and understanding consequent on having acquired and organized a body of facts from a health science counselor or physician. Thus a knowledge of medicine both ancient and modern.

God created worlds by word of his power, which is his Son (Moses 2: 5).

Information as a concept has many meanings, from everyday usage to religious devotion to technical settings. The concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control, data, form, instruction, knowledge, meaning, mental stimulus, pattern, perception, and representation. In its most restricted technical meaning, information is an ordered sequence of symbols.

Information on  Health Science - Part I

Our Importance in Helping Others with Information

© Prof. (Dr. of Med.) Charles McWilliams, Chancellor WONMP - 2010

Every therapist, from medical doctor to nurse, from osteopath to chiropractor, from physical therapist to masseur or masseuse, from dietician to nutritionist, from OMD to acupuncturist, from psychiatrist to Health Scientist , is exposed to the entire continuum of psychiatric and psychosomatic illnesses, yet most of these professionals probably recognize less than twenty percent of these disorders. We recognize as a firmly held belief, instructed by Scripture, that illness carries all three components of the physical, mental and spiritual [PMS].

                    

All people have moments of unpleasant feelings which often translates into concern for a medical condition – tachycardia, palpitations, shortness of breath, nausea, numbness, tingling, digestive upsets, and pain. Generally speaking, pain and fever are the physical equivalent of the mental state of anxiety. Chronic anxiety, as a state of neuroses, is a symptom of damned-up mental tension [information collision] and an essential element of the process of the development of psychiatric illness. Neurosis strictly defined is a functional disorder in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts (habits), and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease (psychosomatic complaints), in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality. Until proven otherwise, we consider any patient will have a relatively mild to severe personality disorder typified by excessive anxiety or indecision, and a degree of social or interpersonal maladjustment. Psychiatrists can actually label today almost anyone as having some type of personality disorder. The personality is generally the repertoire of coping skills learned since childhood. Personality disorders are the playground of psychosomatic complaints and constitute nearly 80% of the patient’s description of their chief complaints, e.g. chest pains, headaches, backaches, shortness of breath, dizziness, acid indigestion, and so on. The neurotic patient will have overactive psychomotor activity and is highly punctuated with trigger points and muscle spasms. Massage therapy integrates well with health science  counseling. The fundamental of office treatment is to teach the communicant to relax, for without relaxation, neuroses cannot be relieved.

Depression is a psychiatric disorder roughly equivalent to anxiety disorders (neuroses) in importance and frequency. Depression is the reciprocal of anxiety but begins with it. The depressed patient is often sick and tired of being ‘sick and tired.’ Depression exhibits fatigue, hypothyroidism, retarded psychomotor activity (retarded reflexes – achilles tendon, pupillary response to light); is punctuated with multiple geloses and myogeloses (fibromyalgia); and exhibits a characteristic state of insomnia. The tired patient has no trouble falling asleep, but awakens early and cannot profit from his or her sleep. Medical hypnosis, ART (Analytical Relaxation Therapy) and Photocognitive Therapy [PCT] integrates well with health science  counseling.

All behavior has a purpose, including psychoses, and should be counseled and treated as a medical condition. Just as the patient’s physical condition can run the gamut from good health to mild or severe illness, the psychological condition will parallel the equivalent. Yet how often is reflux esophagitis medicated while ignoring the fact that there is something the patient cannot swallow, and after prescription will likely return. How often is the back massaged and the spine adjusted while ignoring there is something the patient is avoiding, failing to confront, or feels burdened by life’s circumstances, or has a monkey on his or her back. How often do we medicate for hyperlipidemia without taking into account a compulsive eating disorder - taste buds that have developed a predilection for fats due to upbringing, e.g. by mommy’s soothing the childhood anxieties with milk, sugar cookies and cake.

Just as the patient’s physical condition can run the gamut from good health to mild or severe illness, the psychological condition will parallel the equivalent.

In contrast to normal, mental, problem-solving behavior and its attendant stress, most chronic pain and discomfort lie against a background of unconscious, involuntary, but still purposeful, behavior representing unresolved conflicts, neuroses, failure to cope, resulting from a personality disorder. Psychoanalytic theory since the aphorisms of Freud, holds that an adult neurosis develops on the base of a childhood neurosis. Whether in a neurotic or healthy situation, the child learns to cope with danger as a child would; but if the person continues with that sort of behavior as an adult, their behaviors will be considered  neurotic, and a personality disorder that is immature and/or inappropriate. In short, unconscious maturity has failed to keep pace with consciousness and development of the host..

Therapeusis

We all admit, however vague, the goal of all therapeutics is to bring about some form of change for the betterment of the patient, even if it is merely the major change which is allowing the communicant to accept oneself the way he or she is, and to cope with it maturely. Habit lies in the background of all chronic disorders – eating habits; addiction to drugs, food and drink; compulsions and obsessions; etc. Change of habit is at best difficult to bring about. Psychiatrists rarely cause major changes in the personalities of their patients. Therefore, the Health Scientist  should be quite content to bring about a limited but significant change in personality or habit of a communicant with the correct information, putting them on a healthy passage and lifestyle, without which, most therapeutic attempts of any sort, will often fail and usually do. Weight loss diets and techniques are prime examples.  

Suggestion

Suggestion is not a mere ‘suggestion’ for a simple fix or domestic remedy. Suggestion is the process of inducing acceptance of a course of treatment using information. Suggestion can be a direct command, used as an assertive technique of counsel for the uncritical person; or it may be indirect in the critical person, such as, “I think you have a good idea there, why don’t you try it!”

How often do therapists thwart their therapeutic attempts by not understanding or ignoring one of the more powerful psychotherapeutic tools called suggestion? When a therapist prescribes a medicine or remedy, he/she should do so in confidence. If he or she should describe a prescription to the patient with a remark such as “I don’t think this will work, but we’ll give it a whorl?,” it is quite likely it will not. If the same medicine is prescribed with a positive mental attitude, it will probably act with the regularity of all placebos (even if the prescription was the wrong choice); and of course even better if the right choice was made.

The placebo effect is the measurable, observable, or general improvement in health or behavior of the recipient, but thought not attributable to a medication or treatment so prescribed. Placebos are often induced by suggestion. Placebos bring well known results and their effects cannot be denied.  Many doctors down through the years claim that the placebo can be used as a valuable therapeutic tool in treating patients. Two important factors in administering the placebo response are the individual patient and the environment in which treatment takes place.

Depressed patients on a placebo improve about 75 percent as much of  the time as those on prescriptive drugs. Put another way, three quarters of the benefit from antidepressants are actually due to be a placebo effect, in spite of drug toxicity. In addition to depression, many illnesses show a strong response to placebo treatments. These tend to be conditions for which the body's own biochemicals, such as endorphins and dopamine, act as natural medications. Because placebos trigger the production of these compounds, dummy or even toxic pills can be  effective, bringing relief. This potential to self-heal is proof positive of the body’s capacity to heal, and confirms the benefits brought by firmly held religious beliefs and prayer. The health scientist  should be totally aware of these dynamics and use them with choice and dignity in his or her  Ministry.

The effect of the physician’s suggestion is enhanced by his prestige, by his accomplishments, and by the relative dependence and insecurity of the patient who has arrived to a potent personage seeking help. It that physician is dressed appropriately, talks without a litany of emotional inflections but with confidence, has a chamber decorated with wall plaques and degrees, the patient is all the more captivated. If, however, the patient is met with a rude nurse, greeted by a doctor dressed unkempt, receives verbal abuse or a conversation littered with personal issues and negative emotional overtones, the patient’s confidence would be easily shattered. Clinical and financial success rotates on suggestion. As a general rule, the best doctor is the one with the best reputation; but lacking that, the best doctor is the one with the best expectations of his tech­niques and enthusiasm for them. Such doctors have genu­ine charisma and have their patients working for them from the beginning. This is one important explanation for many of the successes of some of the currently popular therapeutic techniques, such as acupuncture, homeopathy, gem therapy, radionics, medical intuition, information and energy medicine systems, etc.; as well as scores of multilevel product schemes, in spite of the lack of training or education of the practitioner. If you cannot make the energy flow in the right direction, the therapeutic results of most any form, physical or mental, is doomed at the outset. This is a trade secret apparently known to so few, but the stock and trade of those who do. No matter how much time and money you spent on your “education,” if you do not understand these dynamics and real principles of actual clinical practice, the mind game has been played on you, as you are not the moving party, but the recipient thereof.  

Suggestion is used in its most clear-cut form with hyp­nosis, ART (Analytical Relaxation Therapy) and Photocognitive Therapy [PCT]. Most people think of the hypnotic trance state as one in which the patient uncritically accepts the ideas, sugges­tions, and commands of the therapist. This is not, in fact, entirely true. The fact is, most people spend a good proportion of their adult life in trance, in a state of neurosis and/or depression. Therapeutic hypnosis, actually is used to take people out of trance, to bring them into awareness of their bad habits, aberrated thoughts (thoughts preceded by effort and countered by counter-effort), and a give a communicant a chance for better change and healthy opportunities.

Summary

The goal of counsel is initiating a change by strengthening the maturity of the personality, by teaching the sufferer the power of choice. The neurotic person is failing to cope, while the depressed person has lost hope. Their symptoms (talk, tics, and mannerisms) are unconscious and involuntary in the waking state, just as are dreams in slumber. The removal of symptoms is a by-product of strengthening the personality, just as detoxification removes symptoms and restores the functional state. The goal of therapy is to take people out of trance, into a more cognitive state, in better control of habits and aberrating thinking.

Mental illness does not just happen, anymore than a bronchitis, gastritis, or STD. All illness, mental and physical, run parallel developments, have a foundation to manifest, a prodromal period of development, resulting in a crisis, followed by a resolution or irresolution (chronic or latent state). All behavior is purposeful, no matter how bizarre. The background of the illness is the predisposing personality, i.e. constitution, which was formed during early childhood and adolescence. Chronic anxiety, as a state of neuroses, is a symptom of damned-up psychological tension and an essential element of the process of the development of psychiatric illness.

The neurotic is functional, but impaired; the depressed patient is dysfunctional and impaired. The foundation of neurosis is anxiety, fear of the future, the foundation of depression is grief of the events in the past with a loss of self-esteem.  Fear is the extreme of anxiety, its purpose is the flight or fright mechanism to protect the organism by mobilizing defenses. Anxiety is maladaptive when it does not engage rational problem-solving, recognizes something threatening which is actually non-threatening (phobia), and results in inappropriate behavior patterns.

“There is no fear in love.” That means that fear and love cannot occupy the same place in the psyche.  They cannot co-exist. “God is love,” the Bible makes clear that God is love.  He is the very essence of love. So, from this we can conclude that God and his agents and keepers cast out fear. When we are faithful, we have God in the form of the Holy Spirit actually living in us.  Now, which is stronger?  Do you think worldly fear is stronger than God’s love? Who will be the victor in this battle? This is our message to impart and our duty as health scientist .  All illness has its roots in the physical, mental, and spiritual (or lack of), and we have our duty to recognize and treat all three afflictions.

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