Updated: January 05, 2024
There are no shortage of stories in the media about people who have suffered some type of brain injury and been left with heightened mental abilities post recovery. Intuition, something everyone possess, is often heightened after injury. My personal brain injury experience, from off gassing of a new home resulting in toxicant induced loss of tolerance (TILT), resulted in a heightened intuition, a vital survival tool. My injury left me with nervous system and digestive system dysregulation causing multiple food allergies (85) confirmed by blood testing and depression. I am now 100% food allergy free and 100% depression free.
When my body and mind crashed physically and mentally, standard medical treatment was medication, which did nothing to resolve my symptoms or restore my health. My many year search of trial and error alternative options was costly. The one recovery tool that stands out, supported by healthy lifestyle changes, was learning to use my intuition in combination with bodyfeedback for protection from reactions. This allowed my body to focus on repair and healing instead of vigilance and reacting.
Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine stated: “Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.”
The National Library of Medicine article by Simon M McCrea, Intuition, insight, and the right hemisphere: Emergence of higher sociocognitive functions, published online 2010 Mar 3 provides a scientific definition for intuition.
“Intuition is the ability to understand immediately without conscious reasoning and is sometimes explained as a ‘gut feeling’ about the rightness or wrongness of a person, place, situation, temporal episode or object.”
The neural networks associated with intuition provide valuable body feedback tools to guide the body and mind in the pursuit and maintenance of vibrant health and longevity. Have you noticed that there are times when you feel sudden weakness or nausea, your balance is altered or one side of your body is weaker than the other side? Muscle response testing is a form of neuromuscularbiofeedback, an applied kinesiology biofeedback testing method. It uses feedback from the body and brain (your virtual black box) as information. Other forms of biofeedback include taking a pulse, taking a blood pressure and listening to the heart with a stethoscope.” In the 1950s, Dr. Arthur Coca identified that his wife’s heart rate would increase if she ate a food that provoked an inappropriate or allergic response. This was, as Dr. Coca put it, ‘accidentally acquired knowledge’ which he then applied to patients as well as his wife. The results were very effective and consistent.” Similarly bodyfeedback response testing provides information about foods and substances ingested, inhaled and applied to the body as well as environmental factors, including stressors. Anything can cause disruption to the natural balance, communication and function within your body. Learning how to read your body’s responses after exposure to suspected causes can provide you with health protection, allowing your body to focus on repair and healing instead of ongoing vigilance and reacting. I teach clients how to use their ‘gut feeling’ and bodyfeedback responses’ to determine which foods and other items (water, personal care) may be having a negative effect on them, including allergic reactions.
Simon M McCrea recaps in his article, making the connection for intuition to motor response: “To reiterate, intuition is automatic, nonconscious, affectively laden, absolute and judgmental, instant, implicit, associated with motor response, and the operation of right hemisphere nonverbal decoding mechanisms.”
Thomas R. Verny in the Psychology Today article Intuition: What It Is and How It Works, concludes: “Clearly, the biological basis of intuition is complex and likely involves a combination of factors. There is growing evidence suggesting that all humans are born with a basic ability for intuitive thinking and that, as we mature, as our links between the embodied mind, emotional processing, and intuitive thinking strengthen with experience, we may get better at it. Of course, if we fail to listen to this channel, like a muscle not exercised, our intuitive abilities will decline.”
If you have had any type of brain damage or malfunction, your intution may be compromised at times. How do you get started making or improving the connection between your intuition and your ‘doctor within’, for improved health and protection?
- Read my blog post THE WEAK LIST: A Necessary Well-being & Protection Tool
- Learn how to use your bodyfeedback (accidentally acquired information) to protect your health. The more you use bodyfeedback, the stronger your intuition becomes.
- Book a private consultation and demonstration to learn how to use body feedback for improved health and protection.
- Book a BodyFeedback Interview & Therapy Assessment where I provide you with a weak list.
- Book a complimentary demonstration of the food allergy kit. Learn how to use laser therapy at your acupressure points to eliminate food allergies and to promote healing for health conditions.
- Read, The Whole Person Well-being Equation, for more self-help and health protection tools.
For more information visit my website, blog and social media pages. Contact me at elisabethlhines at gmail.com to book an appointment.
Elisabeth Hines, C.N.C.,C.B.P., Holistic Wellness Practitioner, Health by Design, http://www.mybodycanhealitself.ca/
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Source:
Simon M McCrea, Psychol Res Behav Manag. 2010; 3: 1–39.Published online 2010 Mar 3. doi: 10.2147/prbm.s7935
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