At the University of Chicago, Van Cauter et al, in the course of 4 studies demonstrated that sleep depravation, night after night, creates a hormonal release stimulating appetites to rise.  There was a 24% increase in appetite for junk food (bread, pasta, chips, cookies, pizza, cake, etc.).  This is not surprising since fight/flight physiology is dependant upon quick energy release.  They not only found the appetite for junk food increased but their bodies did not process glucose efficiently.  As glucose builds up in the blood the body secretes more insulin to bring the sugar into the cells.  As this cycle continues, the cell walls become RESISTANT to insulin.  Thus the glucose can not get into the cell effectively and begins to create the symptoms associated with type II diabetes.  Excess insulin is also a signal to the body to store fat. 

Also of note, is that with sleep depravation the stress hormone cortisol begins to increase in the evening; along with a double spike of growth hormone.  The researchers beleive these are other factors which affect insulin metabolism negatively.  Van Cauter states that after prolongued sleep deprivation we loose the ability to tell when we need sleep.  There are many more functions that can become altered.

The key is awareness.  Become aware of your 6 Essential Choices and begin to change.  Willingness to change, learning and growing are the hallmarks of a healthy human being.

Here’s some clues:

1.  Most experts agree (both current and past) that being in bed by 10 pm is a good target.

2.  Keep light and electronics out of or at a minumum (turn off if possible) in your bedroom. 

3.  If you of your spouse snores: consider breathe right nasal strips

4.  Change your diet: keep evening meals to light protein and veggies.  Skip the junk, dairy & wheat that create congestion.

5.  Cut back on Alcohol

6.  Get exercise during the day

7.  Get a Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique (B.E.S.T.) treatment minimum once a month to create a well balced energy field and autonomic nervous system.

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland F. Phillips Jr., B

It seems we can have a negative bias; the predisposition to see the negative in ourselves, others and life.  Thus by the law of like attracting like, I see and attract more of what I don’t want and don’t like in life.

In the book “Awakening Joy” by James Baraz, he explains that our “brains can be like Velcro” for negative experiences.  If you read various philosophers and authors (spiritual, psychological, philosophical) there seems to be a tendency for us to go negative as human beings.  What I believe this means is we all have ego’s that are extremely narcissistic; and the easiest way for my ego to grow is through fixating on the drama of the old story of “not enough”.  Life is never enough, God’s not enough…etc. just observe your mind and you’ll be aware of this familiar jingle.

Here’s some helpful hints on how to re-train your brain (neuroplasticity: new brain pathways by you changing your choices)!

1.  Keep a forgiveness/lesson journal: begin with forgiveness and end with gratitude, then implement the lesson concretely in your life.

2.  Get rest.

3.  Get exercise. Regularly/routinely : breathe (from deep in the abdomen, not shoulders, and in through the nose and out through the mouth) and be thankful/grateful for freely moving physically and mentally through all of life’s moments.

4.  Make a list of 3 passions in your life i.e relationships, finances, health.  Once you know what your passion looks and feels like only take inspired action that will create that passion in your life.  Release and bless all other thoughts, people and activities that don’t fit your passion as meaningless distractions.

1.  12% ages 18 and older are considered in fair or poor health

2.  32% ages 20 and older are obese

3.  31% ages 20 and older have high blood pressure

4.  60% ages 18 and older do not consistently participate in leisure time-physical activity

To change these statistics we all need to look at our 6 Essential Choices, what I EAT, DRINK, THINK and how I BREATH, EXERCISE and SLEEP

and perhaps choose more self-honoring habits to create the Health, Happiness and Success that I truly desire! For more info check out my blogs in the 6 essentials category

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland Phillips

2.  Love them more, expect less.

3.  How I respond to life is what I request from life.

4.  Medicine alters the effects of the disease and changes the symptom pattern.

5.  If it is to be it is up to me.

6.  Think about what you think about when you’re thinking about it.

7.  Proof that I am well will always follow the feeling of wellness.  The proof never precedes it.

8.  I prepare consciously and deliberately for my sleep.

9.  The conscious min is the seed.  The subconscious mind is the soil.  The subconscious creates.

10.  To change my thoughts and feelings is to change my destiny.

11.  Urine pH = my dietary scoreboard.  Saliva pH = my emotional scoreboard.

12.  I am focusing on my desires (as if I’ve already experienced them), not on my disease/symptoms.

13.  I imagine, then believe, then take inspired action an it is mine.

14.  Mastery of my thoughts & feelings is my highest achievement.

15.  What I want to see in my relationships I must see in myself and in everyone else’s relationships.

16.  Negative feelings must be counteracted with a more positive feeling (destructive interference collapses the wave)

17.  3 causes of disease = Trauma, Toxicity, Thoughts.

18.  Sleep and prayer are two good ways to reach my subconscious (affirmations using pictures & emotions).

19.  My suppressed emotions may be the cause of my disease/symptom.

20.  My subconscious mind is impersonal, non-selective, non-thinking, non-judgmental, controls survival function and is cause.

21.  5 steps to health: Relief of symptoms, Correct cause, Think healthy, Live healthy, Stay Healthy.

22.  6 Essential Choices:  Eat, Drink, Breathe, Sleep, Exercise, Think (choices/habits).

23.  Perceived physiology of threat (sympathetic dominance) is identical to homeostasis of risk,  even though in actuality there is no threat to the body.

24.  Worry can activate the healing (parasympathetic) system when there is no food to digest.

25.  Fear can create a timing problem that inappropriately activates both sympathetic and parasympathetic excess.

26.  Mind-Body-Stress is any stimuli that causes the body to change the way it is functioning.

27.  Learn to daily monitor your 6 Essentials.

28.  An absence of symptomology is not synonomous with optimum health.

29.  The top cause of dietary stress = to much protein.

30.  The top cause of acidity/toxicity = negative thinking.

31.  All reoccurring patterns of mind/body/field are stress induced, memory retained (stuck) and motor expressed (symptoms).

32.  SEMO = Subconscious Emotional Memory Override – The Silent Killer.

33.  Distress/disease occurs when there is a conflict between beliefs (“shoulds” of life), expectations and life/reality.

34.  5 Steps of Forgiveness: Forgive myself, forgive others, give others permission to forgive me, learn the lesson and be grateful for the lesson – moving forward in gratitude.

35.  Alkalize to detoxify, to normalize, to revitalize.

36.  Excess protein = excess acid = symptoms/disease.  Eating more fruits & veggies = increased alkaline reserve = health.

37.  Acute stress triggers an Adrenal Response.  Chronic stress triggers a Thyroid Response.

38.  We do not treat disease. We re-time the nervous system and coach/educate in taking charge of our health.

39.  I can never know enough to totally understand The Creator and His Creation.

40.  If there is no interference with Creative Information, the body will heal on it’s own and be a perfect expression of Creative Intelligence.

41.  Learn the lesson of the moment, give thanks and move on.

42.  How I see (perceive) life, through rose colored glasses, is what I believe about life.

43.  How I think, feel and see myself influences how I think, see, feel and act towards others.

44.  Cerebellar Impulses (setting) can be inappropriate to present need of the body – creating a timing problem to the musculoskeletal and other systems of the body.

45.  B.E.S.T. re-times (reboots) the body to present need.

46.  Primary interference to normal and healthy function occurs in the brain.

47.  One or several reflexes (Labyrinthiene, Righting Reflex, Vestibular) may be compensated (stuck) due to trauma (physical or emotional) or engram in memory.

48.  Fist test to challenge alkaline reserve.

49.  Shoulder test to check on SEMO

50.  To remain happy in the physical dimension, I must remain connected to the vertical dimension (spiritual).

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland Phillips

When this patter is reinforced over many years the body will break down due to overuse.  The following is a description of some adrenal burnout symptoms:

Stage One

Digestive problems, inability to calm down, prostatitis , increased serum cholesterol, weight gain/weight loss, menstrual problems, sleep disturbances, diarrhea, tight muscles, decreased libido & pain syndromes.

Stage Two

Chronic fatigue syndrome, loss of libido, impotence, bloating and fluid retention, constipation, male & female hair loss, bone loss, increased nightly urination, low back pain/sciatica.

Stage Three

Fibromyalgia, chronic non-specific pain, heart arrhythmia, severe constipation, panic attacks/anxiety, bile reflux * digestive problems, depression/mental frustration, memory loss, inability to think clearly, sensitivity to smell, sight & sound, difficulty breathing, joint pain and all inflammations (anything ending in “itis”).

Stage Four

A trigger event will occur (physical trauma, mental/emotional stress) which will cause a blood sugar event,(when more than 1-2 adrenal hormones are imbalanced) a blood sugar disorder and or genetic predisposition i.e. cancer, heart attack, diabetes, arthritis, auto-immune, will then occur.  So where do you fit in this 4 stage series of declining health?  You can see that as time and habits continue the body will break down.

The next step is to ask; if this is how i got here, what can i do today to create a healthier life for tomorrow?  The answer is to gradually start to change our habits in the six essentials (eat, drink, breathe, exercise, rest and think).  By changing these habits the subconscious mind will calm down, allowing the body to heal.  A good place to start is our thinking.  When I get a negative thought, I could choose to follow it, and produce what I have created up to now in my life (suffering, rational stress, financial lack etc..) or I could choose to simply let it go, do the forgiveness exercises, repeat a positive affirmation, do belly breathing or do the Morter March….etc

The key is not to follow the ego-mind and its ego defenses that have created what we have ( & don’t want) today.  Rather to see life & ourselves and respond to life & ourselves from a different perspective, point of view: one of abundance, joy.peace,love,confidence and creativity, irregardless of what goes on outside.  In this way you are truly creating a life of health, happiness and success.  The life you are meant to live now.