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Americans today are suffering from a serious pandemic of
diseases associated with dysfunction of the immune system.
The most publicized of these diseases and the most lethal is
AIDS, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. While this illness
shows many unusual features for an infectious disease, it can
nevertheless be understood as a viral sexually transmitted
infection. Far more common, though not as lethal, are a host
of other immune system related conditions which are not
communicable and appear to lack any specific microbial cause.
These include asthma, food and pollen allergies, mold, dust
and chemical allergies, chronic fatigue syndrome,
fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, eczema, and
atopic dermatitis, multiple sclerosis, lupus, type one
diabetes, and a host of other conditions including chronic
arterial inflammation, which is considered a more important
causative factor in heart attacks and strokes than
cholesterol.

While the symptoms of these conditions vary enormously, all
of these conditions have one thing in common: all are the
results of the immune system targeting the wrong enemy.
Instead of confining their vicious attack (inflammation) to
the dangerous microorganisms that truly endanger our lives,
the white blood cells and cellular battle chemicals of the
immune system exhaust us in a futile assault either upon
harmless pollens or food proteins, or on the very cells of
our own bodies. Read the list again of these conditions.

Notice that all of them are growing rapidly in western
civilization. All may be regarded as pandemic. Is there
anyone among my readers who has not suffered from one or more
of these conditions? And in the next three articles, I will
explain the surprising, little known, yet scientifically
proven sources common to modern society that are the cause of
these pandemic diseases. Furthermore I will demonstrate how
the technology of hypnotherapy can help defeat this growing
pandemic and restore our immune system to its proper
function. Given the emerging dangers of real pathogens, such
as bird flu, TB, and other drug resistant organisms that
could readily overwhelm billions in this crowded, fast moving
world, our immune system must be prepared for the real
battles that lie ahead!

These articles do not attempt to spell out the complete
etiology (symptoms and signs) of this wide variety of
diseases, or to summarize the wide variety of treatments
available through medical science. While the hypnotic
approaches defined in these articles have good success with
many clients, there are none that can be guaranteed
successful for all clients. They are no substitute for proper
medical treatment, when called for. These methods are at best
a powerful adjunct to medical treatment, dietary changes, and
a proper program of exercise, rest, and healthy relationships
and lifestyle.

This first article in our series will focus on answering the
big question about these disease processes. Why is it
happening to US? We live in a society in which most people
are well fed and live in a comfortable and prosperous world,
in which most of the great diseases of the past have been
defeated. So why are so many of us being assaulted by our own
immune system? Some researchers blame this very condition of
safety for the new pandemic, suggesting that in the absence
of real microbial enemies, a “bored” immune system decides to
mount any old campaign to justify its existence. While this
model may have some merit I know the answer is a bit more
complex.

For starters, my research indicates that our increasing
alienation from the natural world, trapped inside four walls
that would have driven our tribal ancestors crazy, breathing
a host of strange chemicals, and eating foods transformed in
subtle ways by agribusiness and its combination of chemical
pesticides, fertilizers, and genetic engineering, are a
primary reason that our bodies dont feel safe at a cellular
level.

Only concerted action against these destructive
lifestyles and business interests can change these ugly
circumstances, action which may be essential for the survival
of our species. While such action is critical, it is not the
subject of these articles. Rather, I will show in this
article how we can use hypnotic techniques to stop the body
from overreacting to these environmental toxins in an
allergic reaction. For example, while all agree that the
poisons in a bee sting are dangerous, a person who is stung
usually finds it a brief nuisance, while the allergic
individual may die within minutes as a result of the body’s
largely unconscious reaction to this poison. I will show in
the second article how hypnotic techniques can teach the
client’s immune system to react much less aggressively to any
of these toxins in our environment, or our diet.

A second factor that affects the immune system in this way is
the pressures of stress in our mainly sedentary lives. In the
old days - during most of the last million years of the
evolution of our species, stress was as common as it is
today. But most stressors demanded physical action from us.
Starving? Chase down some animals. Chased by a saber-tooth?
Fight or run. Now these same stress-created hormones which
prepare us so well to move our bodies for fight or flight
arrive in circumstances in which NO physical response is
available. It seems only natural that under these
circumstances, the cells of the body would eventually start a
battle against any enemy they can find. In our third article,
we will learn how hypnosis can relieve these reactions, and
help us create a life that is more capable of dealing with
stress.

A third factor that affects these reactions is a lack of
infant bonding to mother’s biochemical immune system
programming. This chemical programming is contained in the
colostrom that is the essential formula for informing the new
born infants rapidly developing immune system with the
innate wisdom of mother’s own immune system. Mother’s
colostrum conveys her body’s knowledge to her newborn infant
of what environmental chemical signatures are harmless and
which ones require the immune system to be alerted to a
microbial invader. It was this essential communication
through mother’s breast that prepared British immigrant’s
children to survive the smallpox epidemics that ravaged
Indian tribes in the early years of the settlement of
America, sometimes killing nearly everyone in many tribes.
These Indian mothers had no exposure to the virus prior to
the epidemic’s arrival, thus no way to resist the disease
themselves or to communicate resistance to their infants.

Alas, with the widespread use of infant formula as an
“acceptable” and convenient substitute for the breast (due to
propaganda funded by the pharmaceutical industry, according
to no less an authority on infant care than Dr. Spock) we
have all become guinea pigs in a vast pharmaceutical
experiment that has deprived us of this essential
programming, and left us all at risk for immune deficiency
diseases. The long term solution to this problem is also
largely political and educational. But that is too late for
adults living today with this terrible loss. Yet here too
hypnotherapy has answers. Our fourth article will spell out
how hypnotic techniques can be used to inform the immune
system of this important distinction between biochemical
friend and foe by accessing the mother archetype within the
client’s subconscious mind, and using that archetype in very
specific ways to restore the body’s sense of biochemical
safety.

Between them, these articles outline a new and potentially
powerful collection of resources which show promise to stop
this growing pandemic in its tracks, with treatments that
have none of the expense or side effects characteristic of so
many modern drug oriented approaches, and increasing the
effectiveness exponentially of the drugs we may need to take
on our doctor’s advice. This is the revolution in treatment
that could relieve the suffering of millions. Keep reading.

The techniques I describe included in four articles for working
with allergies and immune disorders are complex and, in my
opinion, not particularly useful for amateurs. Many health
professionals choose to refer clients only to medical doctors
or licensed psychologists who practice hypnosis. This is a
mistake, since most licensed practitioners do not have the
advanced skills in hypnosis needed for the kind of work I am
describing.

Copyright © 2006 By David Quigley