Is there such a thing as our life force? - Medical study says yes!, page 1

I was going to start a thread on the human life force, and the power of it should it exist.

The notion of an energy that we exude just by living seems a little unscientific, and definitely not something measurable. The power of the human spirit to affect the world around us seemed like an interesting topic.

However I came across an article discussing the results of a study into extroverted patients, or put in another way, those with more life force.

'Life Force' Linked To Body's Ability To Withstand Stress

Our ability to withstand stress-related, inflammatory diseases may be associated, not just with our race and sex, but with our personality as well, according to a study published in the July issue of the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity. Especially in aging women, low levels of the personality trait extraversion may signal that blood levels of a key inflammatory molecule have crossed over a threshold linked to a doubling of risk of death within five years.

An emerging area of medical science examines the mind-body connection, and how personality and stress contribute to disease in the aging body. Long-term exposure to hormones released by the brains of people under stress, for instance, takes a toll on organs. Like any injury, this brings a reaction from the body's immune system, including the release of immune chemicals that trigger inflammation in an attempt to begin the healing process. The same process goes too far as part of diseases from rheumatoid arthritis to Alzheimer's disease to atherosclerosis, where inflammation contributes to clogged arteries, heart attacks and strokes.

The current study found that that extroverts, and in particular those high "dispositional activity" or engagement in life, have dramatically lower levels of the inflammatory chemical interleukin 6 (IL-6). Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung defined extroverts as focused on the world around them and most happy when active and surrounded by people. Introverts looked inward and were shy.

The report goes on to detail the science and is well worth a read.

I reminds me of Reiki(pronounced Ray-Key) a method of natural healing based on the application of Universal Life Force Energy (the name literally means Universal Life Force Energy).

I recommend having a read even if only out of curiosity.

The Reiki Page

But for the lazy among you:

Reiki is one of the more widely known forms of energy healing. Energy Healing involves direct application of Chi for the purpose of strengthening the clients energy system (aura). Chi is the term used by the Chinese mystics and martial artists for the underlying force the Universe is made of. Mystics in all cultures have talked about the physical universe being made of an underlying form of something, much as modern physics research is now coming to understand the Universe is made of energy which is subject to (or affected by) thought. Just as modern physics says this energy is affected by thought the mystics also say this underlying form is affected by thought, going so far as to claim we create our own reality from our thinking and the thoughts we share between each of us every day.

Reiki is capable of healing anything because it works at very fundamental levels of reality. Even though the capability is there, this is not what always happens. The limits to Reiki seem to be in the recipients willingness to cast off old habits and patters, to accept change and to accept healing. The level of reality where Reiki operates is the underlying energy structure of matter, as the physical matter we see around us is a solidified form of energy (Remember Einsteins famous equation which says that each unit of mass is equivalent to a certain amount of energy). At the level where Reiki functions, anything can be changed because all is fluidlike and is very malleable. Or so is the theory and so is the experience of Reiki practitioners. Emotional difficulties are just as healable as physical ones since emotional issues are even more directly present in the energy structures.

It's good to see the alternative and the scientific agreeing.

I wish there were more examples of this.




[edit on 19-6-2009 by kiwifoot]

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This comes under the heading of what many think of as "mind over matter."

It has been seriously studied and practiced outside of the traditional medical community for centuries. Traditional science and medicine are just beginning to take a serious look at it, but usually on the via of brain function.

I'm not a top expert or anything, but I know that various different methods have been developed to improve body health via thought, with varying rates of success.

I used to work for a place in Berkeley (CA) that made biofeedback machines. Several doctors found these useful.

One of the major modern contributors to this field did an informal experiment at Oak Knoll Hospital (CA) while he was recuperating from war wounds.
A doctor there was testing hormones on the recovering soldiers. Without this doctor knowing, this guy did simple psychoanalysis on a few of the doctor's research subjects. According to him, the doctor told him that these subjects were the only ones responding well to the hormone treatments.

The trick in doing science on this area is developing a workable research model. These things are measurable. No one should accept the idea that they aren't. Of course, the next trick in doing this research is to get your study funded!

But as I say, this has been looked into outside "traditional" science, and various different life models have been advanced to explain the observations.

I subscribe to Hubbard's model. I think it is the most workable. It goes roughly like this:
A totally non-physical being or entity, which could be called a "spirit" is the primary cause point in most humanoid species. This being may elect to operate the body directly (less lazy approach) or indirectly through the mind (more lazy approach) and may do both. The mind is an energy system which surrounds and permeates the live body. The being can separate from it but normally refuses to and considers the mind his property, and the body as well. Ordinarily, the being gets confused about who actually runs what and becomes totally unaware that it is capable of independent activity.

To complicate things, most beings share the running of the body with a "lower-order" intelligence that is closely connected to the body and monitors heart, breathing, endocrine activity, etc.

Hubbard's idea of mind roughly corresponds to what others call "aura."

The being is capable of generating energy, but normally stays extremely subdued in this regard. The being can also heal the body directly. But the fact that the mind exists as an energy system leaves us open to mental influences from external energy sources. This is a huge topic, especially right now. The criminals on this planet want that technology!

Hubbard discounted mind manipulation and decided to work directly with the spirit. He has thus earned the eternal ire of those who were hoping to exploit his research for mind control purposes. So that gives you the unfortunate political tie-in that surrounds this whole subject and our attempts to understand it.

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Here is something you might find interesting:

The German physician, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, over 200 years ago talked about the "life force" or "vital force" back in the 1700's in his first book the "Organon of Medicine." It is the basis of the system of homeopathic medicine....working with the vital force.

He was dismissed as a fraud and a charlatan and run out of town after town, time and again. He was neither a fraud, nor a charlatain....he was simply way ahead of his time.

He was a brilliant physician who couldn't stomach the "cures" the physicians back in his day were using to "cure thier patients." (blood letting, curettage, leeches, et..). So, he went back to translating ancient greek medical texts into other languages (he knew like 5 languages) and used the ancient medical information he re-discovered from Hippocrates, etc... to found the homeopathic system of medicine.

So, allopathic physicians (what we call western medicine physicians) are only now finally now coming to the same conclusion that Hippocrates and Dr. Hahnemann came to centuries ago. Yet, they say that the allopathic system of medicine (modern medicine) is the most advanced in the world. Ha! They're centuries behind homeopathy, ayruveda, and traditional Chinese medicine, too.

Seriously, though, research homeopathy, and you'll see that homeopaths select remedies that help the body's own life force (vital force) heal itself. They don't believe that the remedies heal a person, rather, the remedies merely "stimulate" the vital force to heal the body.






[edit on 19-6-2009 by nikiano]

Doc Childre "The HeartMath Solution"
Institute of HeartMath


Bruce Lipton "The Biology of Belief"
Bruce Lipton Ph.D.

I believe these both go into that. It is nice to see other sources.

Both books are very GOOD and worth the read!!!

reply to post by kiwifoot

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Thanks for the articles, I dig it!
I believe that humans all exhibit a life force, chi, or whatever you want to call it and it directly affects our lives.
Other things like Karma play into this as well.

Point? Live good lives people! everything will become much much better in our lives and our world.

Originally posted by l_e_cox

This comes under the heading of what many think of as "mind over matter."

i was just going to say exactly what you said!

i also wanted to share this one .pdf document about this very thing:
www.thesonsofthelawofone.com...

check it out!

[edit on 19-6-2009 by adrenochrome]

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hi
this is a great topic!!!! flagged.
new here.
this is the essence of 'the secret' a book/dvd that came out about 2 yrs ago.

the research has been going on, from what i gather, for at least 30ish plus years.
Dr. Valerie Hunt (wrote a book, cant remember the name) did a lot of research in late 70's at usc with a colleague, most of the research was suppressed, and auras were researched/documented then and how they connect between loved ones and parents and children, as well as those meditating. fascinating info.

i am sensing, gathering, that this is the key to 'transcending/transforming' into the '4th' or 5th demension, as was suggested in 'the celestine prophesy'.

if one can think of 'life force' as 'spirit' and then use the mantra 'we are spiritual beings having a human experience', it helps to be on one's way.

we do live in 'interesting times'.

great topic!!!!!!!

reply to post by nikiano

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again, kiwifoot, agreed about homeopathy.
interestingly hiprocates said there are 2 ways to heal: one with 'the law of opposites' from which western medicine is derived (WE 'FIGHT' everything and attempt to kill it, etc, when really we are interfering with some simple biochemical process in the pathway, rather than addressing the 'cause'; and the law of 'similars' from which homeopathy and now bioresonance is derived, where the same thing that causes the symptoms can now be used to treat the symptoms, and 'boosting' the life force. interestingly, in homeopathy, the 'remedies' are made from the substances that cause the symptoms in HEALTHY individuals, but then are 'diluted' down yet 'succussed' and made more potent with each 'dilution'. the most potent remedies have no molecules of substance, but only the energy that has been transferred.

an eloquante way once said was that everything is immediately at one's disposal to 'treat' if one knows homeopathy.

another area that strongly supports this is all the work by Dr. David Hawkins who has validated scientifically the use of kineseology. where if one puts a substance or thought into the energy field of an individual/animal/plant, it strengthens or weakens that animal/plant or based on it's properties. this could revolutionize research and make most research obsolete, it will also change the 'practice' of medicine, as many will begin to be able to treat themselves, and get in touch with their own energies.

powerful stuff.

we live in interesting times!!!!!!!!!!

let's keep our energies evolving and think of this stuff. pretty exciting the stuff we ourselves can do, if we permit ourselves to expand our beliefs and thoughts

great topic!!!!!!

sh

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