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[T726]The Secret Of Health

by Laurence, Lau

From the desk of Dr Magne, author with Wallace Wattles of The Science of Being Well Home Study Course

The song that constantly runs through your head whenever you close your office door. The expression on your spouse's face that inexplicably makes you feel either amorous or enraged, why we feel uncomfortable without any obvious causes, what motivates us, and what satisfies us.

This is evidence of your unconscious mind. Long after Sigmund Freud introduced the world that much of what we do is determined by memories and emotional forces, the depths of the mind and the brain are being explored.

We make up our minds about things based on thinking that takes place somewhere just out of our reach. But today, scientists are finding neural correlates to those processes, parts of the brain that we never gave their due, communicating with other parts, triggering neurotransmitters, and driving our actions.

Burgeoning understanding of our unconscious has deeply personal and also fascinating medical implications. Our snap judgments and first impressions can be educated and controlled . . . and making sense of ourselves requires that we acknowledge unconscious processing.

According to cognitive neuroscientists, we are conscious of only about 5 percent of our cognitive activity, so most of our decisions, actions, emotions, and behavior depend on the 95 percent of brain activity that goes beyond our conscious awareness. From the beating of our hearts to pushing the grocery cart and not smashing into the kitty litter, we rely on something that is called the adaptive unconscious, which is all the ways that our brains understand the world that the mind and the body must negotiate. Every single thought we have, consciously or unconsciously, has an impact on our body.

So you ask, if our thoughts are unconscious, how can we manage them and our health? The key here is to be aware. By becoming a spy on our thoughts, we can hear the negative thoughts that keep us sick, the words that a particular disease runs in the family. Science has shown that ?it just ain't so?, but thinking makes it so.

Language is limited, Zaltman says, "and it can't be confused with the thought itself."

It the intermingling of the conscious and the unconscious, the 5 percent and the 95 percent, that the pioneers exploring this vast and intricate universe of our minds will continue to probe. But there will most likely never be a complete understanding. After all, the enigmas of the mind, and the mechanics of the brain, will forever define the ultimate mystery of simply being human.

In the Science of Being Well Home Study Course, you will find many examples and stories to help you develop your own powers of healing using simply the power of your mind. This is not revolutionary. These secrets have been around for ages. To learn more, claim your FREE report of the First Secret to Abundant Health on today!!

The brain is usually approximately 1/50th of your total body weight but it gets 18-20 per cent of all your blood circulation and it needs that to keep it functioning. When you start drinking more water you wake up your body's other systems for regulating water and they send out their own signals to call for water.

Exactly how they do this is a mystery, still but basically when the body needs water, sensors are alerted and they send a message to the brain. They nudge the brain into telling us to drink. The hypothalamus, deep inside the brain, hears the call and gives you the idea to drink.

Say you ignore your brain telling you to drink the body gets a bit annoyed and sends out a send, heftier hint. It slows down its production of saliva to see if that will give you the push you need. That's why you get a dry mouth but as you can see this symptom is quite a way along the road towards being dehydrated. It's usually what people consider the first sign of thirst but you should be drinking before this happens.

Then your brain sends in the big guns, reducing water in the blood, because two-thirds of your body's water supply is held in your blood cells. This reduction in water in the blood obviously causes blood cells to shrink, like water bombs deflating - so the spaces around them are less full too. The brain knows this and again it asks you to drink but less politely, this time. You may be beginning to feel confused and have a headache, as thickened blood, with less water in it, moves more slowly. It's a long way up to your brain so less of your blood bothers to make the journey, which impairs your mental abilities.

But you didn't think it would be that easy, did you? Things rarely are and so it is with water in your body. The kidneys complicate things by excreting or retaining water at different rates. This is affected by how much salt there is inside you, in and around your blood cells. Your body tries to not let levels of salts rise in your body, even when you're not drinking enough to dilute them. It also hangs on to the salts you have by reducing the amount of salt in your sweat, when you sweat a lot, so salt pills are rarely needed.

One of the major causes of dehydration in the developed world is excess salt intake. This extra sodium floats around outside your blood cells until the water in your cells yearns to neutralize it. Eventually, the water in your blood cells can stand it no longer and races around the sodium straight out of your blood cells to try to dilute the sodium. That leaves your blood with a higher concentration of salt in it and too little water. Your body craves water again and screams at you to drink as your kidneys try desperately hard to kick the excess sodium into your bladder so they can get rid of it.

Clever, huh? Yes but only if you heed these calls for you to drink.

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