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Got a haircut today! Look like a different person! It was getting somewhat shaggy. Made it out for a walk (double distance again today) before the rains started in again. Chilly out today. Snow on Highway 17 this morning. Probably will be more of the same tonight.

Spent 2 hours on the telephone with SBC tech support getting DSL up and running. They helped me get registered without having an install CD. Miraculous! All done via the Internet. Took some time, but we did it! I'm now untethered from the modem cable. I'm wireless and can work anywhere, probably even out on the patio (when weather permits).

A friend sent me a notice from the Community Health Network (CHN) in Palo Alto. They sponsor monthly gatherings often with guest speakers. This month's speaker is Gilbert Renaud, a proponent and practitioner of Total Biology (see article below). Some interesting parallels with what the PDRecovery team does and fosters.

TOTAL BIOLOGY - Keys to Healing
by Dr N. Kate Johnson
Learning the true nature of disease and becoming
empowered to heal oneself

Faced with the diagnosis of cancer or serious disease,
do we not say - "Why me? What is the meaning of this?
What can I do to beat this thing?" Over the past 25
years or so, researchers and doctors in Europe have
been providing answers to these questions and
practical knowledge that has been helping thousands of
people to heal from their cancers and chronic
diseases.

Among these researchers, Dr. Claude Sabbah of
Marseille, France, drawing on his 35 years of
experience in several medical specialties --
neurolinguistic programming, psychotherapy, his own
research, and an exhaustive comprehensive and
systematic analysis of scientific work and
publications -- elaborated the concept of "Total
Biology of all Living Beings." Central to this
knowledge is the understanding that disease is a
program of survival directed by the brain to lower the
impact of intolerable stress and keep the individual
alive and functioning for as long as possible.

Sabbah studied the work of many scientists, doctors,
and psychologists. In particular he studied the work
of Dr. Ryke Hamer of Germany, a
psychiatrist/neurologist and oncologist, doing
research on CT scans of the brain. Dr. Hamer himself
developed cancer following the shock of the death of
his own son in 1979. Through the study of his own
cancer and some 10,000 cases over the following few
years, by 1984 he was able to confirm that for a
specific emotional conflict or stress, there is a
specific area of the brain affected, as shown on CT,
and a specific disease or dysfunction in the body.

Now, after studying over 30,000 cases, his original
findings have held true 100% -- that is, if the
disease is known, the associated emotional conflict
and area of the brain involved is also known.
Recognizing the potential phenomenal benefit this
discovery could have for all of mankind, he called it
the New Medicine. Dr. Hamer was nominated for the
Nobel Prize in Medicine for 2005.

For Sabbah, the brain is like an electrical device or
a specialized computer, and disease is one of its
programs which is switched ON in specific
circumstances of high stress or conflict and switched
OFF when the high stress or conflict is released or
resolved. What is programmable is 'deprogrammable.'

There is no disease that is not potentially curable
and all diseases, from cancer to colds, are all
responses to life stresses of variable intensities and
durations - they are all specialized programs of
survival. The task for the person is to bring
awareness and understanding to the emotional
conflict(s) he has lived and either find a solution or
fully let go or transcend or grieve the situation - in
other words, remove the stress energy to zero,
eliminate the need for the survival program (the
disease), and increase the possibility that his brain
will automatically switch from disease program to
healing program and restore health.

In addition, Sabbah has elucidated the deeper roots of
disease programming, in particular the imprint from
conception through pregnancy and delivery and the
first year of life, and has given evidence of the
impact of the three previous generations and the
influence of family memory on the appearance of
disease. He has developed a number of tools to help
the individual to bring awareness to the emotional
experiences that are hidden in the subconscious to
facilitate understanding and release.

Dr. Sabbah makes it absolutely clear that each person
is his own healer. No one 'heals' anyone else.
Sabbah and others trained in Total Biology
(consultants) can only facilitate and support the
person to find his own answers and help him discover
the keys to his own healing. It is critical that the
person continues his regular medical and other
therapies to contain the disease and contribute to its
cure.

Let us take the example of a disease - stomach cancer
- and see how it is the answer to a threat to the
person's survival. Firstly, in the animal world, if a
dog swallows a large, indigestible bone that is
blocking the outflow of his stomach, his survival is
at risk. If he does not digest the bone and release
the blockage within a certain period of time, he will
die. The brain reads this threat and immediately
sends a special program which starts 'stomach cancer'
- a form of turbo organ, highly specialized to produce
digestive enzymes 3 to 10 times more powerful than
that of the normal stomach cells to digest the bone as
efficiently and quickly as possible. Once the bone is
digested and cleared, the turbo tissue is no longer
needed and regresses naturally - the brain throws the
switch to a healing program to restore the organ to
its normal state.

As for animals, so for man - if a person has an
experience that he lives as 'indigestible' - "I cannot
digest this nasty thing" or "I cannot accept this
terrible affair" - and if the stress is of a high
level or prolonged, his brain may read this as a
threat to survival and switch to a disease program of
'stomach cancer'. Unlike in the animal case, man can
be triggered by a situation that is symbolic,
imaginary, or virtual. The brain does not make a
distinction between the actual physical 'indigestible
piece' and the symbolic, imaginary, or virtual one.

In nature, the stomach cancer is a temporary solution
- at some point the 'bone' gets digested and cleared
from the stomach or the animal dies. For the human
being, unless the emotional conflict that triggered
the disease is resolved, the disease continues. For
this reason it is critical to continue regular medical
treatment to contain the disease and treat its
symptoms. However, once the conflict is identified
and a solution found and applied, the biological
disease program is no longer needed. The brain no
longer reads "stress energy" or "threat to survival"
and therefore deletes the disease program. It throws
the switch to a healing program for normal balance to
be restored.

In summary, Total Biology is derived from an extensive
body of scientific and medical research and experience
and offers the knowledge and tools to help people
bring awareness to their conflicts, find solutions,
and finally release themselves from disease. It is an
empowering system which gives people ways to
contribute to their own healing and increase the
possibility of complete healing as well as free them
from fear. Over the past 25 years, it has been
helping thousands of people to heal from their cancers
and chronic diseases. Everyone is encouraged to
continue with regular medical therapy.

"We are sick because we are not aware. Awareness is
the key to healing." Anonymous