Soon, much sooner than anyone thought possible, I was up and walking again. As I took my first feeble steps, I remained acutely aware of the effects of vibration in my body. What before had seemed like a horrible accident now seemed like a great blessing; the painful process of healing seemed to have heightened my ability to perceive and understand the nature of vibration in my body.
As I taught myself to walk again, I discovered that even very small adjustments in body position could make a big difference in how vibrations flowed through my body. As I adjusted my gait and posture for maximum healing benefit, I corrected bad habits I had fallen into long before the accident happened. As it turned out, I had been walking like an old man for quite a while without even realizing it. I began to observe how people walk, and I noticed that, for the most part, younger people walk with a spring in their step that fully utilizes vibratory energy in the body. Older people, on the other hand, tend to take a walk¬ing posture that stagnates the natural vibrations of walking, ulti-mately compromising their own energetic vitality.
Why, if we have been able to conquer polio, smallpox, and other deadly contagion, have we not been able to conquer this thing called stress? The answer lies in how we relate to the world from the inside out, not in how the outside world relates to us. When a doctor controls a bacterial infection with an antibiotic, he or she is attacking an invader that came from outside the body. But in the case of stress, the effects are largely self-inflicted.
It would be nice if we could simply eliminate stress in our lives with a pill, but that is not the case. Neither is it likely that you will reach a point where you have fixed all of your problems and have no challenging situations to trace. You may say that people or events in your life are stressful, but really stress is something you generate yourself within your own mind. Controlling the effects of stress will require understanding yourself better, not changing your outside environment.
Consider, for example, two young men taking a graduate school entrance exam. Imagine they are taking the same exam and that both arc equally prepared, but one person arrives at the classroom with sweaty palms and a racing heartbeat, while the other remains perfectly calm and relaxed. What really makes the difference here?
You have probably heard many awful stories about the health conditions of the past—stories of plague, famine, and poverty. We look back on these times with a sense of relief that these hardships are a thing of the past for most people, at least those living in the developed countries of the world.
Yet, even while have escaped many of these horrors, we seem to have invented our own kind of epidemic, and it is brought about entirely through our own choices. It is the scourge called stress.
Stress has been linked to almost every illness of modern society. The list of associated diseases is staggering: heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, asthma, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia.. .the list goes on and on. And on top of that, there are a host of negative habits associated with the stress response—activities people do to find artificial relief, habits that throw the body into further imbalance, including overeating, smoking, and excessive consumption of alcohol.
As you know, this is not the scenario that most people in modern society face. Humanity has learned a lot about controlling these invaders.
The great majority of the diseases of modern society, as you probably already know, are the result of lifestyle rather than some outside influence. In a way, through the choices we habitually make, we get in the way of our brain stem, and it never really has the chance to do its job.
A long time ago, Hippocrates said, “Everyone has a doctor within him or her; we just have to help it with its work.” Brain Wave Vibration is one way to get out of the wav so that a deeper level of healing can begin.
For the sake of your own health and happiness, as well as that of so many others around you, please pay attention to the quality of your thoughts. People spend many hours honing the shapes of their bodies through weight lifting, aerobic exercise, and other athletic endeavors. I believe people should pay equal, if not more, attention to the fitness of their brain waves. I believe that behind almost every illness and every relationship problem lies some habit related to unhealthy brain waves. Healthier brain waves translate into healthier emotional states, which in turn create stronger bodies and happier lives.
Coming Full Circle
The shamans of the past, and perhaps those existing in the present, were essentially brain wave doctors. They did not have the scientific understanding of brain waves that we possess, but it is clear that their healing system was designed to stimulate healing power from within the ailing individual. Often this involved vigorously shaking the body or dancing frenetically until a deep state of trance was achieved.
Excitement, heightened emotional state method by which subjects are trained to control various biological functions, can be used to help people with alcoholism overcome their addiction. Through biofeedback, these people were able to increase lower frequency alpha and theta brain waves, which are associated with a peaceful, meditative state of mind, while controlling higher frequency beta waves. This ability resulted in less depression and fewer cravings for alcohol among the subjects.
One of my students, in fact, is a researcher in the area ot bio-feedback, specializing in measuring brain activity through EEG machines. He was very skeptical about the claimed benefits oi Brain Wave Vibration, like many other scientists might be. But he gave it a try anyway because he was suffering trom a number of ailments and wanted to find a quick stress-reliet exercise that could fit his schedule. After a few weeks of practice, his focus improved, his headaches disappeared, and his shoulder pain subsided. He is now thoroughly convinced that brain waves can be influenced through movement of the body.
It is also clear that even the kinds of thoughts we have can greatly affect our physical health. Scientists demonstrated the effect of the mind on the body more than a hundred years ago.