This relatively new scientific discipline has shown that you are literaly what you think!The relationship between cells of the immune system and cells of the nervous system is an intimate one mediated by cytokinins, chemical messengers secreted into the bloodstream (Immune System) or the cerebro-spinal fluid (Nervous System).These cytokinins are produced by both immune and nerve cell types and are identical in composition.Cytokinins are either stimulatory or inhibitory and work on the cell surface receptors of immune and nerve cells.Only 2% of neuronal communication is electrical and across a synapse.The other 98% of neuronal communication is chemical and mediated by small chains of amino-acids called peptides and a special class of those peptides called cytokinins.Your mental-emotional state determines your health by determining which of these peptides and cytokinins are produced.These emotion-modulating peptides are called the "molecules of emotion" by their founder Dr. Candace B. Pert.Psychological Depression has been found to be the single most detrimental factor in suppression of the immune system.The second most detrimental factor has been found to be Chronic Stress.Psychological Depression causes the nervous system to produce inhibitory cytokinins which then depresses the immune system.Chronic Stress causes the nervous system to produce stimulatory cytokinins which then causes overstimulation of the immune system and "burn-out" depression.Both Visualization and Meditation act to mobilize the molecules of emotion for specific tasks such as the destruction of a tumor or the reduction of stress. Practice makes perfect.Thus, Laughter and Good Thoughts keep you healthy! Remember to be flexible in your habitual patterns of behavior and to go with the flow of your body in relation to the changing of the seasons! |