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David Quigley, Director of the Alchemy Institute of Hypnosis and founder of Alchemical Hypnotherapy, is the author of the popular textbook "Alchemical Hypnotherapy". He is a graduate of Duke University in comparative religion and transpersonal psychology, and of the hypnotherapy training institute in Corte Madiera California. David has extensive training in Gestalt, primal therapy, group process and Jungian psychology, as well as courses in Ericksonian and clinical hypnosis and NLP. David teaches throughout the United States and Europe, including speaking at the United Nations Enlightenment Society and numerous hypnotherapy conferences. David Quigley’s work with allergies and immune system disorder is one aspect of the Somatic Healing Program that he teaches at The Alchemy Institute, America's oldest spiritually oriented hypnotherapy training program. |
“After only two sessions with David Quigley and three weeks of practicing his techniques every day, I am happy to report that my chronic sinus condition has greatly improved, and continues to improve daily. It’s over 80% gone. My chemical sensitivity to auto exhaust, perfumes, and toxic household cleaners is also much improved. Waiting for a bus on a very busy street, where I’d normally end up with a bad headache, I used David’s techniques and remained unaffected by the dense fumes. Even my ride on the airplane, usually very difficult for me, was comfortable and symptom free.” Mary C., Santa Rosa, CA
Hypnotherapy for Allergies & Immune System Disorders Part 1
By David Quigley CHT
Americans today are suffering from a serious pandemic of diseases associated with dysfunction of the immune system. The most publicized of these diseases and the most lethal is AIDS, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. While this illness shows many unusual features for an infectious disease, it can nevertheless be understood as a viral sexually transmitted infection. Far more common, though not as lethal, are a host of other immune system related conditions which are not communicable and appear to lack any specific microbial cause. These include asthma, food and pollen allergies, mold, dust and chemical allergies, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, eczema, and atopic dermatitis, multiple sclerosis, lupus, type one diabetes, and a host of other conditions including chronic arterial inflammation, which is considered a more important causative factor in heart attacks and strokes than cholesterol. While the symptoms of these conditions vary enormously, all of these conditions have one thing in common: all are the results of the immune system targeting the wrong enemy. Instead of confining their vicious attack (inflammation) to the dangerous microorganisms that truly endanger our lives, the white blood cells and cellular battle chemicals of the immune system exhaust us in a futile assault either upon harmless pollens or food proteins, or on the very cells of our own bodies.
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Chemicals & Food Additives in Allergy & Immune System Disorders
There can be little doubt that our bodies are assaulted every day with a wide variety of chemicals that have not existed at all for the last million years of our evolution as a species. Chemical pesticides, fertilizers, genetically engineered DNA, antibiotics and hormones fed to industrially raised animals are present in nearly all the foods we eat. In addition, processed foods contain such toxic additives as refined sugar, artificial flavors, colors, and preservatives. Try as we may to eat organic it is very difficult to protect ourselves completely against these additives. Even the way we process and store food introduces toxic chemicals and alters the vitamins and proteins in food. Frying in hot oils and the use of transfatty acids in processed foods like margarine are just a couple of examples of this. Likewise, the air we breathe and the water we drink are contaminated with innumerable chemical agents. Quite apart from human activity, the natural world is filled with molds, mildews, bacteria, and other substances which have toxic properties. I certainly recommend that we do our best to eliminate these elements from our lives. But often our body’s reaction to these chemicals is far out of proportion to the real dangers they represent. When this happens doctors would say that we are “allergic” to these substances. These allergic reactions may incapacitate us with far greater efficiency than these chemicals on their own could ever do in the tiny doses to which we are exposed.
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Stress Caused Allergies & Immune System Disorders
Doctors have understood for years that chronic stress in our lives can trigger a wide variety of immune system disorders, including asthma, allergies, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, etc. They don’t always explain to their patients what processes cause the normal stresses of daily life to turn into disease. Nor do they show us how we can deal more effectively with the stresses in our lives to eliminate these processes and the symptoms that result from them. You’ll learn in this article how stress becomes internalized into immune system malfunction and how with hypnosis we can stop this dangerous process and thus heal our immune system reactions. Among our primitive ancestors, stress usually involved some profound physical threat which required a rapid and energetic physical response. If attacked by a saber tooth tiger, our bodies reacted with a powerful dose of adrenaline from the adrenal glands, which got our heart pumping, increased mental alertness, stopped digestion, and prepared us for fight or flight. With the action of this and other hormones, our bodies were ready for battle. Unfortunately, nowadays the stresses we experience usually do not require aggressive and energetic action. When the rent is overdue or mother in law pays a visit, you may have noticed that a few rounds of screaming, hitting or running are hardly effective solutions, no matter how good they might feel.
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Mother & Infant Connections in Allergy & Immune System Disorders
The human immune system like that of all mammals is programmed at birth with the biochemical signatures of those microorganisms which present a real health hazard and the particular chemical antibodies needed to combat them. The newborn is also programmed with what food proteins are safe, and which pollens, molds, etc. are safe in the infant’s world. This information helps the emerging immune system of the newborn adjust to the biochemical environment into which it is born. The thymus gland in the infant is very large compared to its vestigial appearance in the human adult. It is as large as the infant’s heart, which it sits next to. The task of the thymus is to build the infant’s biochemical immune system. After the first few months of life the thymus begins to shrink, so clearly this process develops most rapidly in those first few months of life. The biggest help for this process comes from mother’s milk, or, more specifically, her colostrum, the sticky clear fluid that precedes milk production. Scientists have found that this clear fluid is chock full of antibodies containing the chemical signatures of all the microorganisms that mother’s own immune system has learned to fight. I also believe that this chemical program may reveal what foods, harmless pollens, etc. can be safely trusted by the child. Thus the infant’s immune system “learns” what is safe and what is not.
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