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Mind-body relationship

By Babatunde Ayo-vaughan
14 August 2016   |   2:05 am
There is a direct mind-body relationship in every individual otherwise what you call MAN will probably be a moron – an allusion to the issue of mental health. If the mental health is not right ...

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There is a direct mind-body relationship in every individual otherwise what you call MAN will probably be a moron – an allusion to the issue of mental health. If the mental health is not right, the chances are that this will eventually take its toll on the physical health or bodily health. If the condition of bodily health too is not right especially for a long time, it can affect mental health.

This is the kernel of what we mean by MIND-BODY relationship. The mental which also includes the emotional must harmonize well with the functions of what you call the healthy functions of your being. In other words for the average man to be in control of his well being as a healthy man, he must have a good understanding of how to coordinate both his mind and the body function. Let us take an example. Usually people don’t know what the role of fear is in bringing about the state of ill health. Constant state of stress and the genesis of high blood pressure in these modern times could be located in the worries arising from the pervasive level of fear that dominates the environment of many people.

It may worry you to know that it is not only high blood pressure that could be instigated by a perpetual condition of fear which of course embrace, worries, anxieties, doubts and so on, cancer, ulcer, migraine and many other bodily dysfunctions can also be related to it. what I am trying to say is that FEAR is the product of our mind but you can see for yourself how much damage it can do to the structure of our body.

This is the typical example of what is called MIND-BODY relationship. As the relationship can function negatively, it is in our profound interest to know that if we intelligently understand the process of their natural relationship like the bible says in Isaiah, you will be 100years old and you may still be classified as a young man. The body reflects all the negative effects you can see as sickness or ill-health. But nobody usually gives it a thought that the mind might have contributed to the manifested diseases. Many people do not know that there is a direct connection of digestion and health to the mind and this is where the topic of fear becomes of significance.

The body reflects all the negative effects you can see as far as sickness or ill-health is concerned. But nobody usually gives it a thought that what you call the mind might have contributed to the manifested diseases. Many people for example do not know that there is a direct connection of digestion and health to the functions of the mind and this is where the topic of fear might be of high significance to us. When the mind is full of fear, it sends out messages to the various glands of the body and organs to be prepared for danger. When we procrastinate and remain undecisive, our body becomes filled up with un-used materials. Our glands are relentlessly drained. Constant state of fear soon cause the glands to function abnormally and the whole body system including the mind itself will begin to be affected one way or the other in some kind of disease.

Understanding the whole system of the body is really predicated on the understanding of two principal systems of the body. These are the nervous system and the endocrine system. How these two system collaborate in their functions to make a human function properly really explains the relationship between mind and body. The unit of their common function is the cell and that in itself highlights the importance of the cell functions. when we are talking of human health and it can reasonably be predicted that as the issue of health is becoming more and more of serious concern, cellular nutritionist will most likely become actively relevant in the future in the discussion on the issue pertaining to our health.

Preventive health approach as we are beginning appreciate it rather than curative approach may be much more dependent on cellular nutritionist rather than on medical practitioners. The cell as biologists will tell you is the smallest unit of a living matter that can exist on its own. All living things of which a human being is a prominent member are made up of cells. Cells exist in a variety of shapes and sizes. The cell essentially is the starting point of life.

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