The common thing was a reduction of adrenaline!Ġ8:32 HOW DID YOUR BIOLOGY BACKGROUND INFORM YOU, AND WHAT CAN WE LEARN BY LOOKING AT ANIMALS AND THEIR SURVIVAL INSTINCTS?Īs a biologist, I have a lot of background knowledge of cells, physiology, organs, and also animal behaviour. So all the activities survivors did could be explained by the fact that they targeted adrenaline. I found the common denominator to all these activities which people did to recover, and that was stress reduction. You can catch it on video, so people can see it and persuade themself: Yes, it is possible to reduce tremors via mental therapy.Ġ7:15 HOW WAS LEARNING ABOUT ADRENALINE A BREAKTHROUGH? Also, the symptoms are more visible, so it is a lot easier to see when my therapy helps. To make a long story short, I chose to dig into Parkinson's Disease, as people have a normal lifespan, so no hurry. I could see there were four types of activities involved.Ġ6:07 WHY DID YOU PICK PARKINSON'S OUT OF ALL CHRONIC ILLNESSES TO START WITH? But reading more and more a pattern emerged. I found that they all had a long list of how they reduced symptoms, telling everything they did from the start until they had recovered.Īll the lists were unique at first glance. I only found a few therapists, but I found a lot of survivor stories from people writing about their own progress.Ġ5:05 WHAT DID YOU FIND BY SEEKING OUT STORIES OF RECOVERY FROM AROUND THE WORLD? I looked on the internet to see if there were others like me that were interested in, and capable of, reducing symptoms. If people can reduce symptoms like tremors for minutes and hours, then it of course it is possible to do it for longer periods. I gave them five long therapy sessions, and every time saw that I could reduce their symptoms here and now.

As I did not like the short timeframe available for helping people with cancer, I took up chronic diseases, and made my small experiment with local people with chronic illnesses. Later, when I became a therapist, I heard several stories about people with what we today call physical diseases, that became better due to mental therapy. Major diseases always come with a specific personality trait and there is a very mental side, even where we traditionally think of diseases like cancers as a physical disease.

So from that day, I knew that we could think ourselves into a disease.

My husband got cancer when we were 30 years old, and we where told that this type of cancer was over-represented with young men with a high level of education. Please upgrade.Ġ1:50 HOW DID YOUR INTEREST IN CHRONIC DISEASES BEGIN? Audio playback is not supported on your browser.

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