We are all very fortunate that our unconscious (inner) mind is even smarter than we are.

Recently, I’ve experienced communication with a person in a coma. As a result of accessing her unconscious (inner) resources, she started improving steadily and to the amazement of everyone else but us.

Never underestimate the power of the unconscious mind.

Case Examples that prove the power of the unconscious mind can be tapped into utilizing simple and powerful techniques that are available at TruSage.

Below are the “before” stories and you imagine the improvements a well as read more about each person in the actual medical journal at TruSage. They are from an article that I wrote for a medical journal about the power that people have within themselves.

Case 1
Cerebral angiography showed mild thrombosis in the right posterioinferior cerebellar artery of a 57 year old male physician.

Case 2
A 41 year old obese, chronically depressed female nurse had grown up in an abusive household.

Case 3
A 65 year old housewife had been both a war orphan and an inmate of Nazi concentration camps.

Case 4
A 51 year old successful professional woman who had a highly abusive childhood was seen on an emergency basis because she was concerned that her plan for suicide that day would interfere with her obligation to give the keynote address at a national meeting later that afternoon.

Case 5
A middle aged woman with demyelinating disease was seen for treatment of depression that responded poorly to antidepressant medication.

Specifically, what about, the unconscious (inner mind) and the origins of obesity?

My colleagues at Kaiser just completed a wonderful new article on obesity. Please read the summary here for perhaps some new perspectives about the power of the unconscious (inner) mind for self-protection and self-care potentials. The complete article will be found in the Kaiser Permanente Medical Journal.

In the early years of the Kaiser Weight Program, they naively were taking morbidly obese individuals down three hundred pounds at a time, a rate of loss distinctly exceeding that of bariatric surgery. The striking results perhaps understandably led the researchers and clinicians to believe they understood what they were doing.

Counterintuitively, some of the most successful patients forced them to realize they were merely in possession of a powerful technology and had no idea what they were doing in other regards.

They did this by demonstrating that massive weight loss could precipitate divorce, severe anxiety, and sometimes suicidality.

Some patients, sensing these outcomes early, fled their own success in the Program. Surprisingly, their high dropout rate was mainly limited to patients who were successfully losing weight.

By contrast, they had other patients who were eating during the Program, routinely denying it, and losing no weight while paying a fairly significant fee, seemingly to accomplish nothing.
With these patients, it took some time for them to realize that they were supplying an important support system with the group approach. It turned out that many of the obese patients had no functional support systems at home.

The striking and frankly annoying conflict between their ability quickly and safely to reduce a person’s weight and what patients appeared capable of tolerating emotionally led us to detailed exploration of the life histories of 286 of patients. Here, they unexpectedly discovered that histories of childhood sexual abuse were common, as were histories of growing up in markedly dysfunctional households. It became evident that traumatic life experiences during childhood and adolescence were far more common in an obese population than was comfortably recognized.

Visit www.AceStudy.org for more on this.

They slowly discovered that major weight loss is often sexually or physically threatening, and that obesity, whatever its health risks, is protective emotionally. Ultimately, they saw that certain of our more intractable public health problems like obesity are often also unconsciously attempted solutions to problems dating back to the earliest years, but hidden by time, by shame, by secrecy, and by social taboos against exploring certain areas of life experience.

The antecedent life experiences of the obese are quite different from those of the always-slender. Eventually, these Program findings led to the 17,000 member Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study in which they established that the developmental damage initially discovered in their obese patients was broadly applicable to many aspects of everyday medical practice in the general Kaiser Health Plan membership.

www.TruSage.com has the life skills that can make a world of difference; inside and out.
It also has the daily follow-up that teaches a brand new (never repeat) techniques in every email, phone call, ipod download or CD.

The unconscious (inner) mind is capable of helping you help yourself — and even more than you will ever really need or fully achieve. Free samples at both websites. Make 2010 your best year ever by learning how to tap into your unconscious (inner) resources!

Thank you for your openness.

Dr. Brian Alman