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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Forewords
Chapter 1: Transforming Illness Into Wellness
A World Filled with Illness
One Physician's Story
An Intelligent Universe
The "Germ" Theory
Protecting Ourselves From Illness
Do We Get Sick or Does Sickness Get Us?
Chapter 2: Stress-Related DisordersCreating Healing and Wellness
Stress-Related Disorders
Defining Illness
The Main Categories of Non-Stress-Related Illness and Disease
Stress-Related Disorders, an Often Missed Diagnosis
Creating Stress-Related Disorders
The Law of Survival
Corollary #1: The Mind Is All There Is
Corollary #2: We Are What We Believe We Are
What Does All This Mean?
Chapter 3: Disease is a State of MindA Physician's Journey Into Healing
The Will to Live
Finding the Highest and Best Self
Chapter 4: The Body and Its Defense MechanismsDisease Is Brought on by Faulty Interaction of Body-mind and Personality
What Are the Defense Systems of the Body?
The Early Warning Systems
The Primary Defensive Systems
The Secondary Defensive Systems: The Strategic and Offensive Systems
Tissue Defenses
Blood Born Defense Systems
Organ Level Defensive Systems
The Immune - Antibody/Antigen System
The Repair and Rebuilding—The Body’s Healing Systems
Housekeeping Systems
Macro-Defensive Systems
Maxi-Defense Systems
Summary
Chapter 5: Stress: The Fight or Flight MechanismStress and the Stress Mechanism
Defining Stress
Disease Is a Natural State of Being, Based on the Kind of Instructions That We Give to Our Body-Mind
Chapter 6: Body, Mind, Spirit and Consciousness AwarenessThe Three Levels of Man: Body/Mind, Conscious Self and Higher Self
- Body-mind Relationship
A New Healing Approach
Three Levels of Consciousness of Man
The Conscious Self
Other Important Aspects of the Conscious Self
Chapter 7: The Body/MindWho Is the Body/Mind?
Guilt, Hate, Anger and Hostility in Creating Illness
The Body/Mind, Health and Wellness
Summary
Chapter 8: The Body/Mind as the Child WithinThe Child Within
Working With the Body/Mind
Techniques for Getting Answers
The Wise Parent
The Value of the Wise Parent
Chapter 9: The Higher Self
Love and Self-Love
Meet the Higher Self
Chapter 10: Stress and DiseaseBelief Systems, Stress and the Creation of Illness
Disease Is Not Necessarily a Negative Process
How Does a Healthy Person Become Ill?
The Wellness-Stress-Disease Mechanism
The Stress Cascade
The Physical Signs and Symptoms of Stress
The Role of the Autonomic Nervous System
The Role of the Other Endocrine Glands
Summary
Chapter 11: Conflict and StressThe Wellness-Stress-Disease Mechanism and Stress Related Disorders
The Dis-Stress (Dys-stress) Stage
The Dis-Ease Stage
The Disease Stage
The Chronic Disease Stage
Chapter 12: Returning to WellnessWhat Is Wellness?
There is a Natural Progression from Disease to Health
Diagrams, Tables and Figures
Table: 2-1 Creating Health Wellness and Healing
Table: 2-2 Categories of Illnesses and Disease
Table: 4-1 Defensive-repair Systems of the Body
Diagram 4-1 The Defensive System of the Body
Table: 6-1 Summary of the Three Selves
Table: 10-1 Wellness-Stress-Disease Pathway
Table: 10-2 The Stress Mechanism
Table: 10-3 The Nature of A Stressor
Table: 10-4 The Survival Center
Table: 10-5 Activation of Stress
Table: 10-6 The Stress Cascade
Table: 10-7 The Stress Response
Table: 10-8 How the Pituitary Gland Responds to Stress
Table: 10-9 The Adrenal Gland Produces Adrenaline and Cortisol
Table: 10-10 The Primary Stress Response
Table: 10-11 The Secondary Stress Response
Table: 10-12 Stress on the Endocrine System
Table: 11-1 The Creation of Dis-Stress
Table: 12-1 Disease-Stress-Wellness Continuum
Table: 12-2 Damage Control, Repair and Healing Wellness Mechanism
APPENDICES
Appendix A: Physical Symptoms Caused by or Associated with Stress
Appendix B: Common Behavioral Problems and Other Manifestations Caused By or Associated with Stress
Appendix C: Stress-Related Disorders
Appendix D: Types of Illnesses
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