The Safe Box of Health: 3 Steps to Heal Yourself

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The Safe Box of Health

3 Steps to Heal Yourself

I had a number of health issues, including chronic kidney infections, constant neck and lower back pain, and painful menstrual cycles. As I implemented what I read in this book my symptoms completely disappeared.  I consider it a must read for anyone who is serious about taking responsibility for their own health and happiness. - Heather P.

It is truly amazing what you can do for yourself to heal yourself! Reading The Safe Box of Health, has given me invaluable insight and tools to remove the layers of emotional and physical pain that a life-time of stresses has laid down. Thank you Dr. Wilde. - Deb S.

The Safe Box of Health is an amazing book! Dr. Wilde has covered it all. I moved some of my unsafe things over into the Safe Box, as Dr. Wilde suggested, and a great weight was lifted off my shoulders. He has presented the information for self-healing in a clear, concise, and logical way. - Meela R.

The Safe Box of Health is a wonderful book that spoke truth to my heart. So many of us want to be the victim and blame our illness and struggles in life on something or someone, other than ourselves. By applying the principles taught in The Safe Box of Health, healing will take place - Sherri J.

Menopause symptoms at age 24? I was experiencing all of the classic symptoms. After reading this book I was able to completely overcome my symptoms, get off of all prescription and OTC medications, and get on with an energetic and enjoyable life. Now at age 27 I am doing 100% better. - Alicia B.

Because of some major injuries over several years, I began to have life altering panic attacks and health deterioration. The Safe Box of Health teaches principles that will change lives.  I know because it changed mine.  I have energy, I feel hope, my back and leg muscles feel good and I feel whole again. If someone were to read one book on health, I would highly recommend The Safe Box of Health by Dr. Bradley R. Wilde.  - Stacey W.

The Safe Box of Health

3 Steps to Heal Yourself

Bradley R. Wilde, D.C.

Published by Wilde Natural Health Publishing at Smashwords

Copyright © 2011 Bradley R. Wilde, D.C.

Notice

The information given here is designed to help you make informed decisions about your health. It is not intended as a substitute for any treatment that may have been prescribed by your doctor. If you suspect that you have a medical problem, we urge you to seek competent medical help.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1: Why do I Hurt?

PART 1: UNDERSTANDING THE CAUSE OF YOUR SYMPTOMS

Chapter 2: The Safe Box and the Unsafe Box

Chapter 3: The Body Automatic

Chapter 4: What You Think is What You Get

Chapter 5: Turn on the Lights

Chapter 6: You be the Judge

Chapter 7: The Emotional Safe Box

Chapter 8: The Nutritional Safe Box

Chapter 9: The Physical Safe Box

PART 2: 3 STEPS TO HEAL YOURSELF

Chapter 10: 3 Steps to Healing

Chapter 11: Emotional Identifier #1: Current Stress

Chapter 12: Emotional Identifier #2: When Symptoms Began

Chapter 13: Emotional Identifier #3: Vivid Memories

Chapter 14: Emotional Identifier #4: Undesirable Events

Chapter 15: Emotional Identifier #5: Unresolved Situations

Chapter 16: Emotional Identifier #6: Muscle Testing

Chapter 17: 3 Steps to a Healthy Child

Chapter 18: Emotional Band-Aids

Chapter 19: Conclusion

INTRODUCTION

Imagine that you are a sixty year old librarian. You retired one year ago and have enjoyed having time to yourself. One day you bent over and picked up your twelve month old grandson. You felt a twinge of pain in your neck and wrist, but didn’t think too much of it. It is now nine months later and the problem is getting worse. You decide that you had better do something about it. Your neck is now chronically sore and your wrist hurts all the time. You can’t open a jar with your right hand anymore and are worried that you might lose the use of that hand. What do you do? Where do you go?

Suppose you come see me. You know that I am a chiropractor and have had many years of experience treating patients with similar problems. You think that I might know what to do with your neck and wrist to return them to normal. As we talk, you tell me that you enjoy being home, but that you feel guilty that you are not getting as much accomplished as you should. You wish, in a sense, that you had deadlines again to motivate you.

I tell you that I think that your ailments are more than physical, and are likely due to the guilt you feel. You look at me a little surprised since that is not what you expected. I explain that if you relieve yourself of the guilt, you will also relieve yourself of your neck and wrist pain. You decide to give it a try. Within a week, your neck and wrist are back to normal, like they were nine months earlier.

Though this story really didn’t happen to you, it did happen to someone like you. If you are looking for answers to health problems, especially chronic ongoing ones, it’s likely that a similar story could be written about you.

Most everyone understands that symptoms such as ulcers and high blood pressure can be related to stress. Few people are aware that a knee pain or shoulder pain may also be stress induced, or possibly related to diet. Even fewer know that ulcers, high blood pressure, knee pain and shoulder pain may be due to a memory of a past experience or a feeling that their bodies have been programmed to respond to.

While stress, memories, emotions, or diet are not the cause of all symptoms, they are the instigator of many. In fact, they are much more common causes than we generally suppose. You can easily treat the majority of your symptoms if you understand the cause.

Of course there are health care professionals who can answer questions and help with major or serious problems, and you should always consult them. But the more you learn and understand about how your body works, and why it is doing what it is doing, the more you will be able to take charge and heal yourself.

At the conclusion of this book, you should understand the cause of your symptoms and know how to fix them. I would hope that when you are done reading, you will know how to heal yourself, just like the librarian.

Chapter 1: Why Do I Hurt?

Eric (all names have been changed) had a sharp pain in his neck and shoulders. He could hardly turn his head and had severe pain in his right arm. Eric worked as a mechanic. He found it almost impossible to work under any equipment where he had to lift his hands above his head, as that greatly intensified the pain.

Chiropractic treatments helped Eric some, but the relief didn’t seem to last very long. I suggested stress could intensify an ailment and Eric volunteered that he was having money problems as well as some problems with his boss.

A few days later Eric came bounding into my office, 90% improved. He had solved his problem. He said he had had a slow time at work and had taken time off to go to the bank to resolve a few bounced checks. When he returned to work his boss blew up at him as he had not given Eric permission to leave. That was more than Eric could take. He threw up his hands and said, I quit! I don’t need any more of this! As he drove home from work, he could feel the tension gradually leaving his neck and shoulders. By the next morning he was almost completely pain free.

Amber told me that if I couldn’t help her, she was going to have her foot amputated. She’d had twenty surgeries on her foot in nineteen years, and was just getting out of the boot she had worn since surgery a year earlier. It had all started as a ten year old when she had caught her foot in a merry-go-round. She’d had constant pain in her foot since, and the surgeries hadn’t helped relieve the pain. Now she was the mother of a small child and was expecting twins, and didn’t know how she could continue the way things were.

I suggested to Amber that something was interfering with the healing message that normally goes from the brain to an injured area of the body, like a short circuit, the most likely cause being some emotional trauma from the time of the injury. She had a few ideas of what they were, and was able to start working on healing those negative emotions. To her amazement, as she was leaving the treatment room, for the first time in several years, she was able to take a few steps without any pain. It was the beginning of a wonderful healing process for her.

Dan’s shoulder had been hurting for two months, and wasn’t getting any better. It kept him from sleeping at night, and he couldn’t get his arm above his head.

We treated Dan a couple of times, but it didn’t improve very much. When I asked about his diet, I could see that this might be the source of some of his problems. So I asked him to cut back on his coffee, and add two fruits a day to his diet. In five days he had full range of motion, and was once again sleeping through the night.

The stories of these three individuals are actual case histories and are typical of many others. They all have two things in common:

1. Each person did not understand the cause of his or her symptoms.

2. Each person was able to fix his or her symptoms once he or she understood the cause.

There is a good chance you are like these people. The purpose of this book is to help you understand the cause of your symptoms so You Can Heal Yourself. Physical and emotional trauma, bad memories, fears, worries, stress, and a poor diet affect all of us and eventually lead to unwanted symptoms. The body does not make mistakes! It is acting on the messages it is being given and it responds accordingly, even though we may not like what it is doing. Stress is a natural and essential part of life, yet our reactions to it play a much greater role in poor health than most people realize.

Before you continue, make a list of where you have pain or four or five other physical symptoms. Then rate those symptoms on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the worst. Having these symptoms in mind will help you relate to what you read, and help you better understand the solutions.

There are Two Parts to this book and both are necessary to help you heal yourself and be well.

Part One, Understanding the Cause of Your Symptoms, is to help you understand how your body and mind work together, how poor nutrition affects you, and why physical symptoms become normal and necessary. If you have unresolved health problems, you should gain a great deal of insight to their cause from this section.

Part Two, 3 Steps to Heal Yourself is a 3 Step Guide explaining how to apply lessons learned in Part One. We will summarize and further expound on the steps you can follow to achieve healing and wellness so physical symptoms are no longer normal or necessary.

Both parts of this book are important. As you incorporate these concepts and ideas into your life, you will be absolutely amazed at the healing experience you will have.

PART 1

UNDERSTANDING THE CAUSE OF YOUR SYMPTOMS

Chapter 2:The Safe Box and the Unsafe Box

Several years ago, I was asked to speak to a women’s group about stress management. To enhance my presentation, I took along our 7 month old daughter, Brittany. As I began the class, I carefully stood Brittany up in my right hand, and balanced her in front of the audience. How do you think these ladies reacted?

Think of what your reactions would be. To make it a little more personal, imagine that I am balancing your baby or grandchild in my hand. Identify what you think your emotions (feelings) would be as well as the changes your physical body (symptoms) would experience.

After a few muffled gasps from the women, I asked the president of the group how she reacted to the demonstration. She exclaimed, Oh, I’m sweating! Other responses followed. I was afraid! "I felt anxious!" One eighty year old lady was very irritated and said, I would like to hit people who do that! Suppose that baby fell!

We made a list on the chalkboard of reactions that the ladies experienced. Here’s the list of feelings - fear, anxiety, anger, and worry. This is the list of symptoms - sweating, increased heart rate, tense muscles, nervous stomach, and holding breath.

It was obvious that these women were influenced by this little demonstration.

Now, consider Brittany. What were the feelings and symptoms she experienced? Here is the short list the women wrote down. Feelings - safe, happy. Symptoms - smiling.

The active participant in this experiment was Brittany. She was the one at risk, yet she displayed no sign whatsoever of stress. Meanwhile, every lady in the room was an observer, and yet almost every one of them experienced at least one of the previously mentioned reactions. Why was this?

The response of a concerned individual will help us understand. I don’t like to see people take chances like that, she said, I’ve learned that things can happen. In other words, she was saying that, based on her previous life experiences, she was scared to watch me hold Brittany in the air, balanced on my hand. She was afraid that I might drop Brittany or that in some way my baby might get hurt.

But what about Brittany? Why did she not react the same way? The conclusion we must make is that she had no reason to fear. She had an inborn default setting that she was safe. There was no reason for her to have an unsafe feeling.

Brittany was born into this world with no fear. A person could hang her from a twenty story building and it wouldn’t matter to her. She would feel that she was safe because that is how newborns come into this world. Our older children were quite impressed by the fact that they could wave their hands in front of her face and she wouldn’t even blink her eyes. She simply had no fearful response.

THE SAFE AND THE UNSAFE BOX

The Safe Box and The Unsafe Box

We might say that we each are born into this world with two empty boxes inside our mind. One box is a Safe Box; the other is an Unsafe Box. Each experience we have in life goes into one of these two boxes. Based on what is in our boxes, we know how to respond to the next similar experience that comes our way. From our story above, we see that Brittany was responding to the experience by feeling safe. That was her default box. She had nothing stored in her Unsafe Box that said standing on Dad’s hand was unsafe or dangerous. Therefore, standing on Dad’s hand was a safe experience, and perceived as such, allowed her to feel safe when doing it again.

The women, on the other hand, had … learned that things can happen. Based on experiences stored in their Unsafe Boxes, they saw Brittany standing on her Dad’s hand as unsafe and dangerous. Why the different reactions?

All of us come into the world the same way as Brittany - we are all born with a pattern or program in our brain that says we are safe. It is not something we choose, or decide upon. We just are that way. It is innate and natural to us. It is our default setting. However it doesn’t take