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NZAPH Conference
Re-elected President of the NZAPH, Sue Leech reports that the date has been set already for the 2011 Conference and AGM. It will be (as it was in 2009) a combined conference with the NZAPH and the NZANLP.  The dates to set aside are: 17th, 18th & 19th June 2011.  The venue has yet to be decided by the two associations, but is likely to be either Taupo or Wellington.

2011 Conference Keynote Speakers Required
An invitation is extended to all Australian and New Zealand Hypnotherapists to consider speaking at the 2011 conference.  So if you'd like to share something that you know about Hypnotherapy, then please contact Sue Leech and register your interest as a conference presenter.

Pictured to the right at the 2010 AGM are: Annette Docherty (VP), Sue Leech (Pres), Dean Badcock (Tres), Kevin Bateman (M.Sec).

One of the major triumphs of this year's AGM (thanks largely to the tenacity of Membership Secretary, Kevin Bateman), was the overwhelmingly positive vote to finally allow changes to the NZAPH constitution.  This has been an ongoing challenge for the last few years and it's seen by many as a modernisation of the rules surrounding the running of the association. In a nutshell, it means now that the members who participate in the running of the NZAPH, by voting and attending, will now have more say in that running than those who (by choice or by apathy) do not participate in NZAPH matters and events.

Sue's Review of the Conference
Well, didn’t we have a wonderful time at conference.  With our great speakers sharing lots of new ideas and extending our knowledge with more techniques to help us to help our clients and patients.

Leon’s approach to a therapeutic fest was well digested by all attending. As was our Saturday evening meal at the Thai restaurant close to Suncourt.

Shelley’s Joy Therapy had many belly laughs and some interesting demonstrations of her working style.

Jutta’s Self-efficacy & hardiness presentation gave us some ideas on researching backgrounds and had us thinking about starting a book club type discussion group.

Terry showed yet another line of therapy with past life regression as his theme.

Meredith enhanced our awareness of the interview process plus enlightened some of us on the roles of Quitline.

All in all our 10th Annual Conference was one to be remembered for the camaraderie and also for the high standard of presentation.  It is great that we can offer our members this high calibre of event each year. So look out for next year’s conference which will be held on 18th & 19th June 2011 – so put it in your diaries now!

Photos from the conference:
Top left: Terry Keillor; Top Right: Leon Cowen; Lower left: Meredith McCarthy; Lower Right: Shelley Stockwell-Nicholas

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The Psychosomatic Illusion By Shelley Stockwell-Nicholas, PhD.  President of the International Hypnosis Federation www.hypnosisfederation.com Descartes Before De Hearse “I think, therefore I am” came first before you changed it to something worse. So tell me why you said, Descartes, “Forget the head, forget the heart.” Was it the Pope that caused the issue? saying “keep mind separate from physical tissue?” And you replied, “Cognito ergo sum:” “Without a thought, life begins and is done.” Mind as church and body state is a myth-illogical church mandate that keeps us like powerless segmented worms drug invested with poor returns and views my body as just a machine without mind or spirit on my wellness team. Pharmaceuticals prosper and medicine kills when you seek outside cures to heal your ills So goodbye Descartes, hello awareness I embrace good thoughts and won’t be careless. If since your “I think, therefore I am” rings true Descartes you never existed unless I think of you. -Shelley Stockwell-Nicholas

SHELLEY STOCKWELL-NICHOLAS, PhD 2010 COURSES & APPEARANCES To Register CALL: (310) 541-4844 IHF@cox.net San Pedro, CA July 18 (Sunday 3:30) INTERNATIONAL HYPNOSIS FEDERATION SUMMER LOVE BAR BQ.  Shelley & Jon's house. Includes a talk by Dr Shelley and lots of fun. (310) 541-4844, Palos Verdes July 23-25 (Fr-Su, 9am-5pm) HYPNO-TAROT- BOARD CERTIFICATION  Shelley Stockwell-Nicholas, PhD & James Wanless, PhD (310) 541-4844, San Pedro, CA, $497 August 6-8 (Fri-Sun) PAST LIFE THERAPY Certification Shelley Stockwell-Nicholas, PhD (310) 541-4844, IHF@cox.net, San Pedro, CA, $497 September 23 (Thursday) 7:30 room 2nd floor room 3, Torrance Hospital Ostemates Feel Great! Seminar October 4-8 (M-F) IHF Hypnosis Certification Training (hypnotist, master and Hypnotherapist levels)  Shelley Stockwell-Nicholas, PhD (310) 541-4844, IHF@cox.net, San Pedro CA, $997 October 4-8 (M-F) IHF Hypnosis Instructor's Certification Training (150 hours pre-requisite) Shelley Stockwell-Nicholas, PhD (310) 541-4844, IHF@cox.net, San Pedro CA, $1247 October 11-15 Mon-Fri am) VISION QUEST CRUISE from Long Beach to Mexico. $897 October 23-24 (Sat-Sun) Shelley speaks at the Mid-America (MAHC) Conference in Rolling Meadows, Il (near Chicago) December 5, (Sun) 4:30 INTERNATIONAL HYPNOSIS FEDERATION HOLIDAY PARTY @ Jon & Shelley's house (310) 541-4844 March 4-6 "It is All About YOU" Fun Conference for mind body and spirit. San Pedro California, USA

Ancient people honored the mind/body/environment connection. Chinese traditions still correlate organs and illness with specific mental/emotional states. The idea is to return one to holistic balance. The Ancient Greek, Hippocrates, often called the father of medicine, believed like other physicians in his time “that veins carried air, not blood and that illness was caused by vapor secreted by undigested food from unsuitable diets.” His Hippocratic oath is still administered during graduation ceremonies at many medical schools. 

Western medical doctors ask about symptoms and then prescribe drugs. Using mind to understand body is generally labeled “unscientific” and mind affecting body “psychosomatic.” Psyche means the mind or soul, and soma, means body. “The brain and body are separate entities” is a most prevalent and, in my opinion, peculiar paradigm. How did this happen?

Blame it on 17th century, French philosopher and another highly touted “father of modern medicine”, Rene Descartes. He’s the fellow who wrote: I think therefore I am.’ Descartes wanted to dissect dead human bodies. To get the powerful Pope to agree, he had to make this deal: “Anything to do with the soul, mind or emotions, I leave to the clergy. I will only claim the realm of the body.” Because of this, the medical Cartesian construct or Cartesian theater said the brain processes sensory input to then be viewed separately by the mind. He regarded the body as physical matter, and the mind (or spirit) as immaterial…two distinct, separate and unrelated substances. “Your body is a mechanical, reactive machine; a predictable mass of matter and energy. Thoughts and behavior are just hardwired reflexes caused by electrical stimulation across synapses,” “pathogens cause disease,” and “either your illness can be physically determined or it’s all in your head” said the paradigm. To understand a human all you had to do is take one apart and study its physical components. Also in the seventeenth century, the “father of modern science,” Sir Isaac Newton, said the universe too is a “matter” machine. His “Newtonian construct” said matter is real and all that really mattered.

The New Paradigm
In the 1920’s Dr. Walter Cannon, a physiology professor at Harvard University, coined the phrase “homeostasis” from the Greek word “homoios” meaning “similar” and “stasis” meaning “position.” His studies revealed a relationship between emotions and perceptions and the physical fight, flight, fright response. A new paradigm was emerging: the brain is hooked up to the body and the body is hooked up to the brain! About the same time, Hans Selye noted that animals under stress had weakened immune responses. These ideas led to the modern science we call psycho-neuro immunology, which studies the inter-relationship of mind, and body wellness.

Biology Is Big Business
Pharmaceutical manufacturers, with their well-controlled medical industry, have been happy to keep the old “body-machine” attitude. “If you hurt, take this pill then come back next month so we can sell you the perfect drug or implant the perfectly engineered mechanical part or gene and make you as good as new” is their message. Genes separated from a living organism can be legally patented by the US Patent Office. Of the thirty-to-forty thousand genes isolated by the multi-billion-dollar congress funded genome projects, twenty thousand genes (and related molecules) are now patented. The idea is that if you own the gene and drugs that influence that gene, you can introduce it into the body to generate the right instructions to the protein receptors.

 Pull Down Your Genes Theory
“When a gene product is needed, a signal from its environment, not an emergent property of the gene itself, activates expression of that gene.” 

-H.F. Nijhout, BioEssayist

 Your brain is the control center for your body, right?
So what happens if we remove your brain from your body? 
You’d die of course.
Genetic theory implies that DNA and genes in the cell nucleus, is the control central of your emotion/thought. So what happens if we remove the nucleus (de-nucleate) the DNA and genes from a cell?
No, it doesn’t die…it lives.
How can that be?
Genes are not the master controller of your cell!
If you remove receptors from your cell, the cell dies. Are receptors the control center of your mind/body; not genes? And where do the receptors get their information? They get their information from the environment (your interior environment and the environment of the everything else in the universe.) And armed with these environmental signals, the receptors regulatory proteins control the expression of the genes. All genes are controlled by signals from the environment via receptors. Receptors alter genes, not the other way around. It is the proteins receptors that turn genes on and off. Cancer may correlate to a specific gene but a specific gene does not cause it. So much for the genetic determination theory.

Proteomics
Proteins are the orchestra that plays your song of life. A cell is only alive because protein pathways regulate and integrate its function. Proteins structure and move all the cells in your body and coordinate their behavior; respiration, digestion, excretion and movement. They control the firing of neurotransmitters that allow you to think, your muscles to move, they switch your genes on and off and bind your DNA.

Marc Wilkins of Australia coined the word “proteome” at a scientific conference in Italy in 1994 to describe “all proteins expressed by genome, cell or tissue.” Proteins are composed of some 20 different amino acids (as opposed to just 4 building blocks of the DNA of your genes). And we are clueless as to their astronomical numbers. At this time, there is no simple way to identify, or characterize them. The “proteome project” is now attempting this feat. Between June of 2000 to October of 2001 more than $700 million poured into “proteomics” companies from venture capitalists and IPO’s.

The primary structure of protein looks like a “pop-it” bead necklace. Each bead contains twenty different amino acids in specific sequences. These beads, along with electromagnetic charges, determine its shape. The charged molecules resemble magnets! Mesmer was right! We do have a natural “animal magnetism.” Dr Mark George, Neurologist at London Hospital confirms that magnets applied at  first about two inches above the left ear (making the thumb jerk) and, then moved forward three inches of so along the skull to the frontal cortex, helps depressed folks sleep better, cry less and eat more. Thousands of times a second, charged proteins bind to molecules and other proteins and alter their electrical charge distribution as their bead-like “backbones” adapt with specific movement. When the bind is severed, a protein usually re-expresses itself back to its original shape and configuration.

Glycomics
In October of 2001, the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) awarded a five-year, $34-million “glue” grant to a 54-member Consortium for Functional Glycomics to identify carbohydrates (simple and complex sugars) that are known to combine with proteins and fats on cell surfaces and “influence” cell-to-cell communication. Next to bring in the big bucks bid will most likely be a study to categorize fats (lipids).

EMOTIONAL MOLECULES: CANDACE PERT’S HIGH CHALLENGE
In the 1970’s, neuro-biology student, Candace Pert was laid up in a hospital bed enjoying regular shots of Talwin (a morphine derivative). She so liked the opiate’s “wonderful feeling of being deeply nourished and satisfied” she considered taking the drug with her when she was discharged from the hospital. Though she resisted that urge, her intense, physical and emotional experience fascinated her. She wasn’t alone in her intrigue. Hippies and scientists wanted to know why heroin, marijuana, Librium and PCP (angel dust) elicited such radical emotional changes.

Candace wanted to identify the biochemical ligand behind her feel good reaction to drugs. A ligand she surmised, only binds with a receptor that is perfect for it. This is called receptor specificity. A Valium receptor ligand would then only attach to a Valium or Valium-like peptide. An opiate receptor ligand, would then only attach to the perfect opiate group, like endorphins, morphine or heroine. The thesis; opium excites a specific ligand that binds to a receptor and changes the neuron. She knew that when opium enters the body, it generates a ligand that binds to a receptor for only a brief time before it exits as urine. How could Candace identify such a small unit that comes and goes so quickly? British scientist, W.D.M. Patton’s “ping-pong” theory gave her the solution. His approach explained how two similar drugs bind with the same receptor: one drug, the agonist, enters the receptor and creates cell changes, while the other drug, the antagonist, blocks the receptor by occupying it. The magnitude of a drug reaction is proportional to how many times a drug hits (or pings) the receptor, and therefore remains on the receptor. This idea gave her more time to observe the process. She knew that a few injected milligrams of the drug Naloxone reversed heroin overdose effects, so she used Naloxone, (labeled with a radioactive isotope) to act as the antagonist to bump up the heroin from the receptor. And on October 25, 1972, the brilliant Candace Pert measured a cell’s opiate receptor ligand, in a test tube! This put opium receptors into the realm of science for the first time. The book, Molecules of Emotions, tells of Pert’s personal challenges in trapping the morphine molecule on its receptor. It is now known that you don’t have to take a drug to get high. Your brain naturally manufactures its own endogenous, (from within) morphine. How we and why we do this goes back to how we receive and interprets energetic input from the inside and from the vast universe

STOCKWELL’S CONCLUSIONS
What we know so far about the biochemistry of what you think say and do
1. Everything you create begins as a conscious or subconscious thought manifested in your neurology. 
2. There is a direct relationship between emotions and the physical body. A physical change creates an emotional change and an emotional change creates a physical change.
3. Neurons and their receptors create the billions of messages per second that allow you to collect, integrate, send and store data and enhance or inhibit thoughts, feelings, behavior and bodily function.
4. Environment and your reaction to it, creates your biological actions and reactions. 
5. Survival requires effective and accurate receiving and interpreting environmental signals.
6. Homeostasis and wellness reflect your bio-energy attunement to resonate rapidly and efficiently on the molecular and environmental level.
7. How your receptors take and give “in-formation” determines what remains unconscious, and what is moved to conscious priority. 

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