Leonard Coldwell - The Only Answer to Stress, Anxiety & Depression: The Root Cause of All Disease

Dr. Leonard Coldwell has written this remarkable handbook for health with two voices. Like a singer producing not one beautiful tone but two at the same time, these two voices blend into a harmonious song of health and potential. And the remarkable thing is that every single person who readsand followsthis beautiful book will be able to sing that way, too. And their words, and the glorious melody of health and empowerment will be theirs, and theirs alone!

The two voices are the voice of the deeply informed, knowledgeable expert in physiology, medicine, neurology, biochemistry, pathology, research and clinical careof which Dr. Coldwell isand the homey, chatty, straight-from-the-shoulder Dutch uncle who tells you what is really going on, with compassion, but with no patience for self pity or soppy excuses.

So, in your hands, on the pages of this book, you have a tell-it-like-it-is friend and a scientific integrator who can make the complicated business of the life sciences simple, clear and, most important, comprehensible.

Dr. Coldwell ties all of the relevant sciences into one neat package with your life and shows you how, in simple, concise and well-laid-out steps, how it works and what to do about it.

Stress kills! Of that fact, there is no doubt. However, stress, without the well-developed diseases it causes us to develop is of no financial interest (except as it allows anti-stress drugs to make sales, of course). If stress were to disappear tomorrow, the entire medical industry (which really means pharmaceutical industry) would go up in well-deserved flames, except for the emergency room services and skills.

Without stress to precipitate at least 85% of all diseases and more than 90% of all doctors visits, the economic cataclysm, matched only by the magnitude of the joy and healthand recovered wealthof billions of people, would be nearly unthinkable in size. So treating stress has very little money in it, and a great deal of income and economic potential through so many people being so sick for so long.

Some years ago, during my medical practice in New York State, I had a problem. Using NeuroBioFeedback, my husband, Maj. General Albert Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.) and I were using NeuroBioFeedback (then called EEG Biofeedback) to treat a wide variety of difficulties. These were people with diabetes, cancer, heart disease, cataclysmic head injuries and just about everything else you can think of, that had no hope, no cure and no where to go. They came to us because word travels fast when very ill people get cured and suddenly become radiantly well.

The results we were getting were nothing short of fantastic: within a short time, generally using three treatments per week of 30 minutes each, whatever it was that the patient came in with was gone and the patient was not only symptom free, but gloriously, radiantly well. The conventional medical experts could not believe it andpredictablysaid we must be quacks, because no one could fix whatever it was that their patient had come to us with. While the logic escapes me on that, the reason that frightened people would behave that way was instantly clear to us. They had no idea whatsoever how we were accomplishing this and, as experts, it made them very nervous, indeed, to have something they could not even describe, let alone reproduce, taking place. Simply put, they had no clue what we were doing that was working.

The problem was, neither did we? We knew the protocols because we had studied with just about everyone teaching any kind of biofeedback and understood the mechanical part quite well. We knew the outcome, because we were able to measure it in laboratory and other objective ways. But what we did not know was why the treatment we were using worked and, more to the point, why about 85% of our patients become radiantly well, but nothing at all happened for the other 15% other than some calming.

In other words, we were delivering miracles, but only at a B+ score. Anyone who knows either General Bert or me will tell you how deeply they understand that B+ is simply not an option.

I do not do statistics because I am a math phobic. Dyslexic to the math, my ability to do the calculations required by statistics is less than zero, although I understand what they do and how they work. We knew that the answer lay within our very precise and detailed data, but we did not know how to get inside it, to find out what the secret was that would allow us to deliver an astonishing 100% miracle rate, an A+++, to every single patient who came through our door.

Fortunately for all of us, we had a dear friend named Professor Michel Bounias, PhD, who was a world renowned toxicologist living in the South of France. Now toxicologists do numbers and statistics. It is their meat and potatoes. So I called Prof. Bounias and told him that I wanted to get him together with my data for about two weeks.

I asked him if he had the time to leave France for that long and come examine our data. He said Yes! The project was not two weeks long. We published, over the next 11 years, about 50 papers: 25 on NeuroBioFeedback physiology and neurology and about 25 on the mathematical physics of consciousness, thought, intent, will and their impact on the physical world.

These papers, in their totality, became known as the Alexandria Papers after the Alexandria Institute of Integrative Medicine, our medical practice. They attracted the attention of mathematical physicists and Nobel Prize winners. A UNESCO meeting was convened to deal with the staggering implications of the work and Prof. Bounias began winning international honors as a Mathematical Physicist for the new mathematics of consciousness that he developed for these paper.

But we still did not have our on-demand miracle. It was not until the last paper in the series, 11 years after we began to try to answer my simple questions, How does NeuroBioFeedback work and how can we make it work better? that we got the answer: the mental images formed in the brain at the conscious and unconscious levels create changes in the receptor states, position, and function of every single cell.

You see, there are huge numbers of proteins sticking through the membranes of every single cell. They change their configuration and therefore their function, on the basis of what is anticipated, not what has occurred. Therefore, every receptor in every cell in the body responds not to what happened, but what was perceived. Health, then, returned, seemingly miraculously, when we taught the patient to teach his/her own brain/body/cell/being to reach for what would create wellness.

In other words, the killing stress of the patients life and often impending death, which was instructing every receptor in the body to act as if the terrible thing anticipated in the chronic stress state had already, happened. The mental images and the programs they rested in were directing the receptors to bring about the very thing that was so difficult or problematic to the person who had the disease or diagnosis.

But we realized that through the NeuroBioFeedback, different conscious and unconscious mental and emotional images were being constructed and installed. The net result was that we were triggering the bodys own capacity to heal itself, based on its total and unique depth of empowered capacity.

We learned from this how to focus differently for the reluctant 15% and our clinical grade went from a B+ to and A++; but not an A+++, since there are always patients who do not want to get better or relived of their disease. These people stopped treatment before the treatment was finished, stating clearly that they did not want to live, were not willing to give up their disease (or, sometimes, their disability payment) and, although we saw this as a tragedy, it is up to each and every one of us to decide what becomes of our health, our fate and our bodies so we respected the wishes of the patient.