Mind & Body Medicine

Question 1

neuropeptide molecules

Answer 1

these molecules connect the brain to the immune system, and there, similarly, there are molecules that connect the brain to the endocrine system.

Question 2

psychoneuroimmunology

Answer 2

the study of the effect of the mind on health and resistance to disease.

Question 3

psychoneuroendocrinology

Answer 3

the connection between mind and the endocrine system outside of the nervous system through neuropeptide molecules.

Question 4

Define “mind”

Answer 4

mind is the mental body, is the body, which has consciousness to process meaning.

Question 5

Define Mentalization

Answer 5

Corresponding to every negative feeling connected with our reproduction, our maintenance, the three lower Chakras, we have brain circuits – instinctual brain circuits in our brain. This is the result of evolution. But as we grow up, we develop certain mental associations of these feelings, instinctual feelings, and make additional brain circuits. This is what I call mentalization

Question 6

What is mind body disease?

Answer 6

wrong mentalization / meaning to our experiences and feelings that manifest in our brain and then the physical representations is stress that manifests to disease if not fixed.

Question 7

Define Sattva

Answer 7

Sanskrit, the overuse of fundamental creativity

Question 8

Define Rajaas

Answer 8

Sanskrit, the propensity of using mind with situational creativity

Question 9

Define Tamas

Answer 9

Sanskrit (darkness) the conditioned use of the mind.

Question 10

Define Guna

Answer 10

the 3 qualities (pakriti) of our mind (others say elements) Sattva, Rajaas and Tamas. Overabundance / under abundance of these qualities become doshas.

Question 11

What does rajas or situational creativity produce physically?

Answer 11

Hyperactivity in the brain.

Question 12

Define Autonomic nervous system

Answer 12

The autonomic nervous system is a control system that acts largely unconsciously and regulates bodily functions such as the heart rate, digestion, respiratory rate, pupillary response, urination, and sexual arousal.

Question 13

What are the 2 parts of the autonomic nervous system?

Answer 13

Sympathetic and Parasympathetic

Question 14

Sympathetic nervous system functions:

Answer 14

vertebral ganglia: dilates pupils, inhibits salvation, relaxes airways. Constricts blood vessels, accelerates heartbeat, stimulates sweat production. Celiac ganglion: Stimulates glucose production and release in the liver. Superior Mesenteric ganglion: Stimulates bile release, inhibits digestion, Stimulates secretion of norepinephrine and epinephrine. Inhibits Bowel secretions. Inferior mesenteric ganglion: inhibits voiding, stimulates sex organs.

Question 15

Parasympathetic nervous system functions

Answer 15

add later

Question 16

Define a Type A person

Answer 16

who are expressive in their emotions, who have the hyperactivity as a bane Dosha, they develop this characteristic of Type A personality, which will be prone to developing heart disease. But remember that personality whose hostility has gone so far, that relationships are completely excluded, they can also have tendency of developing cancer.

Question 17

What is Intellectualism / an intellectualist?

Answer 17

is the habit of separating, living in an isolated environment created by the mind itself. So, therefore, what does an intellectual person do? An intellectual person is not in touch with the body at all.

Remember that the feelings are felt in the body chakras. But the intellectual person is never at these lower chakras. He or she is always in the crown chakra, in the head chakra. We know the situation.