‘Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.’
A.A. Milne, English writer and creator of Winnie the Pooh
We know disease is caused by a UDIN, but what happens next? Why do we get symptoms of pain, disease, or fever? Could there be a process that the body follows in creating disease? Could it be so obvious that once you notice it, you’ll ask yourself, ‘How could I have missed that?’ More important, how could the medical profession miss it? I think the next story about an ulcerated larynx will open your eyes; there’s a twist at the end.
A friend came to me and reported that she had recently been laid up in bed and wanted to know why. She was working on a very stressful project and was blamed by her boss for something she didn’t do. She spent a lot of time obsessing about the repercussions of this and was scared.
For a week she worked really hard and didn’t sleep well. She went to bed late and woke up very early each morning, and took work home with her to try to solve the problem. She obsessed about who had caused her boss to blame her for this problem. Even with the small amount of sleep she was getting, she felt fine and said she was ready to take on the world. She told me her workouts at the gym were the best she had done in a long while.
A week later, after working out who was responsible for the problem at work, the issue was resolved. Her boss apologized to her and she no longer felt scared. A few hours later, she felt her throat becoming uncomfortable, and over the next few hours she started to lose her voice. She didn’t feel well, so she left work earlier than usual, got home, went to bed early, and slept very deeply. She stayed off work for a few days and rested. But three days later, she got out of bed early feeling much better. She went to work, but by midday she felt unwell again. Her symptoms had returned and she felt exhausted, which left her no choice but to leave work and go back to bed. A few days after that, everything returned to normal.
I explained to her that being blamed for the problem at work was a UDIN shock. She was stressed and her larynx membranes became ulcerated and widened; she wasn’t aware of these physical changes, but biologically it allowed her faster inhalation of air, and therefore she had more energy to solve the problem.
When her boss apologized, however, the need for more air and energy disappeared, but the ulceration needed to be repaired. During the stressful time, a virus had collected in the blood. At exactly the same time that her boss apologized to her, the virus, working with the brain and body, started to repair the ulcerated laryngeal membranes. The body’s energy switched from fight/flight to repairing itself. She got hot, sweaty, tired, felt ill, and ached all over. You can’t do anything else but rest during this time. There was an increase of secretion from the repairing mucous membranes of the larynx, which made her cough, her voice became deeper and constrained, her energy reserves went into healing, and the obsession stopped.
This, I explained, is what we call ‘the common cold or a cough.’ She laughed, saying, ‘I didn’t realize the common cold could be that amazing.’
It’s worth noting, also, that some people get bronchial colds not laryngeal ones, which is why it’s called a chest cold. This happens to men more often than women and is due to how differently our brains are wired. If we get a nasal cold (head cold), it’s because something has gotten up our nose. We can get combinations of all three colds.
In order to really understand what is happening here we need to delve into the wonderful world of our nervous system. The six stages of a disease are managed first by the sympathetic nervous system, and then by the parasympathetic nervous system.
After a UDIN shock occurs, the body reacts to support us so that we can deal with the issue we were confronted with; it activates the ‘sympathetic’ nervous system, which appears as:
This type of UDIN causes the body to go into a flight-or-fight response; our body turns into a machine designed to solve the problem we’ve just encountered. This is an activation of the ‘sympathetic nervous system’ and is commonly experienced as a feeling of stress. Also, we know from the previous chapter that the brain, designated organ, heart, behavioral, and environmental issues change as the person tries to solve the underlying problem.
Obsessive thinking is really interesting because this, in my opinion, explains how stress affects us mentally. It also explains the erratic behavior that we see in people whom we would normally consider rational.
To explain this, imagine that a partner (say, a male) has just walked out on you with no explanation whatsoever. This is someone you love dearly and you had no inclination that there was anything wrong. What would you be thinking? What would be going through your mind? You would be going crazy, asking yourself, ‘Why did he leave?’ ‘What did I do wrong?’ ‘Is he seeing someone else?’
You might then imagine him in bed with that someone else, which would send your head into a spin. You would be obsessed with trying to find out why this had happened. Your work would suffer. You wouldn’t eat or sleep. Your feet and hands would become cold as the blood in your system was directed to the muscles so that you had the energy to solve the issue — a throwback to early humans having to contend with an attack from a predator — the fight-or-flight response. Generally you wouldn’t feel any pain or discomfort because your body would be operating at a heightened emergency level.
What is not obvious is that specific organs change in order to support you through this process in alignment with their function. So the breast reacts with regard to nurturing, the gut to digestion, the skin to separation, and the muscles to strength. Generally, the biological reason for all diseases is so that you are better equipped to deal with the fight-or-flight situation if the event occurs again.
We are not programmed to live in this stressed way forever. After the stressful event, at some point we may find a solution to the problem. When we do, the body reacts by repairing and rebuilding the organ that was affected. We then switch from the ‘sympathetic’ nervous system to the ‘parasympathetic’ nervous system.
This system is the antithesis of the sympathetic nervous system. While we are in this half — the Repair and Rebuild Stages — we generally feel very tired, and if there is no pain, we mostly feel very relaxed. The classic symptoms of a parasympathetic nervous system appear as:
If almost all diseases are due to a stressful event, which we know is supported by scientific data, then at some point after the stress we may solve the shocking issue that made us stressed in the first place. I say ‘may’ because sometimes we never solve the stressful event and the body stays in a state of continuous stress.
In all my work, I’ve found that these two systems play a part in every disease — the stressful first half, followed by the rest-and-repair half. Biologists and the medical profession acknowledge there are two different systems, the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system, but they haven’t made a connection between the two.
The sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous systems are commonly called the ‘autonomic nervous system’ (meaning ‘not controlled by the mind’). You can see from the table below that these systems work in balance with each other and directly or indirectly affect almost every structure in the body.
| Organ | Sympathetic nervous system | Parasympathetic nervous system |
| Heart | Rate and force increased | Rate and force decreased |
| Lungs | Bronchial muscle relaxed | Bronchial muscle contracted |
| Eyes (iris) | Dilation | Constriction |
| Intestines | Motility reduces | Motility, digestion, and secretions increase |
| Bladder | Wall muscle relaxes, sphincter closes | Wall muscle contracts, sphincter relaxes |
| Kidneys | Decreased urine secretion | Increased urine secretion |
We actually experience these different systems constantly. However, our bodies are mostly in a sympathetic state during the day, and then at night we enter the para-sympathetic state. After a shocking and stressful event, however, the body stays in the sympathetic state until a solution is found to the issue. The body then goes into the parasympathetic state.
At night, if we’ve experienced a shock earlier in the day and are in the sympathetic state, we may find that we can’t sleep well; we’ll toss and turn and sleep lightly. In a worst-case scenario, a person will experience insomnia.
Many people experience this at some time in their lives. Perhaps the night before an important job interview or exam. A sleepless night is not unusual in these situations. Following the reversal of the stressful situation, finding out whether or not you got the job, or passed or failed that exam, either meant the stress carried on until you did get what you wanted, or you gave up, or everything worked out fine for you. Once the stress has been resolved (UDIN Reversal), you would find that you needed to rest, and many people often get colds or have a bout of mild diarrhea. They feel hot and sweaty and out of sorts. The same thing happens if you stress your body to the limit. For example, running a marathon leaves you feeling exhausted, and afterward you need to rest.
These two systems are normal and well recognized in medical literature. However, what is not obvious is the long-term effect of staying in the sympathetic nervous state, the first system, due to a UDIN event. If this is a deeply intense experience and continues for a long time, it may cause failure or fatigue of an organ, such as being diagnosed with adrenal fatigue (often associated with burnout and chronic fatigue syndrome), rapid heartbeat (tachycardia), sudden weight loss (hyperthyroidism), or high blood pressure.
We all have shocks every day, and some can be UDINs, but often they are not very deep and are quickly resolved. Sometimes we are left hanging in one system, sometimes we repeat them, and in other situations we can repeat certain cycles again and again.
From an Advanced Clearing Energetics perspective, all diseases are caused by a significant emotional event (a UDIN) followed by ongoing stress (Stress Stage). If the UDIN is reversed (UDIN Reversal), the body enters the parasympathetic system: first, the body repairs itself (Repair Stage); then it faces a biological test — the ‘Spike.’ This point explains many of the symptoms that people experience when sick (we’ll discuss the Spike in more detail in Chapter 7). Then, in the second half of the parasympathetic system, the body enters the Rebuild Stage. What seems apparent is that these six stages of disease can be used to explain the symptoms of any disease or illness. The following diagram illustrates the process:
Key: the six stages of disease
Before the disease occurs, we feel fine; we are healthy. We go through the day/night rhythm — awake during the day and asleep at night. However, let’s imagine that we’ve been very busy at work, pushing ourselves, sleeping less and working hard, eating fast foods, drinking lots of coffee, drinking excessive amounts of alcohol, and not exercising, which means our vitality and reserves can become depleted. It’s important to note, however, that we can be totally healthy for a UDIN to affect us, but usually these events occur when our vitality or life-force energy is reduced. So let’s go through the six stages:
We experience a UDIN that completely catches us off guard. This is the Unexpected, Dramatic, Isolating shock where we have No Strategy for dealing with the issue. During this time the brain records everything: what we see, hear, feel, taste, smell, and certain words are logged and stored. One of these senses has the most energy attached to it. Usually this is either the tone of a person’s voice, or the look a person gives, or something else visual, such as a piece of jewelry. A sharp, focused sphere, seen as a ring on a CT scan, appears in the brain at a specific location, corresponding to the organ that has been picked to deal with the issue most effectively. This sphere has all the trapped energy that corresponds to the shock, which is also sending out a wave of energy, via the heart, through the whole body and externally through electromagnetic waves. This, in turn, affects our thinking, any emotion gets stored in the gut, the way in which we react socially alters, and where we are in our world, our environment, changes significantly.
Cold, sympathetic nervous system is running.
Here we experience the second stage, which we commonly experience as stress. Our hands and feet are cold; we eat little (and the little we do eat is usually fast food, has a high sugar content, or is very acidic, e.g., processed foods). We might eat sugary carbohydrates, take recreational drugs, or drink excessively during this time because we’re trying to get away from the stress we feel. We skip meals, our blood pressure increases, and we may have nervous and cold perspiration. Obsessive thinking takes over our whole lives. If this stressful stage carries on for any length of time, we lose weight. The blood is directed from the digestive tract to the muscles and vital organs, hence the reason for appetite loss.
We have a high output of glucose and an increased secretion of adrenalin, making faster reactions possible. Plus, we sleep erratically and for short periods of time. Insomnia is common. The organ that is affected changes itself either by necrosis (cell removal), as in the widening of a tube such as a blood vessel or bronchial tube, allowing more fluid/air to travel through it. Or the body builds more cells; as an example, more intestine cells are produced to aid digestion of the issue, or more gland cells are made to produce more milk to nurture a child back to health.
Depending on the type of organ and its arrangement in our body, there will be a growth of fungi, bacteria, or a virus that will go unnoticed because it is in the blood. The microbes are dormant, and the number of microbe cells produced is in direct proportion to the number of cells lost or grown. That means for every cell grown there is an equal number of cells of bacteria grown in the blood, but only if you are exposed to, or have the bacteria in your system. Viruses are produced during this time in a measured amount in accordance with the cell reduction. Sometimes we don’t have the required fungi, bacteria, or virus in our system. If that is the case, then the body will either find it from outside in the environment or it won’t be produced.
Sometimes parasites collect in the body. These seem to be excellent at removing heavy metals, e.g., mercury, from the system, and the body also determines the number of parasites. In the Stress Stage, the parasite is multiplying, getting ready for the next stage.1 Parasites thrive in acidic environments, and in the Stress Stage the body is acidic.
Typical symptoms of the Stress Stage might be constipation, loss of strength in certain muscles, excessive energy, being able to breathe to the bottom of your lungs effortlessly with little or no mucus, flaking of the skin, increase in nasal senses, sensitivity to touch (as in breast glands), and thickening of the lower layer of the skin (dermis).
Unconscious or conscious process.
The UDIN shock is resolved; either we are consciously aware of this happening or completely unconscious that something has been solved. Good examples of consciously being aware would be when we leave a very stressful relationship for good, or an argument gets completely resolved. Unconscious examples would be a reversal happening while we sleep. You wake up with a cold, having gone to bed feeling fine. Or something triggers an association, which unconsciously reminds you of a person. The reversal of the conflict happens in the same sense that triggered it. But it is opposite to the trigger, therefore a different tone that resolves the issue or an opposite picture — e.g., a person looks at you with a genuine smile instead of the angry grimace that was in the original shock. At this point the symptoms start to appear, and we will begin to experience the feeling of the Repair Stage. An example would be when you feel like the weight of the world has been lifted off your shoulders.
Warm, parasympathetic nervous system is running; rest and recuperation.
This stage starts just after the UDIN Reversal, and then the symptoms start to feel unpleasant. You feel the relief immediately in the UDIN Reversal but, depending on the background stress, the painful symptoms may not appear until later on that day — e.g., you may have been in a meeting where you resolve something major, you get the first symptoms of a nasal cold, such as a runny nose, and you feel tired so you stress yourself a little by drinking some coffee. You have to go for a meal that night, but the symptoms get even more intense. You get a sore throat, so you take a cold remedy, which probably contains caffeine and stresses your body a little more to fight off the symptoms. You wake up the next morning with the cold.
During this time, the organ that was under stress goes into repair. If there had been a cell reduction, as in the widening of a blood vessel to allow more blood to flow, then this needs to be repaired. The cells that were taken away in the Stress Stage are replaced. In blood vessels, this results in swelling and a restriction of the blood flow. In muscles, the muscle is repaired and swells up. This is carried out by the body working in homeostasis with the fungi, bacteria, or viruses that were being produced in the blood during the Stress Stage.
In organs where there was an increase in cells (such as in the bowel or the breast glands), the extra cells are no longer required so they are eaten away by fungi or bacteria. If the bacteria are not in the system, then the issue becomes encapsulated; a thin film of skin forms around the extra cells where they lie dormant. In the gut, the parasites start to die off, as they dislike this alkaline environment. Their job has been done.
Extra water is used to support this process, hence swelling is normal where the organ needs to be repaired. The swelling is why we feel pain during this time; however, excessive swelling is due to kidney collecting tubule syndrome. The body directs all the blood toward the digestive organs — we have warm hands and feet. Blood pressure is low, our temperature is higher than normal, and we usually have a fever. We perspire and feel hot. We feel tired and fatigued, our digestive organs receive more blood, and our appetite slowly comes back (but not in the same way as in the Rebuild Stage). Note: antifungals, antibiotics, and antivirals destroy the natural balance of the body — the fungi, bacteria, and viruses (the microbes). However, it is important to understand that in severe cases these medical interventions do save lives.
Short sympathetic nervous system runs; immense stress on the body; also a test for the mind, body, and heart.
The Spike is one of the most important points in the disease process, so much so that I have dedicated Chapter 7 to this phenomenon. This is where most people really think the disease or issue is either reversing or getting significantly worse. The Spike appears to be a biological test, and it also serves another purpose — that of squeezing out the water used in the Repair Stage. It is a challenging time because the symptoms can be so acute and, in some instances, can be fatal — e.g., as in a cardiac arrest.
Some of the typical symptoms are feeling panicky having previously felt totally relaxed, headache (anything from a mild headache up to a migraine), muscle cramps, muscle twitching, epileptic seizures, coughing fits, sneezing fits, and intense itching. Excessive urination is also a common factor during this time. People usually notice that they have to visit the bathroom a lot, and the amount of water passed is significantly greater than the amount they have drunk during the day. The Spike happens halfway between the start of the Repair Stage and the end of the Rebuild Stage.
Parasympathetic nervous system is running, replenishing energy reserves.
After the Spike, we go into the Rebuild Stage. During this time we will still feel unwell, but the main pain has disappeared. The infections will have subsided, but we’re not back to normal yet. We eat more during this period, and it is common to feel ravenously hungry. People tend to put on weight as the body rebuilds its reserves. The main repair is done. But now the body has to ensure that the organs affected are better able to deal with a possible repeat of the problem. Here we experience scarring, a Rebuild.
Our muscles increase in size, our bones are stronger at the fracture site than the surrounding unbroken bone, the skin gets thicker, or the organ generally gets stronger. As the Rebuild is being completed, further symptoms appear. The intestinal walls are rebuilt, and as that happens, our gut can feel sore and we can be sensitive to certain foods. If there was cell degradation, as in the common cold, the nasal passages, larynx, bronchi, or all three cell walls are rebuilt; we feel breathless and sneeze or spit out the excess mucus that was required to earlier repair the cell wall.
An obvious example of this is the excessive skin growth that happens when we cut ourselves. A scab appears excessive to the repair/rebuild, which is happening underneath. When the scab drops off, a scar is left. This is the same for the bronchi mucosa, and this is what we notice as we blow our nose or cough up phlegm. You will see it as yellow, brown, or slightly bloody phlegm. Plus, if you were to look at the bronchi, you would see scarring.
At the end of the Rebuild Stage, we complete the process; we start to feel better and our energy returns. This can take time; the deeper the Stress Stage, the longer this process will take. During this time there may be some remnants of the process: e.g., a scab may take a few more days before it’s ready to fall off or there may still be some phlegm stuck in the bronchi or nasal passages, which we eventually cough up or end up blowing out through the nose. The intestine stops being so sensitive to certain foods. Specific organ swelling decreases and size returns to normality. Any pain subsides and eventually stops.
Eventually we feel normal and all remnants of the Rebuild Stage and any symptoms disappear, except for maybe a scar, encapsulated growths (a thin film of skin is built around the growth) or loose ends of old tissue, which are doing nothing. Generally we feel good inside and normal bodily functions are resumed. The area that was affected usually has no excessive extra biological material around it. There may be some scarring (which tends to be stronger but less durable than the original tissue). Sometimes the repair/rebuild leaves an excessive amount of skin, bone, or material that can be removed, as in a tumor that has been encapsulated, or calcification around a bone. Or there is cell reduction, such as in a dimple with acne scarring. At this time we end up feeling good, and normal day/night rhythm is resumed.
Something really fascinating and worth noting about the six stages is that the length of time for the Stress Stage is often, but not always, equal to the length of the Repair, Spike, and Rebuild Stages put together. And the Spike often happens right in the middle, time-wise. This can mean that a practitioner trained to a high level in Advanced Clearing Energetics with enough information is able to work out exactly when the start of the disease process occurred based on when a certain stage started. I do this regularly with my clients. If I know when a client started experiencing painful symptoms, the Repair Stage, and if I can determine the timing of the Spike, then I can determine the exact time the UDIN occurred. And I’m able to tell clients exactly what time they will start to feel better. In other instances, I am able to prepare them so they can go through the Spike without fear, and in the knowledge that the body is doing what it is designed to do — heal itself.
If we don’t have the necessary bacteria in our system, possibly due to taking antibiotics, then the body will take the bacteria that it needs from its surroundings to complete the Repair Stage. This is where we need to be careful if we’re on vacation or overseas. Usually we rush around like idiots getting everything prepared before we leave. We put ourselves under pressure; arguments are common (especially between partners or spouses). Our boss asks us to complete a complex project in two days (something that would normally take a week), and we have no choice but to work really hard and late. We are frustrated and angry. Other things happen that take up our precious time, making the situation worse. Most likely we experience a UDIN or two. This is a Stress Stage. Finally, we get to our destination and relax. At that time we go into the UDIN Reversal. We make up with our partners. We forget about our boss and that project. All the anger and frustration is forgotten.
The problem arises due to the fact that most of us live in such a sterile environment these days — due to antibacterial soaps, cleaners, daily bathing, etc. — or have taken antibiotics or eaten food that contains antibiotics, we often don’t have the necessary bacteria in our gut to heal ourselves. So the body uses the most appropriate bacteria it can get from the environment — usually from the local food. We then find that a few days into our vacation we end up with diarrhea (the Spike). It isn’t due to the food, or the cooking process, which admittedly can be very unclean. It is because the body gets and uses whatever viruses, bacteria, fungi, or parasites it requires to complete the Repair Stage. In foreign countries these bacteria are a different strain from those we have grown up with in our normal environment, which is why the reaction can be quite violent in some instances.
So when you go to a different country, the microbes are different. The people from the local area don’t get the same reaction from eating their food. A friend of mine from Egypt, Dr. Khaled Al-Damallawy, told me that in Cairo the healthiest kids are from the poorest families. They have built up a stock of microbes from playing in the streets and, even though they can’t afford to have antibiotics or vaccinations, they don’t have anywhere near the same health issues as children from wealthier families. Many people in Egypt are confused by this social paradox, but after Dr. Khaled Al-Damallawy heard about the six stages and how microbes work in homeostasis with the body and the environment, he said it made more sense than other hypotheses.
Going back to the six stages and how people react in most cases, a healthy person will experience a full disease process — a Stress Stage followed by the ‘Repair and Rebuild Stages,’ including a Spike in the middle. But the elegant timing of the process can be interrupted by recreational drugs, stimulants (e.g., caffeine), or taking over-the-counter medications — e.g., painkillers such as acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin), acetaminophen (paracetamol), codeine, ibuprofen, or anti-inflammatories — because they can stimulate the system and elongate the disease process.
Excessive swelling during the healing phase is due to kidney collecting tubule syndrome. This is a separate conflict and relates specifically to the part of the kidneys that regulates water throughout the body. The UDIN that causes this to occur is an issue of feeling completely abandoned or a feeling of total isolation. Another consequence of this is feeling ‘I am not going to make it.’ Terminally ill patients and the elderly (particularly when placed in convalescent homes) often experience this UDIN, as they feel they are literally waiting to die.
The reason the body retains water in these areas is to prevent the body from dying of dehydration. This syndrome dates back millions of years, when humans required a survival system for being left in extremely hot or cold environments without any form of shelter.
This UDIN event causes intense water retention in and around the organ that is going through the Repair or Rebuild Stage. People experiencing this syndrome can get a swelling in the abdomen after drinking alcohol heavily, or around the legs and ankles after doing some form of sport. But it can occur in any part of the body that is going through the Repair or Rebuild Stages. The problem can repeat itself over and over again, as with chronic diseases. Examples of this are arthritis or gaining weight without eating excessively (I have known people who have put on several pounds, literally overnight, without eating anything extra).
Leukemia is another extreme example of this syndrome, being the Repair/Rebuild Stages of a bone marrow healing with this kidney collecting tubule syndrome. Other examples are swollen joints or even whole limbs. I worked with a client whose knee was the size of a small melon; the pain was so bad he was talking to his surgeon about having his leg amputated above the knee.
My son gets croup (laryngotracheobronchitis), a respiratory condition usually triggered by an acute viral infection of the upper airway, and it affects many young children. The medical profession doesn’t know what causes it, but from an Advanced Clearing Energetics perspective, the reason for it is simple and can easily be explained and treated.
My son has a UDIN perhaps from school, typically a fear that someone is going to hit him or take away something that he owns, such as a toy he loves. He lives in the Stress Stage until the UDIN Reversal. This affects his upper bronchial tract, but there are no noticeable physical symptoms, although behaviorally and environmentally he becomes manic, doesn’t go to bed at his normal time, doesn’t eat well, has a lot of excess energy, and doesn’t want to go to school — the Stress Stage.
When the UDIN is reversed he gets a bronchial cold, except he also gets kidney collecting tubule syndrome. His lungs fill with extra water, which doesn’t cause any problem while he is awake, but as soon as he lies down to go to sleep, the water slowly trickles down into his throat causing the horrendous croup cough. There is little or nothing your medical doctor can do except give steroids to reverse the symptoms and push the body back into the Stress Stage. Sometimes antibiotics are prescribed to suppress the bronchial cold. They can take days to kick in and often will do nothing because this is a viral infection, not a bacterial one.
The answer is very simple; during this time I sit Oliver up in his bed, supporting him with pillows. He then sleeps, doesn’t cough, and gets well very quickly. He is now getting to the age where I can probably work with him to clear the UDIN, although it only occurred once last year. He’s four as of 2013.
I was originally taught that kidney collecting tubule syndrome was impossible to reverse, and for many years I tried and failed to solve this problem for clients. However, my landmark event was with a lady in Denmark whose arm had tripled in size. She was in so much pain and her intense screaming was keeping people awake in the five-story terraced apartment building where she lived. I worked with her overnight for 18 hours, and the swelling went down and her arm returned to normal.
Later on I had the same success with other people with limbs that had swollen, but it took a long time to find the UDIN. One such person was Susie Shelmerdine, an EFT and Matrix Reimprinting trainer who had a swelling in her upper gums that lasted over two months; she could not speak during this time, as the swelling affected her that much. While I was working with her, she resolved the UDIN moment (UDIN Reversal), and the swelling subsided overnight.
After I developed Advanced Clearing Energetics, I was able to find the UDIN in minutes instead of many hours, which has transformed this syndrome from something life-threatening and extremely painful into something easily manageable.
Dr. Diana Stephanie-Hunyady, a medical doctor and one of my master students of Advanced Clearing Energetics, said, upon hearing about this syndrome: ‘Kidney collecting tubule syndrome accounts for over 50 percent of all the diseases a doctors sees in their practice,’ and she agreed that this was probably the reason for the symptoms seeming 100 percent worse than they really are.
Doctors try and alleviate this problem by giving diuretics, but they don’t seem to work that well on kidney collecting tubule syndrome; they do stop further increases in swelling, but they don’t decrease the swelling. Steroids, which are often used in these issues, can actually make the problem worse as they exacerbate the kidneys’ energetic reason for producing more water, and therefore increase the water retention and swelling.
If you’re unwell, it is always best to seek a medical diagnosis, but then, if possible, allow the body to go through the six stages of healing without drugs, as this usually works for most healthy people. On the whole, people experience pain and illness in the Repair and Rebuild Stages. Drugs and other therapies are likely to slow down the healing process and can hinder the person from getting well, and we do need to complete the disease process at some time.
I’m not against drugs, and there are times when the effects of these drugs are useful, as in the case of one of my clients with multiple brain tumors. She took a small dose of steroids and was able to function, having been bedridden for a month and unable to move her head because every time she did she would end up with a massive headache. I believe that most brain tumors are due to a ring in the brain healing along with kidney collecting tubule syndrome; the tumor literally collects excessive water in and around the brain relay, which is in its Repair or Rebuild Stage.
A small dosage of acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) is often prescribed for people who have experienced heart problems. This keeps them in a minor Stress Stage. For example, my father-in-law takes a small dose of aspirin daily; he had triple bypass surgery in 1999. He is constantly mildly stressed and also slightly anxious about everything. This is a good thing, because if he went into Repair Stage he could suffer a cardiac arrest in the Spike again which, at his age of 70-plus years, would be very worrying for him. Therefore, it is better to have a little bit of stress than to solve the problem completely, and he seems happy to live with this level of mild anxiety.
Many of us live in a stressful environment in the West, and just drinking large amounts of tea and coffee every day stresses our bodies. At one time I removed all food-related stimulants from my life: tea, coffee, sugar, and processed foods, in order to experience what it was like to live a food-induced stress-free lifestyle. I also gave up red meat because when an animal is killed in a slaughterhouse, the collective fear causes a rush of adrenalin that passes through the body, because the animal is stressed. This means that if you don’t eat steak very often and you have a rare piece of fillet steak, you can get a rush of energy from the meat as your body digests the adrenalin that was in the blood of the slaughtered animal.2
The experience of living without the normal food-induced stress was so enjoyable that I’ve tried to maintain my diet in that way. I also got down to my optimum weight very quickly. However, in reality, traveling and staying with many friends around the world makes it challenging to always stick to this diet.
The fact is that we are healing machines; we go in and out of these stages every day in some form or fashion, and the body is easily capable of adapting to and dealing with these problems. We are designed to do it. It’s only when the shocks are so deep and intense — as in a UDIN shock — that there is a problem, or the shocks repeat themselves as with chronic illnesses or with cancers, which are often due to a decision that the person cannot survive the UDIN.
Just to illustrate this point, I was delivering a training seminar in Bristol, UK, and happened to be talking about the six stages. In the back of the room one of my assistants was typing on his computer, which really annoyed one of the delegates, John, and he developed a tinnitus (the Stress Stage of a hearing conflict). The tinnitus was at exactly the same frequency as the tapping of the keys. This is what happens with tinnitus; the frequency matches the tone that the person doesn’t want to hear. After 30 minutes of this annoying typing, John spoke to the assistant and asked him politely to stop typing. He apologized and stopped. John then experienced a minor loss of hearing for 30 minutes, with a small thumping in his eardrums for one minute halfway (at about 15 minutes), as he went through the Spike. After this time the issue completely cleared up.
The majority of aches and pains in situations like this go unnoticed, but I have found that these six stages seem to work so elegantly that, although there are as yet no research papers that confirm the process of the six stages, the empirical evidence is undeniable. Remember, the six stages involve the sympathetic nervous system followed by the parasympathetic nervous system. Both these systems are completely understood by the medical profession, but they haven’t joined the two. Time and time again, the six stages allow me and other people I’ve trained in Advanced Clearing Energetics to establish exactly the root cause of a disease process by working back from the specific changes a client has gone through.
There is some evidence pointing to the link between the Stress, Repair, Spike, and Rebuild Stages in Bruce Lipton’s groundbreaking book The Biology of Belief.3 The body has 50 trillion cells working and repairing, and it was thought that this process happened simultaneously. However, Lipton found that this was not the case:
‘The mechanisms that support growth and protection cannot operate simultaneously. Cells cannot simultaneously move backwards and forwards.’4
This theory fits with the accepted two different systems — sympathetic and parasympathetic — that, like the cells, operate at different times.
Similarly, a 2005 research paper5 examining the work of Geerd Hamer, and referencing the earlier theories of Aaron Antonovsky, Abraham Harold Maslow, and Viktor Emil Frankl points to the six stages being true.
Dr. George Kulik, an assistant professor of cancer biology and senior researcher, wrote in an article in the US publication Science Daily:
‘Scientists from Wake Forest University School of Medicine are the first to report that the stress hormone epinephrine causes changes in prostate and breast cancer cells which may make them resistant to cell death. These data imply that emotional stress may contribute to the development of cancer and may also reduce the effectiveness of cancer treatments.’6
Certain cells grow in the Stress Stage, such as prostate cancer cells and glandular breast cancer cells, hence the ineffectiveness of many cancer treatments to shrink a tumor because traditional cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy put the body under immense stress.
It is also interesting that scientists look at cells in petri dishes, but omit to consider that stress is linked to disease (most probably after a UDIN shock). Scientists don’t talk to the people whose cells are being worked on. They know the mind and body are linked but fail to include this vital fact when studying a group of cells. A fundamental flaw in all medical scientific research is that ‘the mind’ is not there to influence the cells. In The Intention Experiment, Lynne McTaggart explains in great detail how the phenomenon of the mind influences everything, including the cells in our body.
The medical profession doesn’t know why a cancer grows. They have no idea that some cancers grow after a stressful event has occurred (e.g., bowel and glandular breast cancer), and usually only really show as lumps one to three years later. Some grow in the Repair and Rebuild Stages, such as leukemia, which is the Repair Stage of the bones (along with kidney collecting tubule syndrome) — the Stress Stage is osteoporosis, therefore cell degradation. In the liver, which has ducts leading into the gall bladder, the Stress Stage is cirrhosis; the Repair Stage is hepatoma or hepacellular carcinoma. Interesting recent discoveries suggest that the virus thought to cause this cancer is the hepatitis A, B, C, D, E, and G virus. (The missing hepatitis F virus is a hypothetical virus linked to hepatitis. There have been several candidates for the hepatitis F virus since 1990, but none have been substantiated.) The medical profession tries to kill the virus but hasn’t thought about why the virus appears at this time, in the Repair Stage.
As regards the feared metastasis, or secondary cancers, we can also attribute these to the six stages. The common notion that cancerous cells travel through the body and attach themselves to specific organs at random has never been proven. It is a hypothesis that has little or no scientific or medical grounding. This hypothesis was created because some cells show up in certain places, such as ovarian or testicular cancer cells showing up in other parts of the body, e.g., the lungs. But this happens only in 5 percent or fewer cases. The reason for this is a burst ovarian cyst, usually caused by kidney collecting tubule syndrome, where excessive water collects in and around the organ, making it swell. The burst tissue travels through the body and attaches itself to other organs, which give it a blood supply, and it begins to grow. It is not life-threatening unless it affects a person mechanically, because it will stop growing, in the case of ovarian cysts, after nine months.
The other 95 percent of secondary cancers are made from the same cells in the organ itself. The cells of a primary cancer such as breast cancer do not show up in the lungs as a secondary cancer. Those secondary cells are made of lung cells.
What is causing these secondary cancers? A medical diagnosis of such magnitude as cancer. Imagine that a woman is told she has breast cancer and then is told she has to have the breast removed. Understandably, this can cause a multitude of UDIN moments, and depending on how the woman reacts, could cause any one of a number of secondary cancers, such as:
All of these cancers don’t come from the original cells in the breast but from separate UDIN shocks.
As we delve deeper into the six stages, I’m certain that you will find, as I have and as has everyone I’ve taught and worked with, that these six stages are undeniable. Every disease, from a simple pimple on the face to a life-threatening cancer, has its origin and explanation for growth and healing in the six stages. Even with every spontaneous remission, a person goes through these six stages. During these so-called miracles, the person goes through a really hot, sweaty time where they almost die, only to come out the other side healed: the Spike.
In the next chapter we’ll look at why certain symptoms appear and disappear, and then reappear, why people can be ill for ten years with chronic fatigue or with eczema, or suffer their entire adult lives with IBS or acne. Why people with multiple sclerosis have attacks, and why Parkinson’s patients don’t shake at night but do shake all day. We’ll also take a look at allergies: why they suddenly start and what really triggers them.