Table Of ContentThe Only Answer to Stress, Anxiety and
Depression
Table of Contents
1. The Two Voices of Health
2. The Dr. Coldwell Promise
3. The Great Challenge we Call Life
4. THE INSTINCT BASED MEDICINE® SYSTEM™
5. The Foundation to Eliminate Stress in Every Area of your Life
6. Stress: The Root Cause of All Diseases
7. How to define and Eliminate the symptoms and causes of stress
8. Dealing Effectively with Stress
9. The Dietary Causes of Stress
10. Living a Life in Excellent Physical and Mental Health
11. Effective Communication Inside and Out
12. The True Secret of Stress Free Living
13. Workshop For Setting Goals
14. The IBMS™ Stress Reduction Audio System
15. Examples of Self-healing with IBMS™
16. Get Your Life in Balance!
Foreword
The Two Voices of Health
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 reads—
and follows—this 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 care—of which Dr. Coldwell is—and 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 health—and recovered wealth—of 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 and—predictably—said 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 patient’s 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
body’s 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.
Ironically, when Professor Bounias, a man who we not only respected
intellectually, but loved personally, and referred to as our “French Scientist-
in-Law” because we spent so much time together, traveled together to
meetings, etc, and regarded as a beloved family member, developed signet
cell cancer (a virulent type of stomach cancer), although he came to us for
treatment, it was only because he knew he should, not because he wanted to
live.
How did we know that? First of all, although he knew the success rate
of our work with cancer patients, he waited four months to call us and tell
us his diagnosis. During that time he did no treatment, not even through
enhancing focuses and stress relief, although he understood very well how
powerful that could be. Instead, he waited.
After four months, he called us and told us that he had a rapidly
progressing tumor. I immediately arranged for a ticket to be waiting for him
at De Gaulle airport in Paris the next morning. He took the plane and
arrived at our office.
After getting him settled in his hotel, we began treating him. In the first
NeuroBioFeedback session, after his arrival, we were setting goals (as Dr.
Coldwell teaches you to do in his book) and asked him to see, hear, feel,
smell, taste what it would mean when his health was perfect. He did not do
that. Instead, he said, “I have done all I have come here to do. My work on
this planet is finished.”
No amount of input from us had any impact. His mental/emotional
image was that he was finished. Because we loved him, we did not accept
that and proceeded to conduct our treatments. Within days after he arrived,
he needed emergency surgery because the cancer caused serious internal
bleeding. The surgeon came out of the Operating Room and told us that he
was so riddled with cancer that there was absolutely nothing to do but make
him comfortable and make funeral arrangements.
We did just the opposite and three weeks later, when another surgery
was performed to debulk, or reduce the volume of the tumor, I was present
in another Operating Room when the surgical oncologist stared down in
wonder and said, “There is virtually no tumor here! There is only one tiny
patch on the outside of the esophagus! My GOD! What have you been
doing?”
Our beloved friend, however, had other plans for himself. As Dr.
Coldwell says so beautifully, “I can cure the disease, but I cannot cure every
patient.” Professor Bounias abruptly terminated all treatment, said goodbye
to us for the last time and went home to France to die. The cancer was
curable. His determination not to live longer was terminal.
Use Dr. Coldwell’s book wisely; use it deeply and use it well.
Remember that every page is full of both wisdom and science and even if
the process is unfamiliar, or even uncomfortable, the resolution of stress
through its mental/emotional/neurological/physical detoxification and
replacement with healthy neural connections, which then lead to healthy
mental/emotional and physical outcomes is the doorway to health,
empowerment, authentic living and stress free accomplishment and joy in a
healthy body, mind, heart and spirit. Because, you see, the distinction
between them is artificial. There is nothing in the mind that is not
represented in the body. There is nothing in the body that is not represented
in the mind. And the spoiler, the flat tire of the elegant
mind/body/heart/spirit vehicle of consciousness, is stress.
“Eustress,” or positive stress, is a mobilizer. No one gets sick or dies
from the pumped up energy of joy, accomplishment, delight, dedication and
devotion. But pathological stress kills. So teaching you how to turn stress in
power, to eustress and accomplishment is a great gift.
Take Dr. Coldwell at his word: stress causes disease. Learn how to
reformat stress at the deepest levels and the cause of the disease is out of the
way. Then the magnificent, instinct based healing system which you are
endowed with can take over, with a little help from its friend: you!
Be well. Be joyous and be free of the destructive impact of killer
stress. There really is only one answer to stress. You’ve got it in your hands.
Use it.
Rima E. Laibow, MDMedical DirectorNatural Solutions Foundation
Promise
The Dr. Coldwell Promise
Dear Reader,
I promise that if you read and practice this program your life will never
be as it was before. You will learn how to take charge of your feelings, your
behavior and your energy so you will finally be able to take control over
every part of your life.
Your future will no longer be a fearful, unaccountable and
uncontrollable occurrence, lacking conscious design, but the logical result
of conscious planning.
This book you hold in your hands is a powerful manual that can
change every area of your life. It will help you to turn your life and the lives
of those around you into an adventure, an experience, a pleasure, and above
all it will offer you the opportunity to be free of the influence and
manipulation of others.
With the information contained in these pages you will at last have the
opportunity to use your unlimited potential every day, so you can make
your life continuously more successful, harmonious, content and happy. In
short, you now have the opportunity to change your life forever and to
shape it into the masterpiece it should be.
Your new friend
—Dr. Leonard Coldwell
Preface
The Great Challenge we Call Life
IBMS™—Instinct - Based - Medicine® - System™
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I have written this book with the latest information pertaining to the
science of success, success training and conditioning, and with the
information made available in personal motivational conditioning. Stress is
simply the response to a threat, real or imagined, and the more we feel our
life is threatened (whether it’s financially, physically, mentally or a
relationship, a job situation, or simply the need for life’s recognition from
our peers etc. ) the better the chance that this stress will either trigger a
flight or fight response. Stress is triggered when we feel we cannot fight or
run away from a dead-end job or relationship and we feel we are stuck with
it. The more we hate our situation or cannot stand it anymore, the more
mental and emotional stress we create—feeling of helplessness—causing
depression or/and anxiety. Mental and emotional stress is the main cause—
86% to 95%—of all illness. Illnesses are usually caused by living in
constant fears, worries doubts, lack of self love and self esteem,
hopelessness and most of all lack of success in all parts of life. Anxiety is
simply the reaction to stress, causing you to feel overwhelmed by life itself
or certain parts of life or tasks, goals etc. Depression is nothing less then the
knowledge life could be better than it is right now—the feeling of losing,
being out of control or simply having no hope! Depression and anxiety is
always caused by not doing the right actions and not having a true
foundation built on your own individual personality, your individual
character traits, your common sense and instinct! Living with compromises
against yourself on a regular basis is the guarantee for one or all: Stress,
Anxiety or Depression. With this book I will help you to create a stress,
anxiety and depression proof life! I will give you the education tools and
coaching you need to learn how to see and treat life’s “problems” and how
to see them as “challenges” and I will give you the knowledge and action
plans as to how to take on this great opportunity—this great change that we
