Mind Over Disease

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Mind Over Disease

• A Personal Experience
• THINK better to LOOK better to FEEL better and
  get better
• Dr R H Brian Costello

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Applied Techniques

• Rejuvenology is Celebrated
• with
• Main Stream and Complementary Medicine
• Honoured
• By
• The International Council of
• Integrative Medicine

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Mind/Body Medicine Recoveries

• Statistical probability remains beyond
  measurable significance for recoveries
  1998-2006
• Esophageal cancer,
• Renal Cyst
• Enlarged Prostate
• 2 Spinal Fractures,
• Shingles (Twice)
• Bacterial Pneumonia,
• Congestive Heart Disease

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Cancer looks ugly mates!
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Recoveries for New Techniques

• Esophageal Cancer Terminal
• Renal Cyst 5 cm as from
• Intensive Experimental
• Chemotherapy.
• Hand Foot Syndrome.
• Enlarged prostate. 
• Dysphasia and
• Dehydration
• T6 Spinal crack fracture.
• T5 Separate Vertebral crack
• fracture.

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Cancer Cured !

• 2000 CT RESULT
• Confirmed with
• No Trace of Cancer
• or
• Metastases disease

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Auto-Immune System got Shot

• 1999 Shingles
• Auto-immune Trauma
• 2004 Shingles Auto-immune
• Assaults - Depletion
• reaction  
•  

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Spinal Compression Fractures

• 2003-2004 Vertebral
  Anterior Height
• T6 Crushed by 75
• T5 Crushed by 25
• T5 Household Accident 2000
• T6 Head-butted by Pet Camel

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2 Spinal Vertebroplasties

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My Pet Camel Jemma
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Recoveries Continued

• Bacterial Pneumonia.
• Dysrhythmia 
• Congestive heart disease.
• Pleural effusion
• Pericarditis,
• Acute Myocarditis,
• Atelectasis (left lung)
• Cardiomyopathy

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Esophageal Cancer

• 1998 Terminally diagnosed with incurable
• biopsy-proven esophageal cancer
• adeno-carcinoma.  
• The massive tumor RE-GREW TWICE
  aggressively during five months intensive
  chemotherapy and after experimental
  chemotherapy.   

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1998 Cancer Looks Ugly Mate!

• Body Concept Had To Change Quickly
• Methods Look Better to Feel Better

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More Problems To Fix

• 1999  Renal cyst 5 cm as a result of intensive
  chemotherapy (Self-treated) 1999  Enlarged
  prostate. (Self-treated, new technique using
  inguinal muscles)
• Fast Fixing Methods

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Dysphagia Hurts - Pain Combat Methods

• THINK better to LOOK better to
  FEEL better
• Eliminate pain makers as best
  you can
• Then put a bright mask over
  dark pain to
• FOOL
  yourself.

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Denial or Deliberate Masking!

• Self Fulfilling Prophesy Think Well
• New Lets Pretend Techniques

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Projecting the Opposite Image

• Wearing hearts on sleeves looks and feels bad.
  Feedback Eg Suit too big but hidden
  pump.
• Methods Alter Negative Feedback Loop

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Method We Feel How You Look

• Whenever Feeling and looking ill
• Go straight into combat
• Dont be a Sooky Woos
• Thought stoppers
• Helpful friends
• Visual Image
• Music, Dancing and Jokes
• Stress Release Exercises -- Full On!
• Wear nice clothes as distracters

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Practical Self-Treatment

• 6. Avoid excessive eye contact
• 7. Avoid Mirrors or Window Reflections
• 8. Disinhibition methods for hostility
• 9. Continue modified exercise daily
• 10. Self Massage Feet and hands especially.

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More Self-Help Methods

• Concentrate on others NOT yourself
• Have Faith to get up some Hope
• Make reactive depressions short
• Breathing Exercises -- Keep busy
• Use distracters --Aussie US Tai Chai
• Plant into the future
• Start a project that you can
• and WILL complete

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Use short term and long term goals

• My personal experience was a
• Long Term Goal in
• SERVICE BEFORE SELF
• With thanks to Alabama
• 1998 Research Project Completed
• Published from Alabama
• November 2006

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Brians Final Project GDay Mates Guess What?
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US Forensic Examiner Executive Member -- Yours
Truly with Hearty Cheers and Deepest Gratitude
from all of us AussiesFor Americas Un-Selfish
Gifts to Humanity