Physiological Aspects of the Highly Sensitive Person and the

Individualized Body-Mind Therapy (IBMT)

According to Dr. Elaine Aron, the author of the book, Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), about 15-20% of the population may have the trait of high sensitivity. Being an HSP your nervous system is more sensitive to your surroundings. Your brain reacts deeper to the signals sent by your sense organs. You are easily over stimulated, stressed out and overwhelmed. (To determine if you are an HSP, please complete the self-test from Dr. Aron). Psychological aspect of the HSP has been well studied. However, physiological aspect of this trait has not been mentioned and yet discussed. What happens if HSP gets sick? What is the outcome of treating this special group of patients? This following article is trying to answer the question of how to treat highly sensitive patients.

 

I have been practicing energy medicine for many years. Most of my patients are difficult cases and have worked with other healthcare practitioners. After years of taking care of these patients, I realize that most of them belong to HSP and have Highly Sensitive Body (HSB). The reason they ended up in my office is that they need very individualized care. They never respond to general treatment plan well. If the statistics shows that the therapy works for 80% of the population, they always belong to the 20% who are not responding to or have bad reaction to the therapy. What I found out over the years is that the treatment protocol would never be the same for each highly sensitive patient, especially in the beginning of the therapy, even if they have exactly the same symptoms.

 

After industrial revolution especially after the War World II, more and more environmental toxins have showed up. At meantime, our society has become a money-driven stressful society. The toxin and stress eventually pushed our body into a situation that many doctors have never seen in human history. The high toxin accumulation and stressed healing ability (low adrenal function) triggers hyper sensitivity of the immune system. More and more allergies and auto-immune diseases have showed up in the past years. The new pattern of diseases such as the Five As (Asthma, Allergy, Autism, ADHD and autoimmune), as well as fatigue, insomnia, digestive, hormonal and emotional problems are the result of the toxins, malfunction of the immune system and stressed healing ability.

 

Because of the sensitive nature, an HSB may experience more difficulties to deal with toxins and stresses. The physiological aspects of HSB may include the following areas:

 

· Sensitive to emotions: according to ancient Chinese concept, each emotion is processed through specific energetic pathways called meridians. A strong emotional impact can cause meridian blockage, which further causes physiological problems. For sensitive people, emotions have a deeper impact to the body and easily cause blockage of the meridian. Thus HSB may experience more energetic blockages and imbalance in their lives. (Please read Energetic Emotional Therapy for details).

 

· Sensitive to EM frequencies and radiation: HSB is easily overwhelmed by surroundings. The stress is not only from people and events, but also from basic energetic frequencies around us. The usage of electricity, computer, cell phone and TV creates too much stresses to the body. Meanwhile underground radiation in North America such as radon radiation also gives the body stresses. These electromagnetic frequency and radiation often cause switches in our energetic polarity system. (Please read Polarity Switch for details). Polarity switch is deadly for HSB because it creates a chaotic energy communications and makes the stress more damaging to the body.

 

· Easy to develop and hard to manage allergy and sensitivities: HSB who has allergy and sensitivities often complains that the reaction does not happen every time they expose to certain substance. This is because HSB responds to allergens and stressors much deeper than non-HSB does. The outcome of allergy reaction is also more complicated. When the stressor stresses HSB the first time, the immune system remembers not only the stressor itself but also the time, event, body conditions and surroundings together with it. Next time when the exposure occurs, if everything else is different, no reaction will happen. We call these other factors the combination factors. This type of immune memory is called stationary memory. For HSB, sensitivities are harder to detect and the combination factors are often required in desensitization process.

 

· Tendency to develop energy conflicts inside the body: Most sensitivities that I have seen clinically is not typical allergies according to conventional Western concept, but energy conflicts that cause imbalance and metabolic blockages. This type of reaction is similar to autoimmune response, but there could be no allergen-antibody reaction involved. Energetic resistance happens not only to organs and systems but also to nutrients, enzymes, hormones and neurotransmitters. The presence of the energetic conflicts leads to blockages of metabolic and detox pathways and in turn contributes to development of the chaotic stage of HSB.

 

· Different responses to medication and therapies: HSB often responds to treatment differently from non-HSB. Because of the sensitive nature, their treatment has to be low dose, very precise and perfect in timing. Otherwise their response would be either not optimal or adverse. HSB condition also changes a lot. Thus the treatment protocol has to follow the change all the time.

 

· Tendency to have adrenal/pituitary malfunction: HSB is sensitive to many factors. Almost everything bothers them and triggers adrenal stresses. Long-term stress causes malfunction of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal system, which is the cause for insomnia, fatigue, anxiety and depression and makes the sensitivity get worse. Adrenal malfunction is the major difficulty to gain back the healing ability.

 

From the years of treating HSB I have gradually gained some experiences dealing with this special population of patients. The unique nature of the HSB is the presence of an energetically chaotic stage in the body. This outside layer of the disease is characterized by high inflammation, toxin, allergy and autoimmune response. The energetic system is so chaotic that many energetic pathways are blocked and the immune system is attacking the body’s own organ and tissue as well as many nutrients and enzymes. Without solving the initial layer of the disease, the body’s overall function can not reach to an optimal condition and any type of therapies may not have an optimal result. Especially if the detox pathway is not open, any detoxification therapy will lead to more chaotic response. The patient may show server adverse reaction to the therapy as well.

 

The timing and sequence of therapies are very important for treating HSB. Over the years I developed a three stage energetic program just for the highly sensitive patients. I called it Individualized Body-Mind Therapy (IBMT). Every time if I go out the order, either because I try to rash the healing process or the patient tries to push the therapy faster, the end result is always bad. Either the patient felt very bad or the result is not optimal. Thus I learnt how to follow the sequence of the healing. Do not rash at any time. Here is the summary of the three stages:

Individualized Body-Mind Therapy (IBMT)

A three-stage energetic program for the highly sensitive patients

 

I. Chaotic Stage	II. Detox/Balance Stage	III. Healing Stage
Signs: · Tried many therapies and supplements but not helping · Sensitive and/or respond differently to multiple substances Electrodermal testing shows meridian blockages, high toxicity and polarity switch IBMT: · Polarity remedies · Meridian balance with homeopathy and herbs · Allergy desensitization to stabilize immune system · Digestive support with enzyme and probiotics · Detailed emotional therapy	Signs: · Symptoms are somewhat lessened but still there · Inflammation goes down and overall condition is better · Sensitivities are reduced Electrodermal testing shows better balance and decreased toxicity IBMT: · Polarity remedies · Candida therapy · Parasite therapy · Systematic detox with homeopathy · Hormonal balance with natural remedies · Detailed emotional therapy	Signs: · Initial Symptoms are controlled but experience ups and downs · Inflammation level and toxicity remain low · Sensitivity is minimal but off and on Electrodermal testing shows more energy deficiency IBMT: · Polarity remedies · Leaky gut healing with homeopathy and herbs · Adrenal healing program · Regeneration, repair and systematic support · Addressing Miasm · Detailed emotional therapy
· If homeopathic remedy causes detox response, structural imbalance has to be addressed. We highly recommend patient to see Craniosacral or osteopathic practitioner for manipulation

 

Clinically there could be overlapping between each stage. But the focus of the therapy should always be clear. If we follow the sequence of the therapies, many adverse reactions can be prevented. Since HSB is sensitive to many stresses including EMF and radiation, they have a tendency to redevelop the chaotic stage. The first layer problem has to be rechecked periodically and monitored through out the whole program.

 

Many natural and energetic therapies help the body by tapping into body’s information and controlling system and signaling the body to heal. HSB responds to these energetic therapies well but also develop resistance to specific remedy or therapy easily. Clinically we have observed that for HSB each remedy or therapy has only a short window to work. Initially the patient feels better with the remedy and the remedy quits working after a while. During the short window of time, the body develops some resistance to the remedy while the body remains in the chaotic stage. On the other hand, a combination of different modalities such as homeopathy, herbal medicine, nutritional supplementation, allergy desensitization and acupuncture always works better than a single modality. The synergetic effect of different modalities pushes the HSB out of its chaotic stage quickly before the resistance is developed. Timing is crucial in this case. Once the body is out of the chaotic stage, the meridian balance will return to normal and the healing ability is re-achieved.

 

IBMT helps HSB restore healing functions. It is consist of three unique features that other programs may not have: 1) Introducing timing concept, especially the initial chaotic layer of problem and the three phases of healing; 2) Emphasizing synergetic effect from different energetic and natural therapies; 3). Applying remedies very precisely and very individualized. No matter what disease you have as long as it involves immune and toxins, IBMT is a good start. It focuses on stabilizing immune system and restoring healing ability. After IBMT, all other therapies will work better.