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Healthful Imaging
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16178 |
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LIFE
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6 / 1989 |
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Jim Smith
Jim Smith is a psychiatrist who lives and practices in
Connecticut. He is the author of two books. |
You probably know that stress is responsible for many modern aliments, from migraines to diarrhea. But did you know that creative thinking can help alleviate many stress-related disorders? When you activate your creative system, you affect the way your body works. Creative imaging has helped many people overcome insomnia, lose weight, stop smoking, and among other benefits, become enthusiastic about life.
Your creative system
While the sympathetic nervous system's arousal subdivision releases adrenalin to increase heart, brain, and muscle action, which cools the skin, the parasympathetic nervous system's creative system releases choline to slow everything down, which gently warms one up. The two systems balance each other.
The choline response occurs when you consciously relax your muscles, or dream, eat, meditate, pray, or take deep breaths. Choline is also released when you feel secure, satisfied, proud, loved, or accepted.
Choline levels increase when you are engaged in intuitive fun. Researchers discovered high levels of choline response in four to eight-year-old children during imagination games.
In 1987, in a study for a major toothpaste manufacturer, researchers from the Image Feedback Lab (IFL), based in Columbia, Maryland, asked shoppers to imagine "whiteness" and "brightness." During the exercise, participants' blood pressure fell, their pulses slowed down, and their muscles relaxed. Their skin temperatures rose comfortably, and their
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