Auto-immune disorders are characterised by your immune system producing antibodies which attack your healthy tissue instead of attacking bacteria and viruses. Lupus is the most common auto-immune condition among my clients, but I have also seen great results with rheumatoid arthritis, Crohns disease, scleroderma and coeliacs disease. My longest term client got lupus when she was 7 years old. She came to me in her 70s. She got rid of all her symptoms within a week and said she was the healthiest she could ever remember being.
There are two main factors – the stress response and unresolved emotion.
When your body is stuck in a stress response, a huge amount of your energy is being used to keep your system on red alert to fight tigers. This can lead to your immune system becoming depleted and unregulated.
I have also observed a pattern of guilt among my auto-immune clients. I became curious – why do so many auto-immune clients also suffer from guilt? Auto-immune conditions are your own immune system attacking your healthy cells. What is guilt? You attacking yourself. It’s the perfect emotional metaphor. I have observed that when my auto-immune clients resolve their guilt issues, they get massive improvements to their immune system also.
The Switch is a four-day training programme in a small group setting. You will learn about how stress causes health problems, how mind and belief patterns can unknowingly exacerbate stress, plus how to calm the stress response to allow your body to start healing naturally.
You will also learn to identify the underlying cause of your illness (often guilt, but not always) and resolve that pattern too.
An added bonus of doing The Switch is that you won’t just resolve your illness – you will have techniques to work on other health issues, emotional patterns or enhance any area of your life. This is a tool for life.
If you don’t feel quite ready to jump into a four-day course, you might like to start with our webinar series, which gives an overview of mind-body health, the role of stress and thinking patterns, and some basic techniques to start using on yourself. This webinar is a general approach, rather than being specifically about auto-immune disorders. For some people, it’s enough on its own, and for others, it is their inspiration and lead-in to doing the full Switch programme.
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1. Get your hope back about recovery being possible by watching some of the movies on this website. Just knowing that there is an answer can help people to relax and calm their stress response and start getting improvements.
2. Start actively reducing your stress response by doing things like meditation, breathing exercises, and activities that you find particularly relaxing.
3. If you are good at guilt, start challenging these patterns. Decide to only take on what is yours to take on. Choose to learn from mistakes, choose a new course of action and then discard the guilt. Guilt is only useful to you in the short term as a learning tool. Once you’ve learnt from it, let it go.
If these suggestions fix your auto-immune issues – FANTASTIC!
If these very simple interventions are not enough for you, that’s OK. We have a lot of far more comprehensive techniques and education available at The Switch that will allow you to make bigger transformations.
* Disclaimer: Mel Abbott is not a medically trained doctor. She is trained in psychology and neuro-linguistic programming. She uses mind-body interventions to help calm the stress response and allow natural healing to occur in the body. This can be used alongside mainstream treatments if you choose. She does not offer diagnoses or medication advice. She recommends that clients return to their doctors after her treatment to confirm that they no longer have their condition and to be advised about safe weaning from their medication.
Mel does careful assessments prior to the programme and only offers places to people whom she thinks would benefit from it. She follows up with all her clients at several junctions after their course and collates the data from their feedback forms to produce the statistics on this website. She is therefore confident that her interventions are helping over 80% of her clients to achieve significant improvements to their health. While many clients report that they have made a full recovery, Mel cannot guarantee this outcome. So far there are no independent research studies or peer reviewed journal articles about The Switch®, though she would welcome such studies to take place.
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