A letter to our readers

1.
The Bermuda Triangle of Medicine
- People who can't say no
2.
Cello Requiem for Me
- A girl who was too kind to be honest about her feelings
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Is there such a thing as good stress?
- Why we need to learn how to process emotions
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The high price of burying emotions
- From Lou Gehrig to Stephen Hawking, ALS
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Why did the former First Lady get cancer?
- People who are not good enough no matter how good they are
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You have your place in my life too, Mom.
- A history of breast cancer passed down through generations
7.
The tragedy of a comedian who wanted to care for everyone
- Stress, hormones, oppression, and cancer
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Something good happened with this disease.
- The Truth About Life Revealed by Prostate Cancer
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Are there personality traits that make you more prone to cancer?
- A woman who had to take care of her parents even after they died
10.
55 percent solution
- Physiological phenomena that appear in the placebo effect
11.
It's all her fault
- Women's Guide to Overcoming Irritable Bowel Syndrome
12.
I'm going to die from the head down
- An Alzheimer's patient who felt the opposite of what was said
13.
The boundary that separates me from others
- The ability to express anger given by ankylosing spondylitis
14.
The Biology of Interpersonal Relationships
- What stress does an asthma attack indicate?
15.
Biology of Deficiency
- The gap of love from physical intimacy to close separation
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Stress that has persisted across generations
- Why I don't need to blame my parents
17.
The Biology of Faith
- The physiological function of emotions is more powerful than genes
18.
The power of negative thinking
- Take off your rose-colored glasses and face the truth.
19.
The 7 As for Healing
- A journey toward light, from recognition to confirmation

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“Your emotions change the cells in your body!”
Interviews with hundreds of patients about their lives, from asthma to cancer.
A controversial work that delves into the physiology of emotions that are more powerful than DNA!

“The tendency to satisfy the needs of others before considering one’s own is a common pattern among people with chronic illness.
This type of coping style means that self-boundaries become blurred and confusion between self and non-self occurs on a psychological level.
The same confusion follows at the cellular, tissue, and body levels.
“If the immune cells that rebel against themselves are not destroyed or rendered harmless, they will attack the body’s own tissues.”
-From "When the Body Says No", p. 309

Why did a child have to become the guardian of his parents?

The author of this book, Gabor Mate, is a Holocaust survivor.
He spent his first years in Budapest under Nazi rule, where most of his family was killed or exiled by the Nazis.
The author, who spent his childhood facing extreme pain every day, had to become his own guardian.
He made it his nature to suppress his emotions, endure pain, and be considerate of his parents' suffering.
Although the author is an internist, he has published various books related to human psychology, such as 'Attachment Relationships Between Parents and Children,' 'Attention Deficit Disorder,' and 'Addiction,' and this was due to his reflection on and healing of his own emotions.


In this book, the author says that if you don't change your self-sacrificing coping style as an adult, your body will reject it and attack you.
Mental wounds manifest in many ways, from asthma to rheumatoid arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer.
This book features interviews and detailed reflections on the lives and experiences of hundreds of patients, including the genius cellist Jacqueline du Pré, baseball player Lou Gehrig, the great physicist Stephen Hawking, President Ronald Reagan, and First Lady Betty Ford. The author suggests a painful but essential journey to discover the innate wisdom that resides within us all.

The mechanism by which your emotions create illness

A key word in the mechanism by which emotional pain creates physical illness is ‘the biology of belief.’
Through their relationships with their parents, children determine whether the world is lovable and acceptable, or a hostile object that must be kept in a perpetual state of hypervigilance.

What a child perceives about the world is stored in the memory of the cells.
When these influences become chronic stress, the developing nervous system receives repeated electrical, hormonal, and chemical messages that the world is unsafe and even hostile.
What is perceived in this way is programmed into our cells at the molecular level.
Molecular biologist Bruce Lipton calls this process the “biology of belief.”
All the wrong unconscious beliefs like “I always have to be strong”, “It’s not right for me to be angry”, “I have to take responsibility for the whole world” are just misunderstandings created during this process.


The human potential ensures that the biology of these beliefs, even if deeply rooted physiologically, is not irreversible.
Whether you choose traditional medicine, alternative therapies, Eastern healing practices, or psychotherapy, the key to healing is the individual's active, free, and informed choice.
We must be free from external situations that are full of stress.
But that is only possible if I first free myself from the oppression of the deeply ingrained 'biology of belief'.

The power of expression that ankylosing spondylitis gives you

Sometimes, the signals your body sends you can provide positive wisdom.
Robert, a union activist with ankylosing spondylitis, says his condition has given him the ability to express his anger.
“I have an advantage over other people when it comes to getting angry.
I never yell at anyone.
Just by taking a deep breath, I can clearly convey my intentions to the other person.
One of the advantages of ankylosing spondylitis is that it causes the ribs to harden, so both the front and back ribs become fixed.
To make your voice stronger or control how you speak, you need to breathe with your diaphragm.
Normal people cannot breathe there.
Because of my illness, I have to breathe with my diaphragm.
This state allows me to better regulate my emotions and steer the conversation in my favor.”

Some research points to the intriguing possibility that the painful inflammation of rheumatoid arthritis may be protective.
Joint flexibility was associated with a reduction in stressful events one week later.
“These results have important clinical implications,” the researchers concluded.
“The dynamic interrelationship between social conflict-causing events and joint pain explains the homeostatic system by which negative social relationships are regulated through the exacerbation of disease.”
In other words, the recurrence of the disease forces patients to avoid stressful interpersonal relationships.
It means that it is not a body.

Why We Don't Need to Blame Our Parents

This book, which seeks the cause of physical illness in childhood emotional experiences, says that there is no need to blame parents for having dark emotional experiences.
This book explains that trauma and stress are inherited.
This phenomenon of inherited trauma is evident in numerous cases, including “Natalie, who has multiple sclerosis, whose older brother was an alcoholic and died of throat cancer, her younger sister was schizophrenic, her uncles and aunts were alcoholics, her maternal grandfather was an alcoholic, and her son has ADHD and struggles with drug addiction.”
If we understand that the family history of trauma is passed down through generations, then blaming parents becomes a meaningless concept.
Journalist and author Lance Morrow succinctly captured the essence of stress, which has been passed down through generations:
“Generations are boxes within boxes.
Within your mother's violence, you discover another box containing your grandfather's violence.
And inside that other box (which you suspect, but don't know for sure) you might find a box with some sinister, secret energy.
“Stories and stories continue to unfold over time.” John Bowlby, a British psychiatrist who scientifically explained the importance of attachment in infancy and childhood, said, “Once you recognize this fact, the thought of seeing your parents as bad people quickly disappears.”


A book for all those who feel pain in body and mind

In the international bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie Schwartz, a terminally ill ALS patient, strives to prove that "dying" is not synonymous with "useless."
But a question arises.
The question is why it was necessary to prove it.
No human being is 'useless', whether a helpless baby, a helpless patient, or a dying adult.
The point is not to prove that 'dying people are useful,' but to reject the plausible notion that 'you need to be useful to be valued.'
We don't have to sacrifice ourselves for others by becoming someone we are not.

Although many diseases, from asthma to cancer, are covered and hundreds of clinical cases are presented, this book is not just for patients suffering from physical illness.
Everyone has probably experienced both mental pain and physical pain at least once.
When we avoid emotional pain, our bodies begin to attack themselves.
Although psychology books are in the spotlight, there are few books that explain the pain signals the body sends in a way that is accessible to the general public.
I recommend readers to read it.