| As a GP Dr David Mickel felt helpless when he | | | | often through life our emotions are not responded |
| was faced with the many many people suffering | | | | to and therefore the body sends physical |
| with the debilitating symptoms labelled as chronic | | | | symptoms, and until we act on these symptoms |
| fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia or ME. This | | | | they get louder and louder to warn you that |
| frustration led to detailed medical and | | | | something in your life needs to be done. |
| complementary health research until Dr Mickel had | | | | For example, imagine you have not eaten since |
| developed a treatment that has now successfully | | | | breakfast and it is fast approaching 8pm. What |
| treated over 400 people with these symptoms | | | | emotions might your body send to you? Your |
| back to normal health. | | | | body sends you clear messages with rumbling, |
| In Mickel Therapy's treatment, one of the basic | | | | faintness, and feelings of hunger. As the head |
| premises is the existence of the body-mind or | | | | ignores these feelings the rumbles will get louder |
| body's intelligence. Our body literally has the ability | | | | and louder. When the head finally listens to the |
| to think by itself without any involvement from | | | | body ands acts on this message and we eat, the |
| the brain (or head). It is your body's job to | | | | body stops sending the 'symptom' until it is |
| protect you. It does this by constantly assessing | | | | needed again. So you can see that emotions and |
| everything going on within you and around you. | | | | symptoms come from the body as an important |
| Its job is then to find a way to communicate | | | | and necessary part of living. And you can see |
| what it thinks to you. Now since it can't talk in | | | | that symptoms will go away when the body sees |
| words - it uses feelings that you experience as | | | | that our head has understood fully and acted |
| sensations or e-motions in your body. This is fine | | | | accordingly? So listening to our body is an |
| when things are going smoothly you act upon the | | | | essential part of being healthy. |
| messages and the emotions go away. However | | | | |