(Infertility, obesity, irregular bleeding and anovulation)

Here is a Native American female who has been trying to become pregnant for the last five years or so. She has been having irregular cycles. She has had some hormonal attempts at regulation of her menstrual cycles. She is also obese and has been treated with agents to promote more insulin activity in her blood.

We then have a conversation about the five way energy flow systems which can be used to understand Traditional Chinese Medicine supporting a) adaptation/change, b) incorporation of energy, c) internal flow of energy, d) use of energy, and e) recycling of used energy. This is much as we described in the previous discussion Weight gain and Menorrhagia. We discuss how the dysfunction in the systems is related to functional blocks in the arrangement between the nervous system, endocrine system and the emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. (Conceptually, in Quantum Mechanics terms, here we may consider the spirit to be the energetic body in connection between the individual and everything else that exists.) We discuss how the stimulation of one system affects the others. For example, the stimulation of the system portion for adaptation slows down the system portion related to incorporating energy but speeds up the system portion handling delivery of energy. We talk about how turning on the adaptive response leads to activity in humans interpreted, in the Western Medicine view, as fight or flight. Fight or flight lumps all the changes together, however. 

We talk also about the net result, on the system that incorporates energy, and how it is that this causes the storage/breakdown of energy (glucose) in the body. We discuss that repetitive turning on of the Adaptive Response, without winding down to return to balance, tends to result in a heightened responsive state.

When asked when she first put on significant weight, she replies that this began at age fifteen when she went away from home to a boarding school. She states that she was, at that time, ostracized because of her appearance and ethnicity. Her response to this was to feel bad (dysphoric) about it and that she alleviated this by eating more, which made her feel better (euphoric). She was advised that this maladaptive response led to her constantly eating more, and to gain more weight. 

Ultimately, this weight affected how her body metabolized its steroid hormones, which in turn affected her menstrual cycle. This weight also affected the way the insulin in her body and her menstrual cycles as well. Collectively these in turn contributed to her infertility. 

This was further complicated by her being Native American, which gave a different response to high volume carbohydrates. It was explained in this way. The absence in the Native American diet of carbohydrates in large quantities for the past 3,000 years or more had a tendency to create a great desire for carbohydrates. This was superimposed on the decreased ability to handle carbohydrates because of the lack of exposure. 

Incorporating this into a Quantum Mechanics framework we are able to see that consciousness is making choices about perspectives in relationships. These perspectives determine the experience of the individual consciousness. The event that determines this experience, being considered, is actually the event that takes place when she is a fifteen year old girl. The event of being ostracized created a perspective of being subject to hurt by others.  From this arose an adaptive response. The response chosen is complicated by the fact that it has no end, as for example does fighting. This response continues indefinitely until degraded and then the cycle is repeated. This perspective of seeing oneself as not being good enough, then attaching an activity to produce the opposite sensation in the body, produces a series of outcomes. These are experienced as weight gain, infertility, irregular bleeding and the other symptoms.

Different outcomes from those mentioned actually require a change in the original perspective. This perspective, of being subject to someone else’s created reality of the individual not being good enough when changed, will actually complete the unending adaptive response.

Supportive to this, is changing the conditioning that has been an overlay to this.

This conditioning is essentially the idea that the issue can be dealt with at the level of stopping eating. This usually results only in a starvation response in the body slowing metabolism down, ultimately leading to more weight gain. This conditioning can be broken by eating frequent small meals every four hours or so, honoring the natural rhythm of the body in feeding itself.

It is through a series of efforts directed at shifting perspectives, and supporting the natural body tendencies, that one can achieve change that is permanent.