PsychoNeuroImmunology (PNI).
Purpose: Improve the communications to the immune system.
The best way to sum up psychoneuroimmunology or PNI, is that your beliefs become your biology.
An obvious example of this can be seen at any football match, coming into the last few minutes, your team is on the attack, you think/hope you are going to score a winning goal, your whole physiology changes. You might stand up, become more animated and your heart rate and blood pressure will almost certainly increase.
Whatever you think and feel at an emotional level, literally, not just metaphorically, translates to every one of the 50 trillion cells in your body and has a big impact upon the health of your team.
PNI, brings together information from; psychology, neurology, endocrinology and immunology. It teaches us that people’s state of mind influences not just their mental health, but also their physical health, and explains scientifically for the first time, how the mind and body play together to keep a clean sheet in the game of life.
In the early 1970s, scientists discovered that there was a little game of ball passing going on between the immune system and the nervous system. Balls of chemicals called immunopeptides were being kicked out by the immune system to the nervous system.
Then, Candice Pert, a brain biochemist at the National Institute of Mental Health in America and author of the best-selling book: “Molecules of Emotions,” found the immune system itself had players (receptors) that could receive a pass (signal) from basically anywhere on the field of play (the body).
In other words, your nervous system, hormonal system and every other system in the body, are in direct communication with your immune system.
There is in effect, a passing game being played out in our bodies between all these different teams, which is heavily influenced by the way we feel, how we act and even the way we look.
Negative emotions can have detrimental effects upon health, contributing to and precipitating a number of physical conditions; heart disease, peptic ulcer disease and psoriasis to name but a few.
Whereas, positive emotions such as, happiness and love, can have Premiership Health inducing qualities, by boosting your immune system, improving cardiovascular performance and even the functioning of the brain.
Video: PNI Introduction
Video: The Power of the Mind – Body Connection
Scouting Report: PNI Research Society