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According to Dr. Bach’s philosophy it becomes clear that:

1. The basic cause of all troubles is the obstruction which a man allows to be placed in his chosen way of life or puts in the chosen life of some other person.

2. Whenever a person ignores the guidance provided by his inner voice and acts against his conscience, his mental peace is disturbed.

3. Physical ailment as such has no meaning; it is an expression of the mental disturbance. As soon as his mental state improves, the physical troubles disappear.

Thus while treating a patient no consideration of his physical troubles is taken into account—whether it is headache or diarrhoea, nausea or vomitting, stomachache or sneezing—no physical symptom has any relevance in the formation of prescription.

How these physical troubles have affected the mind and changed his mood is of importance. Whether it is fear or hopelessness, anger or irritability, hate or envy, doubt or conviction, the prescription is based on the mental symptoms alone, and as the remedy succeeds in rectifying the mood of the patient, the physical symptoms automatically disappear.

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at the funeral of Winston Churchill, the novelist Rebecca West summed up the feelings of those acquainted with the great British statesman: “Really, the world will not come to peace with itself except as it acknowledges that some men are simply superior.” Yet Churchill himself suffered from classic harm obsessions: intrusive impulses to suicide. They did not interfere into his life in a major way, and it is not at all certain that Churchill had diagnosable OCD, but his obsessions were anxiety provoking and a nuisance.

Churchill once confided to his personal physician, Charles Moran: “I don’t like standing near the edge of a platform when the express train is passing through. A second’s action would end everything. I like to stand right back, and if possible to get a pillar between me and the train.” Because of similar obsessional impulses to jump to his death, Churchill didn’t like to travel by boar. “I don’t like to look down into the water,” he once told Moran. “A second’s action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.” For the same reason, Churchill didn’t like to sleep in rooms with access to a balcony.

Yet Churchill was not suicidal. As is always the case with obsessional, to follow through on his tormenting thoughts was the last thing he wanted. He explained to Moran, “I don’t want to go out of the world at all in such moments. I’ve no desire to quit this world, but thoughts, desperate thoughts, come into my head.”

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Overweight binge eaters have greater and more frequent hunger than overweight nonbinge eaters. This occurs in spite of the fact that overweight individuals in general are less likely to know when they are actually hungry than are people who are not overweight. As I mentioned in the last chapter, your hunger may be more a function of emotions or the availability of food than real hunger.

In spite of this, researchers have measured the gastric capacities of people with binge-eating disorder. Gastric capacity means just what it sounds like—how much your stomach can hold. Chronic overeating results in your stomach being able to hold more. Bulimics have significantly increased gastric capacities. When overweight individuals are tested, binge eaters also have increased gastric capacities but overweight nonbinge eaters do not show this pattern.

When your stomach’s capacity is increased, it takes more food to satisfy you. Over time, your binges may increase in size because you rarely feel full with a moderate amount of food.

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