Basic cause of anxiety is the arrival at the brain of more nervous impulses than can be properly sorted out by the brain. In other words, there is incomplete integration of the impulses. A good sleep helps the brain in reaching this integration. We go to bed tense with anxiety, and wake refreshed and with things clearer in our mind after a good night’s rest. Sleep then is a help in the integration of the inflow of nervous impulses. But a regressed state of mind is very much more effective in this respect than is sleep. This is clearly shown by the fact that people with severe chronic anxiety may be given drugs to make them sleep well; but anxiety of any severity is not relieved by this means. However, these people usually lose their anxiety if they can be brought to a regressed state of mind, and if they practise this consistently, the condition is gradually alleviated. In other words, the regressed state of the relaxing exercises aids the integration of the impulses arriving at the brain, and so reduces the general level of anxiety.

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I have a recent newspaper clipping before me. An Associated Press correspondent reports from a medical conference, held in October, 1966 in San Francisco:

The president of the National Arthritis Foundation, Dr. William S. Clark, says medical science will, within a relatively short time, be able to pinpoint the causes of arthritis. It could come, he said, within ten years… Discovery of the causes of arthritis will provide the key to the cure of this disease.”

That statement sums up the present stand of orthodox medicine in relation to arthritis. Medical researchers admit that they do not know what causes arthritis and, consequently, do not know how to cure it.

Biological medicine takes a much more hopeful stand on the problem of arthritis.

Although in all fairness it must be admitted that the final answers to the exact nature and the mechanics of the disease could not be pinpointed in detail in every case of arthritis, the empirical and practical experience of biological therapies and their positive results show that arthritis is caused by a metabolic disorder in the body. The distorted or disordered metabolism, in turn, is affected by health-destroying environmental factors, including faulty nutrition, overeating, emotional and physical stresses, sedentary life, etc.

The prevalent observation of practitioners is that the arthritic patient usually suffers from general deterioration of health in the form of sluggishness in the vital functions of his organs; incomplete digestion and assimilation of foods; impaired elimination of metabolic wastes and toxins from the system; a weakened nervous system and circulation; etc. These systemic disturbances affect the biochemical structure of the various tissues of the body. One of the pioneer practitioners of biological medicine in the United States, Dr. R. P. Watterson, M.D., calls the result of such a systemic disturbance a “biochemical suffocation.”

One of the most characteristic pathological changes observed in rheumatoid arthritis is the degenerative changes in collagen. The changes in collagen—the connective tissues of the body, the intercellular cement—are affected by biochemical changes brought about by metabolic disorders or nutritional deficiencies. The resultant accumulation of the fibrous tissue in the joints and the accumulation of toxic wastes and mineral deposits completes the picture of a fully developed arthritis.

The reasons for the pathological degenerative changes in the tissues leading to crippling arthritis can be found in a number of man’s environmental factors. Some of these are: allergic reactions; results of severe stress or injuries to the joints or related soft tissues; various kinds of infections; etc. However, by far the most important causative factor in arthritis is civilized man’s general deterioration of health and his diminished resistance due to faulty nutrition: overeating, malnutrition due to devitalized diet, vitamin-mineral-hormone deficiencies, etc. In addition to nutrition, other negative factors in man’s environment contribute to diminished vitality and general deterioration of his health. Sedentary life with its resultant impaired circulation and anoxia; constipation; smoking and drinking; contaminated air and water; emotional and physical stresses; lack of adequate rest—all these contribute to man’s bodily deterioration.

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