Cardiovascular Disease-- Mitral Valve Prolapse - Spiritual Insights

Newsletter #34 - Cardiovascular Disease-- Mitral Valve Prolapse

Cardiovascular disease can be broken into three classes involving three different spiritual roots. The first class includes angina and arrhythmias, coming out of Fear, Anxiety and Stress.



Luke 21:26 In the last days men's hearts shall fail them because of Fear .  All of these arrhythmic problems are the result of Fear, Anxiety and Stress because the first receptor cell of fear through the hypothalamus is the heart muscle. Just as the nerve signal is interrupted in mitral valve prolapse, so it is interrupted in heart arrhythmias.


Suppressed stress and anger can reduce white blood cells, as in the case of mitral valve prolapse. For a long time they told us that mitral valve prolapse was the result of an infection, but for several years we have known that mitral valve prolapse is an anxiety disorder. It results from a neurological imbalance coming out of the mind-body connection.

When you are not at peace with God, yourself and others, your body will respond neurologically. There is an interruption of the nerve transmission controlling the mitral valve which regulates flow of blood through the heart.

I have taught that for many years. In fact, we have had great success with the healing of mitral valve prolapse. There are literally hundreds of people who no longer have mitral valve prolapse because of the spiritual insight we have about what is behind the disease.

Mitral valve prolapse is now considered a syndrome. It is associated with a slight imbalance in the autonomic nervous system. The autonomic or unconscious nervous system controls and affects most, if not all, of our body functions and systems. This includes our heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, sweating, gastrointestinal motility and secretions, digestion and sexual responses, to name a few.

Stressful stimuli such as Fear, Rage, Anger or even job pressure can elicit a stress response from our autonomic nervous system, causing the valve to malfunction. It is not able to shut or open properly.
Mitral valve prolapse is a common cardiac condition which is thought to affect ten to twenty percent of the general population. Both males and females are affected, but females outnumber males by three to one. It is hereditary, but not from a genetic standpoint.

Recent studies have shown that approximately 40 to 60 percent of symptomatic mitral valve prolapse patients also suffer from panic attacks. This only confirms what we have been teaching for many years; mitral valve prolapse is an anxiety disorder.

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Stress and the Dirty Dozen

More from Dr. Caroline Leaf...

Stress is the direct result of toxic thinking, and the Dirty Dozen all thrive on stress. The kind of stress that feeds the appetite of the Dirty Dozen is more than an increased heart rate or an uneasy feeling; rather, it is the medical definition for severe strain on your body's systems, including the brain.

Let's look at how stress really affects us.

When you are under extreme stress, chemicals flood your body and create physical effects caused by intense feelings. When those feelings are, for example, anger, fear, anxiety or bitterness, the effects on your health are nothing short of horrific in the long term.

Stress chemicals can be the kind of guests that don't know when they have overstayed their welcome. If they stay, because your system is imbalanced from toxic thinking, eventually they will tunnel deep inside the recesses of your mind, literally becoming part of who you are. Buried feelings of anger, fear, anxiety and bitterness create volcanic buildups in your body. When you internalize wounded emotions, you allow a seething mix of anger, hositility and resentment to develop.

For this reason, hostility and rage are at the top of the list of toxic emotions; they can produce real physiological reactions in the body and cause serious mental and physical illness. Neuroscientists can now track the sequence of reactions through which toxic thoughts, like the Dirty Dozen, carve a harmful path of destruction in your body. But it's not only modern-day scientists who have known about the perils to our health from emotionally burying our heads in the sand. The biblical reference "my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" (Hosea 4:6) demonstrates ancient wisdom and insight about this toxic pathway. Quite simply, knowledge and understanding give you tools you need to sweep away toxic thoughts and emotions.

Future articles will be looking at the Dirty Dozen: Toxic Thoughts, Toxic Emotions, Toxic Words, Toxic Choices, Toxic Dreams, Toxic Seeds, Toxic Faith, Toxic Love, Toxic Touch, Toxic Seriousness, Toxic Health, and Toxic Schedules

Stay tuned!