by The
Writers Group
©
December 2016, L.D. Wilson Consultants,
Inc.
All information in this article is for
educational purposes only. It is
not for the diagnosis, treatment, prescription or cure of any disease or health
condition.
This
is a very interesting hair mineral analysis pattern. I call it the lifestyle pattern, or out of integrity pattern.
Definition. The pattern is present whenever the
calcium/magnesium ratio in a hair sample that has not been washed at the
laboratory is greater than 13.5:1.
The higher the ratio above 13.5, the more important is the imbalance.
Basic meaning. When this pattern is present on an
initial or a retest hair analysis, it indicates that something in a personÕs
lifestyle or outer life is interfering with health.
Basic causes.
Situations that cause this pattern are somewhat different in adults and in
children.
In adults, the causes are:
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Job or career problems.
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Close relationship difficulties, such as remaining in a marriage when one
should leave, or not being willing to work on the marriage to improve it.
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Drug use, including any use of marijuana.
Social drinking of alcohol, however, does not cause the pattern. This seems unusual, but it is
true. This is one reason I cannot
ever recommend the use of pot or CBD oil.
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Homosexuality in men or women causes it.
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A bad attitude, usually a negative attitude about life.
In children, causes are:
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Family or parent-related issues. A
common one is a bad attitude of a child toward his parents. Child abuse will also cause the
pattern.
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School problems.
History. This
pattern was discovered after Dr. Paul EckÕs passing in 1996. We have observed it many hundreds of times,
since then.
When
the calcium/magnesium ratio is above about 13.5 on an initial hair mineral
analysis, the following appears to be the case:
1. It is not about
carbohydrates in the diet, or only about the diet. This is important as the elevated Ca/Mg
previously was thought to relate only to the amount of carbohydrates in the
diet.
It
is possible that the carbohydrates are excessive and one is exceeding oneÕs
carbohydrate tolerance, but the spiritual defensiveness pattern means far more
than this.
2. It has to do with a
factor in a personÕs lifestyle or attitude that no longer serves the
person. This might be:
a. A personal relationship
that is not working well for a person.
This could be a marriage, but it can also be any personal relationship,
such as parent to child or some other.
b. A work or job-related
relationship or situation that is not working to the
personÕs best interest. This could
be the type of work, or the office situation, or something else to do with
oneÕs work, job or career.
c. Another relationship,
including a relationship with drugs, for example, or an attitude, which is a
relationship with an idea in oneÕs head.
d. Drug use. The use of any
recreational drug often causes this pattern. This includes all marijuana use.
It
does not occur with the use of prescription medicine, however. It also does not occur with the use of
alcohol, in most cases.
e. Rarely, it may have to
do with a generally sloppy or disorganized lifestyle,
rather than a particular lifestyle factor.
f. Another situation. Occasionally, the pattern has to do
with oneÕs schooling, oneÕs location, a family matter or something else that
impacts the lifestyle.
g.
Homosexuality will cause the pattern in both men and women.
3. This is a very important pattern for
counseling a client. If we see
this pattern, often there is a situation that needs changing. It is a Òneed to let goÓ pattern.
Note that
spiritual defensiveness pattern may not show up on an initial hair mineral
test, and may only be revealed on retests. This is discussed below. A related article is Spiritual
Defensiveness Versus Sympathetic Dominance.
4. Meaning of the pattern on retests. The
spiritual defensiveness pattern may have a slightly different meaning on hair
mineral analysis retests:
a. On a retest hair analysis, an
elevated calcium/magnesium ratio may indicate the elimination of biounavailable
calcium or Òmetastatic calciumÓ through the hair. This is excess calcium that was building up in the body in
the wrong places, hence the name metastatic. It accumulates in places such as the arteries, kidneys,
brain and elsewhere.
This can be
a good sign on a retest, although it will unbalance the calcium/magnesium ratio
temporarily.
b. The pattern can be a retracing
of an old decision or lifestyle pattern.
c. If, however, the pattern shows
up on the first mineral test and persists on the second or third test, most
likely it is not an elimination of excessive calcium, but rather indicates a
spiritual defensiveness pattern that has not been dealt with yet.
d. If the pattern shows up just
on a retest, or becomes worse (the Ca/Mg ratio increases), it may also be
because something in the lifestyle needs to be corrected, and the nutritional
balancing program is bringing out this fact. For example, as one heals during a nutritional balancing
program, it can become even more important to stop using marijuana, for example,
or to let go of a toxic relationship that is harmful and no longer needed.
5. Other meanings. A very high calcium/magnesium ratio could be due
to a kidney imbalance that is affecting calcium and magnesium. These minerals are regulated through
the kidneys, as are most minerals.
However, usually it is a lifestyle pattern, as well.
6. Defensiveness, in general. An elevated calcium/magnesium ratio,
especially with an elevated level of calcium and of magnesium, is indicative of
defensiveness, in general. This
was a discovery of Dr. Eck many years ago. In the spiritual defensiveness pattern, a person often is
consciously or unconsciously defending a lifestyle factor or attitude that is not serving the
person and really needs to change.
7. It can be an Òending patternÓ. This means that something in a personÕs
lifestyle or attitude is no longer appropriate and needs to end.
8. Energetic meaning. Magnesium is associated with energy, while
calcium is associated with structure, stability, hardness and protection. We may surmise that a spiritual defensiveness
pattern is associated with excessive structure in relation to the amount of
energy expended.
A somewhat related understanding is
that one is expending too much energy in some way, but not getting much in
return.
PASSIVE AND ACTIVE DEFENSIVENESS
Defensiveness
can be:
Active. This is an active resistance to change,
perhaps with denial or running away to avoid change. It can be due to ignorance, laziness, fear, resentment or
inertia. It is common, especially
as one ages and tires out.
Passive. This is simply holding on to an
attitude or idea from the past.
The attitude may have served in the past, but no longer serves one.
This is an
aspect of living in the
past and not wanting to change.
It is a kind of inertia
of the personality that often sets in as one gets older, in particular,
although it can occur even in a child.
One simply does what one has always done, or thinks as one has always
thought. This amounts to
defensiveness even if one is not trying to defend oneÕs lifestyle or attitude.
Either way,
if the pattern persists, it can eventually cause burnout and a four lows
pattern. The body gets completely
worn out from doing something that is useless and harmful, even if it seems to
be okay.
HEALING SPIRITUAL DEFENSIVENESS
A nutritional
balancing program often helps this pattern by improving a personÕs adaptive
energy and healing old traumas that can hold a person in an old lifestyle
pattern.
Pointing out
the presence of the pattern is also very useful for our clients. It can often help one to realize that
something in oneÕs life is out of integrity and not working well.
PRETENTIOUSNESS
Dr. Eck felt
that the calcium/magnesium ratio has to do with pretending or pretentiousness. One may be pretending or imagining that
a situation is correct or good when, in fact, it is not.
A STUBBORN WILL
Pretending
is an act of will and ego stubbornness in which one wishes something were a
certain way, so one just assumes that is the way it is, even though it is not
true. This is a common human
trait.
Spiritual
defensive pattern can be about a stubborn will that is being misused to defend
or protect an attitude or other lifestyle factor or attitude.
NOTHING IS HOLDING YOU BACK BUT YOURSELF
When a spiritual defensiveness pattern
shows up, it means that nothing is really holding you back from changing your
situation. One may say, Òbut I
have to stay in this relationship, or I have to stay in this jobÓ. However, the pattern usually indicates
that, in fact, one can now leave the situation without serious consequences.
There may seem to be
factors holding the person in the situation, but at the deepest level there is
nothing holding the person to it and one can move on, and needs to move on.
Sometimes
one may need to be in a situation, a job, a relationship, or one may even need
an illness for some reason such as to learn some type of lesson. The spiritual defensiveness pattern
seems to indicate that the situation or attitude is no longer needed. Perhaps the lesson, or debt has been
completed or resolved.
OTHER, MORE SUBTLE ASPECTS OF THE PATTERN
Movement means
how a person tends to feel when in this pattern. The feeling of spiritual defensiveness pattern is that one
is stuck in a lifestyle situation.
One may also feel as though one is getting ready to exit or leave the
situation.
Oxidation
rate. Spiritual defensiveness is most
commonly associated with a slow oxidation rate.
It is a yin pattern, which is commonly associated with slow
oxidation. However, the pattern
rarely occurs with fast oxidation rate, four lows, four highs, three highs or
three lows pattern.
Combined with a
calcium shell pattern. This is
rather common. Together, spiritual
defensiveness and a calcium shell form another pattern called. extreme lifestyle
stress. If the latter is
combined with a low potassium level, it is another pattern called wasting oneÕs
time. All this can help one
understand the pattern.
Energy centers. It may be
associated with problems of the third energy center. This center has to do with beliefs, attitudes and control
over oneÕs life. This energy
center is weak in many people.
A bowl pattern. An elevated calcium/magnesium ratio is
half of a Bowl Pattern. Reading about the bowl pattern will help you understand
spiritual defensiveness. In
acupuncture, a bowl pattern is a yin and blood deficiency, which has to do with
impaired nutrition.
Part of a double high ratio pattern,
and a step down pattern. A spiritual
defensive pattern is sometimes part of these other important hair analysis
patterns. For more, read Step Down Pattern on this website.
MAGNESIUM DEPRESSION
A spiritual
defensiveness pattern may be associated with another curious and newer observed
phenomenon. At times, a life
situation that is not working well will cause a depression of the hair magnesium level.
Physiologically,
I do not know why this occurs. A
psychological or more metaphysical reason is that magnesium, as an element, is bright and
shining. It is possible
that when a person remains with an attitude or lifestyle that is not
appropriate, somehow it Ôdims oneÕs light Õ, and this is associated with a
lowering of the tissue magnesium level in relation to the calcium level.
LIVING A LIE
This is a
name given to a calcium/magnesium ratio greater than about 40. This is a subject of research.
CORRECTION OF THE PATTERN AND ÒGETTING HELPÓ
When the
Ca/mg ratio begins to normalize on a retest hair mineral test when the hair has
not been washed at the laboratory, meaning it dips below 13.5, and
especially if the magnesium level increases by a factor or two or more
(doubles, for instance), it can mean that a person has received some spiritual
help called an intervention.
I know this
is sounds a bit esoteric, but it seems to be true. Usually, one also lets go of a harmful attitude or other
lifestyle factor at this time.
I believe
the drastic rise in the magnesium levels that can occur with this is actually
an elimination of a less beneficial form of magnesium in the body, and its
replacement with a better form of magnesium that powers or activates thousands
of enzymes better, leading to improved health. To learn more about this, please read Interventions on this website.
DR. ECKÕS BLOOD SUGAR RATIO
By way of reference, Dr. Eck called the
calcium/magnesium ratio the blood sugar ratio. He
found that when this ratio is between about 10 and 12, one is exceeding oneÕs
carbohydrate tolerance. This means
one is eating more carbohydrates than are optimal.
Exceeding oneÕs tolerance. The ratio is not about a specific
amount of dietary carbohydrate, because this varies from person to person. It is about exceeding oneÕs tolerance
level. For one person, this may
mean a lot of carbohydrate foods, whereas another person may not be able to eat
nearly as much carbohydrate without exceeding his or her tolerance for this
food.
A diabetic trend. He also felt that a calcium/magnesium
ratio greater than 12 was a diabetic trend. However, I have not been able to confirm this.
It
is rare that I alter one of Dr. EckÕs discoveries. However, in this case I use 9.5 to 13.5 as the indicator for
exceeding oneÕs carbohydrate tolerance.
A ratio greater than 13.5 is spiritual defensive, not diabetes.
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