Elizabeth was a ray of light during a very dark period in my life. Her treatment not only stabilized my health, but taught me many principles I still rely on.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that she helped save my life.
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Synthesizers are the direct opposite of the energetically charged, competitive, and power-seeking Accelerators. Yours is an extremely deep spiritual nature. You are deeply empathic and loving, driven to feel and create profoundly. The Synthesizer Meta-type seeks and is rewarded by life's highest, finest meanings and creative expressions, while staying firmly rooted in the slower moving, earthier experiences. You love your family, children, friends, animals, the arts, cooking, and crafts. You are the quintessential "Earth Mother" or "Earth Father." Warm, generous, protecting and providing, your emotions will always win out over your intellect. You live in your intense feelings, steeped in the worlds of art, creativity, "mothering" or "fathering," mysticism, and even the occult.
The most beautiful phrase to best describe the Synthesizer is: “I feel for all of life and everything within it!”
You, the Synthesizer, are completely ruled by your extremely deep emotional life. This allows you to be gloriously, highly creative, often to the point of genius. However, because your emotions and feelings run to the very depths of your inner being, you can get stuck in them. Emotional quicksand may trap you firmly in its grasp, pulling you into a downward spiral to your emotional depths. If this happens, you tend to turn inward rather than act and move forward on what you feel. To escape this tendency, you MUST turn outward and act on what you feel!
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Tony had a genuinely warm, welcoming personality. Everyone he touched felt like they'd known him forever. A brilliant high school teacher of English and creative writing, he believed that his colleagues needed more resources than were then available to them, both to achieve their own potential and to best serve their students. As he approached early retirement, Tony embarked on a second life as a "teacher's teacher." A natural and creative salesman, he launched a unique company: it would support English teachers with greater resources, training programs, educational tools, other mentors, and creative ideas, as well as troubleshooting and overall support for their common issues. He traveled across the country giving seminars to large groups of teachers and loved every minute of it. His little company grew to a "family" of twelve and included several members of his own family. Constantly creating new ideas, he was able to expand his company's services, strategic alliances, and sponsoring partners. The company thrived and the teachers loved it and loved Tony. He often worked with them over the course of their careers, helping them nurture their professional writing, teaching, and personal lives. Tony's warmth extended to his physical nature as well. Tony was a very expressive speaker who loved performing as he taught. Sweating profusely, gesturing grandly, he enveloped everyone in the room with his friendly, fatherly smile as he walked around the room making eye contact with everyone. He greeted you with a two-handed shake, both hands embracing yours to make you feel very close. Tony also used his writing in a creative way. He self-published three family histories and sprinkled the family tree write-ups with humorous anecdotes, "legends," and a few images of children's artwork or family memorabilia and photos. Tony relied on his wife to create his at-home meals and help him stay focused on running the company. But on the road, he endured long periods of fattening hotel food or fast food on short lunch breaks. He'd often go out with groups to heavy dinners late at night, then sleep on a full belly. Needing to eat often to keep his energy going, Tony found the easiest foods were crackers, sugary sweets, pretzels, and chips. Gradually, his stocky build became almost egg-shaped, with an insulating layer of fat from his double-chin to his full belly. Then Tony's son-in-law accepted a new job, and the daughter he had most counted on to run his office relocated with her family. Tony was at a total loss. He not only missed his daughter and son-in-law in the office, he also missed being with them at home, especially his grandson. He had difficulty warming up to the new employees. His energy levels were declining dramatically. He had given up on dealing with his weight gain, despite some joint problems in his back and knees. Depression was creeping into his daily life. To top things off, Tony saw his other pride and joy - his company - begin to slow down. The teaching profession was struggling in the current tough economy, and not many people were able to afford the special memberships and training's of Tony's group. Terrified of losing his company, he was virtually frozen in indecision and plunged into deeper depressions. He declined to talk with his other daughters or his wife about his fears, since he didn't want them to worry! He couldn't sleep at night and overindulged in fatty, creamy foods to quell his mounting terror. He began battling constant colds. Like many people, Tony had no concept of metabolic balance. He needed to deal with his extremely powerful emotions, nurture his body with the right foods, and get proper rest and exercise. Only then could he deal with his depression, as well as the normal decay of aging, and give himself a new lease on life! Tony was introduced to me as a possible collaborator to help me create workshops based on my book, Your Body, Your Diet. As we got to know each other, he asked if I could help him with his weight gain and arthritic pain. Our journey together helped him ease back into a comfort zone of health and vitality for his Synthesizer Meta-type and to feel energized with both his own family and his work "family." He soon began creating new and more affordable ways of reaching out to teachers. On the personal side, he set up Web cameras for himself and his daughter and grandson so they could talk "face to face" more often. As his energies regenerated, Tony discovered an opportunity for his own spiritual exploration. Becoming involved in a public relations campaign, he helped recruit new teachers in his state by working with the state education system to pioneer the first program to certify working business professionals from the corporate and trade sectors as teachers. It enhanced the teaching profession and helped satisfy the personnel shortage. The newfound charity work, combined with a redirected family and work life, helped propel Tony forward into a well-integrated emotional, physical, and creative new beginning - as a Synthesizer in healthy balance. |
Synthesizers have an enormous ability and opportunity to be the masters and creators of their own destiny. As a Synthesizer your strongest endocrine gland is the pituitary (along with its partner, the hypothalamus). The pituitary is located in the brain and is the "master gland" of the body and all of the endocrine glands. You see, the hypothalamus receives signals from your emotions (based in your brain's temporal lobe), your thoughts (housed in your brain's frontal lobe), and your higher consciousness (residing in the brain's third ventricle). It integrates all these signals so that your pituitary can produce hormones instructing the different organs of the body to carry out your wishes. With this tremendous power from having such easy access to your emotions, thoughts, and higher levels of consciousness, Synthesizers have a wonderful ability to bring any of your concepts into reality, especially when they deal with your destiny. As a Synthesizer, your potential is the archetypal role of manifesting a unified "body, mind, emotional, and spiritual" merger, to create anything you wish.
The Synthesizer´s least effective gland is the thyroid, the "ruler" of energy and metabolism. When you are out of balance or under pressure and stress, you may be plagued by fatigue, lethargy, and enormous weight gain. In fact, the Synthesizer´s ability to gain weight easily is unmatched by any other because the thyroid gland is responsible for your body's weight management. Consequently, your least effective thyroid gives you a metabolism which is much slower than most people's. In addition, your dominant pituitary gland can easily become hyperactive, and overproduce growth hormones. (This is great when you're young and need to grow tall; it's not so good when you are older and will "grow" elsewhere.) With this endocrine relationship, Synthesizers are at the top of the weight-gaining metabolic spectrum. To turn a phrase, gaining weight is a "piece of cake" for you, and your excess pounds will deposit themselves all over your body, as your adult growth hormones now dictate. Contributing to the battle of your bulge is the fact that Synthesizers adore foods and relish eating. You regard your eating as one of life's sacred rituals. Your food cravings are controlled by your already overactive pituitary gland, and include anything that can continually stimulate it: dairy (especially creams), ice cream and, of course, sugar!! The Synthesizer´s pituitary and thyroid energy combination is so sensitive that if you even think of eating that piece of cake, you'll likely gain five pounds!
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Maria comes from a strong Italian-Irish background and married her college sweetheart, Kevin, while embarking on a musical comedy and acting career. Truly striking, Maria has dark, full, shoulder-length, curly hair, strong Roman features, and soft, loving brown eyes. She had a tremendous smile and a powerful, voluptuous manner in spite of an overall wide, somewhat overweight figure. Giving birth to four children compelled Maria to give up any hope of her own musical career. Plus, not wanting to be away from her family to exercise for herself, she weighed much more than she wanted to. Maria transformed her amazing artistic nature and creative talents for the good of her family. She cooked healthy meals, helped with the kids' projects, hosted fabulous birthday parties and sewed handmade Halloween costumes. She was the endless supplier of resources, creativity, problem-solving, loving help, and energy to her husband, the kids, their growing circle of friends, and their church community. It was a tough role in a single-income, middle-earning family. When their third child entered kindergarten, Maria started part-time work at home for a sales firm because Kevin's income wasn't able to cover all the things they thought their expanding family needed, like a new extension on the house. She dove into working many extra hours, starting at 5:00 AM, and working again late into the evening. Maria was determined to bridge the family's monetary gap, while still fully serving her family and church. Extremely sensitive and vulnerable, she began to feel guilty that she might become less available to her loved ones. Consequently, she lavished more and more "comfort foods" on her family to substitute for genuine nurturing. This included a heavy emphasis on carbohydrates as the inexpensive staple of any good Italian meal. Working for hours right at home, it was also easy for Maria to constantly snack, grabbing crackers, cookies, or dried fruits as she worked or played with their fourth baby. By late night, she would cuddle up with Kevin in front of the TV and fall asleep. Then it was up again through the night with the baby or her other children for nightmares, potty breaks, or drinks of water. Even though the 5:00 AM wake up for work seemed brutal, she would force herself to get up. Exhausted, Maria started losing track of the kids' tasks for school, choir, and youth group. She lost patience with the children yet kept trying to do more and more, even as she wondered how much more she could do. Her weight ballooned; she developed colds and bronchitis, which of course went through all the children and back to her again; she felt stagnated and increasingly depressed, describing herself as feeling caught in a trap and unable to move. Maria's friend had lent her a copy of my book, Your Body, Your Diet, as a possible health alternative. Maria was surprised and intrigued by my unique at-balance principles and grateful to learn it was so much more than just another diet fad. She discovered she was living in total opposition to her natural Synthesizer Meta-type: her energy was at its lowest the in morning and in the early evening hours. She also learned that her eating patterns had fueled her blood sugar drops and weight gain; her emotional guilt caused her to wallow deep in haunting depressions. Most important, she had been denying her essential modes of self expression. The time she was giving up to work robbed her of time for her own artistic side and she hadn't fully understood its emotional impact on her, or how much she missed it. Through understanding her Synthesizer Meta-type, Maria discovered that she could rearrange her work hours to suit her most energetic times of day and reserve the other peak for family time. Kevin began helping with nighttime kid duty and Maria got the restorative sleep she so desperately needed. She quickly devised healthy, -appropriate food plans for herself and the family, eliminating her bad snacking habits. She was able to select rewarding projects to do for her children and the home with her new-found time, and once again she experienced the joy of creating beautiful projects on her own. Maria even considered going back into singing and musical comedy.
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Let's look more closely at your body's metabolic type and its relationship to food. You really don't have to give up eating to achieve and maintain an optimal weight. You just have to eat the right kinds of foods, in the right quantities, and in the right combinations for your Synthesizer Meta-type. The Synthesizer Meta-type implies that you are an extremely "slow metabolizer" (your digestive system breaks down your foods exceptionally slowly), but that you are a very "rapid oxidizer" (your body "burns" your energy immediately). This gives you a pH range at the extreme end of the acid/alkaline spectrum in the alkaline category: "strong alkaline" (8 - 7.5).
| Strong Alkaline pH: 8 - 7.5 Synthesizer |
Alkaline Forming pH: 7.4 Balanced Synthesizer |
Weak Alkaline pH: 6.8 Mixed Synthesizer |
Weak Acid pH: 6.2 Mixed Accelerator |
Acid Forming pH: 5 Balanced Accelerator |
Strong Acid pH: 4.5 - 4 Accelerator |
The Synthesizer metabolism gives you the ability to handle the slow-burning proteins and an inability to utilize the faster-burning carbohydrates (which will cause severe drops in blood sugar). Therefore, you require a protein-rich food plan - completely carnivore - devoid of the faster-burning carbohydrates.
Energetically, of all the six , you as a Synthesizer have exceptionally slow physical energy and very low energy reserves - unless you're in a manic mode - and you're usually much more passive than most people. But you do have the capacity for great endurance and will finish any given project. You get started gradually in most anything you take on, and definitely require food to produce enough energy for your daily activity. As a Synthesizer, you are definitely not a morning person. Your energy is at its best when your dominant and regenerative parasympathetic nervous system is at its peak - the nighttime hours. So evening (7:00 - 8: 00 PM) to very late night, or extremely early morning (2:00 - 3:00 AM) are your "power source" times.
Synthesizers can fall asleep easily, at any given time, and can sleep for long periods. But if you're under undue stress and experiencing depression, you may wake up throughout the night and even experience insomnia. You completely dislike exercise; hating it isn't too strong a word! However, you really need it in order to get your energies moving, especially when you are trapped in your dark emotional despondency. As a Synthesizer, you love gray, cloudy, cool environments. Then you can stay home and read, relax, watch and eat, without guilt!
With your least effective adrenal glands, Synthesizers have absolutely no tolerance for the Stress Response. You're quite vulnerable and weak when inundated with any amount of stress, or with stressful and/or painful situations. You easily collapse under that kind of pressure, going into severe depressions that can cause you to emotionally implode or completely repress your enormous capacity for emotional expression. Furthermore, the Stress Response can also cause you to "flip out of type" and into another . Usually, if you become "hyper," you'll swing into the that is just to the "right" of your , the Balanced Synthesizer. If you're exhausted and burned out, you may plummet into the that is your energetic and metabolic opposite, the Accelerator (see the pH value chart above). In either case, you'll be frustrated, dazed, and confused. If you think you may have "flipped" out of your , read the Pendulum Effect.
Synthesizers are people who pursue great "heavenly" spiritual wisdom, yet they are also very earthy, loving, and passionate. They quickly react to their own strong emotions, yet the also posses deeply creative talents. For Synthesizers, achievement comes in how well their family is doing and how they've contributed to that, as well as to the world at large. Words that best describe the Synthesizer are:
The creative force that surges through you, the Synthesizer, is powerful indeed - as powerful as the driven intellectual force of your opposite, the Accelerator. Therefore, Synthesizers must stay balanced in your own , as you can see from Tony's and Maria's stories. If you become hyperactive due to stressful situations, you can overexcite your power gland, the pituitary. This will cause it to overproduce all your body's regulating hormones, especially the growth and sex gland hormones. This can lead to obesity, depression, and sexual irregularities. And these energetic states will cause an inhibition of your least effective endocrine gland, the thyroid, leading to more weight gain, terrible fatigue, infertility, hair loss, and irritability. In a hyperactive state, Synthesizers can easily sky-rocket into the just above you, the Balanced Synthesizer. Unable to sustain that intense energy, the Balanced Synthesizer´s power gland, the pancreas, will falter and create blood sugar highs and lows, hypoglycemia, more weight gain, and carbohydrate intolerance that could lead to diabetes. Unable to maintain this energetic level, you as a Synthesizer could collapse into your opposite , the Accelerator. This could create havoc in your body by over-stimulating your weak sympathetic nervous system, leading to anxiety attacks, near-manic energetic states, insomnia, mood swings, and then severe depression. This "energetic plunge" also makes Synthesizers vulnerable to colds, flus, allergies, and asthma.
Knowing all about your Synthesizer Meta-type will teach you what your body truly needs in terms of food, exercise, and lifestyle to sustain your pace and be true to yourself. Remember, too, that your health issues deal not only with your body, but also with your mind, emotions, intellect, heart, and spirit. Staying in balance within your Synthesizer Meta-type will help you live a long, healthy, and fulfilling life in which you'll make use of the skills and talents that are uniquely you.
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