Does Bad Karma Cause Geographic Tongue?

Recently Laura went to my website entered her email address and credit card number and bought my book. Now that isn’t unusual it happens all the time (after all 3% of the world has geographic tongue) but what happened next doesn’t happen very often. Five minutes later she contacted my publishing company and claimed the charge on her credit card was “unknown”.

Occasionally that will happen a month later when people get their credit card bill and they don’t recognized the publishing company. But then once I tell them it was for the “Treating and Beating Geographic Tongue book” they say “Oh yeah I remember now” and that’s it. But to not remember a charge you made five minutes earlier is either a case of very fast amnesia or a split personality (my other personality made the charge, not me) or else it is a case of theft. Plain and simple.

That event got me to thinking about the golden rule and geographic tongue. And I realized that even though Laura now has a free copy of my book, unfortunately it probably won’t do her any good. (Although it has helped lots of other people). 

By reducing our body’s ability to handle problems, stress is actually a contributing factor in all illnesses, not just Geographic Tongue. After all, in modern life we are constantly being bombarded by all kinds of stress… things like pollution, chemicals in our food and our houses… traffic jams, arguments, too much work… a death or divorce in the family… not enough sleep, not enough fresh air, sunshine and flowers… or too many flowers (pollen), bacteria, yeast, viruses, etc, etc. etc

One of the modern day stresses that most people don’t consider is called an “open loop” when you have something to do and haven’t done it yet, a fraction of your brain is occupied with reminding you about it (often when you can’t possibly do anything about it). It just keeps popping up saying, “don’t forget to …” “don’t forget to …” over and over. This is an open loop. And these open loops sap your strength and energy. Too many open loops and you get overwhelmed and exhausted.

A simple way to eliminate open loops is simply to write it down in a place you are sure to look. Once your sub-conscious is satisfied that you won’t forget, the open loop is closed and you can free up that portion of your brain (thus conserving energy). Often open loops are why we can’t get to sleep at night thinking about all the things we need to do. Best to take a few seconds, get up and write it down and then get a good night’s sleep!

Open loops are also why we as people want closure in our relationships and even in our TV shows (that’s why “cliff hangers” are so effective in getting us to tune back in). We are naturally wired to want to finish things. The more open loops the more stress.

A sort of strange open loop is when “what you say” doesn’t correspond to “what you do” this is called being “incongruent”. Most people say, “I’m a good person” but when we lie, cheat or steal, we know we are not being a good person and so we aren’t “congruent” that leads to a conflict between what we say and what we are doing.  And this leads to stress. So if Laura does this often enough the stress will continue to build up and she will get sick. And then she will probably say, “I’m a good person why do bad things always happen to me?”

So although following the “Golden Rule” won’t guarantee that you eliminate your Geographic Tongue it is one step in the right direction. Normally we discuss other things that can more directly cause Geographic Tongue and how to eliminate it, but for now try closing open loops, being more congruent (do what you say) and follow the golden rule.

Have a great Day!