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RISING WOMEN EXPERT ADVICE...
Can I use my mind to heal my body?
Dr. Joan Borysenko, who wrote Minding the Body, Mending the Mind says that:
“We are entering a new level in the scientific understanding of mechanisms
by which faith, belief and imagination can actually unlock the mysteries of
healing.”
As doctors, scientists and neurologists now agree, the mind and body
connection cannot be denied. Most of us are familiar with the “placebo
effect” which clearly demonstrates that healing begins in the mind. There is
also a “nocebo effect” which reveals that if a patient believes the pill or
medicine won’t work, then it doesn’t. Our thoughts and emotions can
facilitate healing; you can literally think yourself well, especially with
the help of tools such as hypnosis, guided imagery, visualization and
meditation.
When we have an emotion or thought, it produces a feeling, which in turn
creates a physical sensation. Anxious people experience the “fight or
flight” feeling where adrenaline production is elevated and respiration
increases. Hypnosis, for example, uses positive suggestions and imagery to
produce positive emotions which result in good sensations in the body to aid
in self healing. When we are in these relaxed states our body goes into an
alkaline state, and it has been discovered that disease can’t grow in an
alkaline state.
Your thoughts and the way you perceive situations are recorded in every cell
of your body. Every cell in your body thinks and at every moment of your
life, your body becomes what you think. Therefore, you are what you think
you are and you are also what you are greatly concerned with. So by focusing
on and identifying with an illness we tend to create more of it.
Fortunately, by changing the way we think and feel about our illness and
moving away from any “victim” issues, we can change the unwanted pattern of
illness in our bodies. Be aware of your own beliefs about the illness too.
Sadly, a lot of my clients are told that they will be in pain or on a
medication for the rest of their lives. What a life sentence that is! It’s
just a belief and it can be changed.
In reality, whatever your age, your body is actually many years younger.
Most of your body’s tissues are under constant renewal; old cells are
discarded and new ones generated. Each kind of tissue has its own turnover
time. The cells in the stomach last only five days. Every day 260 to 400
billion new blood cells are produced in the body. Knowing this, there is no
reason to hang on to old thoughts about illness; your body isn’t! With
guidance and personal belief, you can overcome any blocks or obstacles to
your healing.
For advice
on healing with the mind, contact Claire Bramham, Clinical Hypnotherapist at
Mind & Body Therapy: 403.397.0011
www.mindandbodytherapy.ca
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