MIND OVER MATTER
“Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease”
Hippocrates (circa 460 – 370BC) Father of western medicine.
You may think that being “healthy” means that you are not sick, but being healthy is far more than that. If you feel okay, or average, or nothing much at all, you are not healthy.
Remember what you felt like as a little kid? Bursting with energy every day? When you were a child your body felt light, flexible, and moving was effortless.
Children’s minds are clear, happy, free of worry and stress. They sleep deeply, and peacefully every night and wake up feeling refreshed and recharged. Look at a little kid and you’ll see what healthy is… you’ll be looking at the way you should STILL feel regardless of your age. It’s that peace of mind that creates that health inside them.
“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he”
King Solomon (circa 10th century BC)
What you think in your heart is what you believe to be true, and then THAT becomes your reality. Beliefs are simply repeated thoughts with strong feelings attached to them. When you say things like “I catch colds easily”, “I have a sensitive stomach”, “I can’t lose weight”, “I’m a weakling”, “I’m a wuss” these are all beliefs not facts. You make them real by constantly reinforcing these beliefs in your own mind and heart.
Whatever you believe and feel is true WILL be true for you, whether the beliefs hurt or help you. Whatever beliefs you give out you will receive back in turn.
You have so much more control over your body, and your own destiny than you realize or give yourself credit for. Knowing this… why not use this power to your advantage rather than perpetuate the negatives in your life?
People tend to fear illness and disease more than they appreciate the good health they have. So much of their energy is focused on the negative that it’s all they’ll notice, and will always feel sick, tired, slow or whatever they believe about themselves. Whereas if they took notice of the times they were healthy and gave love and appreciation for it, focused on the positive, shared it with others, they’d find themselves in a healthier state more consistently for longer periods of time.
THE PLACEBO EFFECT
The placebo effect in medicine is proof of the power of belief. One group of patients will be given real medicine or treatment of some kind, and another group will be given the placebo. A sugar pill or fake treatment. Neither is told who has which. The group that gets the placebo often experiences significant improvements and the reduction or even complete disappearance of symptoms. The mere power of suggestion reinforced by genuine belief told their bodies to make the appropriate changes they were looking for. The sugar pill was merely a physical representation of it all. Something for you to label as the cause for the effect… when in reality your own thoughts and feelings were the cause.
Your feelings saturate every cell and organ in your body. When you feel good you receive the full force of health through your body. When you have bad feelings, the tension causes your nerves and cells to contract, the vital chemical production in your body changes, your blood vessels contract, and your breathing becomes shallow, all of which reduces the health in your organs and your entire body. These are all legitimate physical changes that take place in your body based entirely on your feelings.
Disease is simply the result of a body’s not being at ease over a long period of time, because of negative feelings like stress, worry, and fear. This is why I’ll make mention to my clients when I think it sounds like they’re overwhelmed or baring too much stress in their lives. It’s affecting their ability not only to be healthy but to achieve the goals we’ve set.
“Your emotions affect every cell in your body. Mind and body, mental and physical, are intertwined”
Thomas Culko (B. 1931) - Sports Psychologist and Author
Focusing on the negatives of yourself simply keeps you locked in a state that will perpetuate more negative feelings about yourself. It’s up to YOU to break the cycle.
Love and appreciate the parts of you that you are both physically/emotionally happy with and ignore the rest. Don’t give the rest the attention of negativity. You’re only giving more power to the enemy. You’re fueling the negative fire.
Many people have been able to create illness in themselves by simply fearing the possibility of illness. Their body then reacts by creating the symptoms of the illness they fear. This is using your own power against yourself. Now throw it in reverse and you can feel as healthy and great as you can imagine!
“Face towards the perfect image of every organ, and the shadows of disease will never touch you”
Robert Collier (1885-1950)
New Thought Author
Scientists at the Institute of HeartMath in California have shown that feeling love, gratitude, and appreciation in your heart boosts your immune system ; increases vital chemical production; increases physical vitality and vigor; reduces stress hormone levels, high blood pressure, anxiety, guilt, and burnout; and improves glucose regulation in diabetics. It also creates a more harmonious rhythm of your heart. HeartMath has shown that the magnetic field of the heart is 5,000 times more powerful than the magnetic field of the brain, and reaches out several feet from the body.
Now soak all that up for a second…
Look at how much there is to be gained by merely focusing on love, and all the positives in your life. Whatever they may be, or however small they may seem, taking the few minutes in the cracks of your day to merely acknowledge the good in your life keeps your mood up. You can’t be thinking positively and negatively at the same time. It’s one or the other. So the more you make a conscious effort to focus on the positives, not only will you feel better emotionally, but your body will follow suit! What a fantastic tool to have with you the rest of your life, and it will never cost you anything. Merely a few moments of your day, and aren’t those few moments worth the unending rewards?
WATER
In recent years scientists have done extensive research revolutionizing our understanding of the effects of love/positive energy on our health through experiments with water. What does water have to do with your health? Well let’s start with the fact that your body is made up of 70% water, and your head is 80% water! You’re more water than anything else!
Researchers in Russia, Japan, Europe, and the United States have discovered when water is exposed to positive words and feelings such as love and gratitude, the energy level of the water not only increases but the structure of the water physically changes making it perfectly harmonious.
Equally when water is exposed to negative emotions such as hate, the energy level of the water decreases and chaotic changes occur, negatively affecting the structure of the water.
I’ve always compared this to the pink “mood slime” in Ghostbusters 2.
So, if human emotions can affect the structure of water, and your body is 70% water, imagine what your feelings do to the health of your body! Think of the power and control one can have over themselves if they make the conscious effort to do so.
The center of every one of your cells in your body is water, surrounded by another layer of water. Your negative/positive energy is affecting around 100 TRILLION of these cells in your body. This knowledge is being used as legitimate treatment from everything from Cancer to MS and so much more. You can use this knowledge to create a better YOU in whatever way you can imagine. So long as the feelings are positive, and most importantly genuine. You have to BELIEVE in the positives.
This may take more practice for some than others. But if you are making a consistent conscious effort to focus on the positive in everything in your life no matter how small, you will have no choice but to start feeling more positively all around.
Whether you take a moment to appreciate your love of your family, the roof over your head, the car you drive, running water, electricity, a beautiful day… ANYTHING! Each day make a list of 10 things/people/places that you LOVE! Even if it’s the same list everyday just simply going through the motions of it is enough to have spent at least that much time filling your mind with positive energy. Just giving out that positive love and appreciation will affect you both mentally AND physically!
“Think of love as if it were water in a glass, and the glass is your body. When a glass has only a little water in it, it is empty of water. You can’t change the water level in the glass by waging war on the emptiness and trying to rip out the emptiness. When you have bad feelings you are empty of love, and so when you put love into yourself the bad feelings are gone.”
Rhonda Byrne – Author
So rather than trying to eliminate the negatives by focusing on them you merely eliminate them by focusing on the positives… leaving no room for the negatives to exist.
Think about all of this. Try it. Put it into practice. Nothing bad ever came of being positive… and that right there says something.
“Love draws forth love”
St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) Nun, Mystic, & Writer
