Belief in healers, miracle shrines, and drugs is clearly the basis of placebo responses
- They can be regarded as classic examples of spontaneous healing.
- Belief also strongly influences perception, determining what we see and what we do not see as we move through the world.
Spontaneous healing is something like a four-leaf clover: lucky, mysterious, and sometimes elusive.
- If you do not believe it can occur, your chance of experiencing it will be small.
It is interesting what people can do to increase belief in healing.
- One technique, recommended by many New Age therapists, is to repeat affirmations, such as “My body can heal itself,” or “I am filled with healing energy,” or “My gallstone is getting smaller and smaller.”
Seek out people who have experienced healing so that their reality can become your reality.
As more people come to believe in spontaneous healing, more people will experience it, and that will benefit everyone.
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Mental Imagery – Hypnotherapists, visualization therapists, and guided imagery therapists can help you learn methods to take advantage of the mind/body connection through the medium of visual imagination.
- Once you master a technique, you can then practice on your own.
- Use images with emotional responses that particular images elicit.
- Try using visualizations to speed up the healing of wounds, sore throats, and other common ailments.
- Then if you ever have to mobilize your healing resources to manage a serious illness, you will have a good head start.
Emotions – Many counselors and advocates of mediation advise people to gain control of their emotions.
- To even out the ups and downs of mood swings and cultivate evenness of temperament.
- One technique for managing the down periods is to pretend to feel otherwise.
“Always be joyful, no matter what you are. With happiness, you can give a person life. Every day we must deliberately induce in ourselves a buoyant, exuberant attitude toward life; in this manner, we will gradually become receptive to the subtle mysteries around us. And, if no inspired moments seem to come, we should act as though we have them anyway. If you have no enthusiasm, put on a front. Act enthusiastic, and the feeling will become genuine.”
Rabbi Nachman (Jewish mystic)
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