"When the body heals, it heals wholly [Kathryn Alexander]
A lovely piece of writing just handed to me. Well worth considering under the present health climate.
In short ... "You become what you behold."
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"Your organism is working all the time to replace whatever you have lost.
"Negative feelings do not help the healing process. Believe that repair processes are going on inside you, and this will help recovery. Belief is a very powerful mysterious force.
"Image what you want to be, and not what you don't want. Images held in the mind with a feeling of expectancy help to model the tissues in the body.
"Interest is an attitude of mind set in motion by an act of will. Interest causes energy flow in mind and body. Blood flow to organs and cells follows interest. Expectancy is very powerful. Expect only good things. Never let yourself expect bad things. Expectancy acts like a magnet which draws to it whatever conditions are expected.
"Take charge of your expectancy. Don't let it wander about. There is a 'placebo' effect well known to the medical world. If an inert substance of no medical value is made into pills or tablets and given to a patient as if it were a treatment for the disease the patient is supposed to have, the effect is often as good as a real medicine would have been. This is because expectancy created by the placebo is a real force. Expectancy is energy directed towards certain results. The energy is real and effective. Mental energies and psychological energies are not basically different from the physical energies which pass along our nerves and act on our muscles, organs and cells.
"Placebo effects result from suggestion that something is being done, and that this something will be beneficial. The image of the expected result acts like a modelling power in the mind and body. This is the key to all 'psycho-somatic' cures. Positive expectancy of good results is a force that acts through mental imagery and emotional energies onto bio-magnetic field-forces in the body. This forces and directs nervous impulses along nerve lines which act upon all cells of the organism and bring their action into line with the pattern imaged and expected.
"There is nothing really surprising about all this. Our bodies are made of energy. Energy can be directed by the expectancy set up in the mind. This is why a patient's morale is most important. Morale is higher when we are happy, and low when we are miserable. Misery, depression, and negative images impede recovery, because images are forms of energy. The shape of an image in the mind models the life force within us. The direction of flow of nerve-energy in us is controlled by images of expected results.
"We model ourselves and our physical condition by the way we image ourselves and dynamically charge ours images with our emotional expectancy. Think about all this."