We have all heard of the \’placebo effect\’, wherein when something with no any healing effect is taken with a very strong belief that it is healing, and effects of healing manifests on or within the body.
\’Your mind can be a powerful healing tool when given the chance. The idea that your brain can convince your body a fake treatment is the real thing — the so-called placebo effect — and thus stimulate healing has been around for millennia. Now science has found that under the right circumstances, a placebo can be just as effective as traditional treatments.
\’The placebo effect is more than positive thinking — believing a treatment or procedure will work. It\’s about creating a stronger connection between the brain and body and how they work together,\’ says Professor Ted Kaptchuk of Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre.
We can consider placebo effect as a desirable positive effect. But we must also realise that it does have its negative side. If the mind can influence the body to heal, so also can it influence it to sickness.
A professor of psychiatry wrote about how a patient with duodenal ulcer was wrongly diagnosed for colon cancer. The patient started manifesting some signs of colon cancer, because he believed he truly had colon cancer. But after a few months, and the error in diagnosis was eventually detected, and he was informed, all the signs he was manifesting stopped, left with only the signs of a duodenal ulcer.
The mind is indeed powerful. No wonder a sage once said : \’Whoever thinks he can can, and whoever thinks he cannot cannot\’. Dear friends, start utilising the power of your mind not only to heal yourself, but also not to attract illness to yourself.
In my over 20 years of practice as a healer, I\’ve realised that those who choose to romance with their ailments often get more ill, and suffer from chronic and, or recurrent ailments more than those who do not romanticise with any ailments.
Some examples of romanticising with an ailment are : \’My diabetes\’, \’My high blood pressure\’ and \’My migraine\’, among others.
When did those ailments become yours? Okay, granted that you are afflicted with them, but that does not make them your property!
It is far better to say : \’I have a headache\’ than say \’my headache\’, \’Migraine disturbs me\’ than \’my migraine is very disturbing\’. etc.
Some denominations in Christianity take this fact so seriously that even when sick, they will rather say I am well. I remember years back when I was yet to come to a grasp of this slang of \’I am well\’.
A patient who comes for consultation opens with \’Doctor I\’m well\’. And I used to respond with \’That is great!\’. It took a while before I understood what they meant.
However, this does not mean that we should live in denial. If something is really wrong, accept it, but allow healing to commence, right with your mind.
Always speak healing to your body. All your cells are listening, and they will obey whatever you tell them.
Always affirm to yourself : \’I am a spirit having a body…\’, \’The spirit has power to heal…\’; \’I am healing my body…\’; \’I am in harmony in mind, body, and soul.\’
By Kayode Oseni
(Naturopath )
08034170747,
osenialayo@gmail.com
