The plecebo effect

In Living With Intention Lynne talks about the placebo effect. This is a very popular term to describe the mind-body connection. When the mind believes at a deep level that the body is healed the body mimics or manifests that belief. It has been shown in so many studies that if the subconscious mind believes that the body is ill or well then that will be the result. Shamanism involves going massive elaborate rituals to eventually create a placebo effect in the patient's mind. When the patient has a great expectation that they will be healed or they already have been, then the body mimics that belief. It has been shown from research that the placebo effect works 30 to 70 per cent of the time (including surgery). This means that no less than 30 per cent of the time the magic of medicine is actually due to the effect of the patients mind. There are many examples of this in Living With Intention but you can find so many books on it. Belief is everything when it comes to healing. Bernie Siegel did some research on people with multiple personality disorders and what they found was that the potency of these people's beliefs changed every system in their body. Their eye colors changed as their personality changed. Markings on their bodies would appear and disappear. Diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure would come and go depending on their belief of which personality they were. These are some remarkable studies but it shows the colossal affect the mind can have on the body. The opposite of placebo is the nocebo effect - to injure the self with powerful belief. The ancient aborigines could use the power of belief to kill of their rejected tribe members. They would curse them with a ritual called 'pointing the bone' which involves the tribe member pointing the bone of death at the rejected tribe member. This extreme rejection and conviction of death leads the outcast to die due to the psychological certainty that they had been cursed. They die with no physical attacks.

In a way this happens when doctors diagnose a patient with their disease. The level of the patient's trust for the doctor leaves the patient to believe anything the doctor says. It is well known that when doctors give a diagnosis the patient's subconscious mind believes them and manifests the symptoms. Medical researchers even have to be careful of the placebo effect because when they research too much into a disease they to start manifesting the symptoms. The mind-body connection is so integrated it would be like trying to separate the words from a page of a book to realize that they work together to create the reading experience. Lynne expresses her experience with her mother in law when they went to visit two doctors. The first a medical doctor who diagnosed her mother in law with severe breast cancer and she did not have much longer to live. They went to the second doctor who was an alternative doctor and he positively said that he can handle it. After some work and some vitamin c doses her mind was back on track with health and her mind started to manifesting healing due to the new set of beliefs. She healed and reported back to the first doctor and he said it was a miracle.

A belief is a feeling of certainty about what something means. If you are certain that you are dying from cancer then that belief will govern the way you feel, think, and behave. After some time the body will manifest this belief. The body will also manifest the process of healing. This way of healing is not is not positive thinking because positive thinking involves trying to think in a way that your mind usually conflicts with. If you are a cancer patient and you try to think positively with the conviction that you are dying then that is not going to do any good. To program your mind to believe the body has healed is vital, then positive thinking will not be necessary.

Disease can be manifested in many ways but the healing process is always the same. Your subconscious mind does no decision making, it is solely a mechanical mechanism. The subconscious mind is also in every cell of your body. Your body is your subconscious mind so if you embed a deep intention of healing then the subconscious will process that.