Thought is a vital
creative force that moves. It is
infectious, and it changes rapidly.
Sometimes it can be hard to
keep up with your thoughts,
because they move so fast. The
body is a product of the mind. Good positive
thoughts can keep you
healthy, and bad negative thoughts
will bring you sickness
and disease.
In his book,
“The Biology of Belief,”
Bruce Lipton, PhD (at page 112-113)
gives an example
of how the nocebo effect
(opposite of the placebo effect; thinking you have a disease when you don’t) can
feed into an unjustified belief.
In1974,
Nashville physician,
Clifton Meador, had a patient
named Sam Londe,
who was a retired salesman with esophagus cancer.
The disease back at
that time was considered fatal.
Londe ended up dying about
three weeks later, to no ones surprise. The surprise came after
Londe’s death, at which time the autopsy
found a small amount
of cancer in Londe’s body;
there was a spot on his lung and one or two on his liver,
but not enough to kill him. Most importantly
though, there was no esophagus
cancer. Not a trace. Three decades later, and Dr. Meador is still haunted
by Londe’s death. Meador told the Discovery
Channel, “He died with cancer,
but not from cancer.
I thought he had cancer,
he thought he had
cancer, everyone around
him thought he had cancer.
. . did I remove hope in some way?”
And here’s an example of Lipton's work (at page 109)
that goes to prove that the placebo effect doesn’t only apply to pills. Published in the New England
Journal of Medicine,
in 2002, a study lead by Dr. Bruce Moseley,
of Baylor School
of Medicine, in which Moseley divided
his knee surgery
patients into three groups. In the first group, Moseley
shaved the damage
cartilage in the knee.
The second group,
Moseley simply flushed
out the knee joint.
And in the third group, he conducted
a fake surgery. The “fake surgery”
patients were sedated,
the standard incisions were made; he splashed water to stimulate
the sound of the
knee washing and talked and acted like he would, if he had
truly done the surgery.
All three groups
were given the same post surgery instructions. And guess what?
The placebo group improved right along with first two groups. This study was prompted by the question
of which surgery
was actually giving Moseley’s patients the most relief from their pain. Lipton quotes Moseley as saying, “My skill as a surgeon
had no benefit on these patients. The entire benefit
of surgery for osteoarthritis of the
knee was the placebo effect.”
Bruce Lipton who wrote the book “The
Biology of Belief,” is a cell biologist, and at one time a professor at the University of Wisconsin’s
School of Medicine. He later performed pioneering studies at Stanford University. He is recognized for bridging science and
spirituality.
Through his research and others, it has
been proven that thought will reproduce what you believe. The mind is not a physical object, it is
intelligence. Our bodies are containers
full of energy. The thought will
manifest itself in the physical world.
What it can not express outside the body, it will express inside the
body. That’s one reason why it important
to keep your thoughts positive.
An easy way to train your mind is with the
use of affirmations. It means to affirm;
to make firm; to make strong. The
practice of affirming allows us to replace the negative mind chatter with
positive thoughts. In general,
affirmations are positive statements; affirm what you want, instead of what you
do not want. And they should always be
made in the present tense, as if it already exists. Here are some examples:
·
I
release all that does not bring me joy
·
I
am a radiant being filled with love and light
·
Every
day in every way I’m getting better and better
·
My
life is blossoming in total perfection
·
I
am vibrantly healthy
·
Infinite
riches are now freely flowing into my life
·
The
light within me is creating miracles in my life here and now
The most effective affirmations are
short and sweet. Say them to yourself
silently or verbally aloud. You can write
it on a piece of paper. Use your name
(Kelly is a radiant being filled with love and light; Kelly, you are a radiant
being filled with love and light; I Kelly am filled with love and light). Repeat this process a few times through out
your day.
And when you roll out of bed in the
morning, instead of saying, “Oh my back,” say, “I feel good and
refreshed.”
You’re simply changing your
perspective. It really does make a
difference in your life in regards to your health, and how you feel about
yourself as well as others. Here’s an example of how your thoughts can affect
others.
One morning on my way to work, a car
cut me off like three times! At first I
had a few choice words for the driver, but then I caught myself and began to
say in my mind, “I’m sorry sister, I didn’t mean to call you a ________, and
say all of those other mean things.”
When we pulled up to the next stop
light, she was beside me. She rolled her
window down and said, “I’m sorry for cutting you off. I’m just running a little behind, and I
apologize.”
I couldn’t help but smile at her.
“That’s ok,” I said, “I’ve been there before myself; I understand.”
Talk about Karma! People usually use the word Karma in a
negative aspect, but it works both ways.
If you put positive thoughts out there, then positive things will come
to you.
So clean up your thoughts and make
the world a better place to be. Believe
& Be the Change!
