Mind Body Connection
It is well known that a powerful healing can occur without any bioactive medicine (pharmaceutical, herbal or otherwise), this is called the placebo effect. This effect is often derided, as if it truly matters what the cause of the cure of any illness is? If your mind healed your illness, would you be disappointed you didn’t take or needed the medicine? This view often is expressed from a mainstream medical perspective towards healing modalities, such as homeopathy.
Is the mind important? YES!
Regardless of your personal philosophical perspective, the importance of mind-body connection is universally recognised. Just considering the well known placebo effect alone, any treatment or therapy can be up to 74% effective, depending on the circumstance.
While this is not so visible, nor even validated with cancer treatments, it is well recognised for many others and therefore clearly applies to any treatment, because it’s effect is not dependent on the disease! When reviewing key elements that make the difference between those who overcome this evil disease versus those who succumb to it, the main one is a positive mindset: looking towards the future with hope and optimism.
The belief that this battle will be won may be considered to provide a placebo effect or for those more esoteric, perhaps it supports the manifestation of our own reality. Whatever you may think, the connection is critically important and very real, having clear and tangible effects.
Therefore, prioritise your mind first and foremost!
Mind medicine
So, what does this mean for you? Actually a great deal! What this means is that the mind is extremely powerful, more powerful than most (if not all) medicine. The trick is for us to utilise it effectively. Let me rephrase this: The mind is medicine!
Facing a battle with cancer can be extremely stressful, because it is complex, urgent and requires a lot of time, money and energy. However, one of the common denominators (and possibly the most important) of those who recover from cancer, is a genuine positive attitude that faces the future with hope, optimism and a love for living a useful life.
This is clear from personal observation and the plethora of shared stories of those who have gone before. One of my favourite examples is a story dubbed the man who forgot to die: a story about a man who was diagnosed with stage iv cancer and sent home with three months to live. He decided to pack up, return to his home town in Europe and gave it no more thought. A decade on he was still living a great life and had totally overcome.
The second aspect to this, for me at least, is that the unseen realm is real. Thoughts are real and have a real world impact. They have an effect. Therefore, by our thoughts we can influence (if not shape) our environment and definitely our experience (perception) of it.
(I suggest you read this a few times!)
