Thoughts Destroy, But They Also Heal

Health and disease are currently seen as a complex balance that arises from the interaction between body and mind, between the organism and thoughts. Little by little we are overcoming the reductionist views that downplayed the influence of the subjective world on our body and, therefore, on disease and healing.

Conventional medicine is gradually becoming aware of the limitations of its approach. The 20th century was marked by a paradigm in which the idea of ​​the body-machine predominated. Seen through this perspective, the organism was like a device made up of different parts and the disease was a dysfunction in some of these parts, both functional and structural.

However, thanks to the same advances in medicine, it has been possible to verify that the internal dimension has a strong influence, either direct or indirect, on the state of health of any person. Furthermore, this influence is even more marked on the perceived state of health. That is why it is said that thoughts – with their influence – make sick and kill, but also that they heal.

Pharmacological medicine and the medicine of thoughts

Bruce Lipton is a Doctor of Cell Biology and the author of several books. He has delved deeply into the subject of health, illness and the influence of thoughts on these processes. His discoveries and reasoning are truly interesting.

Lipton indicates that pharmacological medicine is a virtual failure. This is because chemical medicines, all of them, cause as much or more adverse effects than the disease itself. He claims that many of these drugs even lead to death over time.

He has also stated that the natural environment of the cell is the blood and that, in turn, changes in the blood are determined by the nervous system. At the same time, the nervous system is the natural environment for thoughts and feelings. Therefore, from Lipton’s point of view, it is the thoughts and feelings that ultimately make you ill, and consequently, those that also have the potential to aid in healing.

The power of thoughts on the body

Not only is it Bruce Lipton, but there are also many other researchers who empower thoughts in the process of illness and healing. Even the most adept pharmacological doctors know that if someone suffers from a disease, they have a greater chance of being cured if they remain in an involved environment, surrounded by affection and trust.

It is not something esoteric, or an effect brought from beyond. The explanation of the power of thoughts is also a matter of chemistry. When a person is in front of a pleasant presence, or enjoying a positive stimulus, their brain secretes dopamine, oxytocin and a series of substances that give health to cells. The same occurs when the stimulus is negative, causing fear, anger or any other destructive emotion.

The organism performs a titanic task every day: producing hundreds of billions of new cells to replace those that die. It also has to defend itself against thousands of pathogens that threaten health. If your body feels that it has to fight every day against highly negative stimuli from the environment, it will spend all its energy on it and will put aside those other functions of growth and protection. The consequence: you get sick more easily.

Between suggestion and energy

The placebo effect has been studied in different circumstances and the results support its influence on our body perception. In fact, several of the drugs on the market only have slightly better effects than a placebo. These placebos are convincing proof that the influence of thoughts – in the case of the placebo effect: expectations – can be very powerful: you think it will cure you and the intensity of the symptoms subsides.

Quantum physics has highlighted the importance of energy, which is the ultimate composition of matter. Everything and everyone is, in our most primitive physical form, energy. That is why the new medicines are more oriented towards balancing energy, rather than chemically modifying the body. They start from the idea that disease processes are triggered by energy imbalances.

These imbalances are often caused by programming towards negative thoughts, which we bring from childhood. You may consciously convince yourself that you should think otherwise, and yet something deep down prevents you from doing so. So what must be changed is not the conscious thoughts, but all that unconscious programming that we carry from the first years. It is the way to bring about changes that favor mental health and, therefore, physical health.

Editing note : with this article we do not want to underestimate the importance of pharmacology when dealing with such devastating diseases as cancer, in fact we can say that it is currently essential. What we do want to highlight is mental health and psychological well-being as two elements of influence within the treatment that the patient can modulate to improve or worsen the prognosis.

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