Never Be Sick Again by Raymond Francis

Author:Raymond Francis
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: ebook, book
ISBN: 9780757396281
Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.
Published: 2010-08-28T16:00:00+00:00

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T HE PSYCHOLOGIAC

PATHWAY

“The simple truth is, happy people generally don’t get sick. One’s attitude toward oneself is the single most important factor in healing or staying well. Those who are at peace with themselves and their immediate surroundings have far fewer serious illnesses than those who are not.”

Bernie Siegel, M.D.

Love, Medicine & Miracles

Even when nutrients are scarce and toxins abundant, one’s potential for health is nearly limitless, and it relies almost entirely on ourselves and the power of the mind. Thoughts and emotions have a tremendous effect on our cells and therefore our health. What we put into our minds may be more important than what we put into our bodies. The power of the mind is your best ally in choosing to get well and stay well. You are what you think.

“How can it be,” you might ask, “that the mind has so much control over the body?” This question assumes that one is separate from the other; in fact, they are inseparable. All the cells in our body contribute to what we call the mind, and what goes on in our mind affects what happens in all our cells.

Chemical reactions are produced throughout the body by our thoughts, emotions and interactions with others. Fear makes us turn pale; embarrassment makes us blush. Modern science has proven that these “thought chemicals” either can be beneficial or detrimental to health. We can choose what we put into our minds, and in doing so, we can choose between health and disease.

This concept is sometimes difficult for people to embrace because thought chemicals are abstract. Their effect, though, is reflected in Dr. Bernie Siegel’s 1986 book, Love, Medicine & Miracles: “If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T-cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same change happens automatically.”

Consider how thought chemicals can improve or damage health:

• A 1991 study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that stressful life situations (such as losing a job, breaking off an engagement or simply feeling overwhelmed by life’s problems) nearly doubles the risk of catching a cold.

• A thirty-five-year study (1946–1981) of Harvard graduates showed that people who had a pessimistic outlook on life suffered significantly more disease after age forty-five than people with a positive outlook.

• A 2001 study in Psychosomatic Medicine found that optimism protects against heart disease. People who are pessimistic and blame themselves for everything were much more likely to die of a heart attack than their optimistic counterparts.

• Dr. O. Carl Simonton, in his 1978 book, Getting Well Again, talks about how visual imagery with positive mental images had a beneficial effect on patients with advanced cancer. Simonton found that people who used their minds to heal had double the survival rate of those who did not.

• A study in a 2000 issue of Lancet concluded that women who experience severe emotional stress during the first trimester of pregnancy are 80 percent more likely to have a child with birth defects.

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