HEALING AND OUR BELIEF

   How do thoughts and fellings influence our health and sense of well-being? how is healing related to the mind? in this page i want to explore the relationship between physical and psychological health and spiritual awareness, giving emphasis to the power of belief in wholeness and healing. in this page i invesitgate the idea of spiritual healing, coupled with the concept the we become what we believe. an individual's consciousness is in reality an energy field which expresses in one experience after another. if an indiviual is not enjoying theabundant life in all aspects, it means that the vibrations within this energy field are out of tune, are not expressing harmoniously. what we manifest in our experience is determined by our beliefs, thoughts and feelings.

Mathew 12:37 states the process of becoming what we believe in this way: "By your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemmed." Spirit made man by the power of his word, and man is a co-creator with God using that same power. Most of us do not realize the power of the spoken word or of our thoughs and fellings, we have been given everything that we need for our self-expression, and the only thing we have to deal with our own acceptance and belief.

 In my personal life, iam brought back again and again to the essential question: what is  the relationship between healing on all levels of my experience and these higher states of consciousness? what is the best approach for me to explore in order to commune with and realized my oneness with God-mind within? by withing this eassay and expressing the ideas i intergrate into my experience, i hope to enlarge my consciousness and develop a richer, more joyful life. what i can clearly imagine and believe, i can experience.

   The subtle governing laws which regulate phsiological processes are influenced by mental and emotional states, behaviours, and environmental factors. It is one's job to train his or herself to think, feel, and act constructively and to associtate with healthy-minded people. Another important reason for this eassy is to teach more higher states of consciousness and spiritual healing to public in oder to incorporate these ideas into their daily living. Most of people have patterns of living that they are comfortabl with, and most are unwilling to change those patterns. but a spiritual awakening empowers the patient to overcome this inertia and completely reframe his or her life. there is an old saying I once heard about dealing with illness: "The answer is simple. you just have to change everything."

The placebo effect has been widely documented in the last twenty or so years. Briefly, it state that 35-75 percent of patient will be cured or will experience improvement of their condition when given a sugar pill or other placebo. a patient's belief that he is receiving medical treatment plays an important role in curing his ailment. I have personally experienced the placebo effect on several occassions, and it worked very effective to improve my condition. the placebo effect points unmistakably to the healing power of the mind. Of course, the mechanics of this effect are almost entirely a mystery. it is the belief of the patient that is crucial in the placebo effect.

Dr. Deepak Chopra has been a pioneer in bringing a spiritual understanding of Eastern medicine to the West. In his book Quantum Healing (1989), he informs us that our bodies are field of energy information, intellience, and energy. Quantum healing involve a shift in the fields of energy infromation, so as to bring about a corection in a idea that has gone wrong. wholeness and heath involves healing one mode of consciousness, mind, to bring about change in another mode consciousnes, body.

 The field of medicine is still in its infancy in understanding the spiritual dimension of healing. But it is clear that the power of mind and the spirit to overcome acute medical problems is real. what i wish to show is that religion and spirituality are good for your health and also that the power and effect of belief are dramatic and life changing.

 Finally, by spiritual healing i mean the postive influence of one individual(the healer) on another (the client or patient) in the absence of any obvious intervening physical influence. it goes by the many names: nonlocal, mental, spiritual, and prayer-based healing. Healing has been linked to spectacular events such as cancers vanishing without treatment. my preference is for the "spiritual healing" rather than psychic or mental healing. also, spiritual healing need not involve the work of another person or healer; spiritual awareness can tranform a person's life by practicing deep meditation, by spiritual study,or by any method which allows one to go within to God-Mind. Of course, a spiritual counselor or guide can be very helpful at time of extreme challenge and stress.

in this page, i advocate that there is a remakebale union between mind, body and spirit. People talk about friends who"worry themself  sick" on a more positive note, some people advise that laughter can ease what ails you. To me these comments point to the belief in the power of our thinking to influence our experience of life. In a statement by a man named Lester Robinson from Pennsylvania, the faith factor in healing is beautifully expressed: "They told me i wasn't going to live, but God overruled them. He's going to heal you if you have enough faith." (Meade 1998)

   After only a little practice, it is much easier to live by faith than to doubt and be fearful. The key factor in faith is your vision of possibilities. What can you see for yourself and for others? faith and belief involve allowing the supportive impulse and ideas of consciousness or God-Mind to enliven and nauture you. At all times we have the potentiality of becoming a co-creator with the infinite intelligence within us. "i will arise and go to my father." (luke 15:18) in this page , i hope to show that we cannot escape the results of our thoughts and that spiritual healing and wholeness re completely linked to our beliefs.                                                     

"There is but ONE MIND in the UNIVERSE that is GOD, and my part of that ONE MIND is ONE with the ONE MIND OF GOD, now. All thought processes of my mind are open to , sensitive to, and receptive to the impress of wisdom from my God-mind. my mind is impressed with creativity, inspiration, and guidance from the Divine, TRANSCENDENT part of my GOD-MIND. Mystical light of SELF-TRUTH from the indwelling, radiance of my GOD-MIND goes before me to light my way and life. for this realization of oneness in my mind, i give thanks....... AND SO IT IS!"

                    "CRO-MAAT"