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To "The Old Man" I hope that you feel better soon. Your anger and rage is what does not belong here. I think that YOU need to find another outlet to direct your closeminded opinions.
Is it safe to bid you "Peace?"
- Desert Rose

I belief it can, I am attending NLP Coaching very soon and from the material I read so far, I am sure our thoughts can do magic!

Do you think of yourself as having intellectual power? Perhaps this is what is keeping us away from what we seek. (btw, what I seek is to be heard, engaged, and challenged sincerely?)

There are so many assumptions & presumptions embedded in "Do thoughts have the power to heal?"

What does it mean to heal? Does the intelligence of the body adhere to our definition when it actually heals? We seem to know that we are a chemical factory responding to multitudinous stimulii, external and internal. Would that not include brain? How does conscious thought differ from other thought? Does anyone want to understand what is consciousness, or do we think we know?

What I'm asking here is, isn't it yet obvious we must start an inquiry from the most simple premise... and then go slow. Shouldn't we be aware by now that we are frought with bias, arrogance, anger, ego, insecurities, ignorance.... that stand in our path? Should we start from the premise "I don't know anything for sure?"

I have read somewhere that "thought create destiny", so if it is to be believed then thoughts does also have the ability to heal.
I myself have got lots of positive result. I practice RAJ YOGA MEDITATION ,by the Brahmakumaris.The whole meditation concept is based on controlling your thoughts and creating positive thoughts,which does effect you in every aspects. It is what we think that we feel and it is what we feel that we turn into action. So if we have this positive thought of healing then it can truly manifest. But the only concern regarding this is how focused our thought is? Thus it requires regular practice to be positive and to control your thoughts.

Life experiences influence our physiognomy, which in itself is a proof for thoughts being able to affect dynamic biochemical interactions ! - And this is happening without any meditation or certain rituals. For me the basic of activation and deactivation of cell functions is based on the correct visualization of what shall happen. This is another point where it is usefull to gather a lot of knowledge in the classic science way to be able to visualize a certain process more detailed.

Yes! Through prayer or meditation or any form of communication thoughts can improve the well-being of anyone!:)

p.s.

The statements you see below in this string I need to clarify – the examples I use in the text are completely not ambiguous or open to interpretation. They represent ‘impossible,’ either beyond the scope of modern medicine, or where no medical intervention was applied, and ‘impossible’ to occur spontaneously. There is no room for debate or interpretation. There is no tangible process occurring. There is no application of statistics or shift in probability, the probabilities are in every case zero.

It is not a game or speculation. If you read the instructions and practice, you will do it, reproducibly.

And the answer is ‘Yes,’ it will require a change in what you believe and your belief system.

I am a Physicist who has worked over 20 years in Neuroscience Research and Development for the Pharmaceutical Industry in FDA controlled environments.

In ‘Eight Years Four Months,’ I clearly display the medical x-rays and data on a dog, whom I chose as a subject for the demonstration based on the premise that one can likely eliminate the dog’s belief system as playing any part in the mechanism, and perform a healing which is defined by three separate veterinarians as impossible to do, and show the data, and provide the veterinarian’s references for contact.

I call it a ‘demonstration’ because in FDA environments we say, if you can’t reproduce it, it didn’t happen. I go out on a limb and publish the raw data demonstration on the dog. The healing involved a clear break which had partially calcified as a bony mass, would require re-breaking, being pinned for 6 months, with no hope of 100% recovery of length or function, over a period of 1 week, with no medical intervention, and subsequent re-examination by the same 3 veterinarians who were unable to find any evidence that an injury had ever occurred, despite the unambiguous x-ray data.

I do this every day. I have accumulated a lot of hard data, as well as lesser ‘qualified’ but still meaningful testimony and statements, over hundreds of human and animal subjects. I teach others to do it, I don’t make any money at it, or teaching it, and they do it, successfully, after some practice. I wrote about how to do it, and I give it away.

If you would like a copy of it, email me at wbilly3814@yahoo.com, put ‘Eight Years Four Months’ in the subject line, specify pdf, epub, or kindle. Just promise to read the entire thing, it can not be done in part. And if you love or hate it, you can look it up on amazon and write a review.

@manuga hehe, I am the curiosity in person, so pls...shoot !

Hello PA,
I have my idea but I have no proof. curious?

@frequencytuner [quote]Of course, the increased energy activity in the hands creates heat - warm hands[/endQUOTE]
I agree on that. Hands gettn really warm, sometimes even really unusal hot, which can be felt by others, but maybe you can explain to me why my hands turn really cold when doing the same concentration on material things like glass, stone or metal ? If energy flow in general turns them warm, why do mine turn cold on material things (and i mean really uncomfortable cold) ??? Erm, maybe I should also mention that this does not happen when concentrating on wood. Btw. wooden sticks are an interesting thing when additionally used in a therapy.
/cheers
PA

Yes, I believe our thoughts have the power to heal. Years ago, Norman Cousins inspired many people by writing his classic book, Anatomy of an Illness, documenting his successful fight against a crippling disease. In the book, Cousins talks about using vitamin C and laughter to heal himself. But he also said, "Deep down, I knew I had a good chance and relished the idea of bucking the odds."

There are many documented cases of recoveries from so-called incurable diseases. The most important first step toward recovery is to stop worrying. This is easier said than done, I agree, but it can be done. Stress and worry only makes things worse. Secondly, do something that you feel will help you recover. I don't think it matters whether it's vitamins, exercise, or changing your diet. What matters is that you're doing "your part." This will start to make you feel that you have control over the outcome.

Most of all, I think all healing is spiritual. If we have a childlike faith, and put the problem in God's hands, anything is possible.

We used to tell someone that he/she looked healthy that day... and in a few hours our "specimen" would be having the best day ever!!!!

Definitely! We used to play pranks in school... targeting someone and saying he/she looked sick that day... everyone in the group would mention that to him/her randomly... and lo! by lunch he/she would go home feeling sick!!!

Placebo and nocebo (negative placebo effect) exist. This proves that our mind and thoughts deeply influence the way our body works.
Our cells, organs.. the whole body listen to every single thought we have. If the thought persists, then they will start to react congruently
In the ''what the bleep we know'' we see how our thoughts determine hormons production and how cells interacts accordingly ..and sadly how you can damage, weaken or dramatically distort and lose their first nature if your thought persists for years.
The question is: how we can get rid of these thoughts or certain rational conclusions which seem irrefutable to the common logic?
And also: When I get aware of that power, how can I shake that sub-mechanical 'thought' from the mind?
A lot of people have now opened their eyes (me included), but it seems there is a stronger mechanism that keeps you there...
archhh these mechanisms..

Husnisse, about the 'warm hands'.

It is commonly known in oriental practice as cultivating chi. Basically it works on the energy meridians within the human body: acupuncture points. Not getting into too much detail, but these meridians are pathways for energy, or chi, to travel around and animate the body. Cultivating chi is done primarily through breathe techniques and visualizations. Once the energy has been cultivated - flowing freely and abundantly within the body - it can be utilized.
Chi is an electromagnetic energy. If you don't know the basics of electromagnetic energy it is dual-dual natured. In other words it has a male and female (electric and magnetic) quality and each of them have their own unique polarity (electric +/-, magnetic N/S). These forces, electric and magnetic energies, work perpendicular to each other. When you have a magnetic current it will - by it's nature - also have an electric current perpendicular to it. Obviously you cannot see this with your eyes and that is why visualization is so important.
The human body is polarized this exact same way. The left hand has a negative or South charge while the right hand has a positive or North charge. If you relax your mind enough and allow your body to sense magnetic energy you can easily feel the subtle energy radiating from your hands as you slowly pass your palms over each other. With practice and instruction comes the ability to send energy outward or absorb energy inward. Of course, the increased energy activity in the hands creates heat - warm hands.

wbilly3814, many of us would like to hear your stories. If you want them to be heard, by all means share them. Like THEOLDMAN said, this is a discussion board, so please feel free to share some of your stories. Relating this to the discussion, you may have something to share that one person needs to hear at that moment for their own personal healing or journey. Hopefully this is one of those posts for you right now.

TO WILLBY 3814 - Do you mind? This is a discussion board - your asked to speak to the subject not advertize or solicit your sorrow, your wares, books, blogs et al. You posted the same message on each board you entered, and I counted at least three until I realized your just SPAM!!! Not just you but others that DO NOT STAY OF SUBJECT, solicit their wares, profess enlightenment - CAN you not understand the title of this section of the site - DISCUSSION - you have something to say on topic...then bye all means do it - or go spam a NEw Age site somewhere please. I will speak to the subject in a later post - but I am expressing what I am hearing from other members on this site - stop spamming and start speaking to THE SUBJECT! Thank you for your future efforts! - Eamonn

I have had multiple medically documented Near Death Experiences, brought on by a condition related to Prolonged QT Syndrome. I have written about these in a book Eight Years Four Months at Amazon. I go into a lot of detail about Healing. For IONS people, if you're willing to write a review on the Amazon page, good or bad, I can email you a pdf or ebook copy for free.

I'm at wbilly3814@yahoo.com

just put Eight Years Four Months in the message.

thanks

What a curious question. Maybe you might want to look at neuroplasticity and work that Milton Erickson did, and a guy who used to wander around the Galilee a couple of thousand years ago who used suggestions for some of their healing. The method was old 2000 years ago. The Celts in Ireland had been using it for more than 6 centuries by then, and the Greeks for 300 years on the island of Thera and Chios (and several other islands around the Mediterranean). I can show you how it is done. Do you want to learn, or just watch someone else use it? (I saw a child in PK who had suffered from MS cured of it in a very short time, to the point where he was running after a soccer ball with his peers.) He was bent up way worse than this http://www.medicalsymptomsguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Vitamin-D-Deficiency-Symptoms.jpg before the healing was done.

Yes. Not only heal, but also hurt. It initiates a reaction and the "receiver" works it down "wraped" in a biochemical reaction or resists it. A wrong impulse, if not resisted, will lead to even more problems.

I believe We can heal through our mind.....I have personally experienced dt many a times when I have malign thoughts about somebody who is ill....the result is not always good but when I have benign thoughts about sm1......the result is 90% positive........I have personally experienced it with my cousin brother who was suffering from cancer.......and he recovered...

I know a man who has healed over 50000 persons. He has what you call "warm hands". He is able to cure many different kinds of pain juste by touching the person who will feel warmth from the hands of the healer, while these remain cold when you actually touch them. He can also touch the floor and ask the person to stand on the spot, then the person would feel a warm energy climb through the feet and up its body. He can also heal someone just over the phone. The man has visions and would come to people who need his help, they would fall on the floor and suddently he would be there and help them.
This man has had these gifts since he was born. He is 81 now and a celebrity in our country (Norway). He just would like to know, to understand how his hands work and why he and none other can do this? Does any one have an answer?

I have developed Logosynthesis to work with words – as an instrument to activate the field, to focus thoughts and therewith intention. The results are amazing, again and again. Feel welcome to download the primer and experience it yourself – especially for disturbing memories and fantasies: http://www.logosynthesis.net/docs/logosynthesis.primer.pdf.

What's the basis for this Big Q... that most of us Want to be healthy... and to live long? Or is there another reason to have a drive to understand?

To begin this inquiry consider some observable phenomena:
1. Death and Birth are necessary to sustain life.
2. For earth to sustain life, living things must have limitations and progeny.
3. Need for food and self protection (we are also food)... hence diversity, is necessary for macro health.

For one species or life form to gain even a slight advantage, indicates diminished diversity and food... without equal compensatory adjustment by other species. Any advantaged species would soon overrun the earth in numbers and hence the earth could no longer sustain it. This is fundamental Darwinism as you can see.

So, as one of the species of the earth we must (primitive instinct) always be working to keep our place, our footing, competing for food and condition, and fighting to stay alive and to pro-create.

Within this larger picture, I can begin to consider "Do our thoughts have power to heal?"

Our thoughts have the power to heal, but they also have the power to cause illness. I am an Aussie hypnotherapist studying spontaneous remission, German New Medicine, and "A Course in Miracles".
It is clear to me that illness, in whatever form it presents is the result of an unresolved conflict.
"A Course in Miracles" states all illness is a result of an unforgiveness The nature of the illness is closely related to the nature of the unforgiveness. (p14, paragraph 5 of the Psychotherapy supplement)
Is an unforgiveness the same as an unresolved "conflict"? Yes. Different words to describe the same condition.
German New Medicine is a "careful study of the form a sickness takes", and it points quite clearly to the form of unforgiveness that it represents.
I conclude that the conflict or unforgiveness is the "cause" The illness itself is the "effect" of that conflict.
If this is true, it should be provable by applying German New Medicine to identify the "cause" and by using the principles of "A Course in Miracles" to resolve the "conflict"
The forgiveness process seems to be the same as reframing.
The way to prove or disprove these theories is to test them. Have I used these theories in the real world? Of course.Did they work? Absolutely.
Examples: A client with bone cancer and prostate cancer advised that he would be lucky to live 24 hours.Still going strong a year later.
A 73yo woman with multiple myaloma and kidney failure. Gone into remission. Her kidneys seem to have mysteriously improved.
A 57yo woman with MS in both legs. Been in a wheelchair for years. Also had a stroke and lost the use of her right arm and shoulder. She regained full movment of both her legs and her right arm and shoulder. Still in the chair though. I guess that is to do with her weight. 170 kg and only 5 feet tall.
An elderly woman who had major depression for 35 yrs.Fixed. A man in his 70's with a headache for 40 yrs...get that...40 years with a headache...fixed!
The 23yo bipolar woman. Fixed. The woman who had been 8 years trying to get pregnant. Now expecting her first child. The guy with bone cancer who mysteriously went into remission..(doctors suggested he was misdiagnosed...that was after he had endured months of chemo...seems to me that they didn't expect the chemotherapy would work!)The woman in her 40's with Chrones disease and Psoriasis.Fixed.
As far as I can tell German New medicine is true and so is A course in Miracles. When you combine them with Hypnotherapy you have an incredibly powerfull healing tool. These stories may seem miraculous, but they are true. The real miracle is the power of forgiveness.

The mind certainly has the power to heal, but it also has the power to harm. I hope this has been a constructive contribution to your discussion. Have a fantastic day.

James Duncan
(email: james@robinbanks.biz)

It is not an easy question. Francis Bacon, Georg W.F. Hegel, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels caused a huge split in science by laying the foundation of dialectical materialism as opposed to metaphysics. Basically, their are two main currents in any science: one states matter over mind, the other states mind over matter. My personal approach is more careful: mind over matter or matter over mind.
Some excellent scientific examples of ideas that influence the body are the ideomotor effect and Carl Jung's collective unconscious. But the best scientific example that ideas can heal is the fact that ideas can make one ill, this is the basis of Freudian psychopathology. Some people suffer from physical disorder caused by mental illness. If ideas can make you ill, it would be very unlikely that they would not be able to cure you. Some doctors actually use humor as a remedy [http://www.laughterremedy.com/]. Mmm, I have a back ache... probably my lack of a sense of humor lol
Most people would agree on all of the above. Personally, I would take things one step beyond. Thoughts have chemical residue and since decades studies have been done investigating alpha-waves produced by the brain. This has convinced me that one's person's thoughts can influence an other one's. Telepathy is most definitely a fact according to many nuclear scientists and meditation is possibly an excellent tool to stear telepathy. A funny movie about this topic is "The men that stare at goats".
Thoughts of love and happiness to you all. Feeling better, already? :)

I certainly do believe that we have the power to heal on many levels; ourselves, the planet and even our animals. I am a Reiki Practioner and have seen healing in my life and others that I know. I am currently working on healing my cat who has just been diagnosed with Feline Hyperthyroidism. I believe that we must KNOW without a shadow of a doubt that healing is possible and I also feel that a firm belief in a higher power of any postive source also aides in the healing process. There is not a doubt in my mind that we are our own "Great Physicians"
If energy cannot be destroyed well then in my opinion we are vibrating within the same energy that the great healers did. We need to become one with that same univeral healing energy and use it for good. If it could be contained we would be in trouble because of course mankind would get a hold of it and buy stock and use it for evil. It is there we just need to KNOW that it is. As the great Jesus said "your FAITH has made you well"

When the mind is at rest and not thinking, in other words when we are being in the moment, listening and observing, my experience is that this is when healing takes place. If healing is love without judgement, without attachment, then perhaps love is something other than mind?

Our intention has the ability to create healing, both in ourselves and others,this is more than just thought.

I completely agree with the statement that thoughts have a power to heal,i have experienced it in my own life. Whenever i m sad or upset , i try to think about good things,peak experiences(spiritual) etc. in any sense....be it religious,love,help etc. I overcome my gloom. Thia was the abstract aspect but thoughts even heal physical pain,i we divert our mind to something good,think about all good things as i mentioned earlier,think that I m fine,i m happy,full of life, believe that i m fine without any pain,believe in the thing that does not exist,be positive i definitely can overcome pain and i have done it many times.......i don't believe that thoughts can harm if you don't make them harm you ...they can only heal but for that we have to believe dear friends........

I see it differently than most and do not mean this comment to inflame.
There is no healing from death. We are born here with a fixed timeline, thus
we are born dying.

There is no escape, or need to escape from the temporary
nature of these bodies. I do not buy into the illusion that it serves any purpose
to use personal energy from myself or others to extend my fixed timeline.

My body/brain, if allowed the freedom from well meaning people, knows this truth
and does what it needs to do to survive to the end of my fixed timeline.
Intervention is not needed or desired.

This is not to say that the use of personal energy/consciousness does not impact
the health of the body. Of this I have no doubt. I've seen amazing examples of life,
when death was not only expected but allowed to happen, yet did not.

What is amazing is how the expectations of others can impact your health, both
positive and negative. One does not even need to be open to it.

Our thoughts are subjects of our beliefs.

If you believe you are sick, then you are sick.
If you believe you are not sick, then you are well.

We can't comprehend we are powerful in our current evolutionary state so we continue down this path of being lambs rather than lions.

The range of possibilities become more clear as we expand our minds, particularly into subtler realms, which are always vaster than the previous realms of mind. As we do, we should also trace from the myriad variations of form to the simplicity and centricity of the singularity in which all the variations have commonality and point of origination. That point is dimensionless and from which all things originate -- both material and subtle -- including the capacity to heal, both self and others. Healing either is a process of reframing, no matter how it is arrived at, and maximizing such opportunities, once understood, is through the exercise of "dharana" to transcend the dimensionless point and access other dimensions -- particularly the fifth dimension -- and systolic vistara, from the dimensionless point to the maximal perimeters of the Universe, our home and operator, in a rhythmic conjugation of continuous systolis.

Whether an inanimate object [seemingly], or a living being, core factors of any and all actions include three factors, with an additional factor for living beings.

1) form or instrument
2) vitality -- more accurately chi/ki/prana
3) movement and direction

Living beings invest the additional element of:
4) sentiment

These factors constitute what is referred to as "mudra" in Sanskrit.

And now to the subject of healing thoughts....
I would like to start with an example of the world of animals... We all consist of energy. If a lion for example hunts dear it would be a lot easier for it to catch a wounded or weakened object than one that has a bigger level of energy left.
The same must be with diseases...
here the example would be this.... an already weakened immune system is easier to be attacted or completely destroyed if its already weakened/ has less energy to defend itself. As we all experienced, positive thoughts give us energy as negative thoughts do the opposite.
I am just not sure if it does make a difference if the majority of thoughts are negative or positive as both would destroy the balance and gives bacterias/viruses a ground to attack as they need to restore their own balance/energy.
I like to give an example with negative and positive stress where stress is always negative.
But if you have negative stress ( which means stress with something you have a negative feeling about) your balance is destroyed...( negative energy two times)
If you have positive stress ( which means the negativity of stress but a positive feeling behind) your balance is still intact
That is why positive stress is experienced as being healthy.
My point is that all people are under stress given to our nature. even birth (one of the most natural things) is stress to our bodys. and the majority of people has negative thoughts ( disbalance)
So i think that our thoughts can heal or at least prevent us from getting sick, because the energy of a virus can not interfere with the healthy/neutral energy of a host.
Its exactly like the neutral condition of an atom or molekule.... if its neutral it is in its perfect condition. a balance between electrons and protons. it wont be attacted from the outside. nothing its going to interfere with it because its perfect. then you have an ion which isnt yet balanced. it has either too many or not enough electrons, which makes its ebergy either positive or negative. Now to get to the perfect condition it needs other ions that are going to change/neutralize his current formation.
i think viruses might have a bigger number of positive energy and feed from negative energy to neutralize.

Ok first of all i need to excuse my english as i am from germany and secondly i just yesterday experienced this side and since that my brain is on a fulltime overload so things i say might not make sence :)

what we should be asking ourselves is.... why is there such a huge increase of deseases and bacterias/viruses....
I beliefe that the human being destroyes the balance of nature and energy. instead of naturally giving back recources and energy to our enviroment we mostly keep taking it away. Our enviroment has to find a way to restore this energy by 'turning us down.' if human beings wouldnt exsist there wouldnt be a matrix for many bacterias/viruses. nature transformes energy in a specific way to keep it's balance.

Be wary of 'good' and 'evil'. Sometimes healing requires 'evil'. If you have ever seen a heroin addict going through withdrawals you will understand. On the flip side of that coin have you ever heard of a junkie rob and murder some innocent person to get a fix? This may not appear to you to be the product of thought, but put yourself in the junkie's shoes. A chemical addiction is telling his brain that he NEEDS his fix. Murder is a 'good' thing if it get's the money to get the drugs. Rehab is an 'evil' thing because he is deprived of what he NEEDS. These are thoughts and in his mind, reality. It is the very same thing you would do if someone tried to drown you - fight for your life. These are direct examples but equally apply to indirect situations. A perfect example of this is placebo's and nocebo's.

I new to IONS and apparently considered young to take a interest in such matters, i do believe that our thoughts do have the power to heal, provided our thoughts are not tainted with unjust thoughts that could harm the person or thing we are healing . The main problem with relying on our thoughts to heal is that no one is perfect, sooner or later in our life we have had at least one evil thought, and this thought may have effected the way we think. In conclusion i would have to say it is possible to heal that way, but it also carries great risk.

In response to Dr. Radin's question: What do those viruses know that we don't?

Suffering through disease a fundamental design element of this material world. Viruses are one mechanism for dispensing disease. It is designed and controlled by universal managers who are endowed with higher intelligence and they know alot more than we do!

An nice appreciate of the design of viruses is explored in this lecture from Berkley: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhE2LJTT0-o

This not only applies on a personal level, but on a global level as well. Collective paradigms shape the foundation of our reality.

"feeling good" is a brian signal as well as "feeling bad."
now it all depends on how we define good or bad. but I do believe that we can overcome a feeling by thinking the paralal opposite.
they way we think is the way we are!

If one conceive in the mind one can manifest. Thoughts can heal, but they also injure. They create and destroy equally.

The real question is not 'Yes or No' but How and Why.

Positive thought can be easily misunderstood and misinterpreted. Wishing only "good" and "positive" for your self will reflect back "bad" on someone else.

Humanity does not have to capacity to fully understand and appreciate the power of human thought.

Some people heal with positive thoughts, yoga and meditation, and some people die with the same. The audience likes to judge that the ones who died somehow weren't "enlightened enough." I disagree. Dying is a natural part of life. So surely no matter how advanced you are, you wouldn't be able to cure every issue. One day you will die.

Why do some people make remarkable comebacks? Every disease has some ratio of unexplained spontaneous remission. When this occurs at the same time as an abundance of prayer and positive thinking we enjoy connecting the two events.

What is true of positive thinking? That you can control your experience no matter what. It is still valid to have a happy death as opposed to rounding the last corner of your existence in fear or misapprehension.

Definitely yes.. And I'm not any of those learned guys like above, well this is my experience, hear, I was suffering from acute breathing trouble (asthma), my doctors had advised me not to do hard jobes or so.. It troubled me a lot especially since I was a student and more because I was a teenager and if I hadn't taken any exercises I won't be having a good figure or so (no girls would look at me). Then I met a doctor who practised homeopathy, she gave me a lot of +ve energy unlike others who treated me as a born patient, and I started to see things differently and do some tough exercises since I had a strong feeling that once my body was stronger I would develop a confidence and I would fight the disease and so did it happen.., now I'm really happy for having met a doc. who really inspires her patients and also for having the troubles out of my life.

In response to Dr. Radin's question: What do those viruses know that we don't?

Those viruses know, they and I are one! Their consciousness is closer to the consciousness of Primordial God/Zero Point Field (PG/ZPF) than my consciousness. My mind never stops creating perceived boundaries, barriers or differentiations. Man's ultimate goal is to go back to PG/ZPF. To do it, I need to totally renounce/remove all traces of humanness, including my consciousness. Hopefully, I can do this in a million lifetime since I don't feel any need for urgency. Of course, this state of oneness is incompatible with human life (body/mind/soul). My current oneness, is oneness in perception, in illusions and in delusions. In this life, this oneness is okay and it is a wonderful hell.

Peace,
Newoldkid

Yes, I truly believe that our thoughts not only have the power to heal us on a physical level, but to transform us as well. I have been working with energy kinesiology for 17+ years, first as a client, and then as a practioner. From my own personal experience I have found that it isn't only our conscious thoughts that affect us on a physical level, but our subconscious thought patterns as well. Through muscle testing, detrimental thoughts patterns or words can be unblocked, allowing different choices to be made. Often the words that pull up during a session evoke deep (and sometimes surprising) insights for a client. It seems to me that we are each, for lack of better terminology, subconsciously "hardwired" to think or react a certain way. When we are able to change the programing it's as if new pathways open up, allowing us to react differently. These thoughts also often cause physical illness or distress, so when they are cleared, the body is very often able to heal. Some scientists have actually been able to measure the frequency of various thoughts and emotions. I feel like we are just scratching the surface in understanding how our consciousness affects and creates us physically. An excellent book on the subject is "Power vs. Force - The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior" by David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.

As I recall it has been shown many years ago that thoughts have the power to influence plants. Whether ohealth practitioners would r not we understand the mechanism it is clear that an energy (?) exchange takes place. It is known that the ancient Egyptians used laying on of hands for healing. That is different from thought but may be related. And, I believe that health practitioners would concur that good thoughts have a healing / theraputic effect.
What would be nice is a controlled study to validate the notion.

I am not yet sure if ones thoughts impact directly on ones illness, but speaking from experience from the healthcare industry, I have always found that those people who have a positive attitude and lconcentrate of feeling better, cope more easily with their illness and decrease their morbidity, than those who dwell on the negative aspects of their illness (chronic and acute illnesses). This may sound obvious, but I have seen significantly quicker and smoother recovery from those positive thinkers. Again, does this positive thought power impact directly on our physiology on a cellular level? or does it just help us cope emotionally?

I truly believe that my thoughts have the power to heal.I can never remember a time in my life (until now!) that I have not experienced the pain of reflux.After being officially diagnosed with severe reflux about 20 years ago (I am 54) I began taking 5 medications a day.To make a long story short I decided to do energy work instead of taking these medications.I did deep breathing and visualization every time I experienced pain.It did take quite a bit of time but I am now pain free! I also healed myself of a painful,itching rash and warts that I had for over a year (medication did not work!). We are powerful beings.More powerful then most of us can comprehend at this point but I know that we are very close to remembering who and what we are.When that day arrives I believe that either there will not be a need for any type of healing because we will know that we are the perfect manifestation of our creator or for those that believe that they have a need to be healed,their healing will happen in an instant!

Dr. J Sechler
Coming from traditional medicine as a NP and now being a chiropractor and using energy work to identify and remove blocks in the mind and body I have seen the power of thoughts Every thought produces an emotion which produces biochemical reactions in the body affecting our behavior every day. As we examine our beliefs and shift them to better serve us, that biology will also change and our attraction will change to more of what we want and we will serve at a higher level. I have found it is important that when in energy medicine an old belief can be identified and released there's the opportunity to now develop a new and more empowering belief. If that space is not filled, something will fill it whether positive or negative so I would prefer myself and the clients I work with to choose and then reinforce those new beliefs strengthening them and see the results from that practice. It is a rewarding process to say the least!

I know my energy has the power to heal. I projected my energy to Shanghai last fall where I healed a young man. His Mother had asked for my help. The Chinese physicians didn't know what was wrong with him. When he returned to the US, he told his Mother that he felt me in the room with him.

I projected my energy to Argentina the beginning of this year and healed a friend. She has come here to visit and learn more about energy and healing.

II come from a long line Shamans, Holy Men and Women. I feel very blessed to have these abilities.

There is no question that thinking is a key component both as a trigger for poor health and fortunately as an aid in healing. I've had diabetes for 31 years and can say with certainty that my attitude is the most important element in achieving self-care mastery. The medical community does a great job in educating some diabetics about the characteristics of the disease as well as recommendations for self-care. Due to time constraints, behavior is rarely discussed. Such people who do not follow recommendations are branded as “non-compliant.” That pejorative term offends me and my work focuses on the reasons people are unwilling or unable to follow known procedures (diet, exercise and meds). I believe that if we diabetics stick together and help each other, we can have an enormous, positive impact…and it all starts with attitude.

Do our thoughts have the power to heal? I say YES! This is a simple matter concerning "state of mind" and the strength of the belief in that. I read about a study that showed patients on medication were given identical looking capsules/tablets with none of the same properties or chemicals that their medication consisted of and these "fakes" had the exact same, if not better results on these patients. If the belief is strong enough it affects the reality in the desired manner. The mind has the power to make or break you, a mental state of absolute positivity while facing something like, lets say, cancer is not easy to obtain but certainly attainable if surrounded by the right people, given the right motivation and with practice. Just like people can get motivated to the extent of walking over red-hot coals without getting burned, I believe any individual can overcome an illness by harnessing the power of their mind.

I worked with a Russian biophysicist for a while examining energy domains (EDs) in normal cells and cancer cells. He showed me maps of these domains and pointed out that the EDs in normal cells appeared quite chaotic, but when carcinogenic initiation had occurred the EDs lined up in that which appeared a crystalline array. His physics background was in polymer structures, origins and development. Viruses are very interesting as they often have clear crystalline structures and clear affinities for types of organs and tissues. One day he said to me: "It is not viruses that cause cancer, but cancer that causes viruses." At the time a famous physicist had suggested that viruses come from outer space. The notion of an origin from inner space remains more cogent for me.

Maybe viruses do what the trapped Spirits do...they float around out there waiting for someone
to let their vibration down, (through anger, fear, anxiety, etc.), and then they POUNCE and attach
their uninvited selves! The stronger our light the greater protection we have against all of these
barnacle energies.

I accept that thoughts can heal, or harm. I experience this daily when I see how I respond to mundane daily stresses. I can let events tear me down when I'm in the "wrong" frame of mind, or I can transcend it all and flow without stress. This is mostly modulated by the attitude that I maintain.

But when I get a cold, as much as I try through my meditation practices, use of herbal concoctions, etc., it doesn't seem to make much difference in how long the cold lasts. So perhaps the cold viruses have their own "thoughts," and they want to thrive as much as I do. So now my body becomes a battleground of wits between the couple of trillion cells I call "me" (plus those extra ingredients we call consciousness, various not well understood energies, etc.), vs. a very large number of viruses.

I can imagine a far future where we have all sorts of incredible energetic medical technologies that keep us ridiculously healthy, and yet we will all still get colds. What do those viruses know that we don't?

Thoughts have the power to heal... and/or, our thoughts create our reality. This is something that I have to believe is possible. In fact, it is the main reason that I write a "Daily Imagining" at "Imagine Into Being" (http://imagineintobeing.wordpress.com).

There's no reason NOT to be intentional about our thoughts as they DO create our reality... and the reality of those around us.

With Love and Gratitude,

The Intentional Sage

I don't refuse the idea of healing thoughts, on the contrary!

However, I wonder how many of the people who wrote the comments above experienced serious illness and faced death won't ask for a painkiller and a miracle pill to heal and to end the nightmare.

In those circumstances it is even more difficult to survive without love and these vibrations are healing for the mind. It lowers the stress level of a patient who is totally dependant of others.
When you're in the death zone, your body can take over control, no matter how your mind thinks, if it is still able to think consciously.

Thoughts do have the power to heal even though they cannot kill a bacteria instantly. They can improve your immune system over time.

Compassion towards others and yourself is a key element. It lowers the level of "agression".

We are light and as light we behave as waves (energetic or lighter body) and particle (physical denser body). We move and have our being in a dance of vibrations. Our physical body is the manifestation of the quality of our thoughts and feelings. Healthy thoughts coupled with love will raise our vibration and health. Lower vibrations are detrimental to our health.

Based on my own personal experience, I would say the answer is an unqualified "yes."

I was daignosed with a bulging disc in 1991 and the doctors advised surgery. Soon after the diagnoses, I read "Healing Back Pain" by Dr. John Sarno. The book encouraged the kind of thinking I needed to recover without surgery. Fortunately, I chose physical therapy, reflexology, massage and deep breathing techniques. Within about 5-6 months after the symptoms appeared, they were gone.

Yes. When our thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are in harmony, we are an integrative presence, an energetic force that is transformative in nature. Transformation begins within us, at the cellular level, and quantuum physics supports this through so many studies. I do believe that when we allow ourselves to fuel this energy with intent, healing can occur at many levels. The key is the harmony, or congruence, of the energies. I recently experienced an extremely uncomfortable tightness in my back muscles; I was aware of the stress my thoughts were creating in my body, and stopped what I was doing, did some deep breathing, and brought light and a golden rainshower into my body....a very simple exercise, and the tightness and accompanying discomfort in my body vanished. My thought was to change the energy in my body, my belief and the accompanying feelings were recognizing the outcome, an energetic shift, and my intent was to facilitate a process that would allow this. If we are energetic beings, and every thought, feeling and belief is energy, are there any limitations to healing?

Absolutely our thoughts have the power to heal ... and destroy, at least from my own personal experience. I know that when I have an epiphany of any kind, whether it's about a personal issue I'm contemplating or a problem I'm looking to solve - there's a euphoria associated with that solution, even if the answer is not necessarily to my liking. A certain amount of trepidation and stress is lifted along with the fog, replaced by a clarity of truth. And that clarity rushes through my body with a warm, soulful hug and an immediate feeling of joy. Likewise is true with a destructive thought. I just experienced a somewhat surreal episode with a very dear friend whose distorted interpretation of a shared event has utterly destroyed our friendship. Somehow the version of truth that she could accept involved twisting reality so that she could become the victim and everyone else the hated perpetrators. No amount of outside interpretations could offer her solace. This is an ongoing MO in her life where she meets new people, makes them instant friends then finds ways to manipulate her thoughts so that their actions can give her cause to discard those friendships. Her life consists of taking anti-anxiety and anti-depression meds whose dosage she manipulates as needed. Do thoughts heal and destroy? You bet!

Take a faith healing gathering with say 5 000 "believers" each singing\chanting\praying.... they are all creating energy which they "believe" will make the blind see etc. This energy is directed at the sick person who also "believes" and his physical body "believes" it will have a positive reaction which it does. The easy cases such as the usual aches and pains will remain healed whilst the serious ones such as "discarding your wheelchair" will reverse because the mind cannot accept it long term because it has not experienced it before.
To test this out try and levitate a matchbox from the palm of your hand - you can't do it because you mind tells you you have not experienced it before, but take the lightest feather you can find and start with that - you will eventualy move it just a fraction, and then 2 and then you know you can continue. Healing works the same way - once you have experienced it you can do it. The faith healers of old did it, although they didn't know how - they just believed God was on their side.

I will have to go along with Dr. Bruce Lipton and other leading-edge scientists, stunning new discoveries have been made about the interaction between your mind and body and the processes by which cells receive information. The book The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles. It shows that genes and DNA do not control our biology, that instead DNA is controlled by signals from outside the cell, including the energetic messages emanating from our thoughts. Dr. Bruce Lipton demonstrates how the new science of Epigenetics is revolutionizing our understanding of the link between mind and matter and the profound effects it has on our personal lives and the collective life of our species.

No belief, no way.

of course it does.that even is the base of every religion.in fact prayer is a belief held in mind or just thoughts that recur.
it is clearly evident from a lot of miraculous healings that we hear from around the world.
Dr.Murphy in his book "power of our subconcious" mind"clearly states his research on thoughts and
healings happened to him and his patients.its just not healing ,thoughts control much more;wealth,happiness,success,good relations..
i guess everyone should read it if they get a chance.

Clearly the answer is YES. The placebo effect is a good example. A publication on the healing powers of placebo's has been one of the most requested papers of the highly esteemed medical journal The Lancet. Apparently the medical profession is waking up and starts to react! Our thoughts have through the, and reenforced by, the zero-point field unlimited possibilities of realisation. Let us use as much as we can for the benefit of all.

I have read everywhere that thoughts are absolute and they are complete atomic bodies even they posses colors (refer swami sivananda book on power of thoughts) and you can almost anything using thought as power. Frankly speaking, I tried myself either I lack 100% concentration or someone in me don't want to believe it works, for my it never worked. Period. if they didn't work for me does it matter what others say. Or What I require to build a complete optimism on it they will work and keep on acknowledging that they will work.
In case anybody has experienced that they did work with examples. I read The intention experiment as well, however the book is too theoretical, I guess there are other books on Occult science but thoughts really works I still have to witness.

I used to do workshops with a high school group, over several years, that dealt mostly the topics of living with the earth - what many people think of as 'wilderness survival' - sometimes with a partner and sometimes not. However, we also branched out into other areas, including awareness, consciousness and the like. One exercise we always did was to get the largest guy and the smallest girl/woman in the class to stand up. I'd ask the guy to raise his right arm - shoulder to elbow straight up, and elbow to hand in the air (the classic muscle man pose). I'd then ask the girl to pull his arm down. It was obvious that she could not - to the point of suspending her entire body weight on his arm. I'd then ask the rest of the class to focus as much positive, loving energy toward the young woman as possible, and/or as much negative, dark, menacing energy as they could toward the guy. After giving them a few moments, I'd ask the two students to repeat the procedure. Without fail, the man's arm came down easily - much to his surprise. Afterward we had the class send the guy positive, loving intention in order to 'build him back up'. One may argue whether this was due to the transmission/receipt of energy from the rest of the group, whether it was the power of suggestion/ mild hypnosis or something else. In the end, it doesn't matter. The fact is that a physical change was effected with no physical stimulus. We achieved similar results by having the guy close his eyes and, with his eyes closed, having him hold a pink rubber ball with this other hand. Again, a physical change in strength with no overt physical cause. Some people in holistic medicine use a similar technique known as 'muscle testing'.

There was one time where this experiment backfired, to an extent. On that occasion the largest male was a part-time teacher who (I found out later) wasn't overly liked. It would seem that when I asked the class to send him positive, loving energy to build him back up, they were less than inclined to do so. Later that night he confided in me that as a former rugby player he was feeling like he'd been tackled. My partner and I quickly assisted him in regaining his sense of balance and strength.

Anecdotal? Certainly. True experience? Definitely.

Mike.

Yes. But they also have the ability to create illness and it seems that we can more easily create illness thoughts than healing ones. Why that is the case and how we can overcome that negative tendency are the more important questions. When we can master that skill, we won't have to ask if thoughts can heal. It will be all around us.

Indeed, thoughts have the ability to heal.Therefore , also the ability to injure,consequently, we as a species have purposefully rejected this notion in order to soften our guilt. Leading the masses to believe we cannot heal by thought so as not to feel the guilt of injuring by thought.

At first sight it is easy to feel the influence thoughts have on one's body, but this places ones again proud thinking at the head of the whole process. Once again we fall into the trap of a vertically organised "society" where thinking is higher than emotion, and emotion is higher than instinct. We still make the cut between body and mind, where mind can objectively, this is: without influencing, observe the body.

Thoughts do influence the body, of course they do, just like the body influences the thought processes. And the emotions, and the dreams etc etc. It is not the thinking in itself that influences, but the way we bring ourselves as a whole in contact with that which is beyond thinking. Not a higher or deeper self because it has got nothing to do with height or depth. Only a mystery that is.

Let's also not forget that, luckily, we don't have to think to make the body function. The body has more wisdom than thinking. In fact: often, not thinking (sleep) is better for healing than thinking.

Mind body medicine , reflects that soul body and mind are interrelated and it's mandatory to be iin balanced and harmonious fashion , with the brilliant approach of noetic science , I wish as a practicing surgeon that in the near future medicine will be concerned more of well-being rather than bieng well in other words our patients deserve to be treated as a whole , simply be teaching them how to heal themselves , through establishing the link of body , sole and mind
This is my mission in life is to spread the message of further exploring the science of faith and consiousness

In order to prove that a healing treatment is effective, the medical sciences have to use double blind studies where the administrators of the study & the patients don't know whether or not they have received the test substance or a "placebo" - sugar pill etc. This is because they know that many people will get better with "only the placebo"! The amazing ability of the mind to effect the bodies' healing!

I do indeed believe that our thoughts heal us. In my case, re-establishing a feeling of heroism heals me. I highly recommend a book, "How God Changes Your Brain" by Andrew Newberg, M.D. and Mark Robert Waldman. It is an excellent resource to add to this discussion.

Yes certainly, but I think it is important not to fall into the trap of the ego 'I heal myself'. I have been studying for a while two techniques which come from the same teachings of Lester Levenson, but are two different techniques - Sedona Method and Release Technique. In my understanding the mind/emotion not only causes the problem but it can hinder the healing, in that it always tries to figure out how to heal ourselves which only keeps the problem in place. But when we let go of wanting to figure out and let go of the negativity, we allow healing to take place.

Our thoughts provide the focus or the control but the power comes from our emotions (e-motion = energy in motion). Distant healing is a combination of the two. Prayer has always been about what we think and we feel. We are always praying and creating our experiences. Back in the time of Proverbs, they didn't have a word for feeling and the phrase was used, "As a man thinketh in his heart."

The research of Allan Rechtschaffen clearly shows the detrimental effects (death) cause by sleep deprivation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Rechtschaffen). Additional research indicates the cause of death is a non-specific bacterial or viral infection starting in the gut. Since it is non-specific (whatever happened to be in the gut), then the lapse must be a general weakening of the immune response. Thus, prolonged wakefulness (including all conscious thought) must be detrimental to some degree. Minimizing such mental activity should reduce the detrimental effects. Research at the U. of Illinois indicates that meditation enhances immune functioning which appears to validate the relationship of immune response and level of conscious activity. Further, beta-CCM has been tied to stress, yet it appears to enhance memory and learning in rats. If beta-CCM can be related to analytical thinking, or dealing with complexity, as well as immuno-suppression, the U. of Illinois research and Rechtschaffen's research all seems to fit together. The conclusion would be that thought is directly related to health.

Depends on how "thought" is defined. My understanding is that we are fundamentally One comprised of Love (Coherent Light/Divine Thought Far Beyond What We Can Possibly Imagine In Our Veiled State). When our Love/Coherent Light joins with another in common purpose healing occurs naturally to the degree that is for the highest good of all for the awakening mind, i.e., we don't have full knowledge here and cannot "see" fully what is best for any individual case. Feeling the intensity of Love in the magnetics of our heart and throughout all our coherent particles and frequency field and then moving into the Still Core beyond time/space and consciousness and healing inside the dreamtime always occurs, we're just asked not to be attached to what "healing" looks like.

Everything in this world is interrelated, and the energy is whole. Which means the energy can be processed from one substance to the other as easily as heat transfers from hot body to cold body. Like this when the energy of the healer is more efficient than that of the healed, I think it is possible to heal by simply concentrating on the surrounding energy and passing the worldly energy from the environment to the body of the sick.
As energy of the universe is constant, it can be simply transferred from one body to the other. It is the power of concentration that matters.

Our thoughts are powerful! They are NOW. I am a healer. There are now tools that remind our cells of Source. They are infused with zero point energy. I see these tools helping people to heal themselves every day.

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Jim

Do our thoughts have the power to heal? Absolutely yes! I have used both art and poetry as healing tools among youth and feel that these modalities include thoughts and emotions.

As an empath, the heart/love essence is my conduit. My experience is that my healing practice is stronger when my soul, heart and mind harmonize. When I do this in a group, there is even more power to it. Awareness of intent and consequence are also essential for me. As I move from mindfulness to heartfulness, the power of healing increases, expanding into an altered state where I can tap into the pulsating intelligent energy that makes up the universe. When I am capable of maintaining this sense of oneness, my healing energy flows. For me, from an early age, this often happens in the dream world, sometimes in a conscious way, other times in an unconscious way. Either way, my thoughts and feelings must be in harmony for healing to flow. For me it is important to harmonize/integrate body, mind, heart and soul.

I imagine that the term "thought" may encompass both a mental and an emotional response. I do realize that there are as many diverse modalities as there are human beings and feel that learning what works for others helps me further refine my awareness. Regardless of modality, thoughts are very powerful.

Of course they do!! Just as toxic thoughts have the ability to cause illness.
It is very important to practice mindfulness and not send soul darts to others or ourselves.
This includes our planet and all that is.
LOVE is the strongest power in the Universe and the glory is that it is in our power
right now to be co-creators in healing!

Thoughts ? In my experience healing really happens when all aspects of myself are aligned towards the same goal. If and when I only "think" with my intellect that I want to heal (be it physical, emotional or other) nothing moves. When I check in with other facets of my personality and soul I can find the parts that don't believe I can heal, or the parts that know the benefits of being unwell and want to keep it so. Until I can have a congruent "inner team" I cannot heal.

That is why I find it easy (as a healer) to align for others and help them move into healing. When it comes to myself ? Well, let's say that miracles haven't really happened yet.

Quantum physics teaches us that we are all bundles of energy.
We know that when we have certain thoughts and feelings certain physiological and chemical reactions occur
in our bodies, which surely change the energy that embodies our being.

Yes, thinking moves the brain, then phyiscally moves the body, then moves the environment , then the people. though the way is not easy to detective becaues there is other system which can convey the power and information and which can be sensed by those who practise special meditation.

Clearly our conscious and subconscious minds send off signals for health and wellness or illness and distress, or some other cocktail of sensations. The rising awareness through the work by many good minds disciplined in the field, like Bruce Lipton's, Biology of Belief give us substantial material to share with colleagues and friends. But even more profound, we have the opportunity to revisit our own practices and look at the evidence, that is our lives, for the degree of harmony we are creating with our minds - brilliant or not! Not only do our thoughts have the power to heal ourselves, we can help heal others. There are no limits except for those we self-impose. Oh to be unshackled and to be living in the truth of our interconnectedness!