Can The Power Of The Mind Heal a Wounded Body?

Over the course of our lives we as humans develop both mental and physical illnesses that impact us for the short and long-term. Illnesses such as Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Fatigue, Chronic Headaches, Weight Loss or Weight Gain and the list goes on to more serious illnesses such as Cancer plague us and we’re engineered to look for a “Magic Pill” that can help put us back to normal.

This way of thinking is flawed and upon no results with medication can lead to more distress, and in turn a worsening in symptoms.

So this begs the question, if it’s not always medication that we need? What is it? Meditation? Exercise? Relaxation? Positive Thinking? Visualization? All methods that have been around since the beginning of time but is of little knowledge to the majority of our population, especially in western civilization.

Can our mind really help cure our illnesses? The answer is a resounding “YES!”. Studies are beginning to prove time and again that proper mental stimulation and preparation can help if not completely eliminate common physical and mental illnesses, and in some cases, serious illnesses such as Diabetes, Cancer and other similar illnesses.

But before this can be achieved, we need to help our mind and body by eliminating day-to-day drugs that we commonly use such as caffeine, alcohol, tobacco and sugar, all things that starve our body of certain nutrients and stops our mind and body from releasing feel-good and healing properties. For example, the consumption of the above 4 drugs depletes our bodies of magnesium and vitamin B12, two common nutrients that with deficiencies can cause stress, anxiety, panic attacks, depression, fatigue, headaches, weight loss, weaker immune system and the list goes on. Your average person already has a deficiency in magnesium without taking things that reduce magnesium levels. Not only that, but by causing these symptoms, this also depletes your magnesium levels, which is needed for over 300 biochemical reactions in our body. If we aren’t letting our bodies produce and keep nutrients we need, how can we expect mind stimulation to help us, which is why people are quick to dismiss it.

Even for those who don’t suffer with anything else but stress, it has been proven that those who take steps to eliminating stress commonly live longer with less risk of getting life threatening illnesses, whilst those who continued to let the stress fuel through their body were more susceptible to all illnesses and had a lesser life expectancy.

This all works because our mind and body work in complete harmony, responding to each other’s actions. Have you never wondered why when watching a scary movie you feel chills, anxiety or terror. Your mind takes in these disturbing visuals and your body responds to these feelings physically, by making you feel chills and/or weakness. Or perhaps when you have to do something like speak in front of a huge crowd, your mind begins to visualize having to speak in front of a large number of people and what could go wrong, making the body react by creating adrenaline which in turns changes many biological functions such as increased heart rates, sweating and an increase in gas to name a few.

All these feelings and physical symptoms can be controlled if and when you decide to take steps towards creating a more positive outlook on life and situational events, such as Exercising, Meditation, Muscle Relaxation, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Visualization and Heat Therapy.