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Healing the mind heal the body

It is well known that the mind can strongly influence the body, causing symptoms, disease, and even death. All physicians know of hospital patients who gave up on life for one reason or another. Despite the best medical treatments and technology available these patients wither away and die. Patients who possess a strong will to live usually fare much better. We are just now in the process of defining the physical mechanisms of "giving up" and "the will to live." These are the basic mechanisms of the mind-body connection, a connection that was made in a very healing way as the mind-body connection as it is made during past life therapy and many of the different ways it can heal physical ailments.

Early data from Stanford University indicate that support groups significantly increase the quality and quantity of life in breast cancer patients. Harvard University researchers have found that some types of meditation can prolong life in the elderly. In his excellent book Head First: The Biology of Hope, Norman Cousins carefully documented work at UCLA and elsewhere that has helped to develop the new area of medical research known as psychoneuroimmunology, the interaction between the mind-brain and the immune system. Bernie Siegel, M.D., has also described mind-body correlations and the profound healing potential that is accessed through this linkage in his best-selling books Love, Medicine and Miracles and Peace, Love and Healing.

Research at Pennsylvania State University has shown that hypnosis can increase the quantity of certain white blood cells in the system. Numerous studies document correlations between improved athletic performance and visualization techniques. Many researchers and clinicians have used hypnosis to eliminate addictions to tobacco, food, and even to alcohol and hard drugs. Meditative techniques have also proved effective in many cases. Past life therapy under hypnosis can also achieve some of these same results.  I have seen that physical as well as psychological symptoms can rapidly resolve as a result of past life therapy, even without the use of medicines.

 I am still not able to identify the exact mechanism of the physical cures that take place as a result of the therapy, although I do have some ideas. The cure might lie in the simple act of remembering and re-experiencing an initial trauma, just as the act of reexamining a childhood trauma during conventional psychotherapy results in an emotional cure. Or, the knowledge that the soul never dies, only the body does, could be the great healer. Healing may also occur as the patient acquires an understanding of the factors that precipitated the illness in the first place. Or, the secret may lie in a combination of all of these processes, all of which are typical of past life therapy.

"Although I can only hypothesize about the reasons that past life recall heals, I can attest to the results of that recall. In my experience I have found that past life regression under hypnosis can be an important part of the treatment, amelioration, and even the cure of certain chronic symptoms and illnesses, especially those affected by the functioning of the immune system and those that may have a psychosomatic component."- Brian Wiess

 

Past life therapy is particularly effective in treating musculoskeletal pain, headaches that do not respond to medication, allergies, asthma, and stress-induced or immune-system-related conditions such as ulcers and arthritis. In some cases, it appears to improve cancerous lesions or tumors. Many patients of mine have been able to stop taking pain medication for formerly debilitating conditions after they experience past life therapy. It also resolves deep, underlying emotional issues as the relationship of the emotions to the physical discomfort and its past life source is revealed.

The medical exploration of this field is just beginning. However, it is safe to say that past life therapy must be seriously considered as a potent and cost-effective addition to the roster of effective holistic therapies, that is, therapies that concentrate not on alleviating a single symptom or condition but on healing the whole person, body and mind.

Wherever the secret lies, the therapeutic effects and benefits can be startling.

The spiritual component of past life therapy is also a great healer. As patients personally experience that they do not die when their bodies die, they realize that they, in fact, have a divine nature that transcends birth and death. The will to live, to be healed, and the faith that healing can and will take place often increase with it. Patients learn of the higher power within all of us that helps us orchestrate our lives to learn and to reach our godlike potential. They become less anxious, more relaxed. More of their energy can be directed toward the healing process and away from fear and suffering.

Past life therapy also seems to develop those traits of hardiness that seem to correlate with good health, including increased resistance to the debilitating effects of chronic illnesses and with strong immune functioning. It promotes happiness, peacefulness, and the tendency to accept obstacles as challenges and adventures.

Patients who have undergone past life therapy to alleviate physical problems become more hopeful, and they live life more joyously and fully. They are more independent. They sleep better. Their depression lifts.

 The healing process that occurs during regression sessions is not always all-encompassing. Sometimes it is a simple matter of discovering the past physical origin of a present physical pain. A patient who does not need to explore complex emotional issues as part of the source of current physical discomfort will not do so during past life therapy. The healing can be simple and direct.

Chronic headaches are one of several conditions that respond particularly well to past life therapy. Like migraine headaches, asthma, respiratory infections, and allergies are physical conditions in the current lifetime that seem to have origins in suffering experienced in previous lifetimes. Past physical trauma seems to leave present physical residue.

 All the cases and so many others show that there is more than increased strength deriving from the clear awareness of our inherent divinity and the higher power guiding each of us throughout our lives. There is more than the immune system boost from living life more joyously and completely, with hardiness and power. There is also recovery through understanding the true root causes of our symptoms, our fears, our impairments, our dependencies.

When the core reasons are seen and experienced, understood and resolved, the symptoms disappear. The illnesses improve. 

The splinter has been removed, and the pain is gone. The recurrent drama has finally ended, and the dance is over. There is no need to project, to defend, to anaesthetize, to use drugs, to be sick any more.

Perhaps this is why therapy conducted in this state, from this higher perspective, seems to be extremely effective. Learning occurs at a highly accelerated pace. Sometimes regression to childhood or to a past life is not even necessary. When therapy is done in a relaxed, meditative, "higher" state, learning, acceptance, assimilation, and improvement frequently take place quite rapidly. The benefits of the "higher" state can be experienced in forms of therapy other than past life therapy. I have been incorporating some of its elements into traditional psychotherapy with some of my non-regression patients. 

I tell the patient to gently close his or her eves and to take a few deep breaths, letting the body completely relax. We then converse therapeutically. The patient's vision is directed inward instead of outward. There are many fewer distracting sights and thoughts. Concentration is focused.

The subconscious mind can be accessed and influenced in a positive, healing manner. Frequently the patient experiences visual images that accompany the thoughts and emotions we are reviewing. These images seem to be very important and to be directly related to the symptoms or blocks the patient is experiencing. We discuss and integrate the meaning of these images, whether they are symbolic or actual memory fragments. Learning and clinical improvement are enhanced.

In a study reported in The Lancet, the prestigious British medical journal, medical researchers found that a combination of diet, exercise, and the practice of stress reduction techniques can reverse blockages in coronary artery disease. Changes in diet and exercise alone were not sufficient to reverse heart disease. Stress reduction was a necessary factor, more important than originally believed. Dr. Claude Lenfant, a researcher at the National Heart, Lung, power and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, stated that these lifestyle changes "can begin to reverse even severe coronary artery disease after only one year, without the use of cholesterol lowering drugs." Relaxation techniques are very important. "This finding suggests that conventional recommendations . . . may be enough to prevent heart disease but not to reverse it," commented Dr. Dean Ornish, who coordinated the study. 

In another study of more than one thousand heart attack victims, researchers from Stanford University presented a report at the International Congress of Behavioral Medicine in Uppsala, Sweden. They found that anxiety, fearfulness, hostility, and anger are psychological traits that predispose people to second heart attacks. Interestingly, anxiety and fearfulness seem to be more harmful to women while hostility and anger are more harmful to men.

Relaxation, visualization, imagery, and regression are used in order to eliminate stress, tension, fears, and phobias, in a holistic way—the health ramifications seem endless. 

We need more research into the mind/brain/immune system/ body continuum. How do attitudes and particular states of mind help to prevent, ameliorate, and sometimes cure addictions, chronic illnesses, infections, cancers, heart disease, autoimmune disorders, and other diseases? It has been my experience, and that of many other doctors as well, that regression therapy and hypnotic visualization can transform the mind to reach these healing states. These methods can be used in conjunction with traditional medical approaches and medicines. They are not mutually exclusive, by any means, as the treatment of many of the patients  demonstrates.

The transformational power of the mental attitudes induced by hypnotic past life regression and visualization can be of real practical use to traditional medical practitioners. Here are safe and strong healing forces, forces with no side effects because these forces are basically spiritual and intuitive in nature. This is truly holistic medicine. 

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