avatar✨ Bridget Webber

Summary

The article discusses the role of beliefs and mindset in facilitating spontaneous healing from severe diseases.

Abstract

The article explores the concept of spontaneous healing and the psychological underpinnings that may contribute to it. Joe Dispenza, a notable figure in the field, identifies four key beliefs shared by individuals who experience spontaneous remission: belief in a creator or higher power, the influence of thoughts on the body, the impact of lifestyle changes, and the practice of focused introspection. The article references the Institute of Noetic Sciences and Lissa Rankin to underscore the significance of the mind in the healing process, beyond traditional medical interventions. It also touches on the placebo and nocebo effects, suggesting that positive and negative beliefs can respectively promote or hinder healing. The piece encourages readers to consider how adopting these beliefs could aid in healing and maintaining health.

Opinions

  • Joe Dispenza posits that embracing certain beliefs can facilitate spontaneous healing.
  • The Institute of Noetic Sciences defines spontaneous healing as significant improvement in health without conventional medical treatment, sometimes influenced by altered states of consciousness.
  • Lissa Rankin provides evidence, including the placebo effect, to support the idea that belief and the mind can heal the body.
  • Psychoneuroimmunology research indicates that thoughts can trigger biochemical reactions affecting health.
  • People who experience spontaneous healing often believe in a higher power, the power of thoughts over the body, the necessity of lifestyle changes for health, and the importance of focused thought for healing.
  • The article suggests that adopting these beliefs could be beneficial not only for those with severe illnesses but also for maintaining overall well-being.

Beliefs That Assist Spontaneous Healing

The way you think might seriously influence your ability to heal from a severe disease

Source

According to Joe Dispenza, international lecturer, researcher, educator, and author, people who have extemporaneous healings have four beliefs in common. Could embracing those beliefs help anyone undergo rejuvenation? The possibility of building beliefs compatible with healing is worth considering if you or someone you love suffers from a severe illness.

What is spontaneous remission?

The Institute of Noetic Sciences states spontaneous healing is said to have occurred “when a patient shows a significantly measurable reduction in tumor size, or a reversal in the progression of a disease, and when this improvement cannot be attributed to Western allopathic medical treatment.”

Conditions under which healings are classified as remissions include, among others, miracles when “cures are sudden, complete and without medical treatment.” On such occasions “altered states of prayer, religious faith, and meditation may allow the process of self-repair greater freedom to operate.”

It’s clear the mind can play a significant part in healing where modern medicine fails. Lissa Rankin, author, physician, and speaker, offers evidence in her TED talk, “Is There Scientific Proof We Can Heal Ourselves?” She talks about documented cases of spontaneous healing originating from the placebo effect, whereby patients imagine they are given medicine to cure them of disease but don’t receive a real drug.

Rankin also mentions the nocebo effect — the opposite of the placebo. It would seem negative beliefs can make people ill, underlining the way thoughts are fundamental to rejuvenation.

Four beliefs that aid spontaneous healing

Belief in a creator

Individuals who undergo spontaneous remission believe a higher form of intelligence created them and dwells within them. They might call it their subconscious mind, God, source energy, or use a different name. Whatever label they use, they think a superior power can work on their behalf to aid healing.

Belief thoughts influence the body

Spontaneous healing may also be attributed to the understanding thoughts influence the body. The science of psychoneuroimmunology shows ideas create biochemical brain reactions. Chemicals flow from the brain to the body when you think, and then affect your emotions, behavior, and health.

Belief lifestyle changes help

People who heal spontaneously believe in self-improvement and their ability to transform themselves. They often alter their lifestyles and work on personal growth to assist healing. They imagine the way they’ve behaved and lived have contributed to their disease, and that to become healthy, they must reinvent themselves.

Belief in, and action toward, pinpoint focusing

Spontaneous healing may also be credited to pinpoint focusing and introspection whereby people become immersed in their minds and detached from an awareness of time and their body and environment. They believe their thoughts are of prime importance and use them to rewire their brains.

The subject of spontaneous healing may become important if you fall seriously ill or want to help a loved one who suffers from a life-threatening disease. Even if you are healthy, understanding the mindset of people who can heal themselves might help you remain well.

References: Thehealersjournal.com, Drjoedispenza.com, Noetic.org/research/projects/spontaneous-remission/faqs, Easyhealthoptions.com, and lissarankin.com, courses.lumenlearning.com

Copyright © 2019 Bridget Webber. All rights reserved

Spirituality
Health
Wellness
Healing
Psychology
Recommended from ReadMedium