3-2-2015
Our group is full of warmth, love and support. I posted my reflection on sickness today and immediately people came up with lots of regards and ideas how to turn sickness to advantages for our body healing. Then I read an article with more ideas on how we see our sickness ( attitude) will play more important role on our recovery and longevity. Wonderful article. I appreciate the doctor's view so much and share it to us.
My Body talks:
I have been sick this week , serious cold attack for days. Just sleeping and doing a little reading, writing. My favorite things.
Interestingly, i am very enjoying feeling my body's feeling.She was angry with me by Pain but now she is much relieved and happier to see I am paying attention to her
Take care, everyone. New year Goat is coming
Interestingly, i am very enjoying feeling my body's feeling.She was angry with me by Pain but now she is much relieved and happier to see I am paying attention to her
Take care, everyone. New year Goat is comingFlourence D P19
Get well soon
Miu Tina Friend Dream work
Take care
Louisa Chan DP COACH
Glad that you hear your body talks. Take care Donna
yeah, sickness is our friends.
Jenny heung Dp 24 Teacher
Really relieving to feel the care and gentleness to inner self. Thx Donna's sharing
yes, our inner self is communicating with us every minute, listening to it, feeling peaceful
yeah, it tells me Mind my body, connect with it.listen to it. It has answer for healing already
6 Steps To Healing Yourself
Editor’s note:
Lissa Rankin of 6 Steps To Healing Yourself.
Take a moment
and check in with yourself. How is your body feeling right in this moment? If
you’re generally healthy, check in for subtle symptoms. Is your neck feeling
tense? Does your lower back ache? Do you have a headache? Are you exhausted —
again? Or perhaps you’re battling a more serious health diagnosis and you’re
experiencing symptoms from your health condition.
Whether you’re
experiencing the nuisance of a minor physical symptom, the more concerning
stress of a serious health condition, or simple curiosity about how you might
maximize your vitality and longevity, I’m psyched to share with you something
they never taught me in medical school.
The Body Knows How To Heal Itself
Your body is
beautifully equipped with natural self-repair mechanisms that are under the
influence of thoughts, feelings and beliefs that originate in your mind. It
knows how to kill cancer cells, fix broken proteins, slow aging, eliminate
toxins, fight infections, get rid of foreign bodies, and otherwise keep you
healthy. Things go awry and disease manifests when these self-repair mechanisms
fail to function properly.
But here’s the
kicker. Your nervous system has two operating systems — the “fight-or-flight”
stress response dominated by the sympathetic nervous system and the relaxation
response run by the parasympathetic nervous system. Only when your nervous
system is in a relaxation response do your body’s self-repair mechanisms
function!
The stress
response is there to protect you in case a tiger chases you. But these days, we’re
pretty safe from tigers, and yet our stress responses get triggered, on
average, over 50 times per day. How? The amygdala in your lizard brains
perceives negative thoughts, beliefs, and feelings, such as financial fears,
relationship worries, work stress, loneliness, or pessimism, as threats equally
scary as a tiger. Then BOOM. The scaredy-cat amygdala goes on red alert, and
when this happens, our bodies can’t repair themselves. No wonder we get sick!
6 Simple Steps To Activate Your Body’s Self-Repair Mechanisms
You don’t have to be at the mercy
of your stress responses. As I teach in my new book Mind Over Medicine:
Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself, you can be
proactive about activating your body’s natural self-healing. Try these
scientifically-proven steps as a health prevention strategy or as treatment for
any health condition you might be battling.
Step 1: Believe You Can Heal
Yourself
Don’t believe
that positive belief can cure the body? Think again! The medical establishment
has been proving that the mind can cure the body for over 50 years. We call it
“the placebo effect,” and it has been proven to cause resolution of symptoms-
and real physiological change — in 18-80% of the patients in clinical trials
who are treated with nothing more than sugar pills, saline injections, or fake
surgeries.
As long as you believe your
condition is “incurable” or “chronic,” it will be. Don’t believe your health condition
could possibly resolve? Check out theSpontaneous Remission Project,
a compilation of over 3,500 case studies proving that spontaneous remission has
been reported for just about every illness out there- Stage 4 cancers, HIV,
diabetes, high blood pressure, thyroid disease, autoimmune diseases, even an
untreated gunshot wound to the head!
For my
skeptical physician mind, reading through all these case studies was a paradigm
shift. It’s kind of like the story of the 4-minute mile. Exercise physiologists
used to think the body was physiologically incapable of running a mile in less
than 4 minutes — and so no athlete ever did it. Then in 1954, Roger Bannister
ran a mile in three minutes and fifty-nine seconds. Once that limiting belief
was shattered, virtually every athlete that competes in a world-class event has
run the mile in under four minutes. Today’s world-record time for the mile is
3:43:15, more than 15 seconds under 4 minutes.
What if your belief that the body
can’t heal itself is like the 4-minute mile? For some mind-blowing stories
about how positive belief can radically affect your health, watch my TEDx talk Is There Scientific Proof That You Can Heal
Yourself?.
Scientific data
proves that once you believe healing is possible, it can be. So what do you
believe?
Step 2: Find The Right Support
To say that you
can heal yourself is sort of a misnomer because the scientific data proves
that, equally essential to positive belief is the nurturing care of a true
healer, someone optimistic who shares your positive belief, includes you in
true partnership, respects your intuition, cares for your wellbeing, and
ensures you that you won’t be alone on your self-healing journey.
Do you have the
right healers on your health care team?
Step Three: Listen To Your Body
& Your Intuition
Nobody knows your body better
than you, not even a doctor. We doctors may know the arteries of the leg or the
anatomy of your organs better than you, but you know what’s best for your own
body better than anyone else. When my literary agent first read Mind Over Medicine,
she said, “Lissa, before I read this book, I honestly thought my body was none
of my business. Now I know better.”
Yes! Your body
is indeed your business. So listen to your intuition and trust what it tells
you.
Not in touch
with your intuition? Then listen to your body, which is one vehicle your
intuition uses to speak to you. If you have a physical sensation in your body —
pain, tightness, nausea, clenching, dizziness — ask your body what it is trying
to communicate to you. Then listen up! This is the voice of your inner wisdom
and it will always lead you directly to your true north.
Step Four: Diagnose The Root
Causes Of Your Illness
Your doctor may
give you one kind of diagnosis- migraines or irritable bowel syndrome or breast
cancer, for example. But the kind of diagnosis I’m talking about gets at the
root of what might have triggered stress responses in your body and deactivated
your body’s self-healing mechanisms, thereby making your body vulnerable to
illness.
What aspects of
your life are activating your stress responses? What relaxation
response-inducing activities — like meditation, creative expression, laughter,
engaging in work you love, massage, yoga, or playing with animals — have you
been neglecting?
Illness is
often a wake up call, forcing us to get down and dirty with what’s really true
in our lives. We can either play the victim or we can use illness as an
opportunity to awaken.
If you’re struggling with a
physical issue, what might lie at the root of it? For more ideas about what
might lie at the root of your illness, check out my TEDx talk The Shocking Truth About Your Health.
Step Five: Write The
Prescription For Yourself
This won’t be
the kind of prescription you fill at a pharmacy, though it certainly may
include elements of Western medicine. It’s more of a self-guided action plan
intended to make your body ripe for optimal health and full recovery.
So ask
yourself, “What does my body need in order to heal?” Your Prescription may
include diet changes, an exercise regimen, and a conventional medical treatment
plan. But it may also include getting out of a toxic relationship, quitting a
soul-sucking job, adding a meditation practice, taking steps to get out of
debt, or following a passion.
Be as specific
as you can. Then muster up the courage to put your plan into action!
Step Six: Surrender Attachment
To Outcomes
What if you’ve
adopted a positive attitude, found the right healer, tapped into your intuition
and your body, diagnosed the root cause of your health condition, written The
Prescription for yourself and put it into action- but you’re still sick? Are
you doing something wrong? Is it your fault you’re still sick?
Absolutely not
— and any talk of guilt, blame, or shame for someone on a healing journey only
activates more stress responses and harms the body.
So what’s the
deal? This is where the art of surrender comes in. Some patients do everything
“right” and spontaneous remission happens. But others are the proverbial choir-
and they’re still sick. Why does this happen? Honestly, I don’t know. The only
real answer is a spiritual one. Perhaps our souls come here on this earth to
learn lessons, and illness can be a spiritual practice, a way to learn our life
lessons and a part of our soul’s destiny.
What I can say
is that if you’ve followed the 6 steps, you’ve done everything within your
power to make your body ripe for miracles — and the rest is out of your hands.
So take a deep breath, trust The Universe, surrender attachment to any
particular health outcome, and let any health condition you face be an
opportunity for spiritual awakening.
Ready To Heal Yourself?
Are you
motivated to put each of these steps into action? Will you do what it takes to
reduce stress responses in your body and increase relaxation responses so your
body can repair itself?
Read more from Lissa Rankin, MD
on her blog, LissaRankin.com,
where you can download the free eBook 10 Secrets to Healing Yourself. Her book Mind Over
Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself, offers
all the scientific proof skeptics will need in order to believe the mind really
can heal the body. It also guides you through a series of exercises to help you
implement the 6 Steps To Healing Yourself so you can make your body ripe for
miracles.
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