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"Influencing" better health

Tapping into the power of the mind can be a valuable tool for health and healing – especially in the context of healthy food, nutrition and exercise.

In my last newsletter I talked about the placebo effect and visualization – how WHAT WE THINK can affect what is going on INSIDE THE BODY
(if you missed it, you can read it HERE).

In this newsletter I am going talk about how WHAT WE THINK can affect what is going on OUTSIDE THE BODY.

Here are a few points that help illustrate key mind-body-energy-concepts and how they are used to help people.


The Mind extends outside the body

All living cells have electrical charges – like tiny little batteries that generate electrical current.

 

The electrical currents generated by thinking create magnetic fields that can be measured outside the body.

So thoughts, extend outside the body as fields, and have the potential to interact with and influence the world outside the body.
 

Some examples of thoughts exending outside the body...

Remote viewing

Remote viewing is the practice of "seeing" things outside the body with the mind. It has been studied, and used, extensively over the past forty years and is currently taught by several institutions to regular people, security forces, and corporations.

Woman locates a downed Soviet bomber in Africa.
"She went into a trance. And while she was in the trance, she gave us some latitude and longitude figures. We focused our satellite cameras on that point, and the lost plane was there.” Former President Jimmy Carter
 

 

Check out Hawaii Remote viewer's guild to see what they are up to.
http://www.hrvg.org

 

Connecting consciousness

Stimulus given to one person recorded in the brain of another person in a separate, shielded room

Scientific Evidence for a Connecting Matrix

Study done by Charles Tart of UC Davis
Small Electrical shocks were given to one person (the sender). The second person's (the receiver) skin response and heart rate reacted as if THEY had been shocked.
http://www.profoundmeditationprogram.com/connecting-matrix


The Mind affects what happens outside the body

 

Intention: a thought, statement or vision that tells the "universe" – "this is what I want"

Chicks and rabbits control robots!
The random sequence of numbers dictating the course
and location of robots was influenced by the thoughts of the chicks and rabbits.

Baby chicks made a robot "mother" spend more time CLOSE to them.

 

Rabbits made a robot "predator" spend more time AWAY from them.

http://www.scienceofthelostsymbol.com/Non-human-Studies-of-Influence.html


Prayer

Prayer can be defined as "focused intention", or as stating: "this is what I want to see manifested". Prayer has been repeatedly shown to have an effect on healing.

Prayed-for people needed less antibiotics, respiratory assistance, and diuretics less frequently than those who were not prayed for.
South Med J. 1988 Jul;81(7):826-9.
Positive therapeutic effects of intercessory prayer in a coronary care unit population.
Byrd RC.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3393937

Not just for humans... Primates – Galago (bush babies) healed faster when prayed for.
Altern Ther Health Med. 2006 Nov-Dec;12(6):42-8.
The effect of intercessory prayer on wound healing in nonhuman primates.
Lesniak KT.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17131981


Energy healing

 

Therapeutic touch (TT)
Practitioners who practice therapeutic touch "read" and manipulate energy fields with their hands to promote healing. Contrary to the name...no actual touching is required!

 

Reiki
Reiki practitioners "read" and change energy with, and without touching, to promote healing.

 

TT stimulates growth and function of human cells in culture (outside of the body)
J Altern Complement Med. 2008 Apr;14(3):233-9.
Therapeutic touch stimulates the proliferation of human cells in culture.
Gronowicz GA, Jhaveri A, Clarke LW, Aronow MS, Smith TH.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18370579


Reiki promotes healing of damaged plant tissue
This study shows how energy healers promoted the healing of plant tissue by measuring the amount of biophotons released by the plant cells.
(Nice pictures comparing leaves that received / did not receive healing energy)
http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_19_4_creath.pdf

 

Reiki prevents damage to tiny blood vessels in rats
due to excessive noise
J Altern Complement Med. 2006 Jan-Feb;12(1):15-22.
"Application of Reiki significantly reduces noise-induced microvascular leakage in an animal model."
Baldwin AL, Schwartz GE.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16494564

 

 

TT decreases pain and fatigue of people undergoing chemotherapy
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2010 Sep;7(3):375-81. doi: 10.1093/ecam/nen006. Epub 2008 Feb 2.
The effect of therapeutic touch on pain and fatigue of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.
Aghabati N, Mohammadi E, Pour Esmaiel Z.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18955319

 

You can do it too.

Experience shows that virtually everyone has the capacity to "feel energy" and use it to one degree or another. And many people benefit from receiving energy treatments.

The biggest stumbling block is thinking it's NOT going to work – so I hope this article helped changed that belief for you.

 

If you found this information interesting you might want to check out my upcoming workshop "Mind-body-energy – for logical thinkers!", where I will be explaining this material in much greater detail.

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