HOW WE USE MIND TO HEALbyDr. P.C. Simon(extracted from his book, The Missing Piece to Paradise)Medical statistics show that 50 to 80 percent of all diseasessuch as neuralgia and arthritis are stress related. Stress iscreated by thought. Thought can cause as well as cure disease thoughmost physicians have ignored the healing power of thought. Yogis arethe only ones who have developed a system of preventing sickness bythought. That is why we don’t find yogis and rishis in hospitals.Rheder, a German physician, proved that it is mind and notGod that cures diseases. He tested a faith healer to cure three ofhis difficult cases, one suffering from chronic bladder disease,another from pancreatitis, and a third from cancer of the uterus.Rheder asked the faith healer to treat these patients without theirknowledge. He supplied the faith healer with information he wantedabout the patients. The faith healer held twelve sessions withoutbringing about any change in the absentee patients’ conditions.Rheder then informed the patients that he was going to enlist the aidof a faith healer who would be able to heal them but this time he didnot use any faith healer. Within a few days, all three patients gotbetter. The gall-bladder patient had no more pain and remainedwithout pain for the next one year. The pancreatitis patient leftthe hospital and gained 30 pounds. The cancer patient experienced adecrease in the swelling and fluid in the abdomen. Within five days,she was able to return home from hospital. He proved thereby that itwas the faith of the people that cured and not the power of thehealer (21).There are many examples of faith cures. On Monday, June 14,1993, the Oregonian newspaper published a letter written to AnnLanders regarding a cure for warts. Landers published it along withseven letters she had received from those who got rid of warts byvarious means. One got rid of them by rubbing bacon on the warts andthrowing the bacon over the left shoulder when the moon came out.Another did it by applying castor oil. A third took mega- doses ofvitamin C. A fourth had success with touch of liquid nitrogen. Afifth rubbed twenty pennies on the warts and gave the pennies to abeggar and got rid of the warts. A sixth got rid of them bysaying, „Hocus-pocus-go-away, warts.” A seventh got rid of thewarts by applying oozing dandelion sap. The eighth, after spending$250 on a dermatologist, made a $1 bet with her janitor who cut a rawpotato in half and rubbed the juice on the warts. She paid the beton the eleventh day. All these were mind cures.On February 24, 1992, the Vancouver Sun published an articleby Nicole Parton, a Vancouver Sun columnist, who related the paincontrol experiences of young children. By using an imaginary magicswitch, they turn off pain. Some mothers show the children howneedles can cause pain. Then they tie the needle to a balloon andlet it fly away and the pain will be gone. When mothers ask thechildren what happened to the pain, they will say that it flew away.These cures were due to imagination.In 1971, Dr. Carl Simonton, a radiation oncologist and hispsychologist wife, Stephanie Matthews, treated terminal cancerpatients for physical, emotional, and social ailments holistically inhis Cancer Counselling and Research Centre in Fort Worth, Texas.Simonton and his wife advised their cancer patients tovisualise cancer as a grey blob of cells and to imagine a greenishor yellowish fluid flowing over it, breaking down the cancer cellsso that the body’s own protective white cells could destroy them.Because Simonton used mental imagery in cancer therapy, mostmedical practitioners said that „Simonton lost it.” However, by 1978they had kept alive 159 patients for almost double their lifeexpectancy. Their first patient, when he got cured of cancer,successfully treated himself for arthritis and impotence using thetechnique he had learned from them. Simonton wrote the story in abook entitled „Getting Well Again.” These cures were due to imagery,faith and mind-power. For the treatment to be effective, we musthave confidence that we are being healed.Norman Cousins, editor of Saturday Review, also used mind tocure disease. On his return from a Russian cultural exchangeprogramme in 1974, he became a patient in a New York hospital. Hewas suffering from adrenal exhaustion due to stress andhis „sedimentation rate” which is normally 4 mm/hr was 115 mm/hr.One of his doctors made a note on his bedside card to convey to his(doctor’s) colleague the prognosis that Cousins would not be withthem for long. Cousins peeked at the card when nobody was around andrealized that his death was near. He recollected that negativeemotions can produce specific chemicals harmful to the body. Cousinsargued that if this is true, laughter and joy should do the opposite.He discharged himself from the hospital and cured himself of thedisease with music, laughter, and vitamin C. He wrote his story inReaders Digest in July 1977. He became an enthusiastic messenger ofmental treatment for physical ailments and wrote a bookcalled „Anatomy of an Illness” (10)._________________________________________________________________________Resource Box: Universal Mind Copyright 2003. by Dr. P.C. Simon, aretired research microbiologist, philosopher, philanthropist andauthor. Also by Dr. P.C. Simon, the informative, inspiring, and life-changing book, The Missing Piece to Paradise. More articles by Dr.Simon and a description of his book can be seen athttp://www.interchange.ubc.ca/psimon/book2.htm
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