The Mind Body Connection

Once upon a time we humans thought healing could be achieved through an idea we call today the mind body connection. Then we got distracted but its time has come again.

The premise is simple. There is a bond between our thoughts and how our body reacts to those thoughts. Good and positive thoughts promote wellness, and dark or negative thoughts can cause us ills.

Then medical science stepped in and told this was balderdash and all we needed was to take a pill. And that was all us Americans needed to hear. Yes please, my life is busy and I need a quick fix so just give me that pill. And the pharmaceutical companies grew large and influential and we “left to rust” the greatest resource we were given for healing – our mind.

Instead of embracing two disciplines medical science has spent all its life convincing us it is the only legitimate healing science available – everything else is just mumbo-jumbo and doesn’t work.

This just cannot be true.

The fact is they are both legitimate in healing. Medical science has made great advances and I have seen enough people benefit from the healing power of a surgeon or a prescription drug to realize they provide options I would not want to be without.

Our thoughts cannot extract a bullet from a body or put skillfully back together broken or severed limbs after an accident. It needs help – medical science help. But healing goes beyond the operating theater or pill popping.

And what of prevention? In America we do not reward for prevention – we prefer to wait for a problem to happen and then look for a quick solution. And by then we need speedy resolution and tapping into the resource of our mind takes some time and commitment on our part, and we’ve lost the patience, and had the belief “knocked out of us.”

So I return to the Mind Body Connection and joyfully report that the premise is alive and well again as we’ve begun to tear off the mask of medical science as being the cure all for our ills.

I would also be the first to admit that thoughts alone cannot guarantee wellness or longevity or even success. Bad things happen to good people irregardless of their thoughts – sorry, I do not subscribe to followers of the phenomenally successful “The Secret” series, their premise just cannot be true either.

So we need to utilize all our healing and wellness options, and this involves embracing the mind body connection AND medical science in preventing and combating any invasions into our quality of life.

I have seen and experienced the power of hypnosis in helping to stem addictions and bad habits and management of pain and stress – and thereby seen the power of the sub-conscious mind.

I will write more on this subject in later posts as I believe it’s the ultimate key to health and wellness and needs more coverage. But today I just wanted to plant the seed with you.

But what do you think? Add your comment below and share your thoughts.

Hansen