In both cases, different methods were tried but none worked until certain negative thoughts, unconscious thoughts, were turned around and worked on. To make things interesting, my friend's wife is a senior nurse, who is quite knowledgeable about health care. Yet she could not solve her health problem until she worked on her negative unconscious thoughts.
So before I share the methods used, let's talk about how our brain produces chemicals that affect our immune system. Every time we think or speak, our neurons, our brain cells, create different chemical messengers that travel our entire body and can affect each cell. In our Crystal Empowerment classes, I talk about the brain loop, where negative thoughts create certain neurotransmitters, which trigger feelings (e.g. - dopamine for reward, seratonin for mood and behavior, etc.). Negative thoughts create negative neurotransmitters, which then result in negative feelings. But now you are in a loop, because negative feelings will trigger more negative thoughts which trigger more negative feelings and the cycle continues over and over. So since you can't control the production of your neuron chemicals, and you can't control the feelings that result, what can you control?
Yes, that's right, the only thing left is our thoughts. And here's where it gets interesting. The average person thinks 64,000 thoughts per day and the majority of them are negative. Some people say its as high as 80%. In my own experience, I learned that it depends on the awareness of each person, if this person is aware of their present thought being good or bad and can immediately release or cancel bad or negative thoughts. People with constant thought awareness are Seekers and WILL become more positive over time. Its not a miracle thing, its a practice thing. If one practices thought awareness, one becomes more positive because that's what is good for us!! And positive thoughts attract more positive thoughts!
Louise Hay, my favorite affirmation author, says "moment by moment, we're consciously or unconsciously choosing healthy thoughts or unhealthy thoughts. These thoughts affect our bodies." So now we get to the heart of it. In both cases, the thoughts that caused my wife and my friend's wife health problems were unconscious thoughts. These are the thoughts that you repeat through habits or patterns or say without thinking. Things like "I could never do that" or "why is this happening to me" or "I don't think I will ever get better" or "this will take a long time to work out". If you think of your mind as a CEO, and these thoughts are work instructions for your subconscious (the intelligence that governs your body) what would your subconscious workers do with these instructions? Would they do great things? Would they create healthy happy things?
Your subconscious mind is 90% of your mind. Some spiritual masters say more like 95%. So that means, at best, using Freud's percentage, that your conscious mind is 10%. And that 10% is when you are totally focused, in the NOW, present and aware. Probably focused on only one single thought or less. Is that our normal mind?
The subconscious is the lower mind, that is 24/7, never rests and never takes off for vacation. It runs your heart, your blood flow, your digestion, immune system, breathing, and all your body systems. It's also the place where feelings and memories are stored and why your strongest memories are sense or emotion based. So there is definite intelligence there, it knows what to do by itself, and is how the body heals itself when energy conditions are right.
The subconscious mind takes direction from the conscious mind and here's where the problem lies. Our conscious minds, especially in this modern world, are seldom focused and aware on what is good for us right NOW. Our minds are full of internal voices chatting away, the voice of our parents, our relationships, our work, our past, our future, our friends, etc. The Seekers meditate to clear these voices, to come to a point of stillness where they can find True Self, for they have made Awareness a part of their daily life practice. For others, the past chats away, the programs, conditions, memories, patterns of all those who have taught or affected us take turns in running our daily lives. So it becomes confusing, a jumble of thoughts that often include negative thoughts that affect our health.
So in the case of my wife and my friend's wife, both had negative unconscious thoughts about their health. The point is they were not consciously aware of what they were saying and reinforcing every day. So their turnaround, their improvement, only came about when they became aware of what they were saying to themselves. They discovered certain unconscious thoughts as being the cause of their health problems. And by trying some techniques I suggested, they were able to release whatever was blocking their recovery, produce positive neuron chemicals, give new feeling and direction to their subconscious, and allow the body to heal itself.
This is the first part of a two part article and I will share the method and techniques that worked in the next article.
Awareness tip of the day: if you are having health problems that seem unsolvable, understand that everything always starts off with a thought, so bring your awareness to what you are saying or thinking during the day, especially when it mentions your health. Try to catch yourself as you say or think things about your body. Awareness of unconscious thoughts and patterns is a HUGE step towards happiness and True Self, so take it!
Awareness tip of the day: if you are having health problems that seem unsolvable, understand that everything always starts off with a thought, so bring your awareness to what you are saying or thinking during the day, especially when it mentions your health. Try to catch yourself as you say or think things about your body. Awareness of unconscious thoughts and patterns is a HUGE step towards happiness and True Self, so take it!
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