Sat 12 Jan 2008
The Power of Belief
Posted by tel under UncategorizedThis is not so much of an alternative cure as a cold hard fact. The power of belief is incredibly strong when it comes to matters of health.
When you believe that something will cure an illness, then most often that will be the case. When you believe that a particular diet or special program will help you to lose weight, then most often you will lose weight.
When the mind believes, you will achieve…
As a once alternative cure for many illnesses, the placebo eventually found its way into mainstream medicine when scientifically carried out studies were done on a huge variety of scenarios and in each one, the placebo was eith as effective or even more effective than the propriety medicine proscribed to treat the illness.
This shows the true power of belief - the people in these exhaustive trials that took the placebo believing they were taking a medicine that would cure their illness most often recovered from that illness as quickly or even faster than the people who took the medicine.
When I was practicing hypnotherapy in England several years ago, there was no more convincing phenomenon than women who would come to see me in order to lose weight and withing a few weeks would have lost a considerable amount of weight without any form of special diet or exercise routine whatsoever. It was built purely on the power of belief. They believed that my hypnosis sessions would make them lose weight without them having to do anything themselves. And because they believed that as fact, then the weight came off as if by magic.
I don’t have to prove anything to myself, because I saw it with my own two eyes. I know beyond any shadow of doubt that when a person truly believes something, then that something is as real as a chair or a table.
Conversely, when you believe you have a terminal illness, well what do you think will happen?
I don’t think I even have to go there…
Freedom Writer Terry Didcott
Alternative Cures
January 14th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
It’s a real case. One successful owner of a business about 40-45 years old knew he has a grave form of cancer and has about a year of life. He leaved the work, visited everything he dreamed to visit in his life, began all types of activities he dreamed to begin once in his life, ecc. After a year he went to the doctor for control, to know when he has to die definitely and knew that he was healthy as a healthy man of his age can be.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
That’s it exactly! I’ve heard so many real life cases like this where people have had what the doctors thought were incurable diseases like cancer and when they chose to just go a little crazy and enjoy what they believed was the short time they had left, then simply because they stopped worrying about it and just concentrated on having a good time and enjoying themselves, the cancer died and not the person!
Positive thinking alone can help a bit, but when it’s combined with self-belief that you can be healthy, miracles can and do happen!
January 18th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
[...] going to follow up my last badly spelled (!) post here at Alternative Cures about The Power of Belief, with some more powerful proof that as alternative cures, the mind’s ability to create health [...]
January 25th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Yeah, the power of belief is amazing and I’ve heard stories of healing to this end. I am just quite concerned with the practice of prescribing placebos in the medical profession. It would be alright if this was unintentionally initiated in the course of treatment, like the woman from your hypnotic sessions. But if I’m gonna buy a placebo prescription thinking it was a potent drug, I am definitely not amenable to that set-up. This was reported earlier this month and the survey results were really surprising.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/PainManagement/wireStory?id=4080849