You can also choose to eliminate some physical sufferings which are not rooted in a known organic dysfunction. Some common physical ailments, which often do not have an origin in a physiological disorder, include headaches, backaches, ulcers, hypertension, rashes, skin eruptions, cramps, fleeting pains and the like.
There was someone who swore she had a headache every morning for the past four years. Each morning at 6:45 she waited for it to arrive and then took her pain pills. She also kept each of her friends and co-workers informed of how much she was suffering.
She wanted the headaches, and had actually chosen them as a means of being noticed and as a means of receiving sympathy and pity. The fact is that she could learn not to want this for herself and to practice making the headache shift from a point located centrally on her forehead to one on the side of her head.
How could she eliminate that. She learnt that she could controlled the headache by making it move around. The first morning she awakened at 6:30 A.M., and lay in bed awaiting her headache. When it arrived she was able to think it to another place in her head. She had chosen something new for herself and ultimately she stopped choosing headaches completely.
There is a burgeoning amount of evidence to support the notion that people even choose things like tumors, influenza, arthritis, heart disease, “accidents” and many other infirmities, including cancer, which have always been considered something that just happens to people.
In treating what have been labeled “terminally ill” patients, some researchers are beginning to believe that helping the patient not to want the disease, in any form, may be a means of ameliorating the internal killer.
Some cultures treat pain in this way, taking complete power over the brain, and making self-control synonymous with braincontrol.
The brain, which is composed of ten billion, billion working parts, has enough storage capacity to accept ten new facts every second. It has been conservatively estimated that the human brain can store an amount of information equivalent to one hundred trillion words, and that all of us use but a tiny fraction of this storage space.
It is a powerful instrument you carry around with you wherever you go, and you might choose to put it to some fantastic uses which you’ve never even considered up until now. Keep that in mind and try to choose new ways of thinking.
Don’t be too quick to call such control quackery. Most doctors have seen patients who have chosen a physical malady for which there is no known physiological cause.
It’s not uncommon for individuals to become mysteriously sick when confronted with some kind of difficult circumstance, or to avoid illness when being sick is simply “impossible” at that time, and so postponed the effects, perhaps the fever, until the big event is over, and then collapse.
There was also a case of a thirty-six-year-old man trapped in a horrible marriage. He decided on January 15th that he was leaving his wife on March 1st. On February 28th he developed a 104 degree fever and began vomiting uncontrollably.
This became a recurring pattern; each time he built himself up, he got the flu, or an attack of indigestion. He was making a choice. It was easier to be sick than to face the guilt, fear, shame and the unknown that go with separation.
Listen to the advertisements we see and hear on television. “I’m a stockbroker…. So you can imagine the tension and headaches I must have. I take this pill to make it go away.” Message: You can’t control how you feel if you work in certain kinds of jobs (teachers, executives, parents) so rely on something else to do it for you.
We are bombarded with messages like this every day. The implication is clear. We are helpless prisoners who must have someone or something else do things for us.
NONSENSE !
Only you can improve your lot or make yourself happy.
It is up to you to take control of your own mind, and then practice feeling and behaving in the ways that you choose. Then you will leave healthier life.
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