Health and disease are now seen as a complex balance that results from the interaction between body and mind, between body and thought, gradually overcoming the simplistic visions that have eliminated the influence of the subjective world on our body and, consequently, disease and healing.
Conventional medicine gradually became aware of the limitations of its approach, the twentieth century was marked by a paradigm in which the idea of body-machine predominates, seen through this gaze, the organism was like a device composed of different parts, The disease was a dysfunction in one of these parts, both functional and structural.
“If you don’t act like you think, you will end up thinking about how you act.
However, thanks to the advances of medicine, we can see that the inner dimension has a strong influence, direct or indirect, on the state of health of any person, and this influence is even more pronounced in the perceived state of health. Why do thoughts say, with your influence, they get sick and kill, but they also heal.
Bruce Lipton holds a phD in cell biology and author of several books, delve into the topic of health, disease and the influence of thought on these processes, the results and reasoning of which are incredibly interesting.
Lipton points out that drug medicine is practically a failure, because chemical remedies, all of them, cause effects as much or more harmful than the disease itself, ensuring that even many of these remedies lead to death over time.
He also claimed that the natural environment of the cell is blood and that changes in blood are determined by the nervous system; at the same time, the nervous system is the natural environment of thoughts and feelings, so from Lipton’s point of view, it is thoughts and feelings that end up getting sick and, therefore, those who also have the opportunity to aid in healing.
It is not only Bruce Lipton, but also many other researchers who give enormous power to thoughts in the processes of disease and healing. Even more doctors who are aware of pharmacology know that if a person has a disease, they are more likely to recover if they have a disease. stay in an environment surrounded by affection and trust.
This is not an esoteric thing, nor an effect from beyond. The explanation of the power of thoughts is also a matter of chemistry. When a person faces a pleasant presence or has a positive stimulus, their brain secretes dopamine, oxytocin and a number of substances that give health to cells. The same is true when the stimulus is negative, causing fear, anger or any other destructive emotion.
The body performs a titanic task every day: to produce hundreds of billions of new cells to replace those that die. You must also defend yourself against thousands of pathogens that threaten your health. If your body feels the need to combat the very negative stimuli of the environment every day, it will expend all its energy and set aside these other growth and protection functions. The consequence: you get sick more easily
The placebo effect has been studied under different circumstances and the results confirm its influence on our body perception, in fact, many of the mechanisms on the market have slightly greater effects than a placebo Are these placebos the indisputable evidence of the influence of thought?in the case of the placebo effect: expectations can be very powerful: you think it will heal and that the intensity of symptoms will recede.
Quantum physics has highlighted the importance of energy, which is the final composition of matter, everything and all are, in our most primitive physical form, energy, so new drugs try more to balance energy than to chemically modify the body. pathological processes are triggered by energy imbalances.
These imbalances are often caused by the programming of negative thoughts, which we have carried since childhood. You can consciously convince yourself that you have to think differently, but something profound prevents you, so what needs to be changed is not consciousness. thoughts, but all that unconscious programming that we have been using since the early years of life, is a way to promote changes that promote mental health and, therefore, physical health.
Editorial note: with this article we do not want to underestimate the importance of pharmacology in the face of devastating diseases such as cancer, in fact it can be said to be fundamental. What we want to highlight is mental health and psychological well-being as two elements of influence on treatment that the patient can modulate to improve or worsen the prognosis.
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