Faith as a placebo in healing and prosperity

The Power of Your Faith can Cure and Dissolve Illness.

David Hamilton explained that the power of faith has a placebo effect in dissolving illness. If we have strong faith and believe that our subconscious mind has all the capabilities to bring out all the solutions to our spiritual and professional problems, then we can also apply this power of belief and faith in curing illnesses. For example, if we believe in certain drugs that they will cure our illnesses even though that drug has no chemical substances to cure that disease, our faith in drugs will make our mind produce that active chemical in our brain that will actually eradicate that kind of illness.

It has been proven by testing on some patients that merely strengthening their belief and faith in drugs to cure illness will produce healing compounds from the brain that could bring the remedy, even if the patients are given placebo drugs. Our mind itself is a big ‘pharmacy’ of many healing compounds/drugs that even pharmaceutical companies have not yet made.

Such drugs that the mind may produce just by strengthening faith in the remedy for illness means that the brain governs the placebo effects of the drugs.

The brain itself can produce any compound, from painkillers to antidepressants; even spiritual healing methods have strong placebo effects on our mind and body.

Visualisation and Affirmation

In his book ‘How your mind can heal your body? David Hamilton describes much experimental evidence of the effects of visualisation and affirmation that help boost the plasticity of the mind and healing.

If you focus on a specific part of the body that is connected to the brain, as nerves connect the brain to the skin, muscles, bones, tendons, and internal organs, for example, if we imagine moving our fingers, toes, or tongue, the area of the brain that governs these parts of the body is activated. As the nerves connect the brain to the muscles, the muscles also get stronger when we merely imagine using them.

Scientists tested the volunteers for different experiments, and they found that individuals who were doing real exercise of various parts of the body contrasted with those who were only imagining that exercise. It was found that those who were doing the imaginary exercise developed strength in those parts of the body.

The athletic community has long known that muscles can be affected by brain visualisation strategies. Research has proven that the brain is stimulated by visualisation, which in turn stimulates optimal muscle performance. If an athlete regularly visualises running for a world record at the required speed, muscles will likely develop and perform differently compared to those who do not use visualising techniques. It is found that just watching someone exercise can affect our brain and muscles.

A research experiment was performed on volunteers who were only allowed to watch people moving their hands, mouths, and feet. By scanning the volunteer’s brains, it was found that areas that control hand, mouth, and foot movements appeared to be activated and subsequently became more developed.

If we watch an image while performing a particular skill and our brain muscles and body are stimulated, like an expert, it is generally tested in the neuroscience field that if someone is sad and you are paying attention to them, your brain will mirror the sadness on their face. If you spend enough time with a sad person, then the chances are that you will become sad too.

Similarly, if you spend time with happy people, your brain will mirror their expression and action, and your mood is likely to improve.

Mirror Neurons and Visualisation

David Hamilton explained that research studies on the mimic ability of mirror neurons show that when we hear a person speaking, our tongue muscles are also activated. The speaker in front of us, though, should have clarity in accent and voice.

Similarly, if you have impaired movement and someone is describing that movement with clarity of voice and tone, you will notice that your ability to move would increase, and your brain map for that muscle would expand. You will soon notice that with an increased brain map, the area of your brain for those muscles will be expanded, and you will start moving your muscles.

On the other hand, for wellness and wellbeing aspects of neuroplasticity, if we are sick and if we just listen and empathise with someone who talks about perfect health, then our mind will automatically start healing itself for wellbeing. But if we become sick in our society, people start drawing distances from patients and accuse them of their illness, reinforcing the sick mentality and inhibiting the brain’s wellness response.

Mirror neuron activity increases if we simply look at someone’s body parts. This, in consequence, increases the sensitivity of our own body parts. Alternatively, if we only visualise another person’s body parts, then our own body parts become ‘mirrored’ and sensitised; the brain does not know the difference between real scenes we observe and imaginary scenes that we visualise.

If we visualise good health and optimistic thoughts, the appropriate chemicals are released, and the right genes are activated or deactivated. Ultimately, we become what we are imagining, so it is good to listen to someone live or via audio/video to get the benefit of positive imagining, to begin the healing processes in our mind. By instructed or guided imagery, we may heal any ache, pain, or disease by looking, seeing, hearing, and imagining.

Brain and Body Connections

Our brain is connected through our autonomic nervous system with the eyes, lungs, liver, spleen, stomach, pancreas, intestines, kidneys, bladder, skin, and reproductive organs. Our subconscious mind maintains all these systems unconsciously. That is why our belief, either conscious or subconscious, influences the systems and organs of the body.

When we expect something to happen, that happens at both the peripheral and autonomic nervous systems. Subsequently, it can be concluded that our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brain.

These thoughts send chemicals from the brain throughout our body. These chemical systems then interact with cells and even our genetic code. Research shows that if we focus on a part of our body, then the area of the brain that governs that part becomes activated, and that body part is also activated.

How Our imaginations And Affirmation Influence Body and Brain performance.

Affirmation means saying something repeatedly about our healing, wealth, or happiness, because repetition tends to create neural connections in our brain. It generates more energy, and neural connections become stronger. Then the mind triggers its journey to achieve that task. By repeatedly doing the following affirmations, we are able to improve our health, relationships, knowledge, and wisdom. It is better to write down the affirmations and imaginations that will become part of your wisdom and vision.

Suppose you have acquired a reasonable and ample amount of wisdom in your routine writing journal. That will bring a groundbreaking wealth influence and decision-making powers in parliaments, industries, and your institutions.

To let sink these imaginations’ affirmation into your blood and spirit will keep you at the front line of the wise men of your country.

It is good to keep them in front of your mirror or study table or verbally say them several times in a day so that they can become part of your mind and spirit.

How to Safeguard Your Plastic Mind from Negative Attitudes in Society?

In his book ‘Magic of Thinking Big’, David Schwartz suggests the following strategies to protect our minds from negativity. As we are the product of our environment, the association with negative people tends to make us think negatively. Close contact with petty individuals develops petty habits in us.

Companionship and association with people with big ideas raise the level of our thinking. Close contact with ambitious people gives us ambition; your personality, ambitions, and present status in life are all largely the result of your psychological environment. The person you will be in the future depends on your future environment. You will change over months and years, but how you will change depends upon your chosen environment.

Be Persistent to Achieve Your Goals

Successful people never surrender to suppressive forces. People who never surrender are the happiest because they accomplish the most. They find life stimulating and rewarding. They encounter other successful people every day, creating new opportunities through new ideas and circumstances.

They make new friends, join new organisations, and enlarge their social orbit; variety in people and things adds pleasure to life and gives it a broader dimension. They also select friends whose views differ from their own—responsibilities and positions of high status precipitate individuals who are able to see both sides.

In the challenges of the 21st Century, narrow individuals do not have much of a future.

“Favour your subconscious mind.”

When training your subconscious mind by affirmations and autosuggestions, this task and goal are achievable. You set the timeline for that goal. Your subconscious mind promptly starts working on that goal and brings you hundreds of solutions to achieve it.

Conversely, if you think about the goal and consciously instigate negative self-suggestions, such as “I can’t achieve this goal,” you may trigger brain-procrastination. If you think and talk about that goal negatively, then your subconscious mind presents hundreds of reasons as to why this goal could not be achieved – ‘As you sow, so shall you reap’. So, whatever thoughts you will feed your mind, you will harvest the same results.

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