You have the power to heal yourself. While we are blessed to witness remarkable advancement in medical science, it is also the science that is giving us this piece of information.

The human body is the most amazing, intelligent, creative and sensitive of all creations. It contains 70 to 100 trillion cells, and a 60 thousand mile long pipeline to reach food to every cell. It has a pair superbly efficient blood purifier, the lungs. It has a magnificent pumping machine, the heart, that pumps about 40 million gallons of blood nonstop in a lifetime. It has the eyes: tiny lenses through which we can see the immense universe. Our body has hundreds of systems, such as the circulatory, nervous, endocrine and immune systems that smoothly conducts all bodily activities without any break.

For such a magnificent creation as the human body, health is normal, disease is not. No one has been able to prove that falling sick come of any. The truth is the opposite. Every day we encounter billions of virus, bacteria, allergen, and fungi, that hardly makes us fall sick.

So why do humans fall sick ?

A radio isotope test in the Oakridge laboratories in California revealed that 98% of the molecules in the human body are replaced every year. The process of replacement is controlled by the genetic codes in our DNA, from the Quantum level of the mind- body process.
Naturally, this question arises, if 98% of the body's elements changes every year, then how do diseases, especially chronic diseases, persist?

Because even though the elements in the body are changing, the information which controls them, i.e. the DNA programming, remains unchanged. Our body is more like a print out of the DNA information. Hence to change the printout, we have to change the software, our mind.

Disease originate from the Mind!

After decades of research, medical scientists have concluded that diseases originate from the mind as well as the body. Almost a century ago, Harvard physiologist Walter Cannon discovered that when the mind feels stressed, the body responds with a rise in blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tension, and blood pressure, as well as an increase in the level of a number of hormones and inflammatory chemicals. Researchers have proved that this physical response, known as the 'fight or flight response’ or the ‘stress response’, although very useful in the short run, can cause a wide range of diseases in the long run. The list of stress induced diseases include everything from heart disease, hypertension, arthritis, backpain, migraine, diabetes, IBS, diarrhea, peptic ulcer disease and asthma; to insomnia, lack of appetite, irritability, depression, poor memory and concentration. According to Dr. Joseph Mercola, the author of Total Health Program, more than 300 billion US dollars are spent every year in the US alone to cover the health care costs brought on by stress in the workplace alone.

Experts today believe that 70% of all diseases originate from the mind. 20% of diseases are caused by infection, virus, harmful diet and lack of exercise. Only 10% of diseases are caused by physical injury, and side effects of medicine and surgery.

 

The Mind’s Power To Heal

Scientists have concluded from years of research that the mind is the best doctor and the body is the best pharmacy. The human body itself can generate pain killers, tranquillizers, and antibiotics and determine the correct time and amount for efficient absorption more successfully than any man-made drug.

In 1967, Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School, conducted a research on 36 transcendental meditators and found that the physical effect of meditation was the exact opposite of the stress response. When meditators meditated their oxygen consumption decreased, heart rate and blood pressure dropped, muscles relaxed. In his book, The Relaxation Response, he argued that it is possible to counter the stress-induced fight or flight response with meditation. Dr. Herbert's book was an instant best-seller.

Since then, researchers and practitioners have found that mind-body techniques including relaxation, meditation and guided imagery (all of which are included in Quantum Method Meditation) can help prevent, fight and cure a host of physical, psychological and behavioral problems.

Since 1988, Dr. Dean Ornish, a cardiologist from California, has been helping people reverse and cure heart disease with only meditation, diet and other lifestyle changes in his “Program for Reversing Heart Disease”. In 1996, a high power 12 member panel of the National Institute of Health of USA reviewed the studies conducted till then, and recommended that relaxation and other behavioral techniques should be integrated into the treatment of pain. Dr. Carl Simonton and Dr. Bernie Siegel have shown that it is possible to recover from even the last stages of cancer using image therapy.

The mind’s power to heal has been recognized in the medical world since the 1950s, when Harvard’s Dr. Henry Beecher described the placebo phenomenon. A Placebo is a substance or procedure which has no specific therapeutic activity but still has a healing or therapeutic effect because of the patient’s belief or expectation. This is a regular phenomenon in medical circles. The fact that belief or expectation can alter the disease process has been proved time and time again. Doctors Elmer and Alice Green of the Menninger Foundation conducted a research on four hundred people who have recovered from cancer, and found that each of them became hopeful about their recovery for some reason or another before they got cured.

The Risks of Depending Too Much on Modern Medicine

Dr. Bernie Siegel, one of the pioneers in using mind-body technique, says everyone has the intrinsic ability to heal themselves. But they often lose the will to live or expect en extrernal help, a doctor, a drug or a surgery to restore their health for them. But those who sincerely want to heal themselves can activate their own healing process.

Depending too much on someone else for restoring our health can not only be futile but downright dangerous in some cases. Modern medical system - heavily dependent on drugs, chemicals and surgery - have now turned into an aggressive ‘market’ or ‘industry’ controlled by insurance, drug and medical technology companies. According to an article published in the Journal of American Medical Association - unnecessary surgeries, medical errors, negative effects of drugs is a leading cause of death in the US : about two hundred and fifty thousand people die of these causes every year. And the number of people who get permanent serious disabilities or discomfort or develop other diseases from these causes could exceed over 3 million people per year in America alone. This shows that over dependence on doctors, drugs and surgery may not only cost you a lot of unnecessary expenditure, but may also cost your life.

Accept Responsibility For Your Health

Accept responsibility for your own health, and treat the rest as supportive forces. New age physicians believe that 90% of our medical expenses will become unnecessary if we add belief to this intrinsic ability. Changing one's attitude and lifestyle is far less expensive than bypass surgery, angioplasty, or taking cholesterol control pills all life.

By changing mindset and believing in the body's power to heal, thousands of Quantum Graduates have activated their mind's healing power and recovered from hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, cold allergy, asthma, frozen shoulder, back pain, spondylitis, migraine, peptic ulcer disease, arthritis, insomnia and a number of disease.

So no matter what your disease is, and no matter what the doctors have said, believe that you will recover, and you will. Practice self healing meditation to use your mind's power to heal yourself. You will certainly have a long, healthy life, if you use your mind power in the right way.