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In the 'About' for this category I mentioned the case of a man who had a brain tumour which killed him and so dead was he that rigor mortis had set in and yet he came back from the dead and recovered and the brain tumour disappeared. How is such a thing possible?
The key word is change. A change or heart and a change of mind. This kind of change can be self induced by simply learning that it is a wise thing to do and thereafter you may notice a healing. The key to the change is in one's own mind and heart. In other words a change of attitude, a change in one's thinking. With the man and his brain tumour the change took place while he underwent his NDE or Near Death Experience although it was rather more than just 'near'. He underwent a spiritual experience and that caused him to mend his thinking ways.
Healing oneself from a brain tumour is possible and so is healing of anything else just about.
In my own life I have cured or healed a recurring varuca (large wart) which I used to have on the flat part of my foot. Many years ago I experimented with a simple form of visualizing healing and it disappeared! Some time later it returned and I repeated the show and although I don't now remember how many times it has come and gone it has been gone now for many years. When I was fourteen years old I had both hands covered in warts, well that's an exageration, I probably had three or four on each hand. I had had them for a few years and I had tried the usual treatments none of them did any good. But when I was fifteen I spent a little time, not long, maybe seconds only, just thinking about my smelly feet and my warts - and they just disappeared (the feet have stayed but the smell went). These days and for many years now if my feet ever smell it is not at all unpleasant but quite a fragrant and not strong smell. These changes came about, I am certain, because I dwelt, in my thoughts, about the problem. And you know what, I didn't even think about healing or curing or anything else like that it was just as if you might notice a garden one day after passing it many times, every day perhaps, and then just because you noticed how it lacked care and needed attention by some strange effect the next time you pass it someone has done it over (in the sense of tidying it up rather than destroying it, I mean).
I am not alone in noticing such effects but the people who you might think would be the most interested in this strange phenomenon, the medical professionals, well it seems to be the rare exception rather than the rule that they take an active interest. That is a cultural problem but as an individual you can disregard it and look into it for your own healing since it is unlikely that any acknowledged expert is going to advise you much more than scantily, and that if you are lucky, and the most that you can lose is to have to face up to it if, for whatever reason, it does not work for you. Such thoughts seem to be more like prayers than prayers do as far as having such a miraculous effect goes. I do not mean that they are prayers in any way but that they work like prayers are supposed to, almost magically, producing the results, miraculously, that you wished for. Obviously cancer is more serious and perhaps some diseases that are too far gone are beyond recovery but I doubt it, personally because if a brain tumour, as I described, can be healed then it seems to me just about anything else can too. It is not about intensity of thought or concentration and nor is it about getting on your knees and reciting words to god/s - maybe that can work too but that's not my scene at all. I do know that changing the way you think can miraculously change the way you are. That is true whether you have something you want to cure or you have some goal you want to attain - the effect is almost magical.
This is not quite the same as belief and faith though I think those too also have a role to play or can do. The belief part is medically accepted and has been for around half a century and the placebo pill exists and is prescribed because it actually works, simply on belief. The pill has no active ingredient but if the doctor says it is the 'magic pill' or 'cure all' and the patient has faith in the doctor and thus believes what the doctor says then that pill can cure the person and it does so simply via the person's belief. But that is not what I am talking about here, I mention it only in passing.
When you live in harmony with yourself and as far as you can with others around you then you tend to find that other things in your life fall into that harmony - the corollary is, I have noticed in my own life, also the case, that a set of foul circumstances that upset one's inner harmony can then get worse because of one's reattunement to that new disharmony - I have actually had to uproot and move more than once just to make the necessary positive changes and it does work but it is possible that you actually do have to uproot and move away and to a new area to free yourself from that disharmony and hostility if your negative circumstances are severe enough.
The way one thinks about life - this is one's own philosophy - is crucial to one's well-being and health and this goes for all kinds of health, physical, emotional, mental and even beyond just health to other aspects of our life such as wealth. The whole personal development area of knowledge is largely about adjusting this philosophy. When you take up some new practice, thinking positively for example, then this becomes part of your new, improved, philosophy. It is a part of your own philosophy that you act upon in the first place when you choose to do that, to take up some new practice like that. This philosophy, outlook, attitude to life, this is key to so much.
We have all heard of long-term heroin addicts who have reached the gutter so to speak and spent years there and then one day a turning point comes and I particularly remember one man relating that his turning point came when he awoke having been asleep lying more or less in a gutter in some dirty side street of some typical city in the UK and what woke him was water splashing on his face which was a dog urinating on him. That was his turning point. And it would, I suppose, be reasonable to say that the advanced being that caused him to cure and heal himself was a dog! Isn't it all very simple to understand? That man was telling this story in a radio interview I heard some years ago. Giving up some habit or other even such a powerful addiction as heroin is not only possible and straightforward but does actually happen but this is how it happens - the person him or her self makes the choice. There is no shortage of well-meaning people who are in the treatment business and all the related services around self-harm generally be it drug or alcohol or simply overeating or being in some chronic mental state, a turn-around is a personal choice and that choice is everything and while services are essential and talking treatments may also be beneficial too, and sympathy may be well deserved also, the simple fact is that it is the person's philosophy which has to change and this is done from within. In the case of the ex heroin addict the trigger for that change of philosophy was a dog. The dog made him realize what he had reduced himself to and that made him change his philosophy and that made him change his life and that made him give up the self-destruct habits and that made him pursue a more positive life (with positive pupose) and so it was that he was able to broadcast his story to the whole of the UK in that radio show I mentioned.
One's personal philosophy is present, you have one, whether you realize it or not. It's the particular thinking, ideas, that you have that cause you to act in the way that you do.
The fundamental realisation of personal responsibility is the grasping of the simple reality that no matter how much you are imprisoned, controlled and motivated and so on, by outside pressures and influences, all of these are almalgamated into your own personal philosophy and incorporated in a fashion which is predisposed according to our philosophy - nothing really over-rides it and it is an illusion to think so but, more importantly by far, we disempower ourselves when we do so. Each of us, now matter how free we are not, or how free we believe we are not or how imprisoned we are or how imprisoned we think we are, thinks and behaves according to his and her own personal philosophy. How relative your apparent imprisonment is depends on this philosophy. That is not to pass judgement, accurate or otherwise, on whether you are or you are not imprisoned and to what extent but to impress upon you the realization that it is your philosophical belief that counts and much less so the actual and terrible circumstances. Nor is this somehow to offer an excuse for not opposing your imprisonment but rather to persuade you to realize that these 'outer' things are lesser to your 'inner' things and your philosophy or outlook is all important. It is your real religion, really, it is the religion you have when all other religion has been washed off your mind, it is the real you, your real thinking, when all the sham and facade, pretences and similar mind-rubbish has been discarded. And you can only really get to know it when you have cleared out some, most of that rubbish.
At it's most basic it is one's outlook on life, or one's outloook in life. We generally blame others for adopting a sour outlook but, think about it, that is handing over your philosophy to that person!
Becoming sour or bitter as a result of another person is the same as becoming sour or bitter due to life's experiences - the result is the same either way, we can and do adopt a change of personal philosophy and then either accept responsibility for that change, that new philosophy, or blame it on some bad influence.
Negativity breeds negativity - but not madatorily, it isn't compulsory to react negatively! Not as a lasting thing anyway.
Positivity breeds positivity so that's the preferred environment. Need I argue the case for that - in another article perhaps.
But negativity surrounds us probably or perhaps more than positivity.
Naturally then, the world will tend to become more negative if individuals choose to react negatively to negativity and stay in that negative mode of outlook and inlook. It is a personal choice, we choose, of our own volition, to be positive and not negative in all (or most of) our thinking and acting either because it is our nature or because we make it our nature because our nature is closely interdependent with our philosophy.
Can you see that if you go for more than a few days being negatively 'charged', having a negative outlook generally, because of your reaction (perfectly understandable and justifiable, by the way - why should I doubt it) to some awful person or event then it is your choice to stay in that negative mode and it is your choice to allow that other person or event to so influence you and therefore, while you may dismiss that person or event as detestable (perfectly understandable in the circumstances, again) you are also using them as the template, the major influence, in your philosophy. Do you see it?
Humans, when they opt to be positive, when they opt to live life with a positive outlook, when their philosophy is benign and positive, bring in to their lives an automatic and powerful healing and empowering force. Each one of us is the same in this regard.
The huge step, perhaps the greatest step in this direction, of self empowerment and self healing, is to accept personal responsibility as one of the most powerful realisations that you can ever grasp and bring into your own life, and to realize that your own personal philosophy, your own outlook on and in life, is crucial and that the key factor in this is positivity rather than neutrality or negativity.
These are not merely meaningless observations, far from it, they are essential ones.
If you want to pursue the "it doesn't matter; it makes no difference" angle as many do, regarding this information, then you need to attend to discovering if that is true or not for yourself first before going any further. Remember in making such a statement, to yourself as much as anyone, you are enforcing or re-enforcing a powerful negative idea.
It does matter, it makes all the difference in the world and even well beyond this world too, and what you are really battling with, in denying it, is an assumption that "conventional wisdom" means exactly that when a more accurate term would be "conventional stupidity". Remember the heroin addict I cited earlier, well, up to the turning point, I guarantee you, he would have been filled with negativity and a negative outlook. Moreover, no amount of arguing, discussing, and forum debates and the like with such a person, in my view and experience, achieves any positive outcome at all and so I don't bother falling into the trap of picking up argument challenges other than briefly to state my case and cause.
Negativity does not become positivity (of mind, of outlook, of philosophy) by argument and the best that can be hoped for is that discussion, the nature of this article for instance, is the better method which is actually why I spend time writing such an article as this one rather than indulging in debate with anyone about it. People believe when they are ready to believe and that is the sole purpose of my articles: to reach and influence people, individuals who are ready to believe, not on trust but on information, using sane methods like this article rather than the more popular insane ones like arguments and debates.
Incidentally, personal responsibility, the grasping of it's relevance and importance, makes reincarnation a topic to consider seriously too. Personal responsibility is an aspect of reality, a baseline fact of human and spiritual existence and is actually what karma is all about so it doesn't just affect the one life, here and now, but continues like a string throughout our numerous lives. So if you dismissed the idea before then take a fresh, unadulterated, look especially if the rest of this article has made sense to you.
By Paul E. Coughlin
SaneThinking.com
10 May 2007
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