Healing yourself often requires the removal of ALL intrusive factors that cause dysfunction or dis-ease.
That means that whilst it's true that positive changes to your diet, movement routine and even certain protocols such as fasting can be extremely beneficial, one of the most powerful tools for any type of healing can be your state of mind.
A clear, positive mindset and balanced emotional state are the primary keys in conquering the main causative factors of discomfort or disease.
Your beliefs, feelings and perspectives are all powerful, dynamic intangible forces that can either impact you positively or negatively and therefore have a big say when it comes to the process of healing.
Since your mind is the 'command centre' of your entire body, it can play a vital role in how your body performs and ultimately takes care of you.
Here we discuss 5 key ways you can use the power of your mind to help cultivate physical, mental and emotional healing.
Acknowledge The Signs Of Distress
Pain, injury or illness in physical form is always a sign that something is out of balance within the body that needs attention.
Innocuous symptoms, such as a cold, flu or bloating, should truthfully require little to no intervention, particularly when you understand the basic fundamentals of self healing and have a self care mindset.
Even in cases of trauma or accidents, you will generally either magnify or minimise the level of intervention or medical dependency, depending on your state of mind and your perspective regarding your body's innate intelligence and ability to heal itself.
Also, the impact of your emotional state - how you feel inside - cannot be underestimated either. All of the body’s responses are activated by emotional frequencies that influence the biochemistry and your ability to heal.
For example, negative emotions such as unresolved resentment, anger, fear, guilt or abandonment, can all be major obstacles that thwart your ability to heal.
On the other hand, positive emotions such as gratitude, self-belief, love and contentment, can play a very important role in helping you to deal with almost anything.
The Mind Body Connection
Today, many wellness experts talk about the mind-body connection which is indeed very real.
In fact, certain ancient cultures likened this connection to that of "heaven and earth", but whatever you call it, the relationship between the mind and body is very real.
Throughout history, the body has been referred to as "a temple".
The head was considered to be "the heavens", which meant "heaved up" or sitting above the rest of the temple proper i.e. the rest of the body. The heavens were always considered to have special powers and influence over the temple (body). Whatever was thought or recorded in the mind, could be manifested in the body in physical form.
Today, although so much emphasis is placed on healing practices in physical form - whether it be conventional medicine, alternative therapies or fasting - not enough emphasis is placed on the power of the mind when it comes to the process of healing.
Your mindset not only controls your beliefs, feelings and thoughts, but it also sends important messages to your body that drive your daily routines. In addition, subconsciously, your mind plays a role in activating vital functions in the body such as, breathing, circulation and digestion, which are all vital for effective healing.
These are all important reasons to pay special attention to your mind set and to find ways to utilise your mind more powerfully to help support health and healing.
Here, we offer five suggestions that can help to create a powerful healing mindset.
1. Optimism & Positive Thinking
Thoughts create things. And where focus goes energy flows. In other words, what you think about most tends to translate into who and what you become.
This means, if you're always fearful, anxious or consumed with negative thoughts, you will most likely feel discontentment and probably struggle to be your best self.
Not only that, negative emotions are a source of anxiety and toxic energy in the body that will make you much more susceptible to illness and disease.
On the other hand, when you're able to shift your thoughts to those things that are good in your life, surround yourself with positive people, positive messages and practice gratitude, it greatly impacts your emotional energy and ability to heal.
Whether you realise it or not, your subconscious attitudes, beliefs, feelings and emotions, powerfully impact every cell in your body.
Your environment, what you surround yourself with and the messaging you allow to infiltrate your subconscious mind, greatly impact your healing capabilities because of the flow-on effect these stimuli have on your mental and emotional wellbeing.
The bottom line is, a positive mindset matters because it helps pave the way for the process of healing to take place.
2. The Power of Meditation & Visualisation
Calming the mind through short periods of meditation, is not only an effective way to reduce the effects of stress on the body, but also to assist with the process of healing.
Meditation can involve clearing the mind of clutter and simply being present, or it can be used in combination with visualising specific healing outcomes or intentions which can be very uplifting and powerful.
Visualisation is the process of making mental pictures or images of the outcome you desire.
In the case of healing, this means creating a clearing of the mind that enables it to operate freely, positively and intuitively, which flows through in a beneficial way to the process of healing.
Most people live constantly in a state of mental clutter and chaos, meaning they never take the time to intentionally remove the clutter so that they can move towards their goals.
Effective visualisation allows you to identify precise details and results you want to achieve in your life both physically and personally.
It allows you to tap into the untapped powers of your mind to manifest a reality.
In other words, things that you previously did not think or see as real with a cluttered, confused or afraid mind, you're now able to direct your body to achieve when you have the clarity and conviction of a positive powerful mind.
The healing power of visualisation and imagery is simply staggering, but most people never tap into this power because they've been trained to believe that the only answers that exist are external and outside of themselves, when in fact many of the answers lie within.
All of this means that visualising your desired outcome for health and healing can be supercharged when you practice meditation, concentration, breathing and have a safe environment around you.
3. Get Clear On Your Intention Or Desire
By having a strong desire and intention you can harness universal laws to manifest this as an outcome.
Once again, where where you focus your energy, your energy will flow.
Focus on health and healing rather than what's wrong with you. One of the biggest problems with conventional health care is its heavy reliance on band aid solutions that don't address the underlying cause. Nor does it encourage the use of the mind as a tool for directing behaviour and assisting the healing process.
This is why embracing a self care mindset means taking responsibility for what enters your mind. And when you do this you can also set clear intentions for what you want to heal and channel energy into the direction of healing.
4. Have A Purpose
The word Purpose is a compound word derived from Pure-Position.
When you have purpose attached to your life, it means you're dialled into who you are as an individual and the impact you want to have on the world.
Feeling a sense of purpose for your life can not only be an empowering and life-enhancing state of mind, but it can also help speed up the healing process, reduce stress levels and increase longevity.
If you are lacking a sense of purpose or meaning in your life, the first step to changing this is to start by helping or being of service to others.
When you take your focus away from yourself and onto others, it can be very powerful in terms of elevating your self worth and sparking the positive emotional frequencies that spin off into your life and the healing process.
5. Belief & The Placebo Effect
What you believe is what you will achieve.
Beliefs and values ultimately shape who we are as individuals.
When it comes to negative beliefs that don't serve us, the problem is that many of them are ingrained into us from a young age, meaning it can take some time to rewire or shake out those beliefs to make way for positive constructive new ones.
By simply changing your belief system to something that serves you better, your mind and body will act as if it is fact or reality. Even science has acknowledged this phenomenon with what is termed “The Placebo Effect”.
This is why people can feel better by taking a head ache pill, simply due to their level of belief in the medication as a solution, even when it could be argued that there are better ways to deal with a headache or flaws with the treatment itself.
When it comes to healing and a sustainable healthy lifestyle, your beliefs are important because they dictate many of the choices you make. If you believe in the power of your body to heal itself, you will act very differently to someone who believes that the only solution is to put trust in outside treatment or intervention.
The Main Takeaway
With so much emphasis these days on the physical aspects of diet and exercise and a heavy reliance on natural medicine, supplements and other solutions, many people discount the power of their mind to play a key part in the process of health and healing.
Remember, your mind and body are intimately connected. So it pays to be very conscious of the elements that allow you to cultivate strong beliefs, values and behaviours that will serve you in your life and health goals.
Take the time to practice some of the tips offered here and make them part of your self care routine. When you do this, you will begin to tap into your mind as a powerful tool to assist you in your personal goals and your own self healing.
Tolman Self Care.
