The Mind-Body Connection

Today it is a clinical fact that stress, depression or anxiety can produce sickness in the body. Doctors now are saying that 70% of illness is psychosomatic.

We all know the effects that negative thoughts and beliefs have on the body. How stress brings on headaches. How nerves can make your stomach feel sick. How being embarrassed makes you blush. How sorrow brings tears. How fear can turn your hair white overnight (just ask Marie Antoinette). And so on.

All of these are examples of that amazing connection between the mind and the body.

In the late 1800's and early 1900's learned men were discovering how thought could produce an effect on the body. Professor Elmer Gates of Washington DC records the following:

"If I confine my attention to my thumb and inhibit my attention from all other sensations and feelings in other parts of the body, and from all intellections and emotions which may tend to spontaneously arise in the mind, and if I thus continue to rivet my attention to my thumb, I soon will become aware of an increased amount of feeling in that organ. If this is continued for some minutes a sense of fullness and pressure arises, and a delicate thermo-electric thermometer will record the fact that the temperature in that thumb has risen a fraction of a degree higher than the other thumb; and if a measurement be made of the volume of the thumb to which the fixed attention and thought is made, it will be found to have become larger than the other thumb."

Wow. thought producing an increase in size. the weight lifting and body building industries would love this stuff.

If stress, depression and anxiety can produce sickness in the body then the reverse is also true. Relaxation of mind and body can produce a natural state of self healing.

We already know that when we sleep our body goes into a natural, regenerating and healing state. Some of the "marvels of modern medicine" is to put the patient into a coma and let the natural healing ability of the body do its work. (God does the healing and the doctor gives you the bill.)

In hypnosis you are in a very relaxed state of both body and mind. Relaxation pushes the stress, worries and anxiety away. In this state, just like natural sleep, you are in a state of regeneration and natural healing. Healthy mind produces healthy body.

A trained hypnotherapist can help you sow the seeds of positive thoughts and beliefs, which in turn produces health in your body. It's quite simple. there is a mind-body connection that can be used for your health and happiness.