| eived the most interesting email. | | | | images turning into color, the opposite changes in |
| Gordon wrote: | | | | brain-perception patterns resulted. |
| “Thought you might be interested in that on | | | | The point is, the body and the brain cannot distinguish |
| June 13th I underwent a 1.5 hour hernia operation | | | | between an action and a thought. When we tell our |
| without ANY anaesthetic - no general, no local. I did it | | | | brains that we are seeing black and white, our brain |
| with the power of my mind using only relaxation | | | | actually registers black and white. |
| techniques that I teach my clients. (I am a | | | | Through hypnotic intention, spinal surgery patients |
| psychotherapist.) | | | | about to undergo their operations have been able to |
| 6 days after the surgery, I have just returned from the | | | | reduce blood loss by nearly half, simply by willing their |
| gym after running 5K and doing a gentle workout. I | | | | blood supply away from the site of the surgery. |
| have developed a healing program that has really | | | | Pregnant women have been able to turn their babies |
| worked for me - I feel wonderful. | | | | from breech positions, burn victims have sped up their |
| This is a dramatic demonstration of the power of | | | | healing, and those suffering hemorrhages in the |
| thought and intention. There is a known surgeon in | | | | gastrointestinal tract have willed their blood to stop. |
| Valencia who has carried out complex surgery without | | | | The most remarkable example of this concerned a |
| anesthesia in more than 900 instances, film cameras | | | | small study of people with a mysterious and illness |
| were invited into his operating room, and captured on | | | | known as fish-skin disease. For those afflicted with this |
| film a woman who was having an operation without | | | | condition, unsightly fish-like scales cover most of the |
| anesthetic. All she had to do was keep her mouth full | | | | body. In the study, five patients were hypnotized and |
| of saliva and keep repeating to herself, “My leg | | | | told to focus on parts of their body and visualize it |
| is anesthetized.” A dry mouth is one of the | | | | becoming normal. Within just a few weeks, 80% of |
| mind’s first warning signals of danger. When | | | | each patient's body had become normal. The skin |
| the mouth is kept lubricated, the brain relaxes, assumes | | | | remained smooth and clear. |
| all is well and turns off its pain receptors, assured that | | | | Clearly, during a relaxed, meditative state, conscious |
| anesthetics had been given. | | | | thought can convince the body to ensure any pain, |
| Hypnosis is a type of mental intention, made during an | | | | cure many serious diseases, change virtually any |
| altered state. Hypnotists have been able to | | | | condition. |
| demonstrate that in many remarkable instances, the | | | | Research has also shown that the electrical activity of |
| brain or body mistakes a thought for the thing itself. | | | | thought and an action are also similar within the brain |
| A professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at | | | | itself. When an EEG is used to measure the electrical |
| Stanford University in California, carried out a | | | | activity of the brain, the brain waves are similar, |
| fascinating study demonstrating that the brain’s | | | | whether we’re thinking about doing something |
| visual cortex, the area responsible for processing our | | | | or actually doing it. |
| images, cannot distinguish between a real image and | | | | We have remarkable powers of healing that have |
| just an imagined one. | | | | been largely untapped. Obviously if we have the ability |
| His participants were shown a colored grid painting and | | | | to heal ourselves from within without the use of |
| asked to imagine the color draining from the picture, | | | | chemotherapy, radiation or surgery, the medical |
| leaving only black and white. Through the use of PET | | | | industry is going to be none to happy to see its billion |
| scans, which record physical activity in the brain, the | | | | dollar industry disappear to our own healing powers. |
| tests showed that blood flow and activity were | | | | However, this power has been demonstrated in |
| noticeably diminishing in the part of the brain dealing | | | | numerous studies and thousands of cases of |
| with the perception of color, while the areas that | | | | spontaneous healing. Dr Magne is an expert in |
| process black, white and grey images were being | | | | spontaneous healing and relates many stories and |
| stimulated. | | | | case studies in her ground-breaking book |
| When the experiment was reversed, and the | | | | Cancer-Free-For-Life. |
| participants in the study were asked to imagine grey | | | | |