| Mind healing. Wouldn't it be great if it really | | | | successful healing. |
| worked? If healing the body were really as simple | | | | When you engage your mind and change your |
| as engaging the mind? Here's my take. Real | | | | perception of the world you live in, "you" change, |
| healing cannot occur unless the mind is involved. | | | | too. Your state changes, your energy changes, |
| Yet it's got to be engaged in a particular way or | | | | and you literally become a different person. That |
| the results can be disappointing. | | | | new you has the possibility for full vibrant health. |
| Sometimes when people first consider mind | | | | You Can Change Your State |
| healing, they expect it to go like this: "If I think | | | | The key to this change is your state of being. |
| about wanting to be healthy, then it will happen." | | | | Energy follows your state. Change your state for |
| That's not a very believable premise, is it? After | | | | the better and health will follow. What's more, |
| all, who doesn't want to be healthy? But obviously | | | | changing your state is remarkably easy, provided |
| there are many who miss the mark. When people | | | | you are willing. |
| express skepticism about mind healing, it's this | | | | You know what state is, by the way. State is the |
| rather flimsy version that they've probably | | | | "are" in "How are you?" It defines you and |
| latched onto. | | | | describes your ability to accomplish want you |
| There isn't much evidence that the "thinking about | | | | want in the world. Water can be in any one of |
| it" approach works any better for healing than it | | | | three states: liquid, solid, or gas. Depending on |
| does for amassing vast wealth or, for that | | | | what you want to accomplish with water, any |
| matter, growing tomatoes in your garden. You | | | | given one of the states can be just right. |
| can think about wanting to have tomatoes in the | | | | Same with you. You can be hopelessness or |
| garden, but unless you take concrete steps to | | | | possibility, for example. If you want to have |
| make it happen, guess what? No tomatoes. | | | | people feel sorry for you, then hopelessness is |
| Yet if you didn't start from the thought "I'd like to | | | | the better choice to make. If you want to live in |
| grow some tomatoes," nothing would happen | | | | a world of personal power, taking responsibility for |
| either. So the mind has to be involved, but the | | | | your own fulfillment and happiness, then possibility |
| initial idea spark has to be backed up by some | | | | will work better for you. |
| kind of action. | | | | There are any number of state choices to be |
| A Mind-Healing Role Model | | | | made each day. Up until now, you may have been |
| If you've ever heard of Louise Hay, founder of | | | | coasting in a "default" mode. But it's nearly as |
| the Hay House publishing company, then you | | | | easy to recognize when the state you're in is not |
| know a genuine master of mind healing. Ms. Hay | | | | getting you where you want to go and pick |
| healed herself of cancer by forgiving her family | | | | something different. The process of affirmation, |
| for delivering an extremely challenging childhood. | | | | for which Ms. Hay is so very well known, is an |
| She shares her healing process in "You Can Heal | | | | extremely simple and effective way to change |
| Your Life," a fabulous resource for anyone | | | | your state. All it takes is willingness. |
| undertaking a mental healing process. She | | | | Mind healing, when it incorporates genuine mental |
| describes the process as "mental change." | | | | change, is very real. Mental change is a part of |
| "Mental change" is not just thinking about healing. | | | | any true and lasting healing miracle. Fortunately, |
| It is doing something. And that is the key to | | | | people create miracles every day. |