Some people go from one person to another, seeking healing. Sometimes this is done for years, to no avail. What they don’t realize is that every time they move faith from one person or one technique to another, they are only making things worse. They are compiling more and more evidence that “this stuff doesn’t work.” Let’s get clear on this idea. All healing comes from within the self. If healing is not happening, it is due to beliefs held in the subconscious mind.
Is it really so simple? Yes! Healing comes when the subconscious mind holds an absolute belief in it. He or she awaits in grateful anticipation of a profound miracle! It doesn’t matter whether the patient goes to a doctor, takes medications, has surgery, seeks alternative methods, is blessed by a priest or does a voodoo dance. All are “faith” healers. In the end, the source of healing is always the same. It is the subconscious mind. The person finally accepted a belief that triggered the body to heal.
Don’t believe me? LOL Well, consider this. All over the world, this very moment, people are experiencing healing. Some prayed for it. Some took various potions or herbs. Others took medications prescribed by conventional medicine, while still others sacrificed offerings to various gods. Different cultures, languages, techniques, gods and methods were used, but all achieved the same result. What is the common factor? It is that the patient “expected” to be healed. In other words, it is not the technique that heals…it is the acceptance of the belief in it. Once the subconscious mind believes healing is imminent, the signals are sent to start the process.
In Dr. Joseph Murphy’s book, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, he shares a story of man whose lungs were badly diseased from tuberculosis. After countless visits to doctors who were unable to help him, his son decided to step in to help him heal by invoking the sympathy of a wandering monk who had unique powers to heal. Murphy writes:
This monk had just returned from a long stay at one of the most celebrated healing shrines in Europe. There he had acquired a small fragment of the True Cross, set in a ring that dated back to the Middle Ages. Over the centuries, countless sufferers had been healed after touching the ring or the fragment of the Cross.
When the son had heard this he had told the monk about his father’s illness and begged to borrow the ring. The monk had agreed. The son then gave the monk a free-will offering of the equivalent of $500.
When the son showed his father the ring, the older man practically snatched it from him. He clasped the ring to his chest, prayed silently, and went to sleep. In the morning he was healed. All the clinic’s tests proved negative.
Healings of this sort happen all the time. What is most significant about this one is that the son’s amazing story was totally made up. In fact, he had picked up a splinter of ordinary wood from the sidewalk, taken it to a jeweler, and had it set in a gold ring of antique design. He then gave it to his father.
You know, of course, it was not splinter of wood from the sidewalk that healed the father. No, it was his imagination aroused to an intense degree, plus the confident expectancy of a perfect healing. Imagination was joined to faith or subjective feeling, and the union of the two brought about a healing through the power of his subconscious mind.
The father never learned of the trick that had been played upon him. If he had, he might well have had a relapse. Instead, his tuberculosis never returned. He remained completely cured and passed away from other causes fifteen years later, at the age of eighty-nine.
Thus, when seeking healing–regardless of what type–in the end what will heal the patient is that it was allowed to be so. The patient had absolute confidence in either the technique or the healer. Although another person may take credit for the healing, the truth is, the patient always heals himself/herself.
There is great excitement in understanding this, because, as patients, we can begin to understand how much control we have over our state of being. We can choose our method of treatment, and unequivocally decide that method will be the one that heals us. As we hold the belief as true, our experience matches the belief.
In practicing EFT with my clients, I often have to begin by clearing out wavering beliefs the client holds about the technique. I ask the client if he or she believes the process will bring the results wanted. If the person answers, “I hope so,” then I know we have a problem. Hope leaves room for doubt. I know that if the client has doubts as to whether or not this works, it won’t. Regardless of what I say or do, it will be the subconscious doubts that sabotage the process. This is why I painstakingly go over the “how” and “why” of EFT. I know I must move the client out of faith into understanding. Only then can we demonstrate the healing process.
Whatever method of healing a patient uses, it will ultimately be the belief in it that brings about healing. The placebo effect has been proving this for years. When the expectation of healing is firmly planted in the mind, miracles happen. When people start to visualize themselves as already healed, they place that experience in the subconscious mind. It becomes truth because the grateful anticipation of it is what creates reality.
The mind within is the only healer. Someday we will understand that is always, always the case. It was not a pill, a surgery, a process, a piece of wood or a particular person that brought it into manifestation. It was the healing of unbelief.
You need look no further than within for the answer to healing. All dis-ease and all of life’s problems begin and end in the subconscious mind.
I AM…Jodi
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