In this post, you’ll learn how to heal yourself using your subconscious mind. The following self-healing techniques and practices will help you in your healing. Spend a few minutes each day bathing in thoughts of health and strength, thus reinforcing and accelerating your immune response.
Consider these exercises your daily invigorating health tonic.
Let’s dive in.
Disclaimer: The information shared in this post is intended for general purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice or treatment. The power to heal lies within each of us, but always consult with qualified healthcare professionals for any serious health conditions or concerns.
Table of Contents
1. Visualize Health Daily
Garret Potter was nine years old when doctors told him he had a malignant tumor in his brain. They said he only had six months to live. The cancer was too dangerous for surgery, and the radiation treatments didn’t work. Even simple things, like standing up after falling, became hard for him.
But Garret didn’t give up. He decided to use a Star Wars visualization to help his body fight the tumor.
Every night, he imagined his immune system as a powerful army. He pictured his brain as a big solar system and the tumor as an evil villain trying to take over. In his mind, Garret was the leader of a space squadron, fighting and winning against the tumor.
He did this every night for twenty minutes. At first, he got sicker, but then he started to get better. After five months, the doctors took a new scan of his brain. The tumor was completely gone.
Garret’s story illustrates the power of visualization in self-healing. While he used it to fight a life-threatening tumor, visualization can be just as effective for everyday issues.
Whether you’re dealing with a persistent headache or trying to recover from a cold, you can use your mind to support your body’s healing process.
Imagine energy flowing through you. Experience your body as a miraculous healing mechanism. See your body working efficiently to repair and restore itself. Visualize the problem area getting better and healthier.
Practice for five minutes a day, every day. Repetition strengthens the connection between your mind and body and speeds up the natural healing process.
2. Affirm Your Body’s Healing Power
One key to healing yourself fast is to remind yourself often that your body is naturally designed to heal and repair itself.
You want to insert thoughts of health and strength in your mind to encourage the healing process to happen.
You see, if we wish to heal ourselves and recover from an illness, we must have strong foundational beliefs about health and healing resonating within us.
We don’t want to simply hope for the best and wait to see what happens, and we absolutely don’t want to worry that we won’t get better.
We want foundational beliefs that promote health resonating within us day and night.
We can change our fundamental beliefs by using affirmations—sentences or phrases we repeat to ourselves over and over.
Here are some healing affirmations you can use, but feel free to experiment with your own. Repeat them out loud or in your head for two to five minutes each day.
- “My body is a magnificent healing organism.”
- “Every day in every way, I’m getting better and better.”
- “I am connected to the energy web, and it is healing me through my intention.”
- “I have a strong immune system.”
- “I always heal quickly.”
Once these beliefs are established within our subconscious mind, we don’t even have to think them; they think us. That is the beauty of foundational beliefs; once established, they work day and night for us.
3. Change Your Language Around Illness
When you first find out that you have a disease or illness, the initial response is to panic. The mind becomes paralyzed with fear. And the greater the illness, the greater the fear.
Part of the problem is that we see our disease as an alien entity or a thing that one has.
Wallace Ellerbroek, a former surgeon turned psychiatrist, says it eloquently:
“We doctors seem to have a predilection for nouns in naming diseases (epilepsy, measles, cancer, tumors), and because we use nouns as names, then obviously they are things—to us.”
Embrace disease as a process, not a thing. Shift your mindset to see illness not as an alien entity, but as a process that comes and goes.
You do that by taking the name of an illness—measles, for example—and turning it into a verb.
Then it becomes, ‘Mrs. Jones, your little boy appears to be measling,’ or ‘Mrs. Baker, you seem to be tumoring,’ which opens both your mind and hers to the concept of disease as a process that comes and then goes.”
This mindset shift will reduce your fear and anxiety and help you to cope better.
4. Manage Your Thoughts
Thoughts are energy. Whatever you focus on, you attract. So, fear and stress can manifest as physical illness. In other words, people who fear diseases are more likely to get diseases because the body feels the effect of the fear itself.
You see, the body can’t tell the difference between a “real” threat and a perceived one. Our worries and negative expectations translate into physical illness because the body feels as if we are endangered, even if the threat is imaginary.
By managing your fears and focusing on positive thoughts, you can help prevent your body from feeling unnecessarily threatened.
This phenomenon has long been observed in the area of conception.
A Boston project, for example, found a 60 percent miscarriage rate in women who got pregnant soon after losing a baby to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The report urged that such bereaved women “should wait until the body is no longer feeling the effects of grief.”
And how many times have you heard of childless couples trying unsuccessfully for years to have a baby until, finally, they give up trying? Within months, the woman is pregnant. It happened once the pressure to have a baby had been lifted.
When healing yourself, you want to get rid of negative thoughts by using one of the five methods we teach in the Mind Power program.
5. Practice Gratitude for Your Body’s Healing Abilities
Gratitude helps us relax into a natural healing state.
Every organ, cell, tissue, and muscle in our body is receptive to the thoughts we entertain within. Thoughts of health are the greatest gift to yourself. Use positive thoughts and imagery to maintain your health and assist you in healing.
Your body is a miraculous self-healing mechanism built to look after anything that happens to it.
When you cut yourself, white corpuscles instantly rush to the spot to fight infection, while the platelets thicken the blood and seal up the cut.
When you eat, your body extracts nutrients from the food and dispenses them as energy to various body parts as required. It then discards the rest as waste, and it all happens automatically.
No doctor has ever healed a broken arm in his life. The doctor can align the bones to make sure they are straight, and he can put the arm in a cast to keep them that way, but only the body can heal the broken bones.
Your body already knows exactly how to repair itself. You don’t have to think about it or direct it.
Trust the process and practice gratitude for the magic behind it all. Set aside five minutes per day to give thanks for your body’s miraculous self-healing abilities.
Gratitude is more than just a positive feeling—it’s a deliberate act of recognizing and affirming the good in your life, which aligns your thoughts with positive energy.
The mind is like a magnet, and when you express gratitude, you program your subconscious to attract more experiences that resonate with those positive emotions.
So when we practice gratitude for our health, we attract better health and faster healing.
Is Self-Healing Possible? Here’s What Science Says
Herbert Benson, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, says, “What patients believe, think, and feel has profound effects on the body. Thoughts and emotions are 50 to 90 percent effective in most conditions.”
The Arkansas Experiment
In her office in Little Rock, Arkansas, a thirty-nine-year-old woman sits deep in meditation. She has been practicing meditation for almost nine years. It’s always helped her relax, but today, her practice will take on a new twist.
Using a simple visualization technique, she will attempt to control her immune system under the watchful eyes of several researchers from the University of Arkansas Medical faculty. It’s part of an experiment to further understand the remarkable mind/body connection.
The team is headed by psychiatrist G. Richard Smith, who wants to see if the woman can turn her immune system’s response up or down like the volume of a radio.
The experiment begins with a simple injection of chickenpox virus on the underside of the woman’s arm. Because she has already had chickenpox, the researchers know she can’t develop the disease from the injection. But they also know that her immune system will “recognize” the virus and respond to it by causing a small bump to rise at the injection site within 48 hours.
As they expected, a nickel-sized bump appears and then slowly fades over the next four to five days. Blood samples confirm the skin test: her white blood cell count increases as her immune system confronts the virus. The test is repeated twice with similar results.
Then, the scientists inject the virus again, but this time, the woman uses relaxation to try to reduce her white blood cell reaction to the virus. She conjures up mental images depicting fewer white blood cells and a smaller bump.
Sure enough, blood tests confirm smaller counts of white cells, and the bump is one-half to one-third of the original size.
They repeat this test two more times. The results remain consistent.
Finally, the woman is instructed to let her immune response return to normal for a few more injections. It does, and the bumps become nickel-sized again. “We were startled by the outcome,” says Dr. Smith.
The Arkansas experiment is just one of thousands of studies exploring the methods by which visualization can assist in fighting illness and enhancing health.
The Connection Between Thoughts and Healing
Exactly how imagery and relaxation exert their effects on the body is still a source of speculation.
But there have been exciting new discoveries about brain chemicals in recent years.
Brain cells, or neurons, have long been known to communicate with each other through chemical signals. But in the past, these signals were thought to move only in paths present between cells.
But we now know that there’s another communication system: chemicals that work like free-floating telegrams, sending messages between cells in different parts of the brain and between the brain and other parts of the body.
Some of these substances, such as insulin, have been known for years, but scientists are now discovering that they are produced by the brain, not just by organs like the pancreas. Today, we know of about forty to fifty chemicals that are manufactured by the brain—they’re called neuropeptides.
It’s possible, even probable, that visualization techniques cause such chemicals to be released into the body.
The idea that the mind and body are engaged in a two-way conversation is nothing new. Even the most skeptical doctors will usually acknowledge that sheer willpower often pulls patients through life-threatening illnesses or injuries.
Now, with the realization that the brain can jumpstart and enhance the body’s immune system, we are in a whole new dimension of possibility.
With over thirty years of extensive, rigorous testing to appease the most scientific mind, the proof is in—it works!
The opportunities to exploit this remarkable connection are as wide and varied as our imaginations. Your thoughts, used creatively, will affect your body in a very noticeable and beneficial way.
Final Thoughts
Dr. Paul Rennie of Vancouver, British Columbia, sums it up nicely when he says, “The mind is one untapped resource we have yet to fully explore. This is what we should be investigating.”
And no less an authority than Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg has called this area of investigation “the most important step in medicine today.”
Our health is our responsibility.
We must take an active role in our health and healing. If sick, we should not just give way to our illness but should share in the responsibility for our treatment. When all is said and done, as Dr. Albert Schweitzer always proclaimed, “the real doctor is the doctor within.”
