Actually yes. We are just beginning to understand energy flows and
balance and that the mind can influence both. So while a target
specific substance is perhaps more difficult to manage through the
direction of the mind those effects are not. Even the effects of
pharmaceuticals can be plausibly managed.
Remember all those old shamans and witch doctors? I wonder?
What is now needed is a search for effective protocols that begin
with an assumption of success and the aforementioned processes. We
are even now gaining scientific explanations that sell. I just
covered the law of causation for evolutionary process. It all begins
to work once you set aside the bogus idea of binary cause and
effect.
I am beginning to suspect that classic Chinese medicine came down to
us as received knowledge from the Atlantean world through the
deliberate creation of Chinese script which preserves knowledge
independent of shifting languages. It may even have arrived via
deeper sources before the Atlantean World.
Will Hypnosis Lead
the Revolution in Healthcare?
March 7, 2013 |
Today hypnotists are
treating cancer and other chronic illnesses with unprecedented
degrees of success. Hypnosis is on track to become the mainstream
treatment for chronic illness and many other illnesses that have an
origin in the mind.
The trouble hypnosis
has historically had is that you can’t see it. It’s invisible and
yet it works very well and it has done so for a very long time.
Because of its invisibility hypnosis has been difficult to study.
It’s been difficult to understand exactly how it works and even
more difficult to communicate any understanding to others.
People are naturally
afraid of the unknown and when the affect of something is not
understood it’s usually treated with suspicion. This is just human
nature. In the eighteen hundreds a doctor by the name of Ignaz
Semmelweis discovered that a huge reduction in deaths could be
achieved at pregnancy clinics if doctors washed their hands in a
chlorinated lime solution. Even though the effect of his discovery
was obvious his theory was rejected by his peers because germs were
invisible. Sadly, many more women died in child birth than was
necessary until germ theory was later confirmed by Louis Pasteur.
The world has changed
tremendously since the eighteen hundreds. We now know that invisible
things do matter and are in fact the source of matter. In 1973 Max
Planck announced:
“As a man who has
devoted his whole life to the most clear-headed science, to the study
of matter, I can tell you as the result of my research about atoms
this much: THERE IS NO MATTER AS SUCH! All matter originates and
exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an
atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom
together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a
conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all
matter.”
Of quantum mechanics
Einstein said, “The more success quantum mechanics has, the sillier
it looks.” The mysterious force Planck referred to is
consciousness. But it really doesn’t seem all that silly anymore.
The current generation of people living on this planet has grown up
with “silly” and “invisible” being perfectly normal. Radio
waves, TV signal, microwaves are all invisible and normal.
Electricity, invisible, is old hat. Now it’s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Sat
Nav and a growing list of technologies that are all connected by the
invisible.
As our understanding
of information and consciousness has grown, related applications and
technologies have grown proportionately, including hypnosis. We now
live in the information era and hypnosis, synonymous with
consciousness has come of age. People are no longer afraid of these
technologies and they are becoming more common-place by the hour.
While this has been a great help to humankind in many ways, it hasn’t
helped the pharmaceutical industry all that much. In fact it’s
probably done the opposite.
In 1955, the same year
Einstein died, an anaesthetist by the name of Henry Beecher
published a paper entitled “The Powerful Placebo.” A placebo is a
harmless substance containing no medicine that’s prescribed to a
patient as a medicine in order to reinforce the patient’s
expectation of getting better. It’s basically a way to deliver to a
patient an encapsulated suggestion that the patient will get better.
Beecher had personally observed this effect when treating badly
wounded troops during the Second World War. Morphine supplies had run
critically low and so he was astounded to watch a nurse inject salt
water into an injured soldier while telling him that it was a pain
killer. The salt water relieved the soldier’s pain and prevented
him from going into shock. The mere suggestion that it was morphine
being injected into his body caused him to feel better.
Thanks in part to
Beecher’s work pharmaceutical companies now need to produce
medicines that perform better than a placebo. The trouble is, due to
our growing trust in the invisible, placebos are becoming more
powerful! Pharmaceutical companies are finding it increasingly
difficult to get new medicines approved because placebo’s work as
well and sometimes better than the medicines they are testing. Even
some older medicines that originally outperformed placebos are now
failing to beat placebos in follow-up testing.
Pharmaceutical
companies have been unable to produce as many new medicines that are
effective enough to qualify for patenting. Many of the patents they
hold on their old medicines are about to expire which means that
these medicines will be produced far more cheaply as generic
medicines. Of course this means fewer profits for the pharmaceutical
companies triggering a crisis labelled “the big patent cliff”.
If a placebo is just a
simple suggestion for a patient to get better, it should come as no
surprise that placebos work better for children. Children are far
more accepting of the invisible than grown-ups. It’s foreseeable
that as grown-ups in our culture grow more comfortable with the
technologies of suggestion such as hypnosis, greater use of these
technologies will be made. In a sense hypnosis has been better tested
than any other modern medicine on the planet, because every modern
medicine on the planet is tested against placebo. Increasingly the
simple suggestion wins!
If simple
suggestion increasingly beats the very best efforts of the greatest
pharmaceutical minds and medicines in the world, our culture will
inevitably give greater consideration to how powerful sophisticated
and individually tailored suggestion in the form of hypnosis can be.
The people entrusted with society’s health are under increasing
pressure to find faster, cheaper, safer and more effective solutions
to health care. They are finding answers in hypnosis.
Hypnosis is
increasingly used to treat chronic illnesses such as irritable bowel
syndrome and more physicians are referring their patients to
hypnotists. This is just evolution in action and the outcome is
inevitable. As more studies become available confirming that chronic
illnesses generally have an origin in the mind, so hypnosis will
increasingly become the treatment and cure of choice in these
illnesses including cancer and other so called dread diseases.
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