The Body Can Heal Itself

Big Pharma has done such a magnificent job of convincing us that we are victims of illness and that only their products can provide relief. OK, they do a slight of hand with statistics: for example, if there is a 4% probability of contracting a certain illness and a drug reduces that to a 2% chance, then it is advertised as reducing the likelihood of illness by 50%.  Seth reminds us in this quote that the body really can be in the 96% without the illness quite on its own.  In fact, it is often struggling to overcome the imprinted beliefs we get daily in the ongoing barrage of advertising!

Years ago when I was in university, I picked up a book which described a variety of illnesses.  For fun, I’d read about an illness each morning and then feel grateful that I didn’t have it.  I abandoned this idea when I started feeling symptoms of the diseases I was reading about.  Looking back, I now know that "we are what we believe", and I was starting to believe I had all of those diseases!

The other thing to bear in mind is that our body is a reflection of the beliefs we hold about ourselves.  Lazaris and others have pointed out that, for example, heart attacks are a broken heart … i.e. lack of giving and receiving love, and lack of self love.  Cancers develop where the electrical and chemical communications with the body are cut off or distorted (see for example, Bruce Lipton’s “The Biology of Belief”).  Hence internalized anger, for example, can become localized in the body, cutting off the central communication which maintains the body’s integrity … resulting in cancer.  Similarly, chemicals in the foods we eat can block the receptors on the cell wall also cutting off a channel of communication within the body.  What we eat, and the effect of what we eat on our bodies are coloured by our beliefs, so this is another aspect of “you are what you believe”.

“Generally speaking, for example, if you are seriously worried about a physical condition, go to a doctor, because your own beliefs may over-frighten you otherwise.  Begin with innocuous but annoying physical conditions, however, and try to work those out for yourself.  Try to discover why you are bothered.  When you have a headache or a simple stomach upset, or if you have a chronic, annoying but not serious condition, such as trouble with your sinuses, or if you have hay fever – in those situations, remind yourself that your body does indeed have the capacity to heal itself.”

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 870)