Power of Mind

The subconscious mind is so creative, masterful and resourceful that it is hard to believe how powerful it actually is. Psychologists have proven that the mind is so immensely powerful that it can create sunburns on one side of the face without any sun, or produce the symptoms of any disease where there is no cause (no virus or bacteria etc.), and can even make a person die for no more reason than they were told they would (by a witch doctor) or for some other reason they believe they are going to die.

The mind – and really I'm talking about the subconscious mind here – can also heal ailments that have been said to be impossible to heal. People are now walking around who were told they would never walk again; people are alive ten-twenty years after a prognosis of death within a few months; people have overcome cancer and every other kind of incurable or terminal illness.

There are literally thousands (if not tens of thousands) of medical cases that have the words “Immediate Remission” written at the end to designate an inexplicable healing of a condition that was thought to be chronic or incurable. Many of these statements of “Remission” hide the fact that due to the little or no real help with the condition from the medical profession (other than drugs with hideous side effects that cover up some of the symptoms but not curing any causes to the problem so leaving the person in as just a mess as when they went to see their GP/MD but with slightly more bearable numbness rather than chronic pain) the patient has turned (at their own expense) to Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM).

Many CAM therapies have their own theories and philosophies about dis-ease and the healing process. These philosophies sometimes contradict and confound medical scientific research. The scientists cannot find any way of reconciling these theories with their hard scientific methods.

Yet, the NHS did a clinical trial on Spiritual Healing* (in partnership with the NFSH) where everyone involved (except the Healers) were astounded at the 80% success rate in providing measurable benefit (the other 20% died more dignified deaths but cannot be included in the success rate) for people with terminal cancer - where no more medical hope of recovery was available. Unfortunately, after the three year trial and then two year wait for the statistical analysis, the whole of the trial documentation was mysteriously lost. I know all this because I was a Trustee of the NFSH at the time and met healers involved in the trial.


Despite the alternative philosophies and the non-scientific approach to medicine, many CAM practitioners have better success rates than the drugs industry.

* Also the Which? consumer magazine's Best Buy!
* Penny Brohn Cancer Care in Bristol has a team of NFSH healers working with patients.
* University College Hospital London has recruited another two NFSH healers to join its CAM team and work in its Cancer/Haematology unit.
* For a longer list of Healers working within the NHS go to the NFSH website
There are ways of overcoming the dichotomy of 'science v CAM' and I’ll discuss that in my next post, right here.

Be well

Colin :-)