Evidence of mind over matter
Anyone with a genuine wish to know if and why mind over matter is a real phenomenon can easily find a wealth of such proof.
Here are just a few examples.
A study at the University of Madison, Wisconsin, recruited 36 Vietnam veterans with coronary artery disease and who were also plagued with traumatic emotional issues. Half of them were given training in how to forgive themselves and others -the other half did not. Those that had the training and used the forgiveness techniques showed a significant rise in the blood flow to their heart muscles. The group that did not participate showed no change.
A volunteer team of Energy Psychology practitioners went to Kosovo to try to help survivors deal with the severe emotional trauma following the violence and bloodshed they had experienced. This was reported in the Journal of Clinical Psychology ( 2001, issue 57, p.1237) 105 people were treated, and based on their own self- assessment, 247 out of 249 people experienced complete recovery from the post traumatic emotional effects of rape, torture and witnessing massacre of loved ones. In a follow-up 5 months after treatment, there had been no relapses.
Similar results have been obtained with survivors of hurricanes, earthquakes and other disasters. According to Green Cross founder, Charles Figley - ' Energy Psychology is among the most powerful interventions available to us'
(Taken from The Genie in Your Genes
Mental intention can produce physiological changes. An exercise psychologist, Gang Yue, carried out research and found that subjects who used a gym increased their muscle strength by 30%. Subjects who did nothing showed no change. But subjects who simply mentally went through the exercises, and imagined flexing their biceps as hard as they could , showed increases in strength of 13.5% after just a few weeks of the mental training routine. This increase in strength remained for three months after the sessions stopped.
(Taken from The Intention Experiment: Use Your Thoughts to Change the World
The implications of these and the hundreds of other studies that have been documented are enormous. We can continue to close our minds to what has been discovered, or we can test it for ourselves- the solutions to our questions about health, happiness and well-being seem to have been right under our noses, where we perhaps never thought or dared to look. Our thoughts and intentions, combined with our emotions are shaping our world, both internally and externally. This we now know for sure.
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