

Msg # 7872   
Date: 13 Nov 93  10:23:00
From: Bob Johnstone
  To: All
Subj: MENTAL HEALING
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 MIND/BODY HEALING.....  In 1951 in Korea, my right kidney was
injured.  I went to the hospital for weeks.  Doctors told me, that the
kidney never heals or restores itself.  It was badly bruised.  There was
overwhelming pain.  They also told me that I would be in the hospital at
least 2-3 times a year with pain and infections.  I believed them, but
meditation helped me feel better.  During the next 7 years, I was in the
hospital several times a year.

 In 1963, I was telling a friend about this, stopped to think of the last
time I had been to the hospital and could not remember the dates, but I
knew it had been over a year.  After calling my doctor, he was amazed, for
it had actually been almost three years.  He set up an appointment for an
exam, after the exam he told me if he did not have the X-Rays to prove that
I had problems and damage in the past, he would not have believe that any
thing had ever been wrong with my kidney.   Miracles do happen.

 The body was designed to heal itself.  Every thought has an effect in the
brain, the accumulated thoughts control the way the brain functions.  If we
do not belive that the brain controls the body or that it can heal the body,
such thoughts prevent it from doing so.   If we reduce stress, more nutrients
are available for the immune system to use in restoration of the body and
when believe it CAN happen, we get our doubts out of the way or STOP telling
the brain NOT to let it happen and allow it too happen or it just happens.

 In England, there was a young woman whose father and mother believe that
in spite of the fact that she had a severe problem from birth, she could
be anything that she wanted to be.  They always had a strong conviction
that if they took a positive attitude, that she would have a positive
attitude.  They gave her some extra help, kept telling her she could learn
anything she wanted to learn, it just might take a little more time or
work and it would happen.  She completed high school, went to college and
grad school.  The doctors were amazed for they had never seen someone with
this level of brain damage who could do that.   They asked to do a catscan
to see just the amount of damage, they found that over 80% of the brain had
been damaged, only 20% functunal.   That woman has a Masters in sociology
today.  Many times individuals are more disabled due to the way they THINK,
than due to physiological damage to the body.

 She was a Hydrocephalic, who had a serious accumalation of serous fluid
within the cavity of the cranium in infancy causing enlargement of the head.
In spite of her success, many doctors today would tell a parent it is NOT
possible for such a child to do something like she did.  There is so much
information available in the world, it is NOT possible for every doctor to
absorb all of it.  Such information is available in old or new medical
journals, but doctors are not always given the info in school.  If they
dont go read all the back issues, they never find it.

... Yesterday or today, tomorrow, this week and next, do what you desire!
Yesterday or Today And Tomorrow, Eliminate Stress with HUMOR
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