Can your mind heal your body without medicines?
3 min Read
The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most successful business fields today. This is simply because of people’s increased dependency on medicines to cure their ails.
Dr. Joe Dispenza, a neuroscientist gives us scientific proof that humans do not need to rely on medication to improve their well-being. It is simply our mind that needs to be put at ease. According to the psychology of self-healing, it is said that our body is tricked into believing that medicines help us get better. This is because diseases tend to affect our emotional and mental well-being more than our physical well-being.
Medicines and Conditioning of our Brain:
Take for example a person who is struggling with depressive episodes for a long time. They seek treatment with a therapist. The therapist proceeds to hand them a bottle of pills, and let’s say they are all placebos. Since our mind wants to desperately get rid of the constant sadness, the body is tricked into believing that the person is getting better. The pills create a sense of euphoria in the person. This leads to them conditioning their body to produce serotonin only when they take the pill, this then causes dependency on the pills, on their journey to recovery they find themselves panicking when the pill runs out. The pills do not cure your internal problems, it just helps you portray a better facade.
Dr. Dispenza explains that our Autonomic Nervous System produces chemicals that mimic the substance in the medicines we consume. You could be having a sugar pill, but our mind convinces us that the medicine is an anti-depressant and we exude behavior that is expected of us.
What is the important question?
The question is, if it is the placebo that is healing our brains, or has the body tricked itself into thinking we have healed?
What most people fail to understand is the power our mind has over our bodies. The Pill that we consume is not only something we seek to consume to cure us, but it is something that promises us a better tomorrow. When a man desperate for hope comes across even a saline solution, he will cling on to it for life if that solution promises him a stress-free life. That is how our mind works, we are clay putty in the hands of most pharmaceutical companies. Undeniably, we need to seek treatment for serious diseases. Your mind cannot help you heal a broken bone. The ideology is to simply promote the idea that you shouldn’t let a bottle of pills have power over you.
How was the theory of Conditioning derived?
Conditioning is a theory that was discovered by Ivan Pavlov who used a dog to prove his point. Our mind takes less than 21 days to get used to a routine. If you set an alarm for 3 in the morning every night for a week, the next week on you will find yourself waking up at the time without a stimulant.
This is what Dr. Dispenza wants people to understand when you are struggling with mental health or smaller ailments, changing your mind rather than depending on placebos will turn your life upside down. We must understand that our mind is an intelligent pharma factory. Therapy is important, reach out for help when you find yourself in a difficult situation, steer clear of pills, and use the power of your mind to manifest a better life and a healthy mind.
