The power of your thoughts! And how our thoughts influence our lives.
In “The Lost Art of Healing”, medical scientist Bernard Lown wanted to test his theory. He needed a volunteer who would die at the last minute. He found a convicted man who was scheduled to die on the electric chair. The scientist offered to the convict to participate in a scientific experiment. He explained that they would reduce his heart rate to a minimum during the experiment while the blood slowly drops out of his body till the last drop. The scientist told him that he had only a minimal chance of survival. But, he definitely would die without suffering and pain. The convict agreed because it was better to die like that than in the electric chair.
They put him in a chair and tied his body so that he could not move. The doctor then made a small incision in his wrist and placed a small aluminium bowl under his arm. The cut was tiny, only the first layers of skin. It didn’t bleed at all, but the convict believed that his veins had been cut open. A small drain pipe was placed under the chair with a valve to regulate the flow of liquid in the form of drops. The convict could hear the drip and counted every drop of what he considered as his blood. While he couldn’t see what was dropping into the bowl, the scientist closed the valve to make the drops drip more slowly, with the intention of making the man believe he was running out of blood. After a few minutes, the face of the man turned pale, and his heartbeat quickened. When despair reached its peak, the scientist closed the valve completely, and the man’s heart soon stopped – he died.
This scientist proved that everything that we believe, be it positive or negative affects us, our entire psychological and somatic apparatus.
When people are told that they have a deadly virus, people die of sheer fear of it. Absorbing information through the media, day and night, we are full of fear and immunity is increasingly weakened by this fear. Today it is known that the danger of dying from a virus is small – but your mind does something different. Complications can only be if the immune system is very weak. No virus is dangerous if your health is good and you have no fear of illness. Maybe this is why many children survive in very serious situations because their minds do not know the fear of death.
So be careful with what you believe in and how our thoughts influence our lives
