Power of the Mind in Health and Healing

The different types of biological stressors and how energy plays a role. Listen to this introduction as a downloadable MP3 audio found in the Resources section of this lecture.

Describes the root of emotional stress responses, its effect on the body, and how to prevent it.

See the PDF in the Resources section for more information on the controversial topic of Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome.

Provides Functional Medicine concepts for maintaining optimal health including specific nutritional supplement recommendations.

Be sure to download the Foundational Support Resources PDF in the Resources section of this lecture. It contains more information regarding nutritional support, toxin avoidance, and the Functional Medicine Comprehensive Elimination Food Plan.

Science has proven our universe and everything in it, including us, are made up of energy. I'll help you understand how to work with the energy of your mind and body to promote healing.

Be sure to download the PDF in the Resources section, which contains:

1. Scientific abstracts regarding studies on intercessory prayer.

2. A YouTube link for a short explanatory video about the Double Slit Experiment.

3. A web link to access an annotated bibliography of clinically documented incidences of spontaneous remission from cancer and other diseases.

As I’ve pointed out, everything is energy.

The paradox is that even empty space is made up of energy. Energetic particles permeate our entire universe.

Everything in your body is a form of energy, including your thoughts, as the energy of consciousness. And that is one reason why prayer is effective for healing.

So the just of this guided meditation is:

FIRST

I’ll get you to place your attention on empty space. This gets you out of your monkey mind, and starts to increase the amount of alpha waves in your brain. And as I teach in module 4, a predominance of alpha waves is associated with relaxation.

NEXT

I walk you through the process of becoming aware of the space within your body. We go deeper and deeper until you become aware of the space between your DNA.

THEN

I have you become aware of this space as the energy of your consciousness. There is incredible love here because there’s no judgment once you allow yourself to enter this space.

FINALLY

I walk you through the process of merging the energy of your consciousness with the energy of Divine consciousness. Because it is here where miracles occur.

I left a little over three minutes of music at the end of this guided meditation for you to use that time to visualize whatever miracles you choose to create in your life.

OK have fun with it!

An ebook as both a PDF and MP3 audio detailing the specific intention and process for the Quantum Connection guided meditation.

This is the Quantum Connection Guided Meditation in an MP3 format.

The consciousness of your heart:

• Helps regulate your autonomic nervous system.
• Is a primary receiver of nonlocal intuition.
• Emits a very large electromagnetic field, which contains information.

Use the power of the electromagnetic energy contained in the consciousness of your heart to shift your experiences!

Learn to "unplug" from people when you are a highly sensitive person (empath) by using a higher awareness honed through mindfulness and meditation.

Information about a leading mind-body institute. You can download the attached MP3 audio of this section to listen to at your convenience. But you'll need to read the text to access the link to HeartMath's Quick Coherence Technique.

Fascinating science that shows the heart has its own brain and endocrine system, and why this is important.

Hear rate variability is the variation of time intervals between heartbeats.

A healthy heart has more variability between beats.

Heart rate variability also reflects the level of balance in your autonomic nervous system (autopilot) and your emotions.

The consciousness of your heart is the key to nonlocal intuition.

Nonlocal intuition occurs when you perceive information about a future or distant event, which is not based on reason or memories of a prior experience.

Details of the two clinical studies that scientifically prove this phenomenon are found in this lecture's Resources section.

Your emotions are reflected in heart rate variability via your autonomic nervous system.

Emotions shift your autonomic nervous system into stress (incoherence) or relaxation (coherence).

The consciousness of your heart can help you process negative emotions thus shifting your autonomic nervous system into better balance.

The basis of transmuting negative emotions with the consciousness of your heart and a quick review of homework for module 3.

Key points:

1. Your heart mind is the seat of unconditional love.
1. Sitting mindfully with a negative emotion by using your heart consciousness can lead to a healthy processing of this emotion.

An ebook with mp3 audio detailing the specific intention and process for the Transmuting Negative Emotions With Your Heart Mind guided meditation.

This guided meditation is a powerful way to process and remove negative emotions. It is best to listen to this guided meditation with earphones or ear buds as the background music contains embedded binaural beats to assist in walking your brain waves down into the alpha state for added relaxation.

Introduction to your subconscious mind.

Overview of brainwaves.

Overview of brainwave entrainment.

Health benefits of brainwave entrainment.

Discerning beliefs versus truths.

Removing limiting beliefs from your subconscious mind.

Your subconscious mind:

• Is a memory bank for ALL of your life's experiences.
• Is like a super computer.
• Participates in filtering all of your life's experiences.
• Helps regulate what you are not consciously aware of.
• Is intimately related to your autopilot - autonomic nervous system.
• Can impact your physiology without you even being consciously aware of it.
• May hold limiting beliefs.

Overview of the different types of brainwaves:

• Gamma
• Beta
• Alpha
• Theta
• Delta

Gamma waves:

• creativity
• flow states
• language
• memory processing

Beta waves:

• anxiety
• focus
• concentration

Alpha waves:

• waking up
• falling asleep
• meditation
• subconscious processing

Theta waves:

• light sleep
• dreaming
• deeper meditations
• self-hypnosis
• subconscious processing

Delta waves:

• deep sleep
• deep healing
• brain detoxification
• parasympathetic nervous system predominance

Brainwave entrainment - synchronizing brainwaves with a repetitive stimulus.

Binaural beats and isochronic tones are embedded in tracks to help entrain brainwaves.

Alpha and theta brainwave entrainment can facilitate deeper meditative states.

Be sure to download the web resources guide in this lecture for tools to assist you in meditation.

A review of clinical studies showing the health benefits of brainwave entrainment as a therapeutic tool.

Brainwave entrainment:

• improves standardized test scores in ADHD
• improves behavior in children with learning disorders and ADHD
• reduces pain
• reduces tension headaches and migraines
• reduces symptoms of premenstrual syndrome

Binaural beats in brainwave entrainment:

• two tones of slightly different frequencies are played in the right and left ears
• the brain processes the difference between the two and entrains to that frequency
• headphones are necessary

Isochronic tones in brainwave entrainment:

• single audio tone set to a specific frequency is rapidly turned off and on
• brain entrains to this repetitive tone
• may be more effective than binaural beats
• headphones are not necessary

A belief does not always equate with a truth.

Why it's healthy to be open to the possibility of changing your beliefs.

Discernment is required to know the difference between a belief versus a truth.

Discernment is intimately associated with intuition.

Limiting beliefs may originate in childhood and be stuck in your subconscious mind.

Three basic questions to ask yourself in discerning if a belief is a truth:

1. Does this belief serve my highest good?
2. Is this belief holding me back in any way?
3. Do I absolutely know it to be true?

Testing for limiting beliefs by using positive core affirmations:

1. Say a positive core affirmation out loud. I provide these for you in the next lecture.
2. Does it feel right or resonate with you when you say it out loud?
3. If not, you may be holding a limiting belief in your subconscious mind regarding his core affirmation.

Then I introduce you to a process for removing this limiting belief from your subconscious mind.

An ebook with mp3 audio detailing the specific intention and process for the Removing Limiting Beliefs guided meditation.

A guided meditation for removing limiting beliefs from your subconscious mind.It is best to listen to this guided meditation with earphones or ear buds as the background music contains embedded binaural beats to assist in walking your brain waves down into the alpha state for added relaxation.

Homework assignment for module 4:

• Practice using brainwave entrainment to deepen your meditation.
• Practice questioning your beliefs.
• Practice using core affirmations to identify your limiting beliefs.
• Practice removing limiting beliefs.

Your body has a very intelligent built-in healing system.

Placebo - a substance containing no active substance or a sham procedure with no active procedure.

A placebo is used as a "control" in clinical studies to help test for the true effectiveness of a medication or procedure.

Placebos can be as effective or even more effective than real medicine or real procedures.

The healing power of belief - the power of your mind - is the placebo effect.

Science of the placebo effect:

• psychobiological phenomenon
• starts in the brain - really the mind
• results in clinical improvement
• is intimately tied to the ritual of the therapeutic act

The ritual of the therapeutic act is a key player in the placebo effect and includes:

• beliefs and expectations
• memories of prior therapies
• sight of practitioners and healthcare facilities
• interactions of other people and patients
• syringes or other medical devices
• color, taste, and smell of medications
• words of doctors and other healthcare providers

The nocebo effect is:

• the opposite of the placebo effect
• begins in the mind and triggers the brain to respond
• has negative impacts on physiology
• results in clinical worsening
• triggered by negative suggestions and negative expectations

The placebo's impact on your brain:

• activates certain areas of the brain
• causes the release of specific neurotransmitters

Placebo research proves your body memorizes a drug's effect.

The placebo's effect can be quantified based on the type of suggestion given.

Medications contain an inherent placebo effect.

Increasingly positive information given with medication OR a placebo boosts its effectiveness.

I discuss an amazing clinical study that shows a placebo can suppress your immune system through behavioral conditioning.

I discuss a clinical study that shows how a placebo can improve Parkinson's Disease.

The psychological components of the placebo effect can be used to your benefit by:

• setting expectations for getting well in your meditations, which reduces anxiety and turns on your inner physician by increasing parasympathetic tone in your autonomic nervous system
• learning through conditioning yourself to feel what it is to be well in your meditations, which shifts your physiology
• maximizing the psychology of social learning by reading about or hearing about others getting well
• reinforcing your expectations by using mindfulness and meditation to guard against negative thoughts

A quick overview of the social learning aspect of the placebo effect with three web links to experience it.

The science that shows why your attitude plays such an important role in the placebo effect.

An introduction to the inner physician technique for healing yourself.

An ebook with mp3 audio detailing the intention and process of the Inner Physician guided meditation.

This E-book, as a PDF and MP3, provides a more detailed description of how to maximize the psychological variables of the placebo effect, combined with meditation, to make the power of the placebo effect work for you. The best part is that you don't need to physically take a placebo or sugar pill for this to work.

A meditation for using the power of the placebo effect to heal your body. It is best to listen to this guided meditation with earphones or ear buds as the background music contains embedded binaural beats to assist in walking your brain waves down into the alpha state for added relaxation.

A review of the medical literature shows some incurable illnesses ultimately result in a cure. Why this happens is truly a scientific mystery. In this lecture, I propose a spiritual component of why this happens in some instances and explain how one might facilitate this process.  

Why it's so important to learn how to discern beliefs versus truths.

Einstein understood the power of intuition.

Nonlocal intuition is a knowing unexplained by logic and does not originate in the physical body. Nonlocal intuition is channeled through your higher mind from the unified field of energetic information that connects everyone and everything. This short discussion is also in mp3 audio format available for download.

Science shows how meditation enhances your intuition:

• long-term meditation enhances areas of the brain that have the potential to improve your intuition
• meditation calms your mind allowing you to hear your inner voice of knowing

The consciousness of your higher mind:

• is a spiritual channel
• is unlimited in divine wisdom and love
• only knows the truth
• moves you from the lower energy of fear to the higher energy of love

Aligning the consciousness of your higher mind with the consciousness of your heart mind turbo charges your nonlocal intuition.

The process of aligning with your higher mind:

• set a divine intention to align with your higher mind
• acknowledge you are a spiritual being
• view yourself as an infinite being
• see yourself as an energetic being
• set an intention to tap into the infinite field of consciousness - the unified field

The process of aligning the consciousness of your higher mind with the consciousness of your heart mind:

• once you have aligned with your higher mind, set an intention to bring this infinite wisdom into your heart mind
• visualize a stream of energy connecting your higher mind to your heart mind

You will know you have aligned with your higher mind when you feel unconditional love.

Sealing the deal of aligning the consciousness of your higher mind with the consciousness of your heart mind may require conjuring a feeling of profound gratitude.

A review of the power of the mind technique for aligning all aspects of your consciousness and triggering your inner physician to heal you.

This meditation technique walks you through the process of aligning all aspects of your consciousness to optimize your inner healer. It is best to listen to this guided meditation with earphones or ear buds as the background music contains embedded binaural beats to assist in walking your brain waves down into the alpha state for added relaxation.

Final words of wisdom.

An ebook based on the entire course for those who would rather download the material and read it as a book.

Course bibliography of citations with links to abstracts and full journal articles.

This is a bonus track consisting of a guided meditation without music for getting grounded and connecting with your Inner Child.

This bonus lecture is in the form of a podcast interview where I discuss how I personally used some of the mindfulness and meditation methods in this course while experiencing a serious health issue - prostate cancer. I also discuss the placebo and nocebo effects related to encounters and relationships with various physicians.  And I discuss some amazing synchronicities that occurred along the way. Click on the contained web link to access the podcast interview.

Lecture 22 is the Quantum Connection Guided Meditation in a female voice via Heather Alice Shea. I've had a request that the same guided meditation with a male voice (mine) be added back to the course, so here in "Lecture 82" is the Quantum Connection Guided Mediation available for download in an mp3 format. 

This lecture consists of the course's 126 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). You can read the text online in the course or download a PDF and a 50-minute MP3 audio file to listen to later from "Resources for this lecture" at the bottom of the text. These FAQs can be used as a course review of all the main topics.