Self-Healing and Development in Perspective

A lot has been said about the topic of self-healing and development, some good but mostly not good. Let us try to look at it from an objective perspective. We are aware, from a scientific viewpoint, that our body has a self-healing mechanism. Our body forces us to breathe more heavily when it lacks oxygen. It makes us faint and makes us lie down when the brain lacks oxygen. When we get wounds, the blood eventually clots to form a seal and eventually heals itself. These are just few examples of how our body heals us when necessary.

But we also see cases where in diseases get the better of us and our body can no longer heal itself, in which case we need external help to heal such as taking medication, having surgery and the like. Self-healing is supposed to be able to cure diseases that are usually dealt with by conventional medications. There have been several reported cases of self-healing accomplishing this, although some medical experts would disagree and tend to find other explanations for the cure. But the fact is that some people are cured of their sickness with out external help keep and therefore that there may be some truth to self-healing.

The latter, self-healing, is the power of the mind over the body. It is willing the body to react in a certain way based on the commands of our mind. In our everyday life, this is actually, what we do. We move in the direction our mind wants to. We say what our mind wishes to say, we walk, talk, run jump all based on the instructions that come from our mind. Even our involuntary functions, such as breathing, heart beating and digestion are controlled by our minds. Basing on this accepted concept, self-healing presupposes that our minds can also control the presence of diseases in our body. The power of the mind thru self-healing and development is supposed to be able to hasten better health for a sick person.

If we look at the results of some clinical trials, we may see the possibility of self-healing being true. Clinical trials are usually done by having at least two trial groups, one group taking the medication being tested for the purpose of the trial and another given a placebo for comparison with the group taking the medication. In some cases, patients taking the placebo are able to heal as well or even better than some of the patients taking the actual medication being tested. Is it not possible that they healed due to a form of self-healing? It may be that, these patients life style is such that they are able to do things that actually help promote self-healing.

We may have also heard of the great power of positive thinking. It states that a person with an illness has a better chance of healing if he or she has a positive attitude towards the prospect of healing. Even in cases of terminal illnesses, we hear of a lot of stories of how patients with a positive attitude towards their state are able to live longer than expected lives, longer than those with the same illness but have given up. This may well be proof of the possibility of self-healing or at least supplementing the cure of diseases.

We may not have definitive proof yet of the powers of self-healing. There are still many skeptics, even in the scientific and medical community regarding its effectiveness. But gathered information definitely suggests that it is something that cannot be refuted as possible. We still have a lot to learn about how our minds work. May be the key to fully harnessing the possibilities of self-healing will be found when we understand the intricacies of how it works.

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