UNLOCKING THE DOOR

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KAYSOON KHOO

If you're very sick and in great pain, the best thing you can do for yourself is to imagine you're perfectly well and in tip-top condition. This may seem ridiculous at first glance. How can one imagine such a thing? The pain is very real and you're suffering it now.

You can and you must imagine you are healthy. At such times you need such mental conditioning. Do you think dwelling on your sickness and the pain will do any good? You'll only let them dominate your mind to the exclusion of everything else.

The real healing is generated inside your head. Your brain sends the command to effect a change and your body obeys. That's the principle along which a placebo works. A placebo is something harmless with neutral properties. When you take it, believing it is an effective solution to your problem, you send a message to your brain along the same lines. Your mind goes about its work directing the appropriate bodily response and the cure is brought about.

There are countless examples of how our minds control our bodily functions. We shed tears when we are emotionally overwrought, we salivate if we dwell on food under certain conditions, and we sweat when we experience intense fear.

Think of fire-walking. It appears to be a physical impossibility, yet it's done. If the mind says yea, Nature herself won't say nay. There countless other examples of the power the mind wields over the body, but you shouldn't need any more convincing.

If you are ill, tell yourself you are well. Say it out loud if you want to. Don't say you are going to get well. If you propel a thought into the future, no matter how near, it will keep on going forward. What you wish for will always stay one step ahead, in the future, and will never come about.

Use every ounce of your imagination in visualising yourself in perfect condition. FEEL strong and healthy. BE happy. Don't let doubt or any negative thought creep into your mind. If it does, push it out, gently but firmly. Unlock your mental door to your own healing. If countless others have done it in the past and are doing it now, YOU can do it too.