Dr Lissa Rankin "Mind over Medicine"
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An excerpt .......Health Secret #2
The Spontaneous Remission Project
That’s when I discovered a database compiled by the Institute of the Noetic Sciences, which is called the Spontaneous Remission Project. This database compiled more than 3,500 case reports from the medical literature of patients with seemingly incurable diseases that got better - stage 4 cancers that disappeared, an HIV + patient that became HIV-, people with diabetes or high blood pressure or thyroid disease whose disease went away, even a patient with a gunshot wound to the head who refused treatment and got better. Call these miracles or call them inspiring examples of self-healing. I was riveted.
That’s when I got really curious about exactly what makes a person healthy, and what predisposes them to illness. I started digging deep into the medical literature to find out whether such spontaneous remissions were mere accidents or whether there were concrete steps we could take to make our bodies ripe for miracles. The shocking things I found in the scientific literature are all compiled in my book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself (BUY it on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or IndieBound). But I’ll give you a few Cliff notes of what scientists have been proving for decades.:
You can heal yourself, but you can’t do it alone.
To say that you can heal yourself is sort of a misnomer. The body knows how to heal itself. It is perfectly equipped to repair broken proteins, fight foreign bodies or infectious agents that penetrate
the body’s barriers, and kill the cancer cells we all make every day. But the scientific evidence suggests that you need the care of a healer to facilitate the self-healing process - which should be good news, not just for patients, but for the medical establishment. We need not be threatened by the body’s ability to heal itself. The data suggests that, as doctors, patients NEED us. But they need us to be a healing force, not a force of fear or pessimism. We need doctors to offer positive belief and nurturing care, rather than threatening us with negative news, which merely enables the nocebo effect.
This healer who facilitates your self-healing journey need not be a doctor. It could be an alternative medicine provider, a nurse, a therapist, or a life coach. The key is to find someone who can nurture you, listen to you, love you, spend time with you without rushing you, avoid projecting their own limiting beliefs and fears onto you, and genuinely believe in your ability to care for your own body. (If you have no clue how to find a healer like this, I’m training health care providers at the Whole Health Medicine Institute.
Keep in mind that I’m not suggesting you should withhold Western medical treatment. By all means, if you’re in a car accident, get thee to a trauma center! If you break a bone, let your doctor set it. If you have a severe bacterial infection, accept the antibiotic. And if you have cancer, let them reduce your tumor burden so your body can naturally fight the rest of the cancer cells. Combining Western medical treatment with self-healing techniques can only make your chance for cure greater.
Never underestimate the body’s capacity to enable spontaneous remission when you choose to live in alignment with your truth.
You are not a victim of your genes.
As it turns out, while you can’t change your DNA, you can change how your DNA behaves. We used to think that our genes were our destiny, that diseases like heart disease, breast cancer, alcoholism, depression, high cholesterol - you name it - if it ran in your family, you were basically hosed. But the study of epigenetics is changing everything.
What is epigenetics? Epigenetics means “control above the genes.” So what’s “above the genes?” Bingo. You guessed it. The mind.
Scientists now believe that external signals - things like nutrition, the environment in which we live, even thoughts, beliefs, and feelings - can influence regulatory proteins that determine how and even whether DNA gets expressed in certain ways. In other words, it’s not as cut and dried as we once thought.
Before the Human Genome Project set out to map out the human genome, biologists guessed that we would have at least 120,000 genes, one gene for every protein made in the body. So researchers were baffled when they discovered that we only have approximately 25,000 genes and each of those 25,000 genes can express itself in at least 30,000 ways via regulatory proteins that are influenced by environmental signals. (Do the math!)
There’s more and more science coming out about how positive or negative thoughts, beliefs, and feelings can influence how our genes behave. How does this happen? The whole mechanism is laid out in my book Mind Over Medicine and you can read even more about it in Dr. Bruce Lipton’s The Biology Of Belief. But essentially, thoughts, beliefs, and feelings originating in the mind trigger either stress responses or relaxation responses that either harm or heal the physiology of the body via a cascade of hormones that bathe every cell in the body.
Sadly, most of us were not programmed to have positive thoughts about our health. Instead, from the time we are children, our minds get programmed with beliefs that sabotage our efforts to become optimally healthy and happy. Beliefs like “I’m the sickly type,” “Obesity runs in my family,” “People in my family die young,” and “Everyone in my family gets cancer” cause the mind to trigger physiological stress responses that may actually increase the risk that such negative beliefs will come true. So tend the garden of your mind. It just might influence how your genes behave.
Health Secret #7
Happiness is more than just a good mood. It’s preventive medicine.
Depression and anxiety aren’t just toxic to your mind; they’re toxic to
your body. The data is clear that unhappy people are much more likely to get physically sick. Depression and anxiety have both been linked to higher cancer risk, heart disease, pain disorders, and stroke.
Happiness even affects life expectancy. Happier people live up to ten years longer than unhappy people. In fact, in one study evaluating both happy and unhappy men, among the subgroup of men diagnosed with depression by age 50, more than 70% had died or were chronically ill by 63 years of age. Those who were considered extremely satisfied with their lives had 1/10th the rate of severe illness or early death compared to their unhappy counterparts. These findings held up after screening out other contributing factors such as alcohol, tobacco, obesity, and ancestral longevity.
When was the last time your doctor prescribed happiness as a preventive medicine or treatment for a health condition? What might you do to become more happy?
At first, I thought they’d give me treatment intuition, things like I’ll try the 5-HTP instead of the Prozac - and sometimes that’s what they’d say. But more often than not, they answered me with:
I need to leave my husband. I need to quit my job. I need to move to Santa Fe. I need to put my mother in a nursing home. I need to finally go to art school.
When my patients listened to their intuition and had the guts to follow through on what they prescribed for themselves, seemingly incurable diseases sometimes disappeared.
I was baffled. These patients weren’t responding to medical treatment. They were healing themselves in ways I couldn’t explain. I started questioning how doctors use words like ‘chronic” and “incurable” or even “terminal,” wondering if we were enacting a sort of medical hex on these patients, since after all, who are we to say who will heal themselves?
She is great and achieved miracles
An excerpt .......Health Secret #2
The Spontaneous Remission Project
That’s when I discovered a database compiled by the Institute of the Noetic Sciences, which is called the Spontaneous Remission Project. This database compiled more than 3,500 case reports from the medical literature of patients with seemingly incurable diseases that got better - stage 4 cancers that disappeared, an HIV + patient that became HIV-, people with diabetes or high blood pressure or thyroid disease whose disease went away, even a patient with a gunshot wound to the head who refused treatment and got better. Call these miracles or call them inspiring examples of self-healing. I was riveted.
That’s when I got really curious about exactly what makes a person healthy, and what predisposes them to illness. I started digging deep into the medical literature to find out whether such spontaneous remissions were mere accidents or whether there were concrete steps we could take to make our bodies ripe for miracles. The shocking things I found in the scientific literature are all compiled in my book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself (BUY it on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or IndieBound). But I’ll give you a few Cliff notes of what scientists have been proving for decades.:
You can heal yourself, but you can’t do it alone.
To say that you can heal yourself is sort of a misnomer. The body knows how to heal itself. It is perfectly equipped to repair broken proteins, fight foreign bodies or infectious agents that penetrate
the body’s barriers, and kill the cancer cells we all make every day. But the scientific evidence suggests that you need the care of a healer to facilitate the self-healing process - which should be good news, not just for patients, but for the medical establishment. We need not be threatened by the body’s ability to heal itself. The data suggests that, as doctors, patients NEED us. But they need us to be a healing force, not a force of fear or pessimism. We need doctors to offer positive belief and nurturing care, rather than threatening us with negative news, which merely enables the nocebo effect.
This healer who facilitates your self-healing journey need not be a doctor. It could be an alternative medicine provider, a nurse, a therapist, or a life coach. The key is to find someone who can nurture you, listen to you, love you, spend time with you without rushing you, avoid projecting their own limiting beliefs and fears onto you, and genuinely believe in your ability to care for your own body. (If you have no clue how to find a healer like this, I’m training health care providers at the Whole Health Medicine Institute.
Keep in mind that I’m not suggesting you should withhold Western medical treatment. By all means, if you’re in a car accident, get thee to a trauma center! If you break a bone, let your doctor set it. If you have a severe bacterial infection, accept the antibiotic. And if you have cancer, let them reduce your tumor burden so your body can naturally fight the rest of the cancer cells. Combining Western medical treatment with self-healing techniques can only make your chance for cure greater.
Never underestimate the body’s capacity to enable spontaneous remission when you choose to live in alignment with your truth.
You are not a victim of your genes.
As it turns out, while you can’t change your DNA, you can change how your DNA behaves. We used to think that our genes were our destiny, that diseases like heart disease, breast cancer, alcoholism, depression, high cholesterol - you name it - if it ran in your family, you were basically hosed. But the study of epigenetics is changing everything.
What is epigenetics? Epigenetics means “control above the genes.” So what’s “above the genes?” Bingo. You guessed it. The mind.
Scientists now believe that external signals - things like nutrition, the environment in which we live, even thoughts, beliefs, and feelings - can influence regulatory proteins that determine how and even whether DNA gets expressed in certain ways. In other words, it’s not as cut and dried as we once thought.
Before the Human Genome Project set out to map out the human genome, biologists guessed that we would have at least 120,000 genes, one gene for every protein made in the body. So researchers were baffled when they discovered that we only have approximately 25,000 genes and each of those 25,000 genes can express itself in at least 30,000 ways via regulatory proteins that are influenced by environmental signals. (Do the math!)
There’s more and more science coming out about how positive or negative thoughts, beliefs, and feelings can influence how our genes behave. How does this happen? The whole mechanism is laid out in my book Mind Over Medicine and you can read even more about it in Dr. Bruce Lipton’s The Biology Of Belief. But essentially, thoughts, beliefs, and feelings originating in the mind trigger either stress responses or relaxation responses that either harm or heal the physiology of the body via a cascade of hormones that bathe every cell in the body.
Sadly, most of us were not programmed to have positive thoughts about our health. Instead, from the time we are children, our minds get programmed with beliefs that sabotage our efforts to become optimally healthy and happy. Beliefs like “I’m the sickly type,” “Obesity runs in my family,” “People in my family die young,” and “Everyone in my family gets cancer” cause the mind to trigger physiological stress responses that may actually increase the risk that such negative beliefs will come true. So tend the garden of your mind. It just might influence how your genes behave.
Health Secret #7
Happiness is more than just a good mood. It’s preventive medicine.
Depression and anxiety aren’t just toxic to your mind; they’re toxic to
your body. The data is clear that unhappy people are much more likely to get physically sick. Depression and anxiety have both been linked to higher cancer risk, heart disease, pain disorders, and stroke.
Happiness even affects life expectancy. Happier people live up to ten years longer than unhappy people. In fact, in one study evaluating both happy and unhappy men, among the subgroup of men diagnosed with depression by age 50, more than 70% had died or were chronically ill by 63 years of age. Those who were considered extremely satisfied with their lives had 1/10th the rate of severe illness or early death compared to their unhappy counterparts. These findings held up after screening out other contributing factors such as alcohol, tobacco, obesity, and ancestral longevity.
When was the last time your doctor prescribed happiness as a preventive medicine or treatment for a health condition? What might you do to become more happy?
At first, I thought they’d give me treatment intuition, things like I’ll try the 5-HTP instead of the Prozac - and sometimes that’s what they’d say. But more often than not, they answered me with:
I need to leave my husband. I need to quit my job. I need to move to Santa Fe. I need to put my mother in a nursing home. I need to finally go to art school.
When my patients listened to their intuition and had the guts to follow through on what they prescribed for themselves, seemingly incurable diseases sometimes disappeared.
I was baffled. These patients weren’t responding to medical treatment. They were healing themselves in ways I couldn’t explain. I started questioning how doctors use words like ‘chronic” and “incurable” or even “terminal,” wondering if we were enacting a sort of medical hex on these patients, since after all, who are we to say who will heal themselves?
She is great and achieved miracles