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Mental Healing
Healing takes place at four different levels. The physical level is the one
that everyone is familiar with, and many people assume that this is the only
level where healing takes place. The other three levels of healing are
emotional, spiritual, and mental.
Mental healing places a focus on the interdependence of mind and body, and
the use of the mind to help heal the body. Mental healing practitioners believe
that we often make ourselves sick through our thoughts, and likewise we can
also heal ourselves by thinking different thoughts.
As an example, depression can be improved and cured by changing the way the
patient thinks. Or if someone has become ill through poor eating habits over a
long period of time, that can be reversed by changing that person's self-image
-- that is, the type of thoughts they habitually think.
Some of the types of negative thinking habits that mental healing is
designed to remove include unexpressed emotions, buried hurts from long ago,
and old grudges and resentments, whether conscious or not. Those are replaced
by self-confidence and a positive and hopeful attitude. In the area of mental
healing, our thoughts can be both the problem and the cure.
One popular type of mental healing is known as affirmations. Basically,
affirmations work by crowding out habitual negative and self-destructive
thoughts by replacing them with positive thoughts describing the desired
outcome. These affirmations are repeated as often as possible and with as much
emotional intensity that the patient can bring to them. With enough repetition,
these new positive thoughts become lodged in the subconscious and become the
new reality for that person.
A related type of mental healing is visualization -- basically affirmations
using visual images instead of words. The patient is guided into a relaxed
state, and then vividly pictures in his or her imagination the desired outcome.
Such powerful images can enter the subconscious mind much more easily and
effectively than rational thought can. Other forms of mental healing include
using dream images, expressing yourself through music, dance, or art, and using
Jungian archetypes for healing.
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