To be healthy you must believe in health.
A good physician is a changer of beliefs. He will replace an idea of illness with one of health. Whatever methods or drugs he uses will not be effective unless this change of belief takes place.
Unfortunately, when man became a labeller he also made maps, so to speak, of great complexity, categorizing various diseases with greater effectiveness than ever before.
He studied dead tissue to discover the nature of the disease that killed it.
Physicians began to think of men as carriers of disease and diseases — which, in certain did themselves create through some new medical procedures.
The old medicine men often dealt far more directly with the patient himself, and understood the nature of beliefs and the prime importance of suggestion. Many of their techniques were adopted for their psychological shock value, in which the patient was
effectively “brainwashed” out of the disease he believed that he had.
The
present medical profession is sadly hampered because of its own beliefs. Often it operates as a framework in which poor health and disease are not only accepted as normal, but the concepts behind them strengthened. Here you have again, as in psychoanalysis, a hide-and-seek arrangement in which both doctor and patient take part.
Both believe they need the other, of course. Behind this is the psychic pattern of beliefs in which
the patient often assigns to the doctor the powers of knowledge and wisdom that his beliefs have taught him he does not have. Knowing otherwise,
the patient still wants to consider the doctor omnipotent.
Upon the patient a
doctor often assigns and projects his own feelings of helplessness against which he combats. The interactions continue with the patient trying to please the doctor, and at best merely changing to another.
Far too often the doctor shares the patient’s unshakable belief in poor health and disease.
Not only this, but the
medical profession often provides blueprints often is not of great aid and benefit, but within the value system in which it operates much of its positive influence is negated.
Because they are held in such high esteem, the suggestions given by doctors are paid particular attention.
The patient's emotional condition is such that he or she readily accepts statements made under such circumstances less critically than usual.
The naming and labelling of “diseases” is a harmful practice that to a large extent denies the innate mobility and ever-changing quality of the psyche as expressed in flesh. You are told that you have “something.” Out of the blue “it” has attacked you, and your most intimate organs, perhaps.
You are usually told that your emotions or beliefs or system of values have nothing to do with the unfortunate circumstances that beset you.
The patient, therefore, often feels relatively powerless and at the mercy of any stray virus that might come along.
The facts are that you choose even the kind of illness that you have according to the nature of your beliefs.
You are immune from ill health as long as you believe that you are.
These are quite practical statements.
Your body has an overall body consciousness filled with energy and vitality. It automatically rights any imbalances, but your conscious beliefs also affect this body consciousness.
Your muscles believe what you tell them about themselves. So does every other portion of your physical body.
While you believe that only doctors can cure you, you had better go to them, because in the framework of your beliefs they are the only people who can help you. But
the framework itself is limiting; and again,
while you may be cured of one difficulty, you will only replace it with another as long as your beliefs cause you to have physical problems.
(The Nature of Personal Reality)
標籤：信念, 健康, 生病, 醫生
