The Healing Power of The Subconscious Mind

Healing can be grossly misunderstood.  A lot of people are focussed only on the physical healing and wonder why its not happening despite their best efforts.  I discovered many years ago that for healing to take place totally, absolutely, fully and completely, the first doctor one must visit is the Mighty  Physician within - one's Inner Healer.  As the Inner Healer starts working from within, the image of perfect health will be manifested on the outside, physical body.  In truth the body does not need healing - the mind does! A Course In Miracles says pain and suffering comes when we think we are the body and therefore, act like just a body.  Indeed, we are more than the body.  Much more!  We are extensions of God and our DNA is Love.  Love brings forth perfection.  Only Love is Real.  If we can get this fact deeply embedded into our subconscious mind, more than 50% of the job gets done.  The rest happens with much speed and quite rapidly as we go about incorporating changes in our mindset and ourselves.

The reason I have been exploring this subject so much over the years, is because I 'suffer' chronic pain in my body which has been happening since I was a child.  The strange thing was before I knew any of the book stuff, somewhere, deep in my consciousness, I was quite convinced that I did'nt have any disease so to speak, but ofcourse I did'nt know where that came from and made me doubt everything about my thoughts because the world teaches you different lessons altogether and most often quite contrary to what you deeply sense from within.  Times have changed now and we talk about everything under the sun openly and with much less fear.  We are beginning to understand the power of our own minds and the effect it has on everything around us including ourselves.  I won't go into details in this post, however, this blog is intended to share my own personal experiences using the subconscious mind for my healing amongst other things.  For today, I would love to share a bit from Dr Joseph Murphy's "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind".  I love this book because it is simple, easy to understand and highly effective.

There is nothing like the victory of personal experience.  Dr. Murphy talks about his own healing from a rare form of skin cancer.

Here's an excerpt from his book.

THE SUBCONSCIOUS HEALS A MALIGNANCY OF THE SKIN

The most convincing evidence anyone can have of the healing power of the subconscious mind is a personal healing.  Over forty years ago I developed a malignancy of the skin.  I went to the finest doctors, who tried the most advanced treatments medical science could offer.  None of these helped.  The malignancy got progressively worse.

Then, one day, a clergyman with a deep store of psychological knowledge told me the inner meaning of the 139th Psalm.  He called my attention to the passage that reads:

"In thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them."

He explained that the term book meant my subconscious mind, which fashioned and molded all my organs from a tiny original cell.  He pointed out that since my subconscious mind had made my body, it could also recreate it and heal it according to the perfect pattern within it.

This clergyman pointed to his watch, "This had a maker," he told me.  "But before the watch could become an objective reality, the watchmaker had to have the idea of it clearly in mind.  If for some reason the watch stopped working as it should, the watchmaker's idea of it would give him the knowledge he needed to fix it."

I understood what he was  trying  to tell me by this analogy.  The subconscious intelligence that created my body was like the watchmaker. It knew exactly how to heal, restore, and direct all the vital functions and process of my body.  But for it to do this properly, I had to give it the perfect idea of health.  This would act as cause, and the effect would be a healing.

I formulated a very simple and direct prayer.

My body and all its organs were created by the infinite intelligence in my subconscious mind.  It knows how to heal me. Its wisdom fashioned all my organs, tissues, muscles, and bones. This infinite healing presence within me is now transforming every cell of my being, making me whole and perfect.  I give thanks for the healing I know is taking place at this time. Wonderful are the works of the creative intelligence within me.

I repeated this simple prayer aloud for about five minutes two or three times a day.  After some three months, my skin was whole and perfect. The malignancy had vanished.  My doctor was baffled, but I knew what had happened.  I had given life giving patterns of wholeness, beauty and perfection to by subconscious mind.  These forced out the negative images and patterns of thought lodged in my subconscious mind, which were the cause of all my trouble.

Nothing appears on your body except when the mental equivalent is first in your mind.  As you change your mind by drenching it with incessant  affirmatives, you change your body.

This is the basis of all healing.

"Marvelous are thy works: and that my soul (subconscious mind) knoweth right well. ~ Psalm 139:14

Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Dr Joseph Murphy.