Did you know that the strongest force for health in your body is your mind? This is one reason why it is so important to make sure the entire body is well cared for, and well-understood. The program Maximized Living Doctor Shawn Bladel offers works toward this goal.

Proper medical care and treatment can obviously mean the difference between life and death, but so can what is going on in the mind.  This is not to advocate eschewing proven medical treatment for a purely mental component, but it is crucial that all aspects of the being be taken into consideration when working toward health and healing.

People live and die through the power of the mind.  There is a phenomenon, even now not well understood; where a person wakes, or believes they do in the middle of the night only to find themselves frozen in place. They feel as if they are held down by a force or a being and as if someone else is in the room with them, though they themselves are helpless.  Some cultures call it the “Old Hag” (due to the belief an old witch is sitting on your chest) others consider this terrifying experience to be night demons, or even a prelude to alien abduction.

Modern medicine says we are dreaming, and that we cannot move due to the paralysis we experience in sleep to prevent self-injury.  This is as reasonable an explanation as any.  Unless it dismisses cultural perspectives to the point where traditional “weapons” (rituals, sleeping with a nail under the pillow) are taken away from the percipient, leaving them, in their minds at least, powerless to fight the night terrors.

This has happened, with unpleasant consequences.  And it is only one example.  When we are looking to heal they body, we should never overlook the power of the mind to be part of that healing, or if thwarted, to be a party to the failure.