11/03/2024
How belief affects our health and resilience:
Experiencing stimulus will have different effects on people's bodies based largely on their beliefs and bias about the stimulus. For example, if we are taught that inhaling exhaust is deadly and can take years off of our life, our subconscious mind will create fear-induced reactions in the body every time we recognize (or simply decide) that we are inhaling exhaust. Those fear-induced reactions create an effect that is the opposite of relaxation. It can create a blockage of energy running through the body, which can result in swelling, a tightening of muscles, weakened breathing, and disruptions to certain bodily systems.
Funny thing is, the same thing bodily reactions could come about from inhaling someone's fart, if the fearful beliefs exist. What results from the experience of either inhaling exhaust or inhaling a fart can be similar detriments to the health; but they are largely based on our reactions.
Take my personal story with COVID:
Speaking from personal experience about COVID, I have stuck to the belief that COVID will never affect me and I will never catch it. I was once living in the apartment of my friend and her husband. They both caught COVID around the same time, and given how in close proximity we are to each other on a daily basis, she was certain I would get it. The night she tested positive and I began to sleep, I felt a sickness coming on me. It sparked a fear response, and I thought "Oh no, it's coming into me". I then decided to stick to my faith and proclamation, "I'll never get it." I chose faith, and immediately felt it leave my body. Much to the confusion and amazement of my friend.
Believing in the power of faith, I've never gotten the sickness. Now with what I know, I realize that every time I get sick (which is rare), I can attribute it to some negative thinking or misguided belief. Sickness really does start from the mind, and if we think it starts with an outside influence coming in, we must remember that the mind is what allows or prohibits its entry, and determines how our bodies will react.
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