Cosmic Relief:
Healing Through Mental and Spiritual Law

We must learn to love ourselves unconditionally with all of our perceived flaws. Realize that you are perfect in Spirit and you have the right to love yourself just as you have the right to breathe the air and to breathe in the abundance that is circulating in the Universe.

—Marilyn

Can mental and spiritual principles be applied to the healing of physical conditions — to our own or those of our loved ones? Absolutely!      

Disease is actually dis-ease in mind or spirit. The body is an outer reflection of what is going on within. Now it doesn’t mean you have to necessarily know what is going on. Yes, it can be at an unconscious level. It may be the result of faulty patterns in the subconscious. It can be temporary or it can be chronic. But the body and mind are not separate entities. Our bodies, minds and emotions are one. The body reflects our mental and emotional state. It is our mirror. And we can change our reflection.

Mainstream – Finally

Even conventional medicine is now recognizing this more and more – there has been major media exposure over the years in Time, Newsweek and other notable publications. We are seeing this more and more. I once read about case studies done in a San Francisco hospital with cardiac patients — a blind study where half the patients received prayer and the other half did not. The statistics showed there were faster recoveries and a greater survival rate among those prayed for (more on this below). Years ago I read in the news about hospitals that offered “absent prayer” along with conventional medical treatment.

Bernie S. Siegel, MD, www.berniesiegelmd.com, embraces a philosophy that is at the forefront of a society grappling with medical ethics and spiritual issues. His best selling books have broken new ground in the field of healing and include:

Love, Medicine & Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self Healing from a Surgeon’s Experience with Exceptional Patients

Peace, Love & Healing: Bodymind Communication and the Path to Self Healing 

In this excerpt, “How to Heal Yourself,” from his book, Prescriptions for Living, Dr. Siegel states:

“Physicians call the most dramatic healings ‘spontaneous remissions.’ Once we have labeled them, we learn nothing from the people in whom those remissions take place. We cannot afford to ignore these remarkable successes. We are all at risk for a great many diseases, and as the world gets smaller the list of things we are exposed to grows larger. We need to learn from people who recover and people who stay healthy.”

You can read the full chapter here

Dr. O. Carl Simonton, acclaimed oncologist and author, many years ago achieved recognition in the field of oncology and mind/body medicine with his pioneer work with cancer patients. He cured hundreds of cases of terminally ill cancer patients with the use of visual imagery tapes with which the patients visualized “Pac Men” eating up the cancer cells.

His 30 years of groundbreaking work is well documented and has been published extensively. His renowned cancer center in California, www.simontoncenter.com, and his work are well recognized by mainstream medicine and universities. Since that time there have been thousands more healed. His earlier tapes are still available along with the more enhanced modern material. The foundation of his work is based on the belief system of the patient, with or without accompanying medical treatment.

A Personal Teacher

One of my own personal teachers, Champion K. Teutsch, PhD, together with his late wife, Joel Marie Teutsch, became famous when they authored, From Here to Greater Happiness or How to Change Your Life for Good, which permanently changed for good the lives of hundreds of thousands of grateful readers all over the world.

Later, the Teutsches’ masterful presentation entitled Your Right to Perfect Health: Mental and Spiritual Healing Principles and Non-Medical Answers to Cancer, Heart Disease and Other Conditions, included professional secrets of this pioneer couple and outstanding success stories.. Although the books are now out of print, you can read about Champion in this outstanding editorial on Amazon.

When I was seeing him, Champion had his practice in Los Angeles and was chair of the International Human Research Center Sunray in Moscow (a renowned psychology professor at Moscow State University was president and a physicist formerly with the Soviet space program was vice-president). Champion was also Chair of a similar organization in Tel Aviv, Israel. He was certifying professionals and qualified lay persons in the US, Russia and Israel as practitioners of his methodology.

After a lecture and demonstration on a prostate cancer case, he was appointed visiting professor of medicine by the former dean of the University of Florida’s College of Medicine. The dean resigned shortly after meeting Champion to devote his energies to alternative or complementary medicine.

Faith and Expectancy

People from all over the world go to Lourdes, France to step into the “holy water” and spontaneous healings are legendary. How? Someone steps into the Fountain of Lourdes and their faith and expectancy produces a reaction in the subconscious mind, which has the perfect memory of every cell in their body. And a healing is produced.

I attended a class about 20 years ago — a New Thought class. A young woman and her husband also attended this class, which was based on changing our words and thoughts and applying affirmations to manifest our desires. This woman had been given six months to live. A few months later, our entire class went country western dancing and I watched in fascination as this woman and her husband were having one heck of a time two stepping. She was completely healed.

Now if people with serious life-threatening illnesses can somehow be healed through mental “adjustments,” then does it not stand to reason that less serious conditions can be overcome even more easily?

Types of Healing

Now, when we are learning to use mental and spiritual principles for health and healing, we are not ignoring medical or nutritional intervention. When we apply these principles, healings can occur in two ways:

• Spontaneous– There are spontaneous, natural healings that result when the subconscious mind accepts the healing idea as the dominant thought. The subconscious mind has the perfect memory of every cell in your body and will return those cells to perfection once the “dis-ease” thought has been overcome. Spontaneous healings are the result of your faith, expectation and altered belief patterns —not only consciously but also at a deeper core level. You can learn to create these new patterns that will result in healing.

• Medical/Nutritional/Lifestyle— Your healing may also result when you are guided intuitively to the appropriate medical doctor or other health practitioner, nutritional counseling and treatment and/or lifestyle changes that result in the healing of your condition. Again, this inspired action or guidance results from the shifting of the belief patterns in the subconscious. Once the shift occurs, you will automatically be guided to your solution in the form that is necessary to fulfill your new thought pattern of healing and health. So, that guidance may include being led to any of the numerous channels that are “handpicked” by your subconscious to guarantee your result.

Remember that the subconscious is compulsive in nature. Once it accepts the seed thought of perfect health, it will connect with all the forces in the Universe to create that destiny, in the same way that those creative forces will be attracted to and move on a seed planted in fertile soil to create its destiny as a plant or flower.

So the point here is that anyone who wishes to be healed of an illness or condition and opens their mind to BELIEVE that it is possible, can indeed produce that healing if shown how to influence the subconscious mind to accept the thought of health instead of illness, despite outer appearances. That’s the key — understanding that the inner state creates the outer condition. To impress the subconscious mind with a new image would require an abrupt reversal in your language patterns and thoughts with regard to your illness or condition, but this can be accomplished and often in a much shorter time than you can imagine. There are techniques to speed the process.

Students are attracted to my Feel Free to Prosper prosperity program primarily for financial increase. However, I found that many of my students experienced unexpected healings of physical conditions as they were doing the prosperity work. That’s because you already have all the potential within you to tap into the healing energy of the Universe to renew, rebuild and restore your perfect health. Often just by eliminating the negative patterns in our subconscious of a general nature, we create an opening to our source of guidance to radiant health and vitality.

Following this cue, I eventually added Lesson One Adapted to Health as a free gift with the Feel Free to Prosper program.

An Ounce of Prevention

In the same way, anyone who wishes to prevent any form of illness can also do so using this most valuable asset — an open mind. Using these principles is a tremendously beneficial way to maintain good health even if one has no particular condition to address. I personally conditioned my subconscious to total health, and am able to immediately ward off any sign of impending “invasion.” But I have had a couple of experiences over the years that were extremely enlightening that taught me how shifting my thoughts and reaching the subconscious could bring immediate guidance to the perfect solution. I did have one health glitch but was guided to victory and the perfect medical treatment.

And a Pound of Intervention

If there is any doubt in your mind that our words and consciousness can affect the healing of our bodies or that consciousness can reach out to influence the healing of another person, then you don’t want to miss this part.

Proof that our consciousness can reach out to heal others through “absent” or “distant” healing has been scientifically substantiated. In an early issue of the Feel Free to Prosper Newsletter, I presented a link to a fascinating interview with renowned medical doctor and best-selling author Larry Dossey, MD.

In this interview, he presents strong scientific data suggesting that consciousness works not only on our own bodies, but can impact the bodies of others through distant prayer, even when they are unaware of it.

Following is an excerpt from the  interview…

Chowka: You are the author of five books beginning with Space, Time and Medicine in 1982 through Healing Words, the 1993 New York Times list best seller. How has your thinking and your approach to “alternative medicine” evolved through the five books?

Dossey: The evolution, I think, has to do with the extent and the nature of consciousness on processes, not just in the body, but in the world in general. I first began to explore these issues in terms of the effects of an individual’s consciousness on his or her own body. I was interested, for instance, in meditation and hypnosis. After that, I explored imagery, visualization, and so on.

But more recently it’s become obvious to me that there is strong data suggesting that consciousness works not only in our own bodies, on our own behalf, but consciousness is what I call non-local in the world. It can manifest outside an individual’s body. So when we look at the effects of consciousness we have to go beyond looking at the effects of our mind on our body. Recently my books have explored this expression of consciousness through distant or intercessory prayer, which involves the ability of your consciousness to make an impact on my body at a distance through prayer when I may not even know that you are doing this.

These ideas seem outrageous in the context of modern science but I think that there’s significant experimental evidence that these phenomena in fact takes place and that they’re relevant for health.

Chowka: I want to explore the genesis of your latest book, Healing Words. In an article in Newsday(Dec. 21, 1993) you described how in 1988 you became aware of a study of cardiac patients who had been prayed for. You noted that the outcome of the study, which was randomized and double blinded, was “as if the prayed for group had been given some sort of miracle drug.” According to the Newsday article, this study sent you on an almost five year quest to determine if that study stood alone or if there were others like it.

In 1995 you presided at a conference in New York on “Spirituality and Healing: What is the Connection?” According to he program, you planned to “examine laboratory evidence that there is an aspect of each one of us that is unconfined to points in space and time that appears eternal, immortal, and omnipresent and that corresponds to the ancient idea of the soul.” You also promised to “…look at cases of successful treatments involving prayer and meditation that do not align with any current medical theories.”

In terms of what you started out to look for in 1988, to see if there was more evidence for the healing power of prayer, it would appear that you have found it.

Dossey: When I discovered the study in 1988 showing that if people who were really sick, for instance in the coronary care unit, were prayed for unknown to them, they got better — according to a randomized, controlled, prospective, matched double blind study. I went to the

[scientific] literature. If you do this, you may be shocked at what you can find. There are as many as 150 studies showing, statistically speaking, that there is an effect of distant intercessory prayer.

In Summary…

My sincere wish is that this information will take your health goals to an inspired level and speed you on your journey to wholeness and well-being — our true wealth in life.