Thoughts from Dr Bruce Lipton – Cell Biologist – the power of the Mind/Body connection

While most of us are aware of the healing influences of the placebo effect, few are aware of its evil twin, the nocebo effect. Just as surely as positive thoughts can heal, negative ones – including the belief we are susceptible to an illness, can actually manifest the undesired realities of those thoughts.

Dr Bruce Lipton - Cell Biologist

Japanese children allergic to a poison ivy-like plant took part in an experiment where a leaf of the poisonous plant was rubbed onto one forearm. As a control, a nonpoisonous leaf resembling the toxic plant was rubbed on the other forearm. As expected almost all of the children broke out in a rash on the arm rubbed with the toxic leaf and had no response to the imposter leaf.  What the children did not know was that the leaves were purposefully mislabeled. The negative thought of being touched by the poisonous plant led to the rash produced by the nontoxic leaf! In the majority of cases, no rash resulted from contact with the toxic leaf that was thought to be the harmless control. The conclusion is simple: positive perceptions enhance health, and negative perceptions precipitate dis-ease. This mind-bending example of the power of belief was one of the founding experiments that led to the science of psychoneuroimmunology.  Perceptions have a tremendous influence in shaping the character and experiences of our lives. They are more influential than positive thinking because they are more than mere thoughts in our minds. Perceptions are beliefs that permeate every cell. Simply, the expression of the body is a complement to the mind’s perceptions, or, in simpler terms, believing is seeing!

Dr Bruce Lipton is a world renowned cell biologist, former University of Wisconsin Medical School professor and Stanford University researcher. Dr.  Lipton has turned his scientific exploration to the integration of mind, body and spirit – how our beliefs affect our health.  Dr Lipton is a popular speaker at Chiropractic Conferences.  Read his book The Biology of Belief it is very illuminating.

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What Are you Thinking?

Cutting-edge science has proven that YOU are the master of your own health.  How empowering is that!

An interesting study was done on hotel maids by Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer. Eighty eight maids were divided into two groups. One group was educated on how much exercise they got when they climbed stairs, made beds and went about their job. The other group was the control group and was told nothing.

By simply telling forty four of the maids that what they did each day involved some serious exercise, Langer was apparently able to lower the women’s blood pressure, shave pounds off their bodies and improve their body-fat and “waist to hip” ratios. Their bodies were doing the same work. Their minds had been simply made to think of it as “exercise”.

Apparently our mind/body responds to images and stimuli whether it is “real” or not and that’s where the value of visualisation comes in and the importance of keeping positive pictures in our minds – especially of our health, but unfortunately most people think sickness, rather than health.  Even if you are healthy, your body can become diseased simply through the inappropriate unconscious control of your mind/emotions.

But with healthy belief systems, you can use your conscious mind to create a life of health, happiness and love and avoid unnecessary drugs and medical interventions.

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When Will I Get The Help I Need?

We have been out in the public talking to people about their health and the health of those they love.  Without doubt, the most common comment we heard was “I have been everywhere, done everything, but still the problem persists!” A little further investigation reveals that in fact “the everything” did not include Chiropractic Care!!

It seems people spend their lives knocking on doors, being sent from pillar to post and back again with no resolution for their health problems.  Unfortunately most  people have been getting the wrong advice!!  We hear time and time again that these same people have been offered drugs to numb or dull their pain.  This does not get to the root cause of the problem.  It just acts like a band aid and the problem is still there.    Often out of fear, surgery is accepted as the only answer, but was there any investigation into what lead to the health problem in the first instance?  What part of the Eat Well, Move Well, Think Well programme was missing?  Very often there is a lot missing.   We can continue to cut bits and pieces from the body and it will continue to adapt – the body is very resilient, but unless the cause of the problem is addressed, general ill health will persist.

The most powerful system of the human body is the Nervous System, which controls and co-ordinates every other cell, tissue, muscle, gland and organ in the entire body.  The Nervous System is housed in the moving bones of the spinal column.  Interferences in the nervous system interrupt vital messages responsible for healing.   At Chiropractic Life we focus on removing those  interferences so that your body can begin to heal naturally.

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