What is Self-Healing?What? We don’t need Doctors, or Hospitals, or expensive drugs? We don’t need healthy diets, or regular exercise, or Chiropractic adjustments?

Not exactly. Self-healing does not dismiss the importance of medical treatment, especially for acute injury or illness. And beneficial practices like exercise and a healthy lifestyle are excellent complements to Self-healing. However, at its core, Self-healing refers to activating the innate ability our bodies possess to heal themselves, through the use of powerful, self-applied Mind-Tools.

As you have noticed, when you cut a finger or bruise your knee, your body heals itself. Antibiotics don’t heal you, they just weaken the bacteria. Your immune system must kill and remove them. Similarly, the cast on your broken arm just prevents movement from disrupting the repair, and the surgeon who removes a cancer just removes an impediment. In every case, the body must repair the damage to its tissues.

Consider this: our bodies are intricately designed to repair and restore themselves, eagerly engaging in the healing process unless there are obstacles hindering this innate capacity. Sometimes, these obstacles are physical. Excessive consumption of alcohol, drugs, or unhealthy foods can impede the body’s healing mechanisms. At other times, the hindrances are emotional. Emotions such as grief, rage, frustration, and anxiety can negatively impact the immune system and other vital processes, leaving our bodies vulnerable to infections and illnesses. Remarkably, research has revealed that many, perhaps most, diseases, including the top five killers, are strongly linked to stress.

Claude Bernard and HomeostasisIn the late 1800s, two prominent doctors presented contrasting theories about the causes of disease. Louis Pasteur, well known for developing Pasteurization to kill bacteria in milk, taught that diseases resulted from being invaded by external organisms. Conversely, Claude Bernard proposed that the primary factor in disease development was the loss of homeostasis—a balanced state within the body’s internal environment.

Studies in the new field of neuroscience harken back to Bernard’s theory, confirming that certain thoughts, self-talk, beliefs, and emotions we generate have a profoundly negative impact on our health and functioning. The stress from these factors significantly disrupts our body’s homeostasis, leaving us vulnerable to physical diseases, mental illnesses, poor health habits, addictions, and even strained relationships. A considerable portion, or even most, of our sickness and unhappiness, can be traced back to these imbalances. Our ways of thinking, reacting, speaking, and behaving block our healing and wellness!

In other words, science is proving the value of Self-healing. By intentionally engaging in self-healing practices, we can first learn and utilize specific Mind-Tools to melt away our stress into deep relaxation and meditation states. Next, through Guided Imagery and Mental Image Rehearsal, we can reshape our thinking patterns and transform our reactions to challenging stimuli. Moreover, these same tools can now be used to create healing imagery that addresses past wounds and programs in a future filled with optimal health.

And this entire process is relaxing, enjoyable, empowering, and energizing. Self-healing is a holistic approach to well-being that will empower you to tap into your inner healing potential. Take an active role in your health by promoting the mind-body connection and unlocking the immense power within you to rejuvenate, restore, and thrive.

What is Healing?

Healing means becoming more whole, more able to accomplish what you wish to accomplish, and more able to enjoy your life. This wholeness may involve the healing of a physical wound, an emotional disturbance, a maladaptive behavior (rage, addiction, shyness), or conflictual relationships.

Healing is an active, living process. You can learn how to heal yourself. Medicines, supplements, surgery, exercise – they help but are only support for the self-healing process. Antibiotics can weaken a bacterium, but only your immune system can actually kill and get rid of it. Studies show the single most important thing you can do is to learn to create mental and physical relaxation and balance. These, along with guided imagery, meditation, self-hypnosis, and prayer are very potent mind tools for getting you well and keeping you well.

Patient, Heal ThyselfSelf-healing refers to the things you can do to cause your internal system to function better and heal you faster and more thoroughly. Self-healing involves behaving wisely, tuning into the true needs of your body, mind, spirit, and soul and making wise choices – to eat the right way, exercise the right way, and get the right amount of sleep. Learn deep relaxation for ten or twenty minutes each day, three times a day if you want even better results.

During this time focus on peace, harmony, beauty, love, and other similar experiences. Meditation, prayer, and other deep relaxation techniques will help you eliminate distractions. During this time, allow yourself to feel completely accepting of yourself, exactly as you are and accepting the world just as it is at this moment – after all, it cannot at this moment be any different from how it is at this moment!

Fill your mind with the things you feel grateful that you have to feel and experience in your life. Give thanks and feel the gratitude in your body. Visualize your body healing itself and becoming more whole and functional. Then picture yourself as completely well, happy and healthy. That’s the key to the secrets of self-healing! Just remember to do it several times a day.

Self Healing StressStress is a very important part of most of our illnesses. Some it causes, others it makes worse. Physical tension and mental/emotional stress produce disordered (incoherent) neural impulses in the nerves and circulate stress chemicals in the body that cause, for example:

• • • Emotional imbalance (anxiety, irritability, anger, depression, unhappiness) - Mental dysfunction, (low creativity, insomnia, procrastination, attention deficit) - Behavioral disorders, (drinking, smoking, eating) - Chronic stress over a long period actually shrinks the brain, killing neurons by the millions - Muscle pain and dysfunction, (backache and headache, muscle tension, elevated blood pressure, colonic disorders) - Inflammation, (tendonitis, arthritis, GI problems)

Deeply relaxed states re-balance the system. Most imbalances and disorders, (illnesses, dysfunctions, symptoms, or diseases) are either caused or made worse, by physical tension and mental/emotional stress. Deep Relaxation is the direct antidote to stress and is thus widely used in self-healing techniques.

So, to help speed up your healing, be certain to wisely guide the mind, its thoughts, and emotions, to function in a way that is congruent with the healing process you want to facilitate. In other words, be the change you want to create.

How to Heal YourselfYou can learn how to heal yourself! In fact, you are the only one who can.The right food, the right exercise, the right medications, the right relationships -all these can help support your healing process, but not unless you intentionally cause them to. Your conscious, intentional mind (which is separate from, though connected to, your subconscious mind and nervous system) is the key to your self-healing.

The process is simple, actually.

1. First, you need to understand the process with your intellect, the part capable of critical thinking that realizes the value of evidence-based reasoning.
2. The next step in healing any system is that the system becomes aware of its identity as a system. For you, this means freeing yourself from distraction and focusing on who you are, your true values, purpose, goals, and vision.
3. Third, you learn how to read the signals and messages that come from within and how to balance your system — physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Fortunately, you can learn to do this in a remarkably short period of time using the powerful Mind Tools Dr. Miller has developed. These tools can help you to reach a very pleasant state of deep relaxation and meditation, bringing you into the present, emptying your mind of distractions and your body of toxins, and preparing the cells of your body to receive your self-healing instructions.

Another very valuable tool for self-healing is guided imagery. This process involves holding specific healing imagery in the mind while in the receptive “Healing State.” This results in relief of stress, and the activation of your unconscious healing and corrective processes are mobilized. In a very real sense, you are “reprogramming” your mind and rewiring your brain. Your goal is to restore internal coherence and balance, and thus to help heal your body, emotions, mind, and behavior.

Each time you repeat these experiences, you are re-scripting your body, your emotional state, and how you will respond in future situations. You will discover this is a powerful way to mentally rehearse, through guided imagery, your desired behaviors of mind and body, much as athletes or actors mentally rehearse their performances.

These new behaviors may have to do with modifying how the internal organs of your body operate, how you talk to yourself, your personal habits, how you interact with others, etc. Diet, exercise, rest, prayer, meditation, and other modalities of re-balancing the system may be needed, but all these require us to change our mental behavior in order to apply them. Thus, the mind-body axis is always primary in healing yourself.

The Six Steps of Self Healing with Guided Imagery Audio1. Education — Obtain as much accurate information as possible about health and healing. Learn as much about your constitution and about your condition, the symptoms, etiology, and therapy, including the role of stress, diet, emotions, and exercise. Learn about the different options for treating your condition. To begin your education consider reading about Mind-Body Medicine. 2. Relaxation — Deep Relaxation is essential for rapid healing because it is the direct antidote to stress. In addition, relaxation empties your mind of distractions, and thus allows you to self-program new, more desirable self-healing behaviors — both at the visible (macroscopic) level and in the microscopic behavior of the cells of your body. Deep relaxation is also the key to programming mind and body for peak performance in any endeavor — sports, profession, or personal life (yes, even sexual). 3. Entering “The Healing State” — Here the mind is open to re-scripting and the body accepts new healthy images and emotions. Re-scripting is a powerful way to mentally rehearse desired behaviors of the mind and body, much as athletes or actors mentally rehearse their performances. These guided imagery & meditation CDs and MP3 downloads will teach you to do this through simple, logical, straightforward, and highly enjoyable guided imagery experiences. The experience and your ability to use the Healing State becomes progressively more powerful with a few minutes a day of pleasurable practice. 4. Forming Powerful, Transformative, Healing Images—Intentional mental imagery through Selective Awareness — Software For The Mind — allows you to make a commitment to healing yourself by directly influencing the behavior of the cells of your body (e.g., the immune system), initiating and sustaining health-producing behaviors, (exercise, diet, non-abuse of alcohol or drugs, quit smoking), and produce a health-sustaining self-image. This inner image serves to change the behavior at every level of the mind-body system. 5. Rehearsing These Images Daily — Reprogramming your mind is actually retraining the mind. Just as you might practice musical scales or typing in order to improve, the regular practice of the appropriate imagery trains the brain, the nervous system, and the immune system to easily carry out the desired changes. Your goal is to restore internal coherence and balance and thus to help heal the body, emotions, mind, and behavior. 6. Reinforcing Positive Changes — Reward your mind for responding to your entreaties so that the new behaviors prevail. Take yourself out for dinner, to a ball game, or a movie, for instance. Or take time off to be with loved ones. Self-Healing Audios & Videos:* Power of Your Mind to Manage Stress and Heal Your Body (Video Download)$15.98 * Resist and Prevent Viral Infection (Download)$14.98 * Creating Your Island of Peace Meditation (Download)$3.99 * Change The Channel On Pain (CD or Download)$14.98 – $24.98 * Cancer Support And Education Self Help Manual And Workbook: By Emmett Miller MD & Maggie Creighton (PDF Download)$9.99 * Letting Go Of Stress (CD or Download)$14.98 – $24.98 * Deep Healing, The Essence of Mind-Body Medicine (Book or Audiobook)$9.95 – $12.95 Search for Your Symptom or IssueSchedule Coaching/Therapy Session