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"What your mind believes, your body becomes"
Your beliefs are the conclusions you’ve come to about yourself (including your body), other people and world you live in. Your beliefs exist in your unconscious mind, automatically guiding you through your day-to-day life. They help you to make sense of and respond to the events and environments you encounter. Most of your beliefs are formed in your mind by age 6, which is incredible, considering how much they can impact your body for the rest of your life.
Your beliefs can have an impact the messages sent between your brain and your body. Amazingly, it has been found that your beliefs have the power to influence many aspect of your physical functioning, including digestion, immune system, blood pressure and even your DNA. In a very real way, your beliefs become your biology.
The power of your mind
In one scientific study, patients were given morphine for serious pain for three days and on the fourth day the morphine was secretly swapped for a simple saltwater solution. However, despite not receiving any morphine whatsoever, the patients experienced the same levels of pain relief as they had during the previous three days. The patient’s belief alone had stopped the pain.
There have also been well documented cases of multiple-personality individuals whereby one of the occupying personalities believed he/she had perfect eye sight and required no glasses and the other believed that he/she could not see properly and was nearly blind without artificial correction. In such cases, the personality in dominance at any given time determined how well the person’s physical eyes work. The same has also been found in other cases where one personality is seriously allergic to oranges whereby the other personality can drink orange juice without any adverse physical affects.
Your beliefs can shape your body
Apparent miracles like these are possible because your body is designed to follow the orders given to it by your brain. In fact, the individual cells that make up your body are highly intelligent and are able to adjust themselves to the environment in which they exist. Your brain interprets the external environment, based upon your beliefs, and then tells your individual cells what adjustments they need to make in order to best survive in the environment.
The implications of this are massive when it comes to you taking charge of the shape, weight and health of your body. If you want to change your body it can be highly beneficial to change any beliefs that could be negatively impacting your body.
In a nutshell...
Due to the mind-body connection, whatever your mind believes, perceives and experiences has the potential of getting sent to the rest of your body causing physical responses. Immediate mind-body connection responses include getting a red face when embarrassed, your mouth watering when you think of a food you love or experiencing butterflies in your stomach when you’re anxious about something. But the impacts of the mind-body connection don’t stop there. Many health problems, including gradual weight gain can be more subtle examples of the mind-body connection in action. I believe by overcoming the hidden mental and emotional causes you can more easily create and enjoy the body you want, for life!
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