Mindhacks

by Burt Goldman

It was Amy who had come to me hoping that I could help with her problem. She wanted me to Alphatize her and wave a magic wand so that her depression would go away. I told her that I didn’t have a wand but that sometimes trance worked so well it almost seems like magic.

Alphatize: A method of relaxing a person into the alpha area of mind that is similar to meditation and hypnosis but is neither. More like an alpha trance.

Alphasis: A descriptive term that denotes the art of putting a person into an alpha trance.

Before using Alphasis I asked her a question our of curiosity. “How do you get depressed?”

“What do you mean how? I just do.” She looked at me and raised her eyebrows. “I think it’s chemical.”

“No, it ‘s more than that. Oh I know it could be chemical. But let’s find out. Whether you realize it or not you use a process for depression. If you can figure out what the process is, I will teach you how to reverse it so you become un-depressed.

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Adam is a 19-year-old high school student in Vancouver, Canada who seems to possess energetic healing power.

On July 13 2006, ABC News Primetime ran an hour-long special report on this amazing young man. You can view the full show by following the links below.

You can view the entire documentary from the links below.  The documentary has been broken in 5 smaller and is viewable from Youtube.com.

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What you believe to be, is. As simple as that and as complex, for once you understand that statement, freedom is yours.

A belief is mental acceptance of something as being true. That acceptance can be based on trust for an authority, on reason, or on prejudice. A belief can also be a thing that has been programmed or conditioned by outside agencies so that the acceptance is not supported by reason but acted on nevertheless as though the thing were totally reliable.

Belief is a powerful force. There are occurrences, nicely documented by Deirdre Davis Brigham in her excellent work, ‘Imagery for Getting Well,’ (W.W. Norton & Co. 1994,) that substantiate the idea that believing in a thing often brings it about.

She notes that in cases of multiple personality it is not uncommon for one personality to have diabetes, and a second or third personality, of the same person, who displays a normal production of insulin and blood sugar showing no signs of the disease at all. Another case noted is that of personality number one who had a case of the flu with all its attending symptoms, difficulty in breathing, congested chest, running nose, and laryngitis. When personality number two came out all the symptoms disappeared in just about six seconds. No congestion, no running nose, no symptoms of the flu. Same body, two different beliefs.

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For decades, Dalia Isicoff has suffered the agony of rheumatoid arthritis—joint pain, spinal fusion, multiple hip surgeries. Painkillers dull the aches, but it wasn’t until she took a course at the University of Maryland’s Center for Integrative Medicine that Isicoff discovered a powerful weapon inside her own body: her mind. Using a meditative practice called Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, or MBSR, Isicoff learned to acknowledge her pain, rather than fight it. Her negative and debilitating thought patterns—"This is getting worse," "I’m going to end up in a wheelchair"—began to dissipate, and she was able to cut back on her medication.

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Doctors are finding that many people manage to get cured when they are given fake medication, called placebos, which usually consist of nothing more than sugar pills or distilled water, and then told by their doctors that they were taking real medication.

There is no explanation for why the placebo effect works, except that somehow, the patient’s belief that they are getting cured triggers some sort of self-healing ability within the patient. The placebo effect is probably the best-documented way in which the mind is known to affect the body.

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In  1950, a new drug called Krebiozen had received sensational national publicity as a “cure” for cancer and was being tested by the American Medical Association (AMA) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). One of the researchers involved in this testing was a doctor called Bruno Klopfer.

One of Dr. Klopfer’s patients, a Mr. Wright was suffering from cancer of the lymph nodes. All standard treatments had been exhausted, and Wright appeared to have little time left.  His neck, armpits, chest, abdomen, and groin were filled with tumors the size of oranges, and his spleen and liver were so enlarged that two quarts of milky fluid had to be drained out of his body each day.

The following story will challenge your idea of just how much your mind influences your body.

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