Joyful Lady
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What if
What if you don't know what you don't know?
"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the
greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most
obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of
conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which
they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by
thread, into the fabric of their lives." -Tolstoy
"It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative
scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the
preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible. When
this happens, the most well-informed men become blinded by their
prejudices and are unable to see what lies directly ahead of them."
- Arthur C. Clarke, 1963
I do not know the answers you seek. I do wish you well. I do know that many illnesses are cured by shifts in thought processes. One book I can recommend (Remarkable
Recoveries) describes many
case studies of individuals sent home to die, some with only 24 hours expected and
many with less than 3 months. A common factor with many of the unexplainable
healings was a shift (to a more empowered mindset) in perspective.
I also know that positive psychology has shown that the risk of developing heart disease is 50% less in individuals who are chronically positively focused and optimistic.
Positivity and Optimism also have preventative impacts on cancers, Type II diabetes,
stroke and many more illnesses, including the common cold and flu. It has been clearly
and repeatedly proven that our immune systems function better when we are happier.
So, with what I do know, from copious research across many fields, is that the mind
(state of mind) does have an impact on the body. This is not about casting blame or
saying it is "all in the mind" because the thoughts of the mind clearly impact what
happens to the body. I also know that much of the way we are taught to think and
things society encourages are counter-productive to what we now know about what are the healthiest ways to think. I am not now, or ever, interested in fixing blame. That is
not going in the direction of solving problems. What I am interested in is
cross-pollination of ideas, concepts, and theories from diverse fields that may impact
one another.
There is no shame in manifesting an illness in ones body by the thoughts one thinks or
perspectives one has assumed, whether the mind was the sole cause or just a
contributing factor (as in an immune system weakened by negativity). It is not as if
there is even one person alive on the planet that has figured it out fully -- what
perspectives promote health and which are counter to it. We are all products of our
environments to some extent or another. Some are learning to question many of the
false premises we were taught in school about how things work -- not taught
incorrectly to fool us but because they did not know better at that time.
We think we know so much now but there is so much we do not know. Some of the
circulatory systems in the body were only discovered in the last 50 years. The
emotional response system is just now struggling to be recognized in the scientific
community - I hope a paper will soon be published on it.
We are far from knowing all.
What if you don't know what you don't know?
"Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there
ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of
occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always
proves more easy to ignore than to attend to... Anyone will renovate his
science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when
science is renewed, its new formulas often have more of the voice of the
exceptions in them than of what were supposed to be the rules."
- William James
"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the
greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most
obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of
conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which
they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by
thread, into the fabric of their lives." -Tolstoy
"It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative
scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the
preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible. When
this happens, the most well-informed men become blinded by their
prejudices and are unable to see what lies directly ahead of them."
- Arthur C. Clarke, 1963
I do not know the answers you seek. I do wish you well. I do know that many illnesses are cured by shifts in thought processes. One book I can recommend (Remarkable
Recoveries) describes many
case studies of individuals sent home to die, some with only 24 hours expected and
many with less than 3 months. A common factor with many of the unexplainable
healings was a shift (to a more empowered mindset) in perspective.
I also know that positive psychology has shown that the risk of developing heart disease is 50% less in individuals who are chronically positively focused and optimistic.
Positivity and Optimism also have preventative impacts on cancers, Type II diabetes,
stroke and many more illnesses, including the common cold and flu. It has been clearly
and repeatedly proven that our immune systems function better when we are happier.
So, with what I do know, from copious research across many fields, is that the mind
(state of mind) does have an impact on the body. This is not about casting blame or
saying it is "all in the mind" because the thoughts of the mind clearly impact what
happens to the body. I also know that much of the way we are taught to think and
things society encourages are counter-productive to what we now know about what are the healthiest ways to think. I am not now, or ever, interested in fixing blame. That is
not going in the direction of solving problems. What I am interested in is
cross-pollination of ideas, concepts, and theories from diverse fields that may impact
one another.
There is no shame in manifesting an illness in ones body by the thoughts one thinks or
perspectives one has assumed, whether the mind was the sole cause or just a
contributing factor (as in an immune system weakened by negativity). It is not as if
there is even one person alive on the planet that has figured it out fully -- what
perspectives promote health and which are counter to it. We are all products of our
environments to some extent or another. Some are learning to question many of the
false premises we were taught in school about how things work -- not taught
incorrectly to fool us but because they did not know better at that time.
We think we know so much now but there is so much we do not know. Some of the
circulatory systems in the body were only discovered in the last 50 years. The
emotional response system is just now struggling to be recognized in the scientific
community - I hope a paper will soon be published on it.
We are far from knowing all.