Four Beliefs that Keep You Sick

Your thoughts affect your health. What you think matters for your body will respond to your thoughts. That is how powerful your mind-body connection is, so let's learn more about how to harness this power to your benefit and learn about thoughts that may be holding you back from the health you want.

1 - I Will Get Sick Whenever Someone Sneezes or Coughs Near Me 

Many people believe this belief is based on science, but it is not. It is a fear-based belief. Science proves that if you are healthy and come in contact with a germ, you may or may not get sick based on your immune system is strength. This is why there are silent carriers of germs. If your immune system is healthy, a virus can come in contact with your body and not attach itself, and the body can get rid of it without any symptoms. The pathway of a virus in a healthy body is virus in, virus out, without disrupting the body's health. Many people don't realize this is true, so when someone seems sick around them, they get nervous and feed the fear that they, too, will get sick. The fear and stress of this belief send out stress hormones from the brain to the body and lower the immune system. It is this response to fear that can allow someone to get sick.

2 - Guilt

Louis Hay is the author of positive affirmations that support our mental and physical health and allow us to create the life we want. In her book You Can Heal Your Life, she writes, "Guilt is a totally useless emotion. It never makes anyone feel better, nor does it change a situation." I wouldn't say it's a useless emotion, but it is an emotion that lets you know there is a need for self-forgiveness in order to let go of a low-vibrating emotion. It is useless to hold onto guilt. When you forgive yourself, your perception changes and the guilt is no longer needed. 

Also, in a different book, Feelings Buried Alive Never Die, I learned that holding onto guilt causes cancer in the body. If your internal dialogue contains any 'should' statements, know that you are holding onto guilt. I should have done this, or maybe I should have done that. Ruminating about the past or worrying about the future will not help you. The only thing that will help is letting go of both the past and future so that your energy can be in the present moment. 

3 - Fear

When we feed our fear, it causes stress in our bodies. These stress hormones lower the immune system, making our bodies vulnerable to disease. Our sympathetic nervous system gets turned on when we feel fear. It's the fight, flight, or freeze response. If it does not turn off and we keep feeding our fear, our body stays stuck in this fight, flight, or freeze response, wasting a lot of energy and making us chronically tired. When we are stuck in this fear response, we also don't sleep well and become even more tired. 

4 - All-or-nothing Thinking

This type of thinking is seen in statements that use absolute terms such as always, never, completely, perfectly. This type of thinking puts too much pressure on you and creates a stress response in the body that you may not even be aware of. If you think things have to be a certain way for you to be happy or safe, it's that wanting to control situations or people that is detrimental to your mental and physical health. Control is an illusion anyway, so give it up to the Higher Power. Demanding people and situations to be a certain way does not leave room for the middle ground, but healing happens in the middle. Healing cannot happen when thoughts and actions are too controlling, polar, or extreme. 

So, what do you do with these beliefs? 

You own them. You have to be aware of the mental stress you are causing on the body if you want to heal. Be aware of your fear, guilt, discomfort when someone coughs, and desire to control things because you think you know best. All of these emotions make us unhappy, both mentally and physically. You need to know your body will follow where the mind is. Your mind is the control center; if you believe it, your body will manifest it. So know that when you are feeling these negative feelings, or any negative feelings, you are having a psychological hangover from past experiences. Something happened to you that caused you to have these beliefs, but these events are from the past. You have to own your reaction to the past trauma. You must realize you are not reacting to the present moment but to the trauma of what happened in the past. Every time you bring the past into the present moment, you choose to relive it. Know that you have another choice. You can think different thoughts. 

You have to become aware of what you are doing. No more jumping to conclusions, worse-case scenarios, or rabbit holes of negative thinking. No more feeling a symptom in your body and automatically thinking it must be cancer or some other fatal disease. You have to learn to own your reactions and your thoughts because no matter what you do, you will never get away from them. Learn to watch your thoughts and change your health. This mind-body connection can be used to heal. 

Robert Holden, a great self-help author, taught me this summer at his Hero's Journey Retreat in Scotland with his wife, Hollie Holden, that joy is not the opposite of sadness and pain, but it is something that can meet and embrace your sadness and pain. In this way, once you become aware of your thoughts and feelings, you can change your thinking or feelings by using the higher vibrating feelings to absorb the negative feelings. Don't disown the negative feelings. Don't suppress the negative feelings, but feel them. Feeling them means you can change them by meeting them with some form of love. If you are angry, feel the anger. In feeling it, you can analyze it and understand its root cause. Knowing where it is coming from can bring healing. This knowledge can lead to bringing anger to love. 

Sometimes, though, we get stuck. No matter how hard we try, we know we are holding onto fear, guilt, or control and can't see our way through it. This is where Healing Arts comes in. We have two different techniques in the office to help people with emotions: Emotional Release and Psych-K. These techniques help by changing your negative beliefs into positive ones to create the life you want and get stuck emotions out of the body for healing to occur. In this way, you can let go of guilt, fear, or anything else that no longer serves you.

Emotional Release is a muscle-testing technique we use to release emotions that are stuck in the body. We do this by using magnets. Candace Pert, author of Molecules of Emotion, writes about how emotions are energy in motion, e-motion, and how they set off a biochemical reaction in the body. This chemical reaction can continue in the body long after the original emotional event occurs. If you have anxiety, depression, PTSD, or feel like you might be in denial of your emotions, this is a good technique for you. We will muscle test 90 different emotions in homeopathic vials, and the body's biofeedback will tell us which emotions to release and in what organ they are stuck. We then put the magnet on the organ where it is stuck and then run the other magnet down the spine to release the stuck emotion and reset the nervous system.

Psych-K is another muscle testing technique that gets subconscious beliefs out of your way. Emotional Release works with the body, and Psych-K works with the mind. If you are stuck in your life due to thoughts that you know are holding you back, Psych-K will help. Also, if there are feelings of not being good enough or not feeling lovable or worthy, Psych-K can change these feelings by changing your thoughts. Psych-K can also help you learn to surrender to what is, and in this way, you won't feel the need to control things.

Both of these techniques help you release and bring your energy and thoughts to the present moment. You are no longer stuck in the past or worried about the future or what-ifs of life. In this present moment, you are the most powerful to make the changes you need to make to live the life you want to and live and heal the mind and body. The healing journey is about embracing the power of now by picking up the pieces of your health, one at a time, so you can live from the powerful present moment in a state where the mind and body connection is strong. With the mind and body in alignment, true healing can happen.