There
is a great power in your mind. For a practical example, think about
patients in controlled drug studies who are given placebo pills.
There is a scientific evidence of a placebo effect that takes place
when patients believe that they are receiving helpful medicine.
Their bodies respond as if they are being given the medicine, but
in actuality, the pills have no healing capabilities.
They
are affected only because of the power of their mind. They believed whole-heartedly
in what they were being told. They took the pills and expected them to work, and
even though they did not include any chemical factors, the placebo pills produced
results. The belief that was imbedded in the patients subconscious became real.
Now, not many of
us will ever be part of a blind drug study, but we do have the same mind power
that produces the placebo effect. We can create anything that our mind can
conceive, as long as we have the belief. This is the true power of the mind.
How
can we make use of this incredible power? The first step is to believe that
"you can." Our minds are capable of healing, adapting, growing,
changing and producing. We simply have to have the belief and conviction that
we can achieve these things. We must continuously send positive thoughts and visualizations
into our mind.
Just
like marathon runner cannot perform his or her best by eating junk food, we cannot
run our minds properly without the proper thought nutrition. Negative thoughts
and dis-empowering beliefs will cause us to lose our mind power.
Since
the mind creates whatever beliefs that you give it, beliefs about poverty, stupidity
and sorrow will result in poverty, stupidity and sorrow. Monitor your thoughts
carefully, and put yourself on a "diet" of positive thought.