Scientific research can come up with few certainties as far as the human body is concerned. Your body is an organism of such subtlety that research seems to make causes and effects less obvious rather than more so. Recently published research by John Hopkins University showed that only a third of cancers are caused by lifestyle or inherited factors. Their controversial conclusion is that two thirds of cancers seem to be random.

So where does that leave us? While medical definitions of imbalances in both the mind and body proliferate, and pharmaceutical products to correct those imbalances are constantly being researched and produced, the body you possess is constantly defying those certainties. While I accept gratefully the modern advances in surgery and pharmacy for use in emergency, I would like to point out that you already possess the most sophisticated tool known for correcting any ailment you suffer from. That tool is your mind.

I am a professional healer as well as the author of Change Your Mind Heal Your Body. This book is the story of how I came to this understanding: that your consciousness has more power over your physical reality than anything else. You can use this consciousness to change not only your own physical reality, but that of others also. Helping to bring about this change in others is the nature of a healer’s work.

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The Shock and the Shift

I have not always thought like this. For most of my life I shared the conventional educated outlook of a British journalist. I was a producer for the BBC, able to satisfy my curiosity and concern for society by investigating its problems for current affairs documentaries. This was all fine until I had a major problem of my own.

In my mid-forties, I began suffering from severe headaches and double vision. One morning, I found myself lying on a stretcher, rigid with pain, as the ambulance I was in screamed past my daughters’ school on the way to the hospital. Over the next few years, headaches that completely disabled me recurred without warning. After each episode, I managed to recover and, quite literally, put them out of my mind. I went back to life as it had been before and ignored these signals, despite the fact that I was also experiencing double vision which I and my doctors regarded as a separate issue. So it was a profound shock when I was called to what I thought was a routine appointment at the hospital and told that I had a brain tumor, and it would have to ‘come out.’

The story of this tumor and the discoveries it ushered into my life, as well as the means and tools through which it ultimately disappeared, is the story that I tell in my book. I chose to write the story, not because I believed my illness and recovery to be unique; quite the contrary. I know many people who have used these tools to overcome illnesses considered ‘fatal’. However, I wanted to explain healing and help people understand that it is frequently a ‘process’. In my case it was a journey of eight years.

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The Technique That Changed My Life

So what were these tools I used? I was saved from serious surgery by the experts’ confusion. My consultant told me the tumor was growing with one branch of my carotid artery wrapped around it, so he couldn’t operate or even biopsy it. I remained in a state of confusion, with the tumor and the symptoms growing, for about 18 months. This, as I look back on it now, was my first piece of luck. The doctors’ inability to act without causing me greater harm gave me time to learn to perceive and deal with the power of my own emotions. In the depths of misery and despair, I discovered a process that I call ‘old wounds meditation’, which allowed me to strip back down to childhood feelings and release them. I was astonished to discover how ‘fresh’ these feeling were when I explored the memories that contained them, but even more astonished to find how powerful the changes that came about in my life once I deliberately let these old feelings go.

The second great gift of the doctors’ confusion was that I was forced to explore alternatives, which is what led me to healing. I tried many forms of alternative treatment: diet, herbal supplements, acupuncture, reiki, among others. Most of them had at least a short-lived perceptible effect but the one that changed my life was the Body Mirror System of Healing developed by late Sir Martin Brofman.

Re-balancing Your Energy

Body Mirror System uses the energy that appears to the healer in the healee’s chakras as a code that tells the story of the person’s emotional reaction to the experiences of their life. Its power lies in the extraordinary accuracy with which your body retains your emotional decisions, sometimes showing decisions that you made in the womb, or at birth. A Body Mirror healer will re-balance your energy and feed information from your unconscious self back to you so that you can use the power of your conscious mind to make different decisions that will suit you better. This feedback puts you in charge of your healing and, where your body is concerned, there is no greater power.

The technique takes its name from the perception that the universe we perceive is a mirror of our consciousness, and our perceptions are expressed in our bodies. Our bodies are talking to us all the time, showing us the consequences of our unconscious decisions. A healer acts as a mirror to your consciousness, bringing also the energy to help you return to your whole self.

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The Journey Towards My Total Healing

When I went to see Martin for a healing, I recognized my life in his comments, but I was startled when he declared the brain tumor was the result of not doing what I wanted to do in my life and revealed tension in my relationship with my father. No one knew about this tension better than me but I had dismissed it as a childhood story I had outgrown. The regular MRI scans showed no change at first, but my inner conviction that I was going to get better by this means grew. I continued to explore and release my feelings, and changed my life to reflect what I wanted to do. This included leaving my job and learning to become a healer. And I took time to visualize my complete recovery, regularly, every day.

A year later the MRI showed a barely perceptible weakening in the shape of the tumor. I was triumphant, to the bewilderment of my family. A year after that, the MRI showed a distinct collapse in the form of the tumor, like the shape of a sail when the wind goes out of it. I knew the result long before I saw it on the scan, because now I was listening to my body. I carried on healing, and writing, and designing my beautiful life. Four years later I returned for another scan, just to make sure I was not deluding myself. I was well with no symptoms, but even so I was nervous when I went to see the scan. The consultant looked hard. Eventually he found a tiny bump, no larger than the tip of my little finger. I was joyful. The tumor had disappeared without surgery or any pharmaceutical intervention. This drama was over for good.

Excerpted with permission from Change Your Mind Heal Your Body published by Watkins Publishing

This was first published in the February 2015 issue of Complete Wellbeing.

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It is as if there is a bubble around each of us. Some of the information coming through this bubble is filtered to the surface and presented to our conscious attention to be noticed. The rest does not register consciously, but travels through the bubble and is stored at deeper levels of our consciousness. Our ideas, beliefs, desires, and feelings colour the bubble filtering our perceptions; so much so that people with different bubbles looking at the same thing can have totally different perceptions of what they are watching.

Purple bubble

A person in a red bubble, for example, will see the world as red, while a person in a blue bubble will see it as blue, and we can imagine the conversation between these two discussing the colour of the world. From a certain point of view, they are both correct about what they report, and all of their perceptions affirm their truth. Yet from another point of view, perhaps neither perception represents objective reality. Perhaps the world is neither red nor blue. All that we know to be true for sure is that one person sees it as red and another as blue, so we have a sense of the nature of each of the bubbles, each of the filters. In this way, we have a basis for communication and exchange of ideas.

While we each may see the same events in the outer world, our respective bubbles colour our interpretation of these events. Looking at our interpretation can give us an idea of the nature of our own beliefs and perceptions, since it is these that ‘colour’ our bubbles. Someone believing that competition and conflict are universal will see only that, while someone else may just as clearly see that the world is full of people motivated by love and expressing it, and sometimes reacting to the perception that it is not there.

Creating our own reality

It is easy to see how our perceptions can then predispose us to acting in certain ways that not only play into the apparent scenario we perceive, but actually create and continue it. A man insecure about his lover, for example, can actually drive away that lover with his insecurities, justifying his perceptions, proving that he was right, yet at the same time, having created the scenario in the first place.

There’s a story about a man whose car had a flat tyre, not far from a farmhouse in a remote farming community. The man thought, “There’s a farmhouse. I’m sure that they have tools that I can use to fix the flat tyre.”

As he walked toward the farmhouse, he thought, “It will be really helpful to me to use those tools. I can be generous, and give the farmer 10 dollars to use the tools. I’m sure he will appreciate that.”

As he walked farther, he thought, “This is really remote, and we’re far from any other civilisation. If that farmer wanted to charge me 25 dollars to use his tools, I would have to pay it.”

Farther along, he thought, angrily, “We’re really deserted here. If that farmer wanted to charge me 50 dollars to use his tools, I would have no choice but to pay it!”

By the time he reached the farmhouse, knocking on the door, he was really furious, and as the farmer opened the door, the man yelled at the farmer, “So, how much are you going to charge me to use your tools, you thief?”

So we can see how the man, predisposed to acting in certain ways, not only played into the apparent scenario he perceived, but actually created it.

Fulfilling desires

When we talk about our perceptions creating our reality, we are talking not only of our perceptual filters, but also the way things happen. This means that even apparently physical cause-and-effect relationships are different in different realities, in different paradigms.

For example, those wanting to become thinner may believe that to do so, they must be aware of the calories they take in with their food compared to the calories they burn through their activities. If they take in more calories than they burn, they will put on weight, and if they burn more calories than they take in, they will become thinner. One way to become thinner, then, is to eat foods that provide fewer calories than is needed to consume them. Grapefruit is such a food. Within this reality, then, if we eat grapefruit, we can expect to become thinner.

Within a different reality, calories have little to do with weight, since calories are consumed immediately. We must be aware of carbohydrates since they are stored in the body as fat. If we want to become thinner, we must reduce our intake of carbohydrates. Since grapefruit, like all fruit, contains carbohydrates, within this reality, if we eat a lot of grapefruit, we will put on weight!

Both realities are true, and people believing in each reality can easily prove that they are both right. One reality does not preclude the other. One does not have to be wrong for the other to be right. Both are right, and yet things happen in different ways within each reality.

What will happen when you eat a grapefruit? Will you put on weight, or will you become thinner?

First, it depends on what you believe will happen when you eat the grapefruit. If you believe you will put on weight, you will. If you believe you will become thinner, you will. If you really don’t know what will happen, you must eat the grapefruit to find out.

Then you can identify with one reality or the other and know what is true for you. At the same time, you can now know that something else may be true for another person.

Whatever you believe to be true is true—for you!

Where do your beliefs come from?

When you are presented with another person’s beliefs, you are free to accept them or reject them. If you choose to accept somebody else’s beliefs as true for you as well, you then adopt them as yours. You can decide for yourself that since an expert says so, it must be true that eating grapefruit makes you thin. Or fat. As you decide.

Another way to create a belief in your own consciousness is to define it from the way you have interpreted your own experiences. You might start with no idea of what is true for you and no idea what to believe. You begin with an experience: you eat the grapefruit, not knowing what might happen.

Next, you examine the effects of the experience. You interpret your experience in a certain way, describing it to yourself with certain words. In doing so, you create a certain belief. You decide, for example, “Eating grapefruit makes me thin, because when I ate a lot of grapefruit, I became thinner.”

The words that you use to describe your experience create your beliefs, and therefore your reality.

After your experiences have defined your beliefs, your beliefs define and create your experience, so that you will discover that whatever you believe to be true is true for you. You will attract to yourself, and will have more of a tendency to notice, those experiences that affirm your truth.

Thus, someone believing something different can have something different that is true for them. Also, by changing your beliefs, you can change the way things happen within your paradigm, within your reality. Thus, if something has been not working optimally for you, by exploring different beliefs, you can discover a way to have things work for you in a different way, the way you would like them to. You can find a way to achieve what you want.

Breaking the ‘laws’ of science

Within a reality of the physical sciences, a person might be told that they have a grave illness for which nothing can be done. Within this reality, if nothing changes, they will certainly die. If they choose to explore alternative realities in which there is a way out of their condition, there is a chance that they can continue to live, in health and harmony.

When the healing happens, it may happen in a way that seems to suspend or violate certain physical laws of chemistry, biology, or physics. These laws, though, are not absolute dictates, but just attempts to predict behaviour on the basis of past experience and empirical data. They are considered laws only until something happens that makes it necessary to consider additional factors, and modify these laws.

For example, if you throw something into the air, it comes down. No matter how many times you repeat the process, the result is the same. You can decide, as a law, that “What goes up must come down.” This happens until you throw something with such force that it escapes the earth’s gravity, and you are obliged to change the laws to consider other factors.

When we look at the paradigm of healing, even though it may seem that we are breaking the ‘laws’ of biology, chemistry, and physics, no laws are actually being violated. It’s just that other laws are being obeyed, since things happen in different ways within different realities.

Accepting alternative realities

Healing is presented, then, as an alternative bubble to the reality of the traditional medical sciences. Any bubble can be presented and look as if it is the only reality that exists. If we release the idea that there is only one reality, we can then consider alternative realities that can exist either alone or in combination with other realities.

Some people choose to combine the different realities, taking elements of each that work best for them. Others, who have been told by the traditional sciences that nothing can be done for them, might prefer to dedicate themselves totally to the alternative paradigms.

What is of primary importance is doing what works best for you, and not rejecting any idea or method that may help you in some way.

Within this reality, we hold the perception that anything can be healed.

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