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3 Powerful Practices for Accessing the Healing Power of Your Mind
Justin Faerman
Waking Times
In recent years, a number of groundbreaking studies have been published showing a very direct link between our thoughts, beliefs, emotions and the health of our physical body as well as measurable changes in our genetic code. Commonly referred to as the “placebo effect,” this inherent mind-body connection is proving to be the latest frontier in medicine and is shaking up old models of disease theory showing that health is far more complex than simply eating a healthy diet, and far more dependent on our state of mental and emotional well-being, than previously thought.
“When I was working with sick patients from the inner city of Chicago, it made sense that they weren’t healthy. They ate poorly, smoked, drank, and never exercised.” Explains leading holistic physician Dr. Lissa Rankin in an interview with Dr. Frank Lipman about her experience of understanding the power of the mind-body connection for the first time. “But then I took a job at an integrative medicine practice in posh Marin County, California, where my patients religiously followed organic, vegan diets, worked out with personal trainers, got 8 hours of sleep every night, took their vitamins, and spent a fortune on the best healthcare money can buy—and they were still sick. It got me wondering, what if there’s more to health than what they taught me in medical school?”
Rankin’s experiences echo the findings of a recent mindfulness study conducted by researchers at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital where 26 adults (without prior experience) were taught a number of relaxation techniques including meditation, mindfulness and mantra (the repetition of “sacred” sounds) in order to understand the effects of these “mind-focused” practices on the body and specifically the genetic code. The participants were given comprehensive blood tests immediately preceding and immediately following 20 minutes of self-directed practice. By studying approximately 22,000 different gene sequences, researchers were able to identify and measure any changes that occurred in the participants’ DNA during and after the practice of the various mindfulness, mantra and meditation techniques.
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Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2015/09/3-powerful-practices-for-accessing.html
