Saturday, September 11, 2004
The awesome power of affirmation
*Note: I just copied this article from the Philippine Daily Inquirer website as a record of a favorite article of Mr. Licauco. PDI does not keep a record of their articles for more than a week anymore so if you want to read the article later on, there is no way to do that. So here is a copy of my favorite article.
Inner Awareness : The awesome power of affirmation
Updated 07:28pm (Mla time) Aug 30, 2004
By Jaime Licauco
Inquirer News Service
Editor's Note: Published on page D3 of the August 31, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
WE can define an "affirmation" as a positive verbal expression or assertion of a mental conviction. An affirmation is essentially the same as "auto suggestion." An affirmation is a verbal suggestion to ourselves that something is true.
Examples of affirmations are: "I am going to pass the bar exams," or "I have strong leg muscles," or "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want."
That our mind exerts a very strong power or influence on our body is well established, yet it is not given much importance by the orthodox or allopathic system of medicine. Other methods of healing recognize the awesome power of the mind over the body.
Consider the following documented case reported by Emile Coue in the 19th century: "A French professor suffered a severe attack of asthma while spending the night in an unfamiliar hotel. Knowing that his only hope of receiving breath was to find a source of fresh air, he staggered out of bed and groped his way to what he supposed to be a window.
He searched in vain for the window catch and, not finding it, broke the glass in desperation. After standing there a few moments and gulping the air, his asthma symptoms subsided and he was able to return to bed. He passed the rest of the night at ease. The following morning he discovered that he had broken the glass front of an old grandfather clock."
Powerful system of healing
Coue, who recorded the above incident, was a French pharmacist and healer who developed a powerful system of healing based on auto suggestion or mental affirmation.
He studied the hypnotic practices of Dr. A Liebeault of Nancy and concluded that the curing powers of hypnosis "lay not in the hypnotist but in the patient." The hypnotist's presence would not be necessary if the patient's power to cure himself could be triggered or induced.
He found such a system in auto suggestion. He instructed his patients, no matter what ailment they had, to repeat a positive phrase over and over again, and observed the results.
He experimented with various phrases, but the most famous was: "Every day in every way I am getting better and better." It worked like magic.
A charlatan?
However, orthodox doctors considered Coue a charlatan, despite the fact that many patients got healed after visiting his clinic. So the physicians sent spies to Coue's clinic to find out what he was doing that made patients well. Asthma, skin diseases, paralysis and even appendicitis responded positively to Coue's unorthodox treatment.
The treatment that Coue developed was not merely positive thinking, but really a way of encouraging the will to order the body to be healthy. Human beings, he found, "are capable of being cured by almost anything, provided they believe it will cure them."
A true story
Take the following true story, which is found in some medical books:
A man with several malignant tumors went to his doctor. The doctor told him there was a new powerful drug that had just been out in the market (I forgot the name of the drug). The doctor gave the patient an injection of the new drug, and pretty soon his tumors disappeared. Some weeks later, newspapers reported that the new drug administered to the patient was found ineffective and useless. After reading that, the man's tumors reappeared. He went back to his doctor who, upon seeing the patient's terminal condition, could only give him a placebo while telling him it was a new drug from Germany. The patient agreed to try it and his tumors again disappeared like magic.
Today, medical science has definitely established the close links between the nervous system, emotions and the immune system. How we think and feel can affect the course of an illness. Numerous examples have been recorded of cancer cells developing after a person has had an emotional trauma, such as loss of a loved one or marriage breakup or a big quarrel with someone close.
Positive mental affirmations, such as the one developed by Coue in the 19th century, can help tremendously in the alleviation of 21st-century illnesses.
Those interested in attending my ESP and Inner Mind Development seminars may call 8107245 or 8926806 for details.
Inner Awareness : The awesome power of affirmation
Updated 07:28pm (Mla time) Aug 30, 2004
By Jaime Licauco
Inquirer News Service
Editor's Note: Published on page D3 of the August 31, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
WE can define an "affirmation" as a positive verbal expression or assertion of a mental conviction. An affirmation is essentially the same as "auto suggestion." An affirmation is a verbal suggestion to ourselves that something is true.
Examples of affirmations are: "I am going to pass the bar exams," or "I have strong leg muscles," or "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want."
That our mind exerts a very strong power or influence on our body is well established, yet it is not given much importance by the orthodox or allopathic system of medicine. Other methods of healing recognize the awesome power of the mind over the body.
Consider the following documented case reported by Emile Coue in the 19th century: "A French professor suffered a severe attack of asthma while spending the night in an unfamiliar hotel. Knowing that his only hope of receiving breath was to find a source of fresh air, he staggered out of bed and groped his way to what he supposed to be a window.
He searched in vain for the window catch and, not finding it, broke the glass in desperation. After standing there a few moments and gulping the air, his asthma symptoms subsided and he was able to return to bed. He passed the rest of the night at ease. The following morning he discovered that he had broken the glass front of an old grandfather clock."
Powerful system of healing
Coue, who recorded the above incident, was a French pharmacist and healer who developed a powerful system of healing based on auto suggestion or mental affirmation.
He studied the hypnotic practices of Dr. A Liebeault of Nancy and concluded that the curing powers of hypnosis "lay not in the hypnotist but in the patient." The hypnotist's presence would not be necessary if the patient's power to cure himself could be triggered or induced.
He found such a system in auto suggestion. He instructed his patients, no matter what ailment they had, to repeat a positive phrase over and over again, and observed the results.
He experimented with various phrases, but the most famous was: "Every day in every way I am getting better and better." It worked like magic.
A charlatan?
However, orthodox doctors considered Coue a charlatan, despite the fact that many patients got healed after visiting his clinic. So the physicians sent spies to Coue's clinic to find out what he was doing that made patients well. Asthma, skin diseases, paralysis and even appendicitis responded positively to Coue's unorthodox treatment.
The treatment that Coue developed was not merely positive thinking, but really a way of encouraging the will to order the body to be healthy. Human beings, he found, "are capable of being cured by almost anything, provided they believe it will cure them."
A true story
Take the following true story, which is found in some medical books:
A man with several malignant tumors went to his doctor. The doctor told him there was a new powerful drug that had just been out in the market (I forgot the name of the drug). The doctor gave the patient an injection of the new drug, and pretty soon his tumors disappeared. Some weeks later, newspapers reported that the new drug administered to the patient was found ineffective and useless. After reading that, the man's tumors reappeared. He went back to his doctor who, upon seeing the patient's terminal condition, could only give him a placebo while telling him it was a new drug from Germany. The patient agreed to try it and his tumors again disappeared like magic.
Today, medical science has definitely established the close links between the nervous system, emotions and the immune system. How we think and feel can affect the course of an illness. Numerous examples have been recorded of cancer cells developing after a person has had an emotional trauma, such as loss of a loved one or marriage breakup or a big quarrel with someone close.
Positive mental affirmations, such as the one developed by Coue in the 19th century, can help tremendously in the alleviation of 21st-century illnesses.
Those interested in attending my ESP and Inner Mind Development seminars may call 8107245 or 8926806 for details.
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