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By Carol Lucking
It is now proven that positive thought patterns, inner peace and an optimistic perspective on life resolve not only psychological conflict but physical health, according to researcher Carolyn Miller, Ph.D. Medical research in the emerging field of psychoneuroimmunology traces the influence of thoughts upon the immune system and the health of certain organs.
A renewed sense of hope is said to “work miracles” on physical conditions.
Unexpected healings than cannot be explained by doctors, when the cause was clearly not the medical treatment alone, are called spontaneous remissions.
Cancer surgeon and writer Bernie Siegel states in his book, “Love, Medicine and Miracles”, that “spontaneous remissions is the accepted medical term for a miracle.”
The Institute of Noetic Sciences, established in 1973 by astronaut Edgar Mitchell, has been attempting to stimulate scientific interest in the healing power of the mind. While consciousness research develops, yearly conferences that allow professionals to share their findings are indicating evidence that a particular mental state predisposes one to experience spontaneous remissions.
Although rigorous scientific research is not complete at this time, evidence suggests, through studying terminally ill patients who seemingly heal themselves, that they have some common, unusually consistent attitudes.
Three components seem to exist. Patients report that before things began to improve, they went through some sort of a crisis, an
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