What I'm about to say about healing is not to be taken as medical advice or substituted for the advice of your physician. Always seek sound medical advice for any health problems. My purpose is just to give you something to think about, something to entertain your thoughts for a while! Now that that's all cleared up let's get to it!

Heal: means to make sound or whole. Restore to health. To cause an undesirable condition to be overcome. (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary)

It's habitual for most of us, when we see a sick relative or friend; to focus on how bad their current condition is rather than focusing on an image of their condition improving! But those of us who believe that we can be affected mentally and verbally by the thoughts of others envision them as improving in health until they're completely well again!

By the same process if we're too focused on the physical reality of the disease and the current condition of the person we may unknowingly reinforce that person's condition! We see them getting worst instead of better (especially if they have Cancer or some other disease that frightens us). We may even envision them dying! Not that you can cause them to die! Its just that your thoughts arent supporting their recovery! You dont have to pretend they arent sick! Just be aware that we can all be affected by each other mentally and verbally (especially by those were close to) without necessarily being aware of it!

But if we believe that God can cure any disease whether it's Cancer or otherwise and were made in the image and likeness of God as it says in Genesis 1:26, And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." we should believe that we can cure ourselves and others of any disease as well! Actually it states that man is made in the image and likeness of God and unknown others since the verse reads: Let us make man but thats a whole "nother" story!

Some of you may be thinking I tried to heal someone or myself but it didnt work! That may be because you don't view the sick person the way God or Jesus views them! Do you think that Jesus or God could heal anyone if they viewed them the way you view them?

When Jesus looked at sick people he saw them as well! The image of health in Jesus' mind produced the image of health in the sick person's mind causing the brain/endocrine system, to trigger the biochemical reactions that restored their bodies to back to health! But, they had to believe that they could be healed before Jesus could heal them! As a matter of fact Jesus never says that he heals them but that their faith or belief had made them well! In other worlds their mental state healed them!

Here are two examples of Jesus' healings that illustrate this point:

Example 1.

Matt 9:21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. Mat 9:22 but Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.

Example 2.

Matt 9:28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. Matt 9:29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. Matt 9:30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straightly charged them, saying, See that no man know it. (King James Version)

So you see you have to have faith or believe that you can be healed, or have an image of yourself as being capable of being healed, to be healed according to Jesus or what the text says Jesus said!

The sick woman had an image of herself as being healed if she could just touch Jesus' garment. The blind men also had an image of themselves as being able to be healed by Jesus! But they must have had some doubts about it, because Jesus made a point of asking them if they believed he could heal them, making sure they believed he could do heal them, before he healed them! Confirming that their belief or faith was necessary before they could be healed!

I'm not saying that the only way that Jesus could heal was if the sick person believed he could heal them! But heres further proof that faith or belief was important to Jesus ability to heal,

Mat 13:57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, a prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house. Mat 13:58 And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief. So you see even Jesus couldn't do many mighty healing works without the peoples belief in his ability to heal!

Also, in Mark 11:23 Jesus said: For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

Jesus is saying if you really believe you can do things that seem impossible, including curing disease! The Heart is symbol of the emotional, imaginative part of the mind. This is where we're affected most by what we believe.

It requires a lot of effort and practice to consistently focus our minds on seeing sick people (or our selves) as getting better or to believe that they can get better, especially if they have a disease that we've been taught to believe is fatal, like Cancer! Because our habitual mode of thought will always be stronger than any new mode of thought were attempting to try at the time until, we've gain enough experience in the new mode of thought to combat this process. But it can be done!

Our habitual mode of thought has years of experience behind it and can't be change in one or two days, weeks or months! So our chances of being successful when we're just beginning to try to learn how to heal with the mind will be pretty low! And the time it takes us to heal will be proportionate to the amount of resistance we have, in the form of unconscious thoughts and beliefs, impeding our efforts to heal! The more minds we have envisioning the sick person (or our selves) as getting better, the more we'll up the chances of that person getting better even faster!

We're attempting to focus the vast power of the mind by faith to bring about healings at will! Like focusing the vast power of the sun through a magnifying glass, on a piece of paper, until it bursts into flames!

Prayer is another name for what we're trying to do! When we pray we're focusing the magnifying glass (the mind) on the piece of paper (the sick person) until the power of the sun (God) causes the paper to burst into flames! (Causes their sickness to disappear!)

We can pay lip service to the idea that we can be healed of disease because, Jesus said what we believe in our hearts and don't doubt will come to pass! But if the name of a disease frightens us when were told we might get it or that we have it! Will shows us what we really believe about what Jesus said or our ability to heal ourselves or others!

The next time you find yourself around sick friends or relatives; notice if you're focusing on how sick they are or if you're focusing on seeing them getting better and better until they're completely well again! Healing thoughts produce healing effects and disease thoughts produce disease effects on ourselves or those we focus our minds on whether we're aware of it or not! What kind of impressions are you permitting your thoughts to leave on your body, your life, your mind or the lives of family, friends or others?

Instinctual Memory (commonly called the unconscious or subconscious) controls all the functions and sensations of the body. This is the part of the mind that keeps your body alive, your heart beating and your lungs breathing without you consciously having to do it even when you're sleeping. This is the mind that hypnotists work with causing those hypnotized to do all kinds of things theyre not capable of doing or wouldn't do in their normal waking state of consciousness.

Instinctual memory responds to any impressions made on it as real. It cant tell the difference between an impression made on it by the senses when in contact with a real object or by an impression made on it by the imagination when in contact with a mental object! If an impression is made on instinctual memory that says if you go out in cold weather without a hat, youll catch a cold! If you go out in cold weather without a hat, instinctual memory will produce the symptoms of a cold in your body, whether youre thinking about it or not! Proving to you that going out in cold weather without a hat causes you to catch a cold!

A disease impression produced on instinctual memory contains the instructions for creating the disease when the circumstances are right according to the instructions! (Like going out in the cold without your hat on!)

This programming of instinctual memory started when you were a child before you were aware that you were alive! This was done to you by the adults in your life, who were similarly programmed when they were kids by the adults in their lives when they were kids and so on and so on! (You dont have to be aware of this process for it to affect you!) To reiterate, instinctual memory controls all the functions, feelings, thoughts, and sensations of the body and can produce any sensation or symptom of disease from memory!

To simplify it, any disease idea that disturbs our peace of mind, causes the disease symptoms! Our disturbed mental state is the invisible source of the disease! This disturbed mental state causes the body and its organs to function in a disturbed way! Causing the endocrine system to secrete biochemicals that produce the disease symptoms in our bodies.

To eradicate the symptoms of disease you have to eradicate the process of creating disease! But doctors keep attacking the symptoms of disease instead of the process thats causing the disease! Like they keep pulling up the weeds in your garden (cutting out tumors) while someone else keeps planting new weeds in your garden! They keep pulling up the new weeds in your garden (cutting out new tumors). While someone else keeps planting in new weeds in your garden! And so on and so on!

They never know when a new weed will pop up, so they keep your garden (your body) under periodic observation (have you come in for check ups). If the weeds grow faster than they can pull them up (cut out the tumors) they spread all over your garden (your whole body). Eventually they spread so much that theres no room for your vegetables to grow (your health to return). Your vegetables die and your garden is dead (your immune system shuts down and you die!).

This is how surgeons tend to treat cancerous tumors. They keep cutting out tumors and other cancerous tissues, weakening your health to the point where its too dangerous to continue operating on you, and never attack the process thats producing the tumors!

The time it takes us to heal disease with the mind or faith depends on how long it takes us to reprogram our minds to stop producing disease and to start producing health! Now this takes time! It takes a lot of honest evaluating of our unconscious fears, thoughts and feelings about disease!

The next time you hear the word cancer, notice you reaction to the sound of the word! What do you feel? Is it like someone hit you in the pit of your stomach? Is it fear, joy, depression? What do you see or imagine when you hear the word? Is it images of people looking pale and sickly, wasting away until they look like walking skeletons? Are you terrified? Do you see the same thing happening to you?

If you imagine or feel any of those things that's the beginning of the psychosomatic disease process that produces the symptoms of disease! As a matter of fact those feelings and sensations are the disease process in action! This is the time to start desensitizing yourself to the automatic reactions you feel when you hear that word or any disease word for that matter!

In a nutshell, train yourself to react in the opposite way you usually react to hearing the word cancer! Because the way you usually react supports the unconscious formation of memory programs that support the development of cancer! So train yourself to act in a way that not only doesn't support cancer but supports health through your belief in the power of faith to heal you or prevent you from getting any disease!

Some people dont have a realistic idea about how long it takes for spiritual or faith healing to work! They think that if they try it one or two times and their disease symptoms dont disappear instantly that it didnt work! If you wanted to learn how to play the guitar and took ten lessons with a professional guitarist do you think that youd be able to play like a professional? What about after a 50 lessons? If you couldnt play like a professional guitarist after 10 or 50 lessons would you say that the lessons didnt work? (Some of us may say that but of course you and I wouldnt!)

Well its like that when youre learning to play your faith instrument! It may take a lot a time and effort to play like a professional! (Alleviate your symptoms). The time spent with an instructor just puts you on the right track!

May the Light never cease to Lighten you Minds!

Copyright 2001 El-Veasey Publishing