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Tom had a secret that aided his recovery. He spent about 2 hours a day visualizing himself getting stronger. He imagined a ‘mini-Tom’ carrying out repair work at each injured part of his body, fusing bones together, rebuilding muscles, even sanding down joints, polishing and then oiling them.

A year after Tom was released from the hospital he even ran a marathon, in an astonishing 4 hours, 8 minutes, and 57 seconds. An incredible achievement considering that the initial prognosis was that he would possibly gain 80% of his movement within 5 years. Tom loves to tell people how the doctor at the hospital, when reviewing his x-rays a few months after the marathon, looked confused and said that it looked as if someone had operated on him and sanded his hip joint down.

There are thousands of similar stories to Tom’s now circulating around the world.

Belief undoubtedly plays a role in the healing. Belief impacts the brain, cells, and our genes. When it comes to visualization, something important also occurs. Tom used what I like to call, ‘Targeted Positive Thinking’, where he focused his mind on specifi c areas of his body and visualized them actually healing, and he did it over and over and over again. He told me that repetition was the key to this.

And new scientifi c advances have now shone some light upon why Tom and many others have been able to heal themselves in this way.

It turns out that the brain can’t distinguish between real and imaginary. A pioneering study at Harvard had volunteers play a scale of piano notes over and over again for 2 hours, and to do it on 5 consecutive days. Analysis of their brains found that the fi nger ‘maps’, the areas of their brains connected to their fi ngers, had grown much as a muscle does if you exercise it; a phenomenon known as neuroplasticity.

A separate group of volunteers were asked to play the scales in their minds instead, with no piano and no actual use of their fi ngers. Astonishingly,

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brain imaging showed that the exact same areas of the brain had grown, and to the same extent. The brain wasn’t distinguishing between actually exercising the fi ngers and just imagining it.

People are now popping up everywhere and sharing their personal experiences. I recently spoke at a cancer center and learned of a woman who had been told that there was little else that the hospital could do for her. The last resort was

an operation in 6 weeks time but even then she was only given a small percentage chance of survival.

So, on advice from a hypnotherapist she visualized worker ants marching into her body and removing small chunks of tumours, lifting them onto their heads and marching them out of the body. She did this over and over and over again for the six weeks leading up to a life-or- death operation, gradually imagining the tumour becoming smaller and smaller and smaller. When the surgeon opened her up, he was astonished to learn that the tumour had gone.

Petula was given a 15% chance of surviving inoperable breast cancer but imagined pure healing water fl owing into the top of her head and fl ushing all of the cancer out of her body. At fi rst she saw thick, brown, sludgy water coming out of her feet but, in time, the water was crystal clear. Her next visit to the hospital confi rmed that she was free of cancer. Now, 11 years later she is still free of cancer and the hospital staff still marvel at how healthy she is.

Kevin was admitted to hospital with a suspected heart valve infection. After spending most of the night cleaning his heart valve of muesli – he didn’t know what an infection would look like so imagined that it was muesli – using a steam cleaner, he was released from hospital with no more symptoms and a clear ECG.

Tomek had tried just about everything to get rid of several verrucas on his feet. Skeptical at fi rst, he decided to imagine pouring acid onto them and seeing them dissolve. Sometimes he would have some fun and imagine fi ring acid out of a gun onto them. In 4 weeks his verrucas had gone. Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50