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principles (Mind/Body)
mind beyond body
psychospiritual approaches
definition
There is much data suggesting that the mind is at large in the world, that it is not in a place at all. Jahn and Dunne (at Princeton University's Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory) showed in a computer controlled experiment, that minds can communicate complex messages in detail across enormous distances. These findings are reinforced by cardiologist R. Byrd (San Francisco General Hospital) who has shown the distant effects of prayer on critically ill patients. His research showed that it seemed to make no difference whether the person praying was next door or thousands of miles away.
This data leads to a different picture of consciousness than our local, physically based, here-and-now view. In the alternate view the mind is nonlocal, unconfined to points in space or time, and immaterial. The picture does not stop here. If minds are not in a place in space or time, they are unbounded. If unbounded, then they are not separate; not individual as we have always thought (although mind does act through individual brains). Fundamentally, mind must be one, not many.
"This view of the unitary nature of mind, which has much modern evidence to support it, leads to a new view of healing. It suggests that there is only one nonlocal mind at work in the healing process. The minds of all healers are one, united nonlocally beyond space and time. This one mind envelops the patient as well. In this view, all therapy is self-directed, for there really is no 'other' who exists outside as therapist. Accordingly, healers never act alone. They act in concert as a consequence of the nonlocal nature of the mind".
(Dossey, 1986, p. 175)
Quantum Healing:
"Once you understand what the discovery of neuropeptides means, then understanding the quantum is only a step further. The discovery of neuropeptides was so significant because it showed that the body is fluid enough to match the mind. The neuropeptide isn't a thought, yet moves with thought, serving as a point of transformation. The quantum does exactly the same thing, except that the body in question is the universe, or nature as a whole.
"The commonsense idea of local reality is true only at a certain level. The whole of reality, as explained by quantum physics, lies deeper. Bell's theorem holds that the reality of the universe must be nonlocal; in other words, all objects and events in the cosmos are interconnected with one another and respond to one another's changes in state. As Arthur Eddington quipped decades earlier, 'When the electron vibrates, the universe shakes'. David Bohm, who worked extensively with the implications of Bell's theorem, supposes that there is an 'invisible field' that holds all of reality together, a field that possesses the property of knowing what is happening everywhere at once.
"At the level of unity consciousness, the patient is myself, and if we are moving toward that level; of course, the patient is responsible, but so am I. The patient and I are part of the same organism. This is about a level of consciousness where we feel compassion because we really are part of the same organism. And we must feel that it triggers the healing process. Truly, no doctor heals, he just sets into motion the healing mechanism within the patient. Real power comes from love and compassion, from non-violence. Non-violence has an infinite correlation in nature; it is the stream of compassion that runs in nature. Until we can make non-violence a living, physiological reality, we will have disease. Perfect health will be unity consciousness".
(Chopra, p. 64, 95, 108-10, 130-1)
see:
bodymind psychobiology
body reveals: the spirit
converting a symptom to a signal
healing belief systems
holographic consciousness
holographic paradigm
human energy fields: overview
human energy centers: overview
hypnotherapy: overview
process paradigm
quantum healing
self-hypnosis
state-dependent learning
the shadow and physical symptoms
footnotes