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Simple $3 Idea Eliminates Intense Pain and Paralysis


In this fascinating video, Vilayanur Ramachandran, the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego, and an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute, describes how brain damage can reveal the strong connection between your mind and your body.

Ramachandran explains not only the Capgras delusion (when people believe their friends and family have been replaced by imposters) but also phantom limb pain.

He has developed a simple, $3 tool made of a cardboard box and a mirror, which can eliminate phantom limb pain that has been plaguing people for decades.

Synesthesia, the mingling of the senses in which people hear color or smell sounds, is also discussed, and Ramachandran answers a question that has never before been answered: why artists, poets and novelists are eight times more likely to have synesthesia than the general population.

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Your mind is intricately connected to your body, and those in the forefront of science are now offering hard evidence of this intuitive relationship.

The fact that there is such a thing as phantom limbs and associated pain is proof enough that your mind has a powerful influence on your physical body.

Ramachandran reveals something astounding in the video, and that is that some paralysis may actually be “learned paralysis.” This means that you may be able to use your mind to reestablish movement after a stroke or other paralysis. Your mind, in fact, is the central key to nearly all of your healing.

And when you think about it, it makes perfect sense. You are made out of energy, and so is your mind. So it’s only natural that your body is  influenced by energetic forces.

In Comes “The New Biology”

I am a major fan of Dr. Bruce Lipton’s work. He is a forerunner in the field of epigenetics and The New Biology and has carefully documented how emotions are one of the most important factors in your health.

You have already experienced the impact of your emotions on your physical being. Butterflies in your stomach, sweaty palms when you’re nervous and increased energy when you’re excited are all common examples.

The New Biology takes things a step further. It demonstrates why the belief that your genes control your future health is outdated and just plain wrong.

This was proven through a massive genetic study, the Genome Project. It found that the preconceived idea that each gene creates one protein was incorrect. Rather, each of your genes can create up to 30,000 proteins, any and all of which can create a different outcome. So the fact that you have a genetic “predisposition” for breast cancer, for example, does not mean that you will develop breast cancer at some time in your life.

According to Lipton’s research, the controlling factor in deciding what your genes express -- in deciding how your future health will play out -- is not your genes, your family history or even the strength of your immune system. Instead, it is YOUR MIND.

This precisely correlates with Ramachandran’s findings, which suggest that your mind can actually be taught to relieve your body of pain and possibly paralysis. It is also in line with the work of Dr. Geerd Hamer’s German New Medicine, which found that virtually every disease is controlled from its own specific area in your brain and is linked to a very particular, identifiable, unhealed emotional trauma.

This is truly fascinating stuff, and embracing the concept that YOU are in control of your health and your life is clearly the direction that our culture and society has to, and needs to, go in.

Yet, it will take much spreading of the word before these concepts are widely accepted.

Why?

Because there are very powerful entities at work, namely the pharmaceutical companies, that have every reason to try and cover up this information as it threatens the infrastructure that is responsible for producing their profits. The last thing they want you to understand is that you can help heal yourself with your thoughts and not rely on their expensive and dangerous drug options.

Once you understand the secrets of this powerful and universal truth and start applying it in your life you will be in a constant state of awe as to what you can achieve. The key will be to consult with trained individuals in energy psychology, or better yet learn these tools yourself.

The challenge is that most of us are so busy that we don’t have the time to invest to learn it, but I know for myself, the single most important health tool I have is my ability to use energy psychology to remediate subconscious programming that typically causes devastating physical health traumas.


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Posted On Dec 13, 2007
The implications of the mind-body connection are astounding. I believe we are barely scratching the surface. Yet, is the wider public ready to accept it? 

 
JJReed
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rrochon
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Posted On Dec 26, 2007

I remember reading (I think it was in Psycho Cybernetics that was written by a plastic surgeon) that many discoveries are made by someone outside the profession. Someone outside the box looks at the problem in a new way, while those in the profession are locked into seeing it in a certain way. EFT was developed by an engineer, etc., etc.



Jesper_203
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Posted On Dec 31, 2007

This body-mind connection is not new knowledge. How this body-mind connection works have been explained in detail in the book "Dianetics - The Modern Science of Mental Health" by L. Ron Hubbard published in 1950. The book gives you an understanding of many health problems - how the mind causes them. You will not only get an understanding of the subject; the book also detailes how to clear your mind from sub thoughts that litterally take control over you without you ever knowing it!

Get this book, read it and start take control of your health.

Much love from Jesper


 
 
 
Posted On Dec 25, 2007

Again I ask, "WHAT IS WITH THESE  VITAL VOTES???"

I don't see how this encourages 'free speech'; instead, I would think it tends to make people leery of expressing their comments since these 'votes' are no less than outright criticism of one's thoughts.  But the worst aspect is that there is only a 'net vote'.  At least if it showed a total of each the negative votes and positive votes it might have some value by showing the overall interest in a comment.      

PLEASE, someone enlighten me as to the purpose of this system, since every time I see these 'votes' I get a pain that no EFT or whatever can relieve!!!  :)  


 
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Posted On Dec 25, 2007

Well, personally, I don't find myself affected by the votes, but I think I understand where you're coming from.  I suppose it lets the participants express views rather than just leaving it up to the moderator.  Who knows?  I'll read comments no matter what the voting record is and make up my own mind.



barbic1953
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Posted On Dec 27, 2007

I think Vital Votes are like being in a town hall meeting

and saying " hear, hear " to a comment someone has made as

a way to let others known that you agree with the comments

being written as opposed to writing the same or similar

comment again. I read all the comments regardless of the

votes because I am interested in other points of view.  I

also look at the vital votes after I have read the comment

out of curiosity to see how many others have agreed or

disagreed.


 
 
 
Posted On Dec 25, 2007

Hello,

For 2 decades my passion has been subtle energy research.  A plethora of information to help explain how energy is the origin of physical result exists.  My web page helps others learn where they might

also gain this information and begin to help themselves after nothing else has worked.  I have sent my comments to you before.  "We Are Energy Slowed To Visibility".  This is one more link I will add to my page with your permission.

My personal experience with a head injury (and many other physical injuries), using traditional approach for my recovery was no help.  My short term memory loss was diagnosed as "on set of Alzheimers" and other symptoms from my injuries surfaced.

With combining subtle energy formulae to my routine, my symptoms of memory loss, acute sinustitis, arthritis, spinal pain, and etc., no longer prevent me from quality and ability to work and take care of myself.

This is a wonderful artricle and each and every time I see a credible report from professionals I jump for joy.  

Thank you for brilliant article!!

Ammie              

Cheers,

Ammie  


 
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Posted On Dec 25, 2007

Thank you so much for turning us to to TED.com. What an amazing resource!

Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran's three dollar solution for phantom pain blew me away. How freaking profound it is, too! With a mirror, we can tell our brain we're okay after all, and the brain will listen and respond.

I can see this being used in physical therapy, too. If you can't lift the right leg, watch the left leg acting normally in a mirror. Voila! The brain gets the message that the right leg is okay!

Since I developed a way nine years ago to cure my own Stage 4 cancer for about $20 in today's dollars, Ramachandran's $3 discovery is right up my alley. Sometimes the seemingly complex can be resolved with simple solutions.

I know an internal medicine/nephrologist, too. I'm sure he has many patients who have had limbs removed. He will just love this news!

My mind is ablaze with excitement over this. What a wonderful Christmas gift!


 
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iFocusOnGod
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Posted On Dec 25, 2007

Would you share how you cured Stage 4 cancer?  My sister-in-law has a rare form and not much time left to find a cure.



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Posted On Dec 25, 2007

"Since I developed a way nine years ago to cure my own Stage 4 cancer for about $20 in today's dollars..."

Please elaborate!  That sounds very interesting.



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Posted On Dec 25, 2007

KelleyEidem,

I would be very interested to know how you cured your cancer.  i have a fiend here in Australia that could benifit from any help in this regard.

Thank you and I will be grateful for your reply.

PaulB



stevefo
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Posted On Dec 26, 2007

If Kelley doesn't respond, you can Google him.  He wrote a biography on Dr. Revici who had a lot of success with reversing cancer naturally.  Also see my (Steve F) post here answers.yahoo.com/question on reversing cancer naturally.  In that post are references to books such as "A Cancer Battle Plan" - it's very good but has a natural focus.  Also see www.annieappleseedproject.com of a woman that uses a combination of diet and herbs (mostly) to prevent and reverse breast tumors.  I'd highly recommend a good nutrionist or ND if you're fighting cancer.  Hope that helps.



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Posted On Dec 30, 2007

I'm replying to myself since I'm not sure how to reply to a reply. And because there are three requests.

Here's the recipe for curing my own Stage 4 cancer:

Grate a habeneros pepper and put it on a piece of bread. I used Ezekiel bread.

Grate one or two cloves of garlic and put that on the bread.

Smother it with butter (no substitutes) and eat it. This aids the herbs and helps to quell the burning heat some.

I also took a tablespoon or two of emulsifed cod liver oil made by TwinLabs because I wasn't losing any weight or retaining fluid. If that had been the case, I would have used evening primrose oil in place of the cod liver oil. It took all of two weeks to cure myself nine years ago.

Cancer is easy to cure if surgery, chemo and radiation are avoided.

It was neat to see researchers at UCLA confirm a part of my method a couple of years ago when they shrank prostate tumors by 80% using capsaicin, an active ingredient in peppers. I shrank mine 100%.

The 'sandwich' will cause heavy breathing for a minute, which is a good thing because that helps to pump the diaphragm which, in turn, helps to clear the lymph system.

If you just can't tolerate any peppers, as is common for those with Type 'A' blood, then grate ginger instead. It is almost as powerful as the peppers, and certainly powerful enough to chase away cancer.

Habeneros peppers are available in many good grocery stores. They look a little like tiny pumpkins. Put a produce bag over your hand when picking them up to avoid an unpleasant surprise if you put your finger in your eye or touch any other sensitive part of your body.

Once again, cancer is no match for the combination of these three ingredients. I never lost a minute's sleep over having cancer, nor should you.

Cancer cells are programmed to heal cuts and to be turned off quickly when they are done doing that. My recipe seems to be a high powered switch for turning them off if your switch is not working like it should.


 
 
 
Posted On Dec 26, 2007

My wife has "Aphasia" from a heart attack, which precipitated a stent, which caused 1 of 3 strokes, the first of which caused the aphasia. Am looking for a way to help her overcome or cure of the Aphasia. Naturally would also like some help for the Congestive Heart Failure she has been diagnosed with. Am treating her with Chelation Therapy and would use HBOT, but she refuses. We've been married for 62 years and I'd appreciate any help. I keep looking and praying. Thank You.


 
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