It only makes sense

I remember one of my first psychology classes in college when the professors talked about how most people get well no matter what kind of doctor or medicine they use because the body heals itself. 

I have a cold. It runs its course and goes away.  I skin my knee.  The skin repairs itself.  Other things are not so clear-cut and that is when I turn to others for help.  I believe this other can make me better and he does.  Sometimes he offers me medicine or supplements that my body lacks, but often I just have faith in his ability to heal me. 

Athletes have discovered if they visualize their actions they perform better.  If I want to be a concert pianist I know it is going to require hours of practice every day.  If I want to be an author, I need to write, write, write.  If I am trying to shape up, I exercise the parts of my body I want to change.  When I am tired I yawn and go to sleep, when I am afraid the adrenaline surges through my body, when I meditate my body calms itself.   Physical manifestations that are the result of something that seems to start in my mind can be measured in concrete ways.

Just because I don’t understand what is happening does not mean I am not doing it.  We are finite creatures that will eventually disintegrate and die, but I believe each one of us is also a wondrous creature capable of doing what we now think of as miraculous things.

Arthur C. Clark, who had degrees in physics and mathematics as well as being a science fiction writer said:

·  When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 

·  The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 

·  Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

This makes a lot of sense to me.  I am willing to risk exploring the possibilities within my own body and mind because I believe that what I “think” makes a difference.  Discarding negative thoughts and adding positive visualization, meditation and faith in my own abilities to my repertoire of life skills is just as important as the way I eat, breathe and move.