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Can Your Thoughts be Making You Ill?
Can your thoughts be making you ill?
My Mum passed away from cancer at Christmas 20 years ago. She was 47 years old and like so many other cancer patients, was too young to die. At the time I was just 26.
I worried for a long time after, that because of similarities between my Mum and I, I was also going to die young from cancer. I went to the doctors quite a few times over the next 5 years to take blood tests to make sure there was nothing sinister showing up in my blood.
I have never smoked, I eat healthily and exercise regularly so over time, I let this notion go and got on with my life very rarely making a Doctors visit at all.
Then around 2 years ago, I did the 3 peaks challenge and shortly after getting back home I got a really bad UTI which developed into an even worse Kidney infection. When I started to pee blood I thought “I should see a doctor.” They couldn’t quite work out what was going on and put it down to a bad infection caused by drinking bacteria contaminated water during my challenge.
This went on for weeks. When it finally went I was left feeling very drained and still not 100% and I put that down to post infection fatigue!
However, over the next 12 months I developed all manor of problems with my kidneys, liver and heart and it was put down to the bacteria coursing through my internal system.
The upshot was that over 12-18 months I was just ill. I lost weight (which I can ill afford to do!) and one thing after another went wrong and I just did not feel right for months. All my friends and family were secretly worried about me.
My birthday is in July and in 2017 I turned 46. The same age as my Mum when she was diagnosed with cancer in December 1997. I was still not right.
In December 2017, just after Christmas, I was sitting quietly reading a book (Sydney Banks – ‘Liza’, I highly recommend it) and I had an amazing light bulb moment. I had the sudden realisation that all this time, all this illness, I had been doing this to myself.
I realised that somewhere inside me, I still held onto the belief that I would die at 47. This unconscious belief was making me ill.
Of course, I already knew that my thoughts would create a feeling and then a behaviour – its part of what I coach for goodness sake! But I heard something – NO felt something, when reading this book and it opened the black out curtains for me.
Its so true that the body follows the mind, and my mind – my unconscious mind, was manifesting this illness in me because I believed unconsciously, that I would get ill and die young just like my Mum.
All of a sudden I understood – I felt the truth about where it was all coming from. I instantly felt amazing, really very well. I had more energy and to be honest I hadn’t realised until this point how ill I had felt over the last 18 months. I promise you it was that quick! This amazing feeling came over me – like being enveloped in love and I knew that from that day on I would be just fine.
It has shown me beyond doubt that the connection between mind and body is so much more powerful than we think.
In 1998, I had written, directed and took the lead role in the movie of my life. I had predicted the future and believed it to be true and even though I had stopped playing this movie 15 years ago – the belief was still there. The movie was playing quietly in an old cinema at the back of my unconscious movie theatre and was just waiting for the right time to come true!
So – can you thoughts be making you ill? Well yes and I don’t just believe it, I truly know, that your thinking can make you ill. I’ve experienced it.
Of course, there are illnesses that are a natural consequence of being human and I’m not saying for 1 second to ignore symptoms simply putting them down to your thinking. Always get these things checked out by a Doctor. My Mum didn’t manifest her cancer and could not have simply imagined it away.
But there are times when illness is just feedback. Feedback from your soul not being nourished. Feedback from your body missing something. Feedback from Universal Mind that you have hit a speed bump and that this road is not the road for you.
So what do I do now? I take any ill health symptoms as a direct sign that I am out of balance with life. That I have hit a speed bump in the road and I am either going too fast or I am on the wrong road. I understand that it’s just a disruptive thought creating an ill feeling and I don’t allow it to take control (or take root!)
I can’t control my thoughts – none of us can, but I do have the choice not to allow them to control me.
”We are all just one thought away from mental health”. Sydney Banks
By Lisa Holton of Lisa Holton Coaching
4 Comments
Jane
An interesting post. I strongly believe in the power of positive thinking and agree that negative thoughts may drag you down.
Carol Hanson
This is a very powerful story about how we can control our bodies with our minds – having both positive and negative effects. So glad you’ve turned it all around Lisa
Stephen Reeve
It was something similar to what you said that started me on my journey to self discovery, only the other way round. I was on the way to being financially very successful in the 1980s ( I’m 60 now-ouch!) but then, due to a lack of business acumen I got ripped off of everything I had worked so hard for. Until then I was never I’ll and believed I could achieve anything. After that, I hit drugs, alcohol, whatever it took to block things out, but there was still a bit of self belief left. At 31, I had a stroke and was told I’d not walk properly again. 5weeks on I could run. At 40 I was told I would be dead in days due to liver failure. They were (obviously) wrong. At 43, I was told I would be dead in less than a year because a severe head injury was causing me to have horrendous seizures. In June 2014 I was told I had terminal cancer of the pancreas and would be dead in 3months, was referred to oncology and the local Marie Curie hospice for palliative care. I told them straight out, I will not die, and I remember the doctor looking at me pityingly as if I was in denial. 9 months later a very embarrassed doctor said he didn’t know how but they’d got it wrong. Point is, I never at any point accepted what they told me, and after the cancer issue I started on my search to find how I survived these things. I hadn’t really studied the how and why before, but I’d since my teens practised Chigong, meditated, visualized whatever part of me that was unwell being healthy, regularly went to yoga, Indian massages, acupuncture etc, in the process becoming a counsellor and auricula acupuncturist myself, but had never gone into quantum physics and mechanics, universal vibrations, and similar, but now I realise it was all these things that were keeping me alive and led me to wanting to pass on this knowledge, but until I heard Davids masterclass I didn’t know how, but he has filled in the final gap for me. What I’m trying to point out is that not only can your thoughts make you Ill, even kill you, they can also cure you. Outside of the coaching “industry” very few people are aware of just how powerful the mind is. Just on a personal note, the one thing I can’t do a lot of the time is diagnose myself, and I have to know what’s wrong with myself so that I can concentrate on making it better. Due to a very bad misdiagnosis I’m now having to fight at least 5 serious health conditions all at the same time. I don’t have any fear, that’s long gone, but I’m interested to see if I can pull myself back from the brink: so far so good, I was told 12months max 16months ago, so I’ve taken a leap of faith by joining the course. I hope this share can help someone. 🙏🙏💗
Lisa Holton (Author)
Thanks for sharing your story Stephen. The body certainly follows the mind and as humans we are far more capable of curing ourselves than the medicine give us credit for. No ones fault of course, everyone is just doing the best they can within the knowledge they have. If more people could catch onto where the human experience all comes from then life would be healthier and happier. Sending you blessings and if you stick with the conversation you may just find that your serious health conditions become less serious or disappear all together.