This book was created as an aid in awareness to self-healing. It was designed to create an opportunity to discover that there are many aspects to healing oneself other than the traditional means. You will embark on a journey of understanding that Disease is a state that can be transformed, once you have the tools required.

Strength of Purpose Energy of Will Universal Healing

By Barbara Knapp

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Copyright © 2010 Barbara Knapp
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ISBN: 978-1-4520-0574-4

Chapter One

"I BELIEVE in the healing powers of the Universe and its ability to restore HEALTH. May these powers guide us ALL to a state of complete well-"Being." As we will it so shall it "BE"

Keeping Our Minds Open

You are about to Embark on a journey of discovery.

A willingness to question everything, even things we are sure we know about can shake us all to the core. Our mind challenges our complacency and reinvigorates us, opening us up to understanding ourselves as well as other people. In the Zen tradition, this willingness to question everything is known as "Beginners Mind". In this state of "Being" we can generate new possibilities we could never have seen before. From this point of view we are humble enough to acknowledge how little we actually know about ourselves and the mysterious Universe we call home. Some people may feel threatened or some people may be a little skeptical when they feel they are being asked to question their "beliefs" or their perception of reality. Yet questioning is what keeps our minds strong. During the early years of our lives we are taught by others to think a certain way which forms our "beliefs". They are shaped and influenced by family, peers, society, media which you may not be conscious of. From the time you are born you are just like a sponge. You absorb and accept the information around you without question at an unconscious level. Patterns of behavior are created and programs are formed. We all function by sets of programs, which we may or may not be conscious of. In order to run any of our programs we have to activate our energy currents. The challenge before us is to identify our negative programs and rewrite them all while continuing to live our lives; we have to reset our programs, replace negative feelings, negative thoughts, and false beliefs from our lives; this is the task of healing. We sometimes are directed away from new forms of thought because it may not fit in with others "beliefs". Yet if we keep running the same programs we will continue to see the same results.

Simply settling on seeing things through someone else's eyes is refusing to be open to other possibilities. New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. When we understand that there are many different aspects to everything, we learn to question everything. We are all born with three eyes, two on the outside and one on the inside, the two on the outside are there for inspection, and the one on the inside is for introspection. We also know that no two people will see things the same way. This is what makes life so interesting.

Being open minded means that we are willing to question everything, including those things we take for granted. Nearly everything in our history of human evolution came from the courage of someone who questioned some "belief" or tradition and in doing so has revealed a new truth a new way of doing things. The key to healing lies in remembering that it is our birthright to feel good and that feeling good is the essence of our true nature. When we are healthy and happy we are receiving and sending out good vibrations, we are "in the flow". When we are ill or stressed out we may not realize it but we are sending out low vibrations as well as receiving these same lower energies. We attract to us or create in one way or another everything we experience. This concept is based on the fact we're much more than our conscious minds, the part that we usually identify with and consider to be who we are. There is also the subconscious part of the mind which we may be unaware of and within this part of our mind is where many of our personality aspects reside. We may not understand that some of our subconscious aspects may not be in agreement with what we want to do or be on a conscious level. The subconscious mind in directly connected to our energy field and it is through this field that we directly interact with the higher creative and healthy aspects of our lives. Developing ways to understand and interact with one's subconscious mind is an important part of gaining more control over our lives. The human mind is the biggest factor in the healing arts. It is more powerful than medicine. "What the mind can conceive it will achieve".

When the mind is relaxed the answers will come to the question we ask.

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important that what you have been taught to believe you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without".

A Dis-ease is defined as an abnormal condition of an organism that impairs bodily functions associated with specific symptoms and signs. It may be caused by external factors, such as infectious disease, or it may be caused by internal dysfunctions, such as auto-immune diseases. In human beings, "Dis-ease" is often referred to as any condition that causes pain, dysfunction, distress, or social problems. In this broader sense, it sometimes includes injuries, disabilities, disorders, syndromes, infections, isolated symptoms, or deviant behaviors. With all of the medical advancements and technology today why is it that we see more and more new disease developing.

Stress is the main cause of thousands of diseases and disorders affecting many people today. When we place too much stress on ourselves we are bound to breakdown. Our bodies give us feedback that something is out of balance in your life when you are not feeling well. Yet the most stressful thing anyone could possibility deal with is illness. A person going through any illness and those around them may not truly understand what is actually going on inside of themselves, which can cause more stress and sometimes slows down the healing process. If the thought of disease lingers in the mind the person believes that this is a part of who they are. Without the thought that the disease will be cured, the illness remains. We learn to believe everything we are told even thou we sometimes feel that somehow we know better. We have been programmed to believe that somehow we are destined to carry disease with us. The fear (False Evidence Appearing Real) that we feel at the time of diagnose causes again more stress. This in turn becomes a cycle. This cycle can go on for years without true healing because we have now developed the "belief" that we "Have Something" (illness).

We may continue on this cycle if we choose or you can break the pattern (thought) and see that there is another approach. When we start asking the question- How can we get out of this illness cycle? This gives us the understanding that there is a way out. We open our minds and find ourselves on a new path, the path of recovery!

We all come equipped with our own healing system which we call our immune system. Disorders in the immune system can result in disease. Immunodeficiency occurs when the immune system is less active than normal, resulting in recurring and life-threatening infections. In contrast, autoimmune diseases result from a hyperactive immune system attacking normal tissues as if they were foreign organisms. This built in system was designed to repair our bodies. Its job is to create new healthy cells every day. If our bodies are constantly making new cells why is it that so many people have disease living inside of them for years? Disease can't live in a healthy...