Memory-is pictures of place and time stored in your mind.
The impact of past events on our personalities, our health, our performance, and our association with others is tremendous. The ability to access these memories and to understand and fix them has been the focus of therapeutic tools such as progression and regression, hypnoanalysis.
Various scientific medical authorities and other skeptics have a hard time believing that suggestion and imagination can have any effect over the healing process. Even though there seems to be a general acceptance that chronic stress does have long-term medical implications, beyond that many cannot fathom the possibility that how you think will have anything to do the ability for cells and organs to return to a healthy state.
In the early few years of the last decade there were a couple of studies performed at the Harvard Medical School. The first involved the use of guided imagery in conjunction with surgical wound healing. What was indicated was that when hypnosis was used in conjunction with standard, allopathic medical care, wounds healed on average 70% more rapidly. These findings were later replicated in a bone healing study performed by the same institution. Likewise, there have been several studies involving such topics as changes in immune cells in the intestines as well as other mind/body healing accomplishments. Although some say that these studies are inconclusive and require more validation, considering the increasing number of such studies with similar results it should be fairly obvious that there is a strong possibility that the use of one’s imagination will affect health.
