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Mind Over Mind, Mind Over Body, Mind Over Matter

Most people have no idea how powerful the mind is. Once the potential of the mind is realizedand harnessed through special meditation practices, the amount of power that can be projected from the

mind is quite extraordinary. The first step to harnessing this power is to believe that it is possible. The

following studies and articles are from extremely credible sources. These sources include mainstream

and prestigious colleges and universities as well as some of the more credible news sources, journals,and researchers.

The purpose of this chapter is to inspire faith and belief in the power of the mind. Please keep inmind that there is a massive difference between an open mind and gullibility. While you read this, keep

an open mind and allow yourself to let go of old beliefs. An open mind is in no way a weakness. In

fact, keeping an open mind will lead to more control over your life than you ever thought possible. Thatbeing said, skepticism is also necessary. This may seem contradictory, but in fact it is not. For example,

you may have chosen to keep an open mind concerning the possibility of telepathy. However, it is

perfectly acceptable to be skeptical if someone were to tell you that they are able to read minds. Itwould be gullible and foolish to believe even a good friend who claims to have telepathic abilities. In

order to avoid naivet and hardened bias; one must balance an open mind with a healthy dose ofskepticism.

Our beliefs and biases are stored in the mind and literally filter our perceptions and actions. If

you saw a man standing in your home who vanished right before your eyes and you did not believe in

an afterlife, you might dismiss the experience as some form of vivid hallucination. If you believed thatsome form of teleportation technology existed, you may even allow that to be another possibility. The

person who keeps an open mind would have a wide range of possibilities to consider. Having access to

the widest range of possibilities allows the greatest advantage.

To quote one of my favorite scientists, It is really quite amazing by what margins competent

but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived ideathat what they are investigating is impossible. When this happens, the most well-informed men becomeblinded by their prejudices and are unable to see what lies directly ahead of them. Arthur C. Clarke

The fact is that your mind has the ability, through a myriad of devices, to control any and everyfacet and function of the human body. Because the mind is the source of this control, those who do not

believe this will not be able to affect their body. Belief acts as a gate. If the gate is open, the water will

flow. If the gate is closed, the water will stagnate. The more control you learn to have over your mind,the more control you will have over your body.

This is how the placebo effect works. A pharmaceutical company wants to test a new

medication to lower cholesterol. The control group in the study is given the placebo which is just asimple sugar pill. When the cholesterol levels are later taken from the control group, the results show

that there was a statistically significant drop in cholesterol levels in several members of the control

group. The minds of those individuals believed that they had taken the actual medication. That beliefgate was opened and the subconscious mind obediently began to lower their cholesterol levels. This is

the power of the human mind.

May 21st 1985, a story came out in The New York Times on multiple personality disorder. Dr.

Frank Putnam was a psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health. In this article, he references


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a man who would succumb to a sedative in one personality, but the other personality would not be

affected. Some people afflicted with multiple personality disorder carry several pairs of prescription

glassed because their vision literally changes with each personality. One woman would have fullfledged diabetes under one personality while the other personality was completely void of any hint of

diabetes. Several of these afflictions are, to this day, described as conditions which absolutely need

either medical or surgical intervention. Diabetes is supposed to be a life-long disease. Yet, as these

people shuffle through the array of personalities that exist, their bodies literally change over the matterof minutes from incurably needing medical intervention to perfectly healthy.

This is one of my favorite demonstrations of well documented and scientifically founded

evidence of the immense power of the mind. Following is the link to this article:

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/21/science/new-focus-on-multiple-personality.html

An anesthetist in England named Albert Mason had a similar experience with one of his

patients. Dr. Mason had heard of a rumor that warts could be cured with hypnosis. Being a skeptical

man, he decided to test it out. After some time, Dr. Mason had significant results and had cured smallcases of warts with hypnosis.

One day, a young man came in who had a horrible infestation of warts up and down his arms.The warts were so bad that lesions had formed and discolored the warts to a grimy black color. Dr.

Mason was challenged by a surgeon named Dr. Moore, who tried helping the boy with a skin graft

which only made matters worse, to cure the arms with hypnosis.

Dr. Mason put the boy under hypnosis and suggested that the arm would clear up and new skin

would grow in and heal cleanly.

One week later, the boy returned with a completely healed arm. Dr. Mason was so excited that

he ran to Dr. Moore, who was in surgery, and raised the boys arm to the window of the room where Dr.

Moore was performing surgery. Dr. Moore's reaction was full of wonder and unbelief. Dr. Moorestopped in the middle of the surgery to come out and take a look. See, I told you hypnosis can cure

warts Dr. Mason said. Dr. Moore replied, "Warts? This isn't warts. This boy has Congenital Ichthyosis.

He was born with it. It's incurable!"

Dr. Mason's story is a true story with a remarkable message. When one believes, without bias

that a condition is curable, and with total belief that something is possible the gates of the mind open

up, and the impossible becomes the simplest of acts. Here is one of several links telling this story:http://magicofbelieving.com/Placebo/the-healing-power-of-the-mind-part-2.html

Mind over mind is the easiest concept for most people to accept. There are several meditations Iwill cover in detail in the chapter 'Meditation 1: The Basics' which will help you attain absolute control

over your mind and thoughts. Having and understanding how to control your own mind and body will

prove to be one of the most valuable outcomes of daily meditation of your first few steps on thejourney toward healing your addiction.

Let us now delve a little deeper into the power of the mind as we talk about mind over matter.This is one of the hardest truths for the average person to accept. The following studies were conducted

at several prestigious and high ranking universities. You will see that mind over matter does exist and

can be quantitatively measured in the laboratory. The reason for the inclusion of these studies is to

break your limits of belief. If you can believe and accept the idea that the mind can have a measurable


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effect on the world around us through meditation and concentration, how much easier will it be to

accept the uncanny control the mind has over itself and its body?

Let us start with the so called 'double-slit experiment'. First of all, I find this experiment to be

one of the most over-used examples on the effects of observation over our physical universe. However,

the reason it has been used so readily is because it was the first scientific evidence that something

bizarre is happening between mind and matter.

This experiment has been repeated over and over again with the same results. There are severalvariations of the experiment and several papers published from universities around the world including

the University of Tubingen, University of Auckland, and Princeton University.

The basic setup is to fabricate a barrier with two closely placed vertical slits. Because light is awave, when light passes through these two slits, you observe a wave interference pattern, also called a

diffraction pattern, on the screen behind the barrier.

This is expected of light because light is a wave. It was later found that electrons, commonly

referred to as a particle, will also exhibit wave properties when fired through the two slits. At first, the

thought was that as the electrons passed through the slits, they would knock against each other andcause a diffraction-like pattern. In order to know for sure, the electrons were fired one at a time through

the slits. The diffraction pattern still appeared on the screen behind the slits. This indicated to the

scientist that the electron was actually passing through both slits at the same time, which seemedabsurd.

Slightly baffled, the scientists re-engineered the experiment and added two detectors at the

entrance of each slit. This would allow the scientists to know without doubt if the electron was in facttraveling through both slits at the same time. The results were not what they expected.

After the detectors were added, the diffraction pattern no longer appeared on the screen. Thepattern that appeared on the screen was nothing more than the pattern of the two slits themselves. The

detectors indicated that the electrons only went through one slit at a time.

The astounding and inescapable conclusion was that the simple act of conscious observation

collapsed the electrons probability wave-form into its definite particle form.

If that was a bit too confusing to follow, this YouTube video explains it in a visually, easy-to-understand animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW32X1BiAqU

Another interesting experiment overseen by Dr. Roger Nelson at Princeton University, now thehead of the Global Consciousness Project, monitored the effects of conscious concentration and

meditation on a random number generator. This was actually the birth of the Global Consciousness

Project. Dr. Nelson and one of his students constructed a random number generator which producedmillions of bits of random data per second. The study conclusively shows that when a conscious mind

is focused on the generator, a statistically significant effect on the numbers produced occurred. When

the generator was left to itself, the data returned to its predictable randomized state. You can find theGlobal Consciousness Project at Princeton University here: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/


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To conclude this chapter, I would like to introduce some more high profile researchers who

have done extensive scientific work in this field for your own entertainment and knowledge.

Dr. William A. Tiller who's work can be found here: http://www.tillerfoundation.com/

The Institute of Noetic Sciences: http://www.noetic.org/

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake who's work can be found here: http://www.sheldrake.org/homepage.html

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