Creating Miracles Of Health & Well Being
Lifestyles Magazine 1994
by Leianne Wilson
Miracles have always been thought of as grand acts or impossible
feats. In actuality what determines a miracle depends on each
individual and their personal desires. What would be considered a
miracle to one may not be to another. Miracles come in both bold and
subtle forms. They happen all the time, but leading the busy stressful
lifestyles they are rarely recognized or soon
forgotten.
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The power to create miracles is within us all and
learning to use that power can improve every aspect of our
lives especially our health and well being. Creating
miracles within your life and appreciating them decreases
depression and stress while promoting a sense of inner
peace. In turn these healthy states of mind effect our
physical health.
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The debate of whether the mind and body are connected is
a thing of the past. Researchers of science and medicine
have run droves of experiments that conclude that positive
mental states decrease lactate ions (or stress cells as I
like to call them), increase the strength of the immune
system as well as decrease the time needed to heal
after surgery. This is fact not fiction, which means
improving our mental and emotional states as well as
our ability to create positive change is the best form of
preventative medicine around.
The dictionary defines a miracle as any wonderful event by
divine intervention. We are not use to viewing ourselves as
divine and miraculous but truly we are as illustrated by
this short story from Dr. Deepak Chopra .
An experiment was being conducted on the effects of
cholesterol. Each morning it was the job of two lab
assistants to inject a group of rabbits with high doses of
concentrated cholesterol. When the time came to tally up the
results the scientists found that half the group had
extremely high cholesterol, as was to be expected, but the
other half was normal. This baffled the scientists and left
them with the task of solving an unexpected mystery. After
exhausted efforts they spoke with the lab assistants for any
clues they might have missed. What they found was that one
assistant would walk in the room and administer the
injections and walk out. The other assistant would hold, pet
and talk to the rabbits and then administer their injection.
Sure enough the rabbits with normal cholesterol, in spite of
the injections, were in fact the ones cuddled.
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This is an amazing demonstration of our power as humans
to create a miracle. Imagine what a few hugs a day can do
for your cholesterol level. These types of
scientific/spiritual demonstrations have also been
illustrated with Larry Dossey's work on studying the effects
of prayer. (Prayer being a form of concentrated
thought and feeling.) In controlled laboratory experiments
it has been discovered that praying for someone, whether
they are aware of it or not, greatly improves recovery from
surgery. If we can effect our own health or someone else's
in a positive way that certainly qualifies as a
miracle.
As a culture we are just beginning to understand the divine
effects we have on ourselves, others and the world around
us. We each have the power to create miracles through our
actions, but more astounding is to realize that we can
create miracles through our thoughts and feelings. Many
researchers are now busy in their labs, like mad scientists,
working to fully understand how our thoughts and feelings
manipulate energy, effect our cells and change the
environment. Metaphysical and spiritual teachers have taught
for centuries the principles and philosophies of how
this divine power works. Physicists someday soon may
have the technical description of how it works,
but in the mean time isn't it enough to just know it works.
That we do indeed have the power to create miracles.
It is when we are feeling frustrated, down and helpless that
our ability to create miracles can help us the most. As
those uncomfortable thoughts and feelings decrease our
immune systems ability to defend, produce stress and
tensions it is wonderful to know we have a powerful tool
waiting to be activated. A tool that can create miracles by
using thoughts and feelings to create positive change.
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