Questions (IQ): The Hidden Power of Belief: What Most People Overlook (IQ. 286)

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You know, the power of belief of the human mind can be absolutely incredible, but it’s not typically enough to really create lasting healing results. However, it can be a very important key piece to the puzzle if it’s used in a certain way. And of course, if it’s used in the wrong way, it can actually keep you stuck, and it’s a lot more tricky than many people realize.

And so that’s what I want to share with you today because so often people will message in, and they think that, you know, mind body healing is really focused on the power of belief. But it is so much more than that, and it’s also different than that or different than most people might realize. And, and by the way, part of the reason this comes up is because last week I did an episode on the topic of meditation and that there were key factors that can really actually influence meditation when it works, that I have seen time and time and time again throughout the years.

And some people said they were just amazed, loved that episode, and then said, “Hey, can you unpack the power of belief as well?” And so that’s what we’re gonna do today is, is I’m gonna share with you key insights on what’s really kind of going on behind the scenes and what you’d want to do to really get this to work in your life in a better, more effective way be- just because I see people who are stuck here all the time, and I know for myself, I was very stuck for years where I had the right type of belief, and I also had the wrong type of belief, if you will, uh, that was keeping me stuck.

And so we’ll, we’re gonna unpack it, and we’re gonna kind of look at this from different angles because it can be tricky. So, uh, first and foremost, just in my own life, as I was researching, you know, mind body healing, trying to figure it out, you know, after doctors said, “There’s nothing else we can do for you.”

And, you know, if you know my story, I was in a medical study. You know, I, I was willing to do anything to heal. And I got into this study and, uh, long story short, it didn’t work out. But it made me really look at the placebo, and I had this feeling after the, after that, uh, medical study, and the more I researched the placebo, I thought, “Well If this is possible, if the placebo, a fake treatment, can have this much impact on the physical body, then there’s got to be a way where I can activate it, right?

So I had a belief I s- that I could figure it out. You know, if it’s possible, I can figure it out. Now, part of the reason I had that belief that I could figure it out is because prior to my injury, I worked in technology. I worked in network operations, telecommunications. Basically, I did troubleshooting, and a lot of it.

And a lot of times when something was very stuck and people couldn’t figure it out, they would give it to me to figure out, because I could always… I, I… It’s like that’s my superpower is figuring things out, um, always has been. So, uh, so then I would figure things out. And so in this case with my health, and when doctors said there was nothing else they could do, but then the more I started seeing the power of the mind and the evidence of it through the placebo, I thought, “Okay.

Well, wait a second. I can figure this out.” But I went the wrong way for quite a while, and it’s this. You know, once I saw the evidence on the placebo, I started, you know, saying, “How does it work?” And so much literature said it’s all about, you know, the power of belief. And so I was reading, you know, all the metaphysics and believing and the power of belief and, and acting as if and wanting to manifest it and, and all of these things for years.

And I was, you know, I would even write affirmations, “I’m already healed,” being grateful for my healing. I would write affirmations and, and then with my right hand, and then I would write it with my left hand just to try to get it into both sides of my brain. So I mean, I was, I was so committed. I spent hours every day, hours and hours.

It was like the most important thing to me to just heal. And so I did that, convincing myself I was already healed, mantras, chanting, affirmations, visualization, videos, uh, recordings, recordings I made myself, recordings I listened to others, medi- like all of the things. But it wasn’t working. And the thing of it is, is that I was…

Part of what I was doing was really trying to force myself and believe that I was already healed, and I was really good at it because I had like… I mean, I was definitely… I felt it. I, I believed it in some regard, and then I still had pain. I mean, it was, it was kind of a, also a little bit of a, um… It’s, it’s a…

I don’t know that it was good for my mind. Let’s put it that way. But I, I definitely did it with everything that I had And it didn’t work. Now, one of the things, after it wasn’t working, I started really underst- say, “Okay, I have to understand more about the placebo.” And as I was reach -researching even deeper, I came across something called the open label placebo.

Now, the open label placebo is exactly as it sounds. It is open label. So both the doctor and the patient both know that it’s fake, and it still works. And so that was eye-opening because so many times people said, “Well, it just works because people believe it’s going to work, and believe in the, in the actual treatment.”

But it can be trickier than that. There, there are underlying, um, emotions and mindset. There are other factors. And, and so what’s part of the reason I wanna share this i- is because there, there is a type of belief that is important. But even to this day, you know, I’ve been healed for almost 17 years now, and when I was working on this power of belief, it was 20, 20 years ago.

But even to this day, I get practitioners or people who are messaging in who say, “Yes, b- healing is all about the power of belief.” But there’s depth to it. There’s more. So yes, one of the beliefs really, really helped me to heal myself, and one of the beliefs was that I could figure it out helped me, because I kept going to ultimately figure it out.

So that was powerful. But the belief in forcing myself to believe that I was already healed didn’t work, and instead it kept me stuck and doing things that weren’t so healthy for my mind. And by the way, if we look at this in a couple different ways, another way we can think about it is with some depth.

We can see where there’s more things going on, more factors, if you will, more, uh, more elements to the placebo if you think about it like this If you think about the placebo, it’s a fake treatment, right? Now, there’s also something called the nocebo, which is when somebody takes the f- fake treatment, and basically what happens is they can have negative side effects.

So a person can have positive side effects or negative side effects from this fake treatment depending upon what they’re told. But if we look a little bit more closely, the, the effects can be very specific. So in other words, if somebody’s told that they could have a rash from the treatment, they could actually have a rash, and there can be a physical rash.

But if instead they’re told that it could give them headaches, they can have a headache. So if you think about it, there’s also a specific communication that is going on beyond just belief, meaning that how does that information get specifically communicated? And so that’s one way to think about it is kind of looking at, oh, there are, there are other factors behind it, if you will.

Um, if we make this really simple for a moment. I’m gonna shift gears. Hold on. So if we make this very, very, very simple, think about it like this. If you’ve ever heard of the four-minute mile where Roger Bannister back in like the 1950s. Prior to, prior to Ro- Roger Bannister, it was thought that it was humanly impossible to run a mile in less than four minutes.

Now, Roger Bannister broke that impossible record in the 1950s, and after he did it, several other people did it right after him. So the power of belief that it was possible was huge. It was a breakthrough and incredible. However, if you stop and think about it for a moment, I totally absolutely believe that people can run a mile in under four minutes.

Now, do thin- do I think that I can run a mile in under four minutes? Yes and no. If I really, really, really conditioned and tried for it, absolutely. You know? But instead of doing that right now, I, I enjoy working out. I enjoy pickleball. You know, those are the like lifting weights or a variety of different types of exercises that are different from necessarily running a mile in under four minutes.

Now, my point is, is I believe that I can do it, and yet there’s real change that needs to happen. There are real things that also need to, to do that. And, and the same with healing. You know, it was like I believed it could happen because I could see the evidence of the power of the mind, and yet When I initially started working on belief, I was working on the wrong type of belief.

So I was going, “Okay, I’m already healed. I’m grateful for my healing. I’m so grateful for my healing. I’m already healed. I’m already healed. Look at me healed. I see myself healed. I see myself…” And for years, and meditating on it and, and all of the things, and, and that wasn’t working. So that type of belief did not serve me.

And in fact, if you think about it, you know, I work with volunteers on my podcast all of the time. You know that. All, all of the time I work with volunteers on my podcast who have believed for many years of the power of the mind, that it could heal. And ever all of the time I hear people who say, you know, they believe in the power of the mind, and they’ve believed in the power of the mind for five, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40 years.

They’ve believed in it, and yet they hadn’t been able to get results. And then of course, I show them how to work with their mind in a different way, and then they’re able to get results. And so what you can see from this is that, yes, belief that you can do something is important. It can be very important because it’s going to help you to follow through.

Like, the only reason that I follow through is because I believed it was possible. Like, it… When I didn’t believe it was possible, I wasn’t gonna follow through. What would I follow through? I was going the other way. You know? I was just trying every single thing that I could find, but the more that I could see and believed it was possible and believed I could figure it out, I did.

Now, of course, it took me years. My whole injury was almost seven years, and so it took me years to figure it out. But that’s the point, is that if you look in your own life Look at the belief in yourself, the belief that you can do it, yes, but it’s not necessarily convincing yourself that you’re already healed.

And I just want to emphasize that because again, all of the time people, practitioners go, “Oh, healing is just the power of belief.” And so, so often I see people who have been stuck in that place. And, you know, if we take this a little bit more technical, we can also look at this. We can look at, you know, the communication between the mind and body.

And, you know, going back to the placebo, which is a positive effect, or the nocebo, that’s the negative effect, that somebody can take that fake treatment and have a positive or negative effect, and that communication, it communicates information to the body. Now, we can look at that and that communication, the way that I see it, happens in a couple different ways.

Of course, there are emotions. You know, if somebody has the placebo, they can have emotions about positive expectations, so there’s emotions. But again, it’s not just emotions because it can be very specific. Like in other words, um, if, if you think about the negative, the nocebo for a moment, and you think about How, you know, somebody takes it in their, their, they have a negative expectation.

Well, if it was just fear, maybe they would just have a panic attack or stress or worry. But it’s not just fear. Again, if they take a negative of the treatment, you know, the fake treatment, and then they are told they can have a headache, they can have a headache. If they’re told they can have a rash, a rash can, a physical rash can occur.

And so if you think about it, that specific communication is also occurring. Our bodies are absolutely incredible. Now, what I would say based on my own research is I would say what’s happening has to do with the energy of the body. That, and biophotons. Now, a lot of people, you hear me talk about this all the time, but a lot of people think that the energy of the body is just woo woo.

You know, it’s just some type of, uh, woo woo spiritual concept. But if we look at the energy of the body, there was actually discovered scientifically over 100 years ago by an, a scientist, Alexander Gerswich, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize 11 times for his discovery. And he’s… For a variety of different things regarding biophotons.

And back then, it was called mitogenetic radiation. But either way, my point is, is that it’s very much scientifically validated of there’s energy of the body, and there’s so much research going on behind the scenes on this energy of the body because it is absolutely incredible. Now, some people might say, “Well, how can energy of the body actually communicate information?”

Because, you know, the energy. But this is the way to think about it is like this, is if you think about your cell phone, you know, a cell phone. Um, but if you think about your cell phone for a moment, um, when we send a text message or when we call somebody, it can communicate, or internet can communicate across the world using fiber optics, which is what?

Which is light. Light energy, if you will. And we have biophotons in the body is light energy. So in other words- Our entire internet, the backbone of it, can run on fiber optics, which is light communication. And so we can send a text message across the world at about the speed of light because it’s traveling, can travel across light.

And so, so when you stop and think about it, we do communication throughout our life all of the time, emails, text messages, using light energy. And if we think about our bodies, our bodies emit a form of bio- of this energy is light energy. And so the way that I look at it is ultimately that this light energy is basically sending emails and text messages throughout our body, is a very simple way to think about it.

And so my point is just there’s so much communication going on at a deeper level that most people don’t realize. And so ultimately, we will want to go beyond the power of belief and really look at, you know, um, at what’s going on at a deeper level for healing, for transformation, for understanding the deeper level of communication of the subconscious mind and creating those changes.

And so that’s ultimately the way that I have been able to help people to get results, is by understanding the specifics. What is really going on at a deeper level in the subconscious mind, and then changing that communication. So that is the key. And, and if you think about it, earlier I mentioned that people with multiple personality disorder can have different illnesses in different per- personalities, and that that’s medically shown, and it’s absolutely incredible.

And if we stop and think about it, they each have different mindsets, different communications, if you will, going on at a deeper level. And so, um, not to go too far down the rabbit hole, but my point that I really want to emphasize is just this, is that belief is and can be very, very, very important. It can be very helpful, and we could call it belief, or we could call it positive expectation, okay?

Because ultimately, I had a positive expectation that I could figure out how to heal myself because I could see evidence of the power of the mind. So I had that positive expectation, if you will, that I could somehow figure it out And but I also had the wrong type of belief for a while, which was forcing myself or convincing myself that I was already healed, and that kept me stuck.

So when I stopped working on convincing myself that I was already healed and forcing that and let go and, and instead just kept the belief that I could figure it out and that it was possible, then I started to figure out what was going on in my own subconscious mind and that deeper communication and identifying that to get my body to heal itself.

And so food for thought and a invitation to think about this in your own life and even strengthen your belief that you can do it, that you’ve got this, you can do it, you can figure it out. So that’s one thing. And then, you know, something that was helpful in my own journey was just understanding the research and realizing this is possible.

You know, the more I saw, wait, there’s the placebo, there’s the nocebo, there’s spontaneous remission, there’s multiple personality disorder, there’s stress affects the physical body, you know. And, and so I could see the mind-body connection. And so even when I was told there was nothing else my doctors could do, and everybody said, you know, I’m stuck, and there was nothing else The more I saw the power of the mind body connection, the more I said, “Okay, this has to be possible.”

Especially some of the people with multiple personality disorder. There was a study of a woman who was medically blind in some personalities and not in others, and you could see the brain scans. And so just the fact that they, that if she could do that, I thought “Well, okay, if I could just figure it out.”

And again, it, it did. It took me years, so I don’t want to say it’s, it, it was just a belief that I could do it. Yes, that belief fueled me, and I had to understand and really create that change at a deeper level in my subconscious mind. So both are true. So going back to the four-minute mile, uh, with running a mile in under four minutes, it’s one thing to believe that it is possible.

That’s great. And then the second part is going, “Okay, now let me change and really get there.” And so what I’d invite you to do today is really, ultimately, is strengthen your belief, is strengthen your belief that you’ve got this and you can do that, and, and really focus on that type of belief. Because what happens is the more you believe you can, and not just that you’re forcing yourself to believe you are already healed, but the more you believe that you can, the more your brain wants to find the answers.

And so that can be really, really powerful. And so even if you just make a list of beliefs of reasons why you can do it, you can even, you know, just… And, and feel that, uh, that can help strengthen your belief that you’ve got this. And all of the time, I’ll see people who create those radical changes. Now, by the way, on that note, if you ask me have I ever worked with people who didn’t believe it was possible and still got results, yes, all of the time.

In fact, one of the … Well, a lot of the way that I actually even started, you know, my, with my work itself is after I healed I, myself, I took people who didn’t believe that they could heal and started showing them how to get results and, and to this day, I’ll speak at events. And from the, the stage, I’ll take somebody from the audience who is currently experiencing some type of pain and show them how to release it in minutes using the power of their own mind.

And, and in fact, if you’ve seen my work in the medical journal where I showed people How to release their own pain. You can see the before image where they have clearly have a lot of pain, you know, the, the image is all red and over their pain area, and then you can clearly see the image where it’s green, and their pain is gone, and they report, you know, no pain.

Now, one of the people, uh, in that study, he stood up afterwards and he said, “I cannot believe this actually worked.” He said because he had just left a 10-day meditation retreat, and prior to that, a five-day positive thinking workshop. So he was in a full belief that it wasn’t even possible. And, and so he was shocked.

Like, you could see the shock on his… He’s like, “I just can’t even believe that this worked.” And the other people also in the study, they, they weren’t told, i- if… They didn’t believe it was gonna work either. They were never even suggested. So I didn’t, in that study, I didn’t tell them, “Hey, we’re gonna work to release your pain.”

None of that. We just said, “Let’s have a conversation.” So they didn’t even know what the outcome was or what the proposed outcome was. It was never even suggested to their mind that that’s what we were going to do. I just started working with their mind to change their emotions and underlying m- factors in the mind, and their pain went away.

So my point is, it’s not that you necessarily need belief. It’s kinda like a, a simple way to think about it is like this, is that if somebody has anxiety, they can have a panic attack, and if they get rid of anxiety, the panic attacks can go away, and that can all happen whether they believe it’s gonna happen or not.

Nobody says, “I now believe I’m going to have a panic attack,” and then they have, “I now believe that I’m no longer gonna have one.” You know, a lot of times people are surprised by panic attacks. In fact, it’s actually really common that when a panic attack comes on, a lot of people may even think it’s a heart attack.

You know? There are a certain percentage of people will have a panic attack and they go to the emergency room because they think they’re having a heart attack. My point is, is that it’s not just belief. And so could a person do it without belief? Yes. Do I see it all of the time? Yes. Is that actually how I started my career in working with people and all of that?

Yes, because I just wanted to show people what was possible, and people didn’t believe it was even possible. And so all of the time I see people who are shocked. And so point being, you don’t have to believe, so I don’t want you to make you feel like you have to. You can keep going and r- and really work on creating the change.

But If you really, really, really believe that it’s possible and believe you can do it, it can help you to speed up results. It can help your mind figure it out, and it can help you follow through with even more effort and more follow through, which is going to be key for creating a real change in your life.

And so it can definitely be really helpful. And so those are the insights for today and, um, and creating just that deeper level of understanding of how it all works. So it has been such a pleasure connecting with you. And as always, I want to ask you, please do take just a quick moment to hit the share button on this episode.

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