The Cure?

     Today I'm stepping off the cat/dog blog train to take a ride on the thought train.

     There is a technology in this era that is even better than sliced bread, although I know there is probably a couple of generations who have grown up believing bread has always been sliced.  I would even be willing to place a wager that this one simple thing could save humanity and cure many illnesses.

     What is this fantastic wonder?  The ability to pause live TV.

     There is nothing better than to sit down to watch a favorite television show, that has been paused for about an hour, and be able to skip through all of the commercials.  

     The reason I believe this is the answer to saving life on the planet is because almost every commercial is about some new medicine and their very long list of side effects.  I was going to write down all the medicine commercials the other evening, but there were so many I was afraid I would have all the ailments by the end of the night.  There was even a commercial for a treatment of an ailment that you do not have........WHAT?

     In her book, E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Reality, Pam Grout recalls a story from another book, The Biology of Belief, by Bruce Lipton, a cell biologist who used to teach at Stanford University. A doctor conducting some research took two groups of patients who had knee problems.  The first group had knee surgery, the second group thought they had knee surgery.  The second group simply had an incision made to look as though they had gone under the knife. The results?  Both groups got better.  THAT was a pretty powerful placebo!

     The mind is a wonderful thing but it is the beliefs it holds that either keep us down or make us soar to new heights.  Those thoughts and beliefs can also make us sick.  This is not to say we should doubt all medical miracles.  Mother was a prodigy of modern medicine, living far longer than her siblings or her parents. She also believed that all the bottles of pills, and there were lots of them, made her better.  Mother also had a friend, who was about the same age, who quit taking all her medicine, and this person lived a very long life too.  My youngest daughter, who is studying to become a doctor of chiropractic, has learned that practically every ailment is due to stress.  Where does the stress come from?  It comes from what goes on between our ears and what we choose to believe as truth.

     My hope is for everyone who has the ability to pause live TV to do so.  Fast forward through all those commercials!  Don't let those ads plant a seed of doubt in your grey matter.  There are far more wonderful things to think about and getting sick shouldn't be one of them.