The role of faith in healing

 Healing has always been a topic of great interest since the beginning of times. There are many references of healing in  the Bible and other Holy Texts.

Let's take two example from the Bile. Mark 10:51 "And answering him, Jesus said, “What do you want Me to do for you?” And the blind man said to Him, “Rabboni, I want to regain my sight!” 52And Jesus said to him, “Go; your faith has made you well.” Immediately he regained his sight and began following Him on the road."
 Another instance:"But Jesus said, ‘Someone touched Me; I know that power has gone out from Me.’ The woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at His feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched Him and how she had been instantly healed. Then He said to her, ‘Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace’” (Luke 8:43-47).

Growing up in France, I heard so many stories of people going to Lourdes, in the South, near the Pyrenees mountains, and being healed. This has been going on since 1858, 153 years and so called "miracles' are still occurring nowadays.
I was always intrigued about how healing happens.

Reading those quotes again, it seems that faith has a lot to do with it. Jesus could have easily said : "I healed you" or "God healed you" but he did not. Instead he said: "Your faith has made you well." So healing comes from within. Each one of us has that power to heal.

We are all familiar with the placebo effect, when people participate in a study for some new medication and get better even though their "medicine" was just a sugar pill. "Expectation is a powerful thing," says Robert DeLap, M.D., head of one of the Food and Drug Administration's Offices of Drug Evaluation. "The more you believe you're going to benefit from a treatment, the more likely it is that you will experience a benefit."

 There again, belief plays an important part in the healing process.
A definition of belief is: "a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing."

Albert Einstein said, “All conditions and all circumstances in our lives are a result of a certain level of thinking. If we change the conditions and circumstances, we have to change the level of thinking that is responsible.” When someone is ill, they may 'change the condition and circumstance' by getting the appropriate treatment but  they also need to 'change their level of thinking' by seeing themselves well instead of ill. Therefore the mind is definitely a key player in this equation.

In the book The Emotion Code, Dr. Bradley Nelson also talks about the power of belief. He writes: "Remember that all things are accomplished by faith and belief and , if you have a little faith, you'll see great things happen."

I can say with confidence that I have witnessed great things happening with this healing modality. People are so very grateful to have had trapped emotions that were sabotaging their life for so long, released, gone for good. Their own faith is also a great contributor to their emotional healing.
On the other hand, if someone does not believe that the healing modality works for them, guess what? It won't.
So for those who believe it will work and those who believe it won't: they have one thing in common.
They are both right.

©Doris Crompton