Physical Effects of Negative Thoughts
In the early ‘80s, they were trying to bring this field down with something called “The Quackery Report.” They were aggressively coming after all of us. If they had succeeded, chiropractors wouldn’t be here anymore. It would only be allopathic doctors and pharmacies. They failed because millions of Americans wrote in and stopped it. They were shocked because they didn’t know so many were interested in freedom of health.
In that process, I had to go in front of Congress. They chose me as the nutritional guy. I brought in what they called 50 “anecdotal” cases in which the patients had all been healed of diseases they were told they were going to die from. I invited them, their children and families to sit in the room with me.
They chose Norman Cousens for the emotional stuff. At that point, he was a well-respected writer who had healed himself of an inoperable cardiovascular disease with mentality, laughter and joy. He was extremely bright and thought, “The doctor told me last week that I was going to die, and now he tells me I don’t even have any sign of this. Do you think it was a fact that I didn’t want to cry so much so I put comedies on and laughed for a week?”
He delved into it and had some support from the psychiatric and medical communities. This included people like Bernie Seigel and other open-minded doctors. They actually hired him at UCLA as a visiting professor because he was such an auditor. His classes were so well attended that they had ten times more students apply than could get in the class.
He did something brilliant before getting up in front of Congress and speaking. He went into one room and convinced over 60 students that they were on barbiturates at a clinical level, that they would go to sleep. His doctors injected them with amphetamines and left the room. He went down the hallway and told another group that they were on amphetamines, would be running around at night and wouldn’t be able to sleep. Then he gave them all clinical levels of barbiturates. Well over half the group in each case acted just like he told them they would.
He said, “We have volumes and volumes of information about what negative thought does to the human body and the causative effective disease. We have very little on the power of the mind and what it can do to change you. Here’s a study that I’ve conducted in the last two weeks at UCLA.” He blew them right over.
They were sitting there with their mouths open. When they started up with us, we said, “You may call them ‘anecdotal,’ but do they look like your wife, husband or children? Now ask yourself if your wife and children are anecdotal. All of these people were told that they were going to die, and here they sit today healthy.”
It wasn’t the speech that stopped it, but it was the millions of people writing in. They would have walked over us like a bulldozer.
Carl Simonton was the first doctor at both the Universities of Oregon and Texas that went out on the street and could pick people with cancer out. One of my plagues is that in any city, I don’t look up because I diagnose people. Every doctor does that. You have to look down. You can’t look at people or you’ll go nuts.
Carl would go on the streets in Texas and ask people if they had cancer and whether they could spend five or 10 minutes with him. This was in the ‘70s when Pacman was big. He said to them, “Close your eyes and picture Pacman eating your cancer.”
Shockingly, he proved that within five minutes, the cancer cell rate in everyone’s body dropped on average 10%. That’s how powerful the human mind is.
There was a recent study reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), where they took nine people, told them all that they needed pancreatic removal and only removed half of them. Everyone except one acted like they had their pancreas removed. All their symptoms were gone. In the group that didn’t have it taken out, four acted as if there was nothing wrong.
How many people know of a grandfather, uncle or the guy down the street that was married 50 years, then three days after his the wife dies the husband dies as well? It’s not the physical body in those cases. It’s the mind.
There is an inseparable connection between mind and body. Until we grow up and mature in all areas of medicine, you’re going to be screwed as a patient.