Healing the Body and the Mind

I've come across very encouraging news regarding healing that is taking place for people who had previously been paralyzed due to physical injury.


To grossly oversimplify, the doctors and scientists created an exoskeletal machine that was responsive to the patient's brain waves. This meant the person who was paralyzed could cause paralyzed parts of his body to move by using his mind to move the machine.  When the patients began to regularly use the machine to walk and move, after a while something unexpected happened. The people began to regain some movement  and feeling in the previously paralyzed areas. They began to heal! They also regained some control over their bladder and bowel functions.


By simulating and re-creating the experience of moving and walking again, the brain was stimulated and caused to rewire it's connections.  The body and the brain began to repair it's connections and the muscles that had atrophied below the severed injured areas began to respond.  This effect was not expected by the doctors, but it is very encouraging because instead of just simulating the experience of  movement through an exoskeletal robotic mechanism, these people are actually beginning to heal! This is fantastic!


The difference with this therapy versus other therapies that just move the body, is that the brain was involved. That causes the brain to repair and rewire it's connections. The human body was designed to heal itself, because life is a positive experience. If it were not innately positive, no one would be able to survive.


Life is a miracle! The fact that you are here is a miracle!  If life we're not good, not only would you not be able to survive, you wouldn't want to.  Life and time relentlessly move forward because there is only one direction.  No matter what happens, there is always tomorrow.


This medical miracle is a metaphor for all of life's troubles. Don't forget to get your head in the game. You have to believe and you have to engage your mind no matter how much the odds seem stacked against you. Just do something positive; think something positive.  Make the effort; plant the seed of faith and watch what grows.


❤️ CAT