New Healthy Habits

One of the foundation books in my work is “The Everything Self-Hypnosis Book: Learn to use your mental power to take control of your life” by Rene A Bastarache.

What I particularly like about this book….

• Easy to read and to apply.
• Many hypnosis scripts
• Introducing advanced concepts, that I could follow up on in other books.
• The concept of daily reinforcement of a new healthy habit.

Please see below for more information –

http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Self-Hypnosis-Book-mental-control/dp/1598698354

Comment if you want.  Good health to you!

For a free mind/body healing tool, please see “The Virtual Healing Machine” - https://sites.google.com/site/thevirtualhealingmachine/

Any and all of my communications is not medical advice. See full disclaimers at site above.

The Anatomy of Hope

In designing The Virtual Healing Machine, I wanted to emphasize hope.  I think hope is a “medicine” in itself.  I also think that hope is the essence of the “placebo effect”.

To learn more about hope, I read and studied a lot.  I wanted to understand hope, much like an engineer reverse-engineers a device. 

The best book I’ve found so far is “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness” by Jerome Groopman.  I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to help others heal from the inside out.

I wanted The Virtual Healing Machine to “exude hope”, hence I designed the  green “hope” lights, the “flicker of hope”, and the moving green dots.

Please see below for more information –

http://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Hope-People-Prevail-Illness/dp/0375506381

hope - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope

Comment if you want.  Good health to you!

For a free mind/body healing tool, please see “The Virtual Healing Machine” - https://sites.google.com/site/thevirtualhealingmachine/

Any and all of my communications is not medical advice. See full disclaimers at site above.

Make your own Virtual Healing Machine with "Virtual Hypnotist"

 “Virtual Hypnotist” helped me develop the working foundation for The Virtual Healing Machine. 

From link below….“Virtual Hypnotist is a free, open source, interactive hypnosis program…..It includes features such as voice recognition, speech synthesis, subliminal messages, completely customizable scripts (featuring a unique scripting language), videos, audio, and lots more. Its purpose is to simulate a real hypnosis session as much as possible.”

If you don’t like what I’ve done in The Virtual Healing Machine, you might try “Virtual Hypnotist”.  Check on the internet or libraries for self-hypnosis scripts for your particular health condition.

Please see below for more information - 

http://vhypno.sourceforge.net/

Comment if you want.  Good health to you!

For a free mind/body healing tool, please see “The Virtual Healing Machine” - https://sites.google.com/site/thevirtualhealingmachine/

Any and all of my communications is not medical advice. See full disclaimers at site above.

Secondary Gains can delay healing

It is known that sickness can provide benefits and can delay recovery.  This is known as Secondary Gain or Secondary Handicap.  Some examples are below.

• get extra attention
• others treat you special
• make people do what you want them to do using sickness
• get extra benefits or money
• excused from doing things

The words spoken in The Virtual Healing Machine are suggestions to decrease secondary gains and increase healing.

For more information, please see below

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_and_secondary_gain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_resistance

Comment if you want......Good health to you!

For a free mind/body healing tool, please see “The Virtual Healing Machine” - https://sites.google.com/site/thevirtualhealingmachine/

Any and all of my communications is not medical advice. See full disclaimers at site above.

"Reinventing Medicine" and The Virtual Healing Machine

About 5 years ago, I was attracted to (led to?) a book that got me to thinking of The Virtual Healing Machine.  This book was "Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing" by Larry Dossey.  

In that book, Mr. Dossey describes three historical eras of healing.  

Era 1 medicine (mechanical medicine), 

Era 2 medicine (psychosomatic medicine), and 

Era 3 medicine (nonlocal medicine).

The Virtual Healing Machine provides Era 2 and Era 3 concepts.  Self-hypnosis and the placebo effect are Era 2 concepts.  Era 3 concepts are portrayed with the little antenna on the top of The Virtual Healing Machine.

Era 1 concepts are provided by healthcare professionals, medicines, and treatments, etc.  

Sometime, I hope we see a true integration of Eras 1,2,3 in total health care.  Integrative Medicine is a big step in that direction.  I also predict there will be an integration of healthcare professionals and patients working much closer together. (mind to mind communication?)

For more information see -  

http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Medicine-Beyond-Mind-Body-Healing/dp/0062516221

http://www.dosseydossey.com/larry/book.html

Comment if you want......Good health to you!

For a free mind/body healing tool, please see “The Virtual Healing Machine” - https://sites.google.com/site/thevirtualhealingmachine/

Any and all of my communications is not medical advice. See full disclaimers at site above.

Subliminal Messages that assist in Healing.....Replacing sickness with health

The mind can listen to multiple conversations, similar to being at a party.  The mind absorbs all the conversations yet focuses on the words of most meaning at the time.  This is the basis for recording multiple simultaneous voices with hypnosis.  This principle is also used in subliminal messages.   

The Virtual Healing Machine uses multiple voices in some of the modules.

For more information, please see below….

• The Everything Self-Hypnosis Book: Learn to use your mental power to take control of your life by Rene A Bastarach - pages 72-74 - http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Self-Hypnosis-Book-mental-control/dp/1598698354

• Subliminal Stimuli - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli

 

Comment if you want......Good health to you!

For a free mind/body healing tool, please see “The Virtual Healing Machine” - https://sites.google.com/site/thevirtualhealingmachine/

Any and all of my communications is not medical advice. See full disclaimers at site above.

Hypnosis help Coma Patients?

Perhaps the Virtual Healing Machine could help some coma patients in the future.   

I’m interested and doing research.  I'll keep you posted.

I found “Coma: Awakening Loved Ones with Hypnosis” by Iris K. Barratt - http://www.amazon.com/Coma-Awakening-Loved-Ones-Hypnosis/dp/1893087166

I got my copy of the tape by contacting Ms. Barratt.

  

Good health to you!

 

For a free mind/body healing tool, please see “The Virtual Healing Machine” - https://sites.google.com/site/thevirtualhealingmachine/

Any and all of my communications is not medical advice. See full disclaimers at site above.

Virtual Medicine

You might find the 2011 USPA conference “Virtual Medicine” of interest.   I’m not going this year.   

Last year I found Dr. Norm Shealy of great interest.  At that time, I told Dr. Shealy of my plans to make a "pain dimmer".  That was the "thought seed" that led to me making The Virtual Healing Machine.

Also learned lots about near death experiences, which I think are helping me form my mind-body-spirit theories.  It seems like life/death is a continuum rather than abrupt ending.

For USPA conference information see http://www.psychotronics.org/

Norm Shealy - http://www.normshealy.com/

 

Good health to you!

For a free mind/body healing tool, please see “The Virtual Healing Machine” - https://sites.google.com/site/thevirtualhealingmachine/

Any and all of my communications is not medical advice. See full disclaimers at site above.

“The healing power of belief can be very strong.”

The book “Where there is no Doctor”, Chapter 1 discusses Popular Beliefs.   

See quote “The healing power of belief can be very strong.” on page 2 for book above.  I think this is the essence of mind-body healing.  Some call this placebo effect if it helps.  On the other hand, if it hurts it might be called the nocebo effect.  

For more information on this book, see - http://www.hesperian.org/index.php

Some beliefs help, beliefs hurt.   

Placebo Effect (good stuff) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo

Nocebo Effect (bad stuff) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo

Good health to you!

For a free mind/body healing tool, please see “The Virtual Healing Machine” - https://sites.google.com/site/thevirtualhealingmachine/

Any and all of my communications is not medical advice. See full disclaimers at site above.

Mind over matter to heal paralysis

Did you know that Milton Erickson healed himself of polio paralysis using his mind?  Mind over matter.  Below are some excerpts from the link below.

"Erickson frequently drew upon his own experiences to provide examples of the power of the unconscious mind.....At age 17, he contracted polio and was so severely paralyzed that the doctors believed he would die. In the critical night when he was at his worst, he had another formative "autohypnotic experience"...."

See link for more information - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_H._Erickson#Personal_history

This story is one of many mind-body healings to give me confidence in going ahead with The Virtual Healing Machine.  

Good health to you!

For a free mind/body healing tool, please see “The Virtual Healing Machine” - https://sites.google.com/site/thevirtualhealingmachine/

Any and all of my communications is not medical advice. See full disclaimers at site above.

New to mind-body healing?

For my work, I’m not so concerned with how or why it works.  I’m more interested in making it work better and more consistently.

Mind-body may refer to:

• Mind-body connection, a medical model
• Mind-body dichotomy, a philosophy of mind
• Mind-body exercise, a form of exercise that combines body movement with mental focus
• Mind-body intervention, an alternative medicine

• Bodymind

Somewhere I heard a prominent doctor in the U.S. Government Health Department say something like….if we could just harness the placebo effect, this would be good.  I can’t find the quote right now, maybe you as a reader know of it.  If so, please share.

Good health to you!

For a free mind/body healing tool, please see “The Virtual Healing Machine” - https://sites.google.com/site/thevirtualhealingmachine/

Any and all of my communications is not medical advice. See full disclaimers at site above.

How to learn to relax via biofeedback

You might know that stress causes or aggravates some health conditions.  It makes sense to relax to improve health, but the average person might not know how.  Here’s a little device to help you learn to relax.  Available for the general public – prescription not needed.  I got mine from Amazon.

GSR-2 Stress Monitor  http://www.thoughttechnology.com/gsr.htm

GSR explained - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Galvanic_skin_response

Good health to you!

For a free mind/body healing tool, please see “The Virtual Healing Machine” - https://sites.google.com/site/thevirtualhealingmachine/

Any and all of my communications is not medical advice. See full disclaimers at site above.

Subconscious as a “hidden observer”

Did you know your subconscious could be viewed as a “hidden observer”?  This part of you can learn to block pain…or ignore useless noise…etc.  Fascinating!  Here are some links to learn more….

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ernest_Hilgard

http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/~bwhitlow/Courses/Consciousness/pochypnosis3rev.pdf

The Virtual Healing Machine - https://sites.google.com/site/thevirtualhealingmachine/ All this is not medical advice. See full disclaimers at site above.

Healing from the Inside Out

Hello All -

Instead of just reading, talking, and writing about the mind-body connection, I thought it would be handy to have an actual tool - a free tool available to anyone - just click and play anywhere in the world - anytime of the day or night.  Here is what I made....The Virtual Healing Machine.   

This is a one-year experiment.  As time goes on, I'll share my learnings and progress.  

Let me know if you have similar interests.  Comment if you want.
  

Best Wishes

Tom