True Healing Power
Have you been praying for healing but can’t seem to get a breakthrough? Wonder where God is and feel like he has abandoned you? Been suffering from physical illness such as cancer, heart disease, MS, Parkinson’s, etc. or emotional pain such as anxiety or depression?
If you have been suffering from any type of disease, disorder, etc. you are not alone, and this article is designed to help you understand why you are “sick” and why you are not experiencing any answers to your prayers.
Before we dive in it important to understand why you are sick and what sickness truly is. Without fully understanding the root cause of your illness or suffering, it is likely your condition will stay the same, or in many cases get worse.
Why We Get Sick
We don’t get sick by random chance. God doesn’t punish us with sickness and sickness would not exist if it weren’t for us bringing it into the world. All human suffering was brought on by us and was never in God’s plan. Note: This is absolutely vital to understand if you want to experience healing.
We get sick because we are out of alignment, not because God is punishing us, and certainly not because he doesn’t care about us. When we are experiencing physical or emotional pain, our bodies are telling us that our heart and our brain are out of alignment. This happens when we put ourselves and our personal needs in front of the needs of others. When this happens, God is left somewhere in the mix, but never at the forefront.
You may be wondering how in the world this has anything to do with sickness, but trust me, it has everything to do with it. When our focus is out of alignment, we naturally follow our earthly desires and not God’s plan for our lives. We adopt unhealthy habits including eating and drinking things that are harmful to our bodies, we overwork our bodies to the point of exhaustion, allow self-defeating thoughts to enter and take control of our minds, and fear becomes our primary motivating factor in life. This all happens without us even realizing it consciously, but it has devastating consequences to our emotional and physical health
God is very clear that we are to put him first, people second, and ourselves third. This is a universal law and it is in place for good reason. When we follow this law, everything in our lives flows easily and sickness and disease do not exist.
So What Is Sickness?
As mentioned previously, all sickness and diseases are simply a misalignment between our heart and our brain causing our bodies to fall out of homeostasis. This happens when our bodies produce the stress hormone called cortisol, causing chemical reactions in our body which activate the sympathetic nervous system and causes neuropathic connections in the brain to function improperly. When this happens, our bodies go into a fight or flight response, everything tenses up, and our hormonal balances become out of alignment. This is the breeding ground for every type of physical and emotional disorder.
As we begin to train our brains and bodies to live under the stress hormone, neuropathic connections that once functioned properly begin to fire improperly and we begin to lose coherence between our hearts and our brains as a result.
Thoughts are extremely powerful and thought alone can actually alter our body’s chemistry and, believe it or not, are the root cause of every sickness and disease.
So You’re Telling Me I Can Heal Myself By Eliminating Stress?
In short, yes. You are not actually healing yourself; you are reestablishing homeostasis within the body, which allows the healing power of the Devine to become activated. Although there are other factors such as how we take care of our bodies, external environmental factors such as the nutrition available to us, etc., the single most important piece to seeing healing begin in your body is regaining coherence between your brain and your body.
So How Do I Do This?
Great question, but I want to forewarn you that you might not like the answer as is it not something you can just try once and be healed. It requires constant dedication and a complete life transformation.
We have to rewire our brains in order to begin healing inside of our bodies. Remember, the only way to be healed is to regain homeostasis between the heart and brain.
The first way to begin this transformation is through prayer and meditation. We will not get in depth in meditation here (although you can learn more about this topic by clicking here), but spending time in solitude with God and yourself is the best way to begin healing your body. During meditation, we want to focus on changing our thinking to thoughts of love, peace, compassion, kindness, joy, etc. These thoughts trigger new parts of our brain to fire and begin to slowly eliminate cortisol from being produce causing new neuropathic connections to begin forming. Although there is much more to be learned on this topic, this is the basics of how meditation works.
The second thing to look into is neuroplasticity, which is the rewiring of the brain. In the past, scientists used to believe that by the time we reached age 30 we had already formed all of the neuropathic connections in our brains and no new connections could be formed. Ever heard of the old saying “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?” As science has proven, this statement is inherently false. In the late 1980’s scientific breakthroughs found that not only can we form new neurological connections, but we can also actually completely rewire every single neuropathic connection in our brain, literally creating an entirely new brain.
The third way to begin this transformation is to stay conscious of our thoughts all day. This is called “awakening” where we no longer allow our subconscious programs to run our lives. This takes extreme dedication, but the more present we are, the more conscious decisions we can make in changing our thought patterns.
These are just a few ways to begin this healing transformation, but it is important to note that this is not a quick fix. This takes great dedication and requires a complete life transformation. Oh, and by the way, this will not only heal you but will give you more love, joy, and compassion you ever imagined possible!
So Where Does God Come In?
Great question. God works when we work. When we get up and take the first step, he is there to guide us and show us the way. When we follow his path, he begins to lead us exactly where we need to go and do exactly what we need to do to begin being healed. His power does not come to fruition on this earth until we take the first step in faith. When we do, extraordinary things begin to happen, and miracles happen right before our eyes.
We can’t be healed without the power of God, but he doesn’t begin healing us until we take the first step in faith.
God Is Omnipotent. He Should Be Able To Heal Me With The Snap Of His Finger.
Could God heal us immediately of any disease without our interaction? Certainly. But it turns out he is a pretty wise guy and he knows that if he heals us before we have made a life transformation, the problem will be right back to surface.
God doesn’t want us to be temporarily fixed. He wants our souls to be healed from the inside out. When we get our brain and hearts in tune, sickness and diseases cannot survive within our bodies and God’s power can truly be expressed in and through us.
Asking God for healing while we sit back and continue the same destructive lifestyle is like a child asking their parents for ice cream after they did the very thing their parents told them not to do for the hundredth time. Would you reward your child for partaking in a behavior that you know is destructive to their lives? Of course not, you would discipline them because you love them and don’t want to see them continually destroy their lives.
So What Now?
So if we know that thoughts produce emotions that produce chemicals in our bodies that throw us out of homeostasis, then wouldn’t it make sense that these thoughts have to be changed before our bodies can change? Albert Einstein famously said, “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results”. If you have hit a wall and your prayers aren’t being answered, consider that maybe God is waiting for you to take the first step so he can heal you and bring you back to life.