The Mind

It is clear to see the theme in Walsh, Pearce, and Hughes as mind over body. While i agreed with most of the readings such as Hughes saying music would not take a person into an altered state the individual must want to go to that altered state before it can take take place. Pearce also struck me with the women that was sick and lost alot of weight. The doctors put her into a hypnosis state and apparently easily balanced herself with her head on one chair and hells on another perfectly straight. I never before believed the mind could heal the body my idea was medicate, medicate, medicate!! While my wife was in the hospital and the doctors found cancer in her brain she looked at me and said, "thank god they found out what it was so how good are my chanches". At the time I was in shock i didnt know what to do, but she was as calm as could be without an ounce of fear in her body. Throughout the following weeks she always kept a positive outlook. She had her procedure completed to remove the cancer three weeks ago and after living at her parents place for a few weeks I am happy to report i got to pick her up this past Thursday and bring her home. The point of my story is even though the doctors caught the cancer very early her recovery time from the procedure to remove the cancer was supossed to take up to 3 months. She is fully recovered in less than 1 and I believe it is attributed to her telling her self she would be just fine. The overall feeling i get from these three readings is the mind is a very powerful tool if the individual understands how to control it. I also liked how Walsh ties in Shaminism, (I understand i ripped Shamans pretty hard in my last blog) but after my wifes ordeal the way Shamans use the different states of mind is very ingenious.