The Mechanism of Miracles

Alright world changers -

Today’s post is all about harnessing the power of the mind to heal the body, and y'all might want to buckle your seatbelts because we’re taking this magic school bus head first into the so-called land of “woo-woo”.

Let's start here: It is my awareness that ALL human spirits have been imbued with the same core characteristics. We all have:

1. Creative power

2. Resilience and strength

3. The ability to heal

4. A limitless capacity to give and receive love

This is our spiritual inheritance. If you are a human, then you have these capabilities. Yet most of us express just a sliver of these spiritual capacities in our day-to-day lives. Why? Because we suck at receiving. Why do we suck at receiving? Beliefs.

Our spirit is not confined within our human body. Our human body is confined within our spirit. We’re literally steeped in spiritual essence, but we can’t utilize it if we don’t let it in. When we use our mind correctly we open the door for spirit to flood our inner world, but when we hold beliefs that are incompatible with our spiritual nature, we slam the door shut.

Eventually, I will do a blog post that thoroughly covers how to manifest more of these 4 aspects of the human spirit, but for today’s purposes, we are just going to focus on #3, our inherent ability to heal.

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The pesky placebo effect

When I start talking about using the mind to heal the body, peoples’ first reaction is often something like, “Naw that’s unrealistic. It’s weird. It’s rare. It’s mystical.” This is evidence of shitty conditioning. The powers that be like to keep you looking outside of yourself for solutions, because if you look inside, you might just discover your damn near limitless potential. GOD FORBID.

The reality is that humans healing themselves through the power of belief alone is not something that’s up for debate. It’s such a widespread phenomenon that in order for a medical research study to be considered “gold standard”, it must have a placebo group.

Let’s think about that for a second - there are well over 100,000 gold-standard research studies that have been published to date, and each one shows that humans can experience real improvements in their health after receiving a treatment that has absolutely no therapeutic value. THAT. IS. WILD. Why does the medical community just gloss over that fact like it’s inconsequential?!?!?

If I was in research, I’d want to study one thing and one thing only - how to optimize the placebo effect. Call me crazy, but I have hope that one day humans won’t need to believe in a sugar pill in order to heal, they’ll just believe in themselves.

I should also mention that the placebo effect doesn’t just fool a person into feeling better. Countless studies report measurable physiologic changes in placebo groups such as increased white blood cell activity, decreased blood pressure, elevated levels of endorphins (natural pain killers), modulation of neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine, so on and so forth…

Should we treat the cause

...or put bandaids on symptoms?

I was talking to the most brilliant six-year-old recently, and after covering the essential topics of dinosaurs and bugs, I asked him this: “When people get sick, do you think it’s important to fix the cause of their sickness?” He looked at me like I had just sprouted a unicorn horn and said, “…DUH, MICA.”

So, that’s pretty neat. My six-year-old buddy acknowledges the importance of treating the root cause of disease, and to him, it’s common sense. Yet, the majority of healthcare professionals ignore the root cause, and instead, put bandaids on symptoms.

What’s up with that? Well, our healthcare system is built on the premise that if we have a physical problem, it must be due to a physical cause. This is great logic if we were talking about fixing automobiles, but it’s ignorant AF when applied to human beings. Fortunately there’s an entire field of science helping materialists loosen their grip on rigid, archaic beliefs that have held humanity back long enough - YAY FOR EPIGENETICS!!!

Epigenetics investigates the influence of external factors on human gene expression and - surprise, surprise - research in this field has shown that our thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and behaviors can activate or deactivate the expression of specific genes, either leading to wellness or disease.

I think we need a genetics metaphor:

Our actual DNA sequence is like the words printed in a book, whereas epigenetic factors are like whiteout and a highlighter. If the book has a spelling error, or it’s missing a word, or it accidentally put the same word twice, epigenetics can’t help you. You can whiteout and highlight all you want, but it does not change the fact that there’s an error in the print. Out of the 69,000 diagnosable conditions you can have, only 2% of them are expressed in the DNA sequence itself (meaning these conditions are NOT modifiable by epigenetic factors). As for the other 98%…they are fair game. Highlighting and whiteouting amplifies or minimizes portions of the text leading to increased or decreased expression of the genes the text codes for.

Dr. Bruce Lipton, a cellular biologist and world-renown author and speaker, postulates that the majority of the population comes into this world with genetic material encoded with the potential of health, and it’s lifestyle choices (which are informed by our beliefs) that largely contribute to the rampant manifestation of disease in our society.¹ Perhaps the abnormalities we identify at the cellular level and deem as causative are actually just downstream effects of a deeper issue – an issue that starts in the mind…

Time for some personal stories. And then, draw your own conclusions…

Story #1 – The Healing Miracle

When I started high school, I got sick, and I stayed sick for the next 4 years. It began with breathing problems. My medical record described it as "clinically uncontrollable asthma". I was on the strongest asthma control regimen, which involved taking multiple doses of aerosolized medications and oral meds each day, yet I was still symptomatic and having attacks. Over the next 4 years, I came down with pneumonia 4 separate times, rocky mountain spotted fever (a tickborne illness that ravaged my body for six months straight), costochondritis, vocal cord dysfunction, and the list of ambiguous diagnoses goes on and on. When I wasn’t receiving treatment for a specific condition, I often had rashes covering my torso – either big pink blotches or small red spots that would spontaneously start bleeding. I’d go to the doctor and they would tell me it’s a sign of immune system overload. They would draw blood and find elevated inflammatory markers (ANA, CRP, and ESED rates), yet my symptom profile didn’t match any known autoimmune disorder. I was told by doctors over and over again that there was nothing they could do for me. I was always tired, sore, and had issues regulating my body temperature, but the worst part – by far – was the hopelessness.

That all changed the summer after graduating high school. I found a source of hope, but it wasn’t from doctors. It was from my newly established faith in a higher power - God, Universe, Source, Physics, whatever you want to call it.  At that time, I was just finishing up a course of antibiotics for pneumonia, and I was still experiencing severe asthma symptoms - particularly when I’d try to run, which was problematic because I had committed to run college track in the fall.

In any case, one day while reading the Bible, I had this experience in which I felt unconditional love enter my body. It was a visceral experience, and in that moment, I went from believing I was hopeless, unworthy, unloved, and alone to KNOWING there was a powerful force that wanted me on this earth, that knew everything about me (the good, the bad, and the ugly), yet still loved me immensely and deemed me valuable. While marinating in the implications of this new awareness, I asked for healing, and in my heart, I knew that it had happened.

The next day before my run, I didn’t take any of my inhalers or medications in faith. I trusted God to provide me with all the oxygen I needed to get through my workout, and that’s exactly what happened.

I haven’t used an inhaler since…and what’s more is that it is now 8 years later and all I’ve experienced in terms of sickness is one mild cold.

I used to think that was a healing miracle – an isolated incident, specific to me and my situation. I no longer believe that to be true.

I feel that my life purpose is to help people get to a place where they can experience healing of the mind, body, and spirit – and while praying about how to do that, I received an answer in my heart: “You already know”. And then the story I just shared with you came to mind. God showed me that this wasn’t an isolated incident, but rather a blueprint I can use to help facilitate healing for others.

See, a miracle was involved, but it wasn’t the healing.

The miracle is the human design. The miracle is here. The miracle is now. The miracle already exists. The miracle is already happening.

When we come into alignment with this miracle - our immaculate design - by aligning our beliefs, healing naturally occurs - it becomes the predictable result.

I understand that what I just said pretty much goes against everything accepted in our society, yet I know it to be true. I’ve seen time and time again how reorienting beliefs can create the conditions for health and healing in our bodies. My doctors told me my situation was hopeless. I’m telling you there is hope. When things go wrong in our body, I’d like to gently suggest that it’s nothing to fight, resist, or feel guilty about. But rather, it is simply a message sent with love from our higher-self presenting us with an opportunity to heal, grow, and step into alignment with our incredible design.

I’m not at all suggesting you avoid conventional treatment for physical ailments. Rather, I’m a proponent of seeking treatment while concurrently asking yourself, “What is the message here? Where in this situation is there an opportunity to learn and to grow? Where might I be deviating from design?” You may not like the answers you get to these questions. This process can undoubtedly be a challenge, but the changes you will be implored to make can only yield positive results in your life. And remember, you are not alone, but there is a powerful, loving force that is with you every second of every day. It is closer to you than your own breath, supporting you throughout your healing journey.

Story #2 – Root Cause Analysis

One morning a couple of months ago, I woke up with a crazy eye situation. My eye was severely blood shot, my eyelid was extremely swollen, it felt like there were chards of glass on the inside of my lid, and every couple of minutes my eye would start uncontrollably watering. One thing you learn in medical school is that when you have an eye situation that is affecting both the eyelid and the eyeball itself - it’s no bueno. The list of possible diagnoses shifts towards the severe end of the spectrum.

And the timing wasn’t great. I had med school exams to study for, and that evening I was scheduled to tutor a group of first year students in physiology; however, the pain in my eye was extremely distracting and the tears were obscuring my vision so much that I couldn’t effectively study. I also didn’t particularly have time to find an eye doctor and sort my insurance out.

Now, when I get headaches, injuries, or any other weird physical issue, I see it as an opportunity to test out my theories. In the last story, I talked about deviating from design…What do I mean by that? Well, it’s my awareness that we were designed to give and receive love, and ultimately become the embodiment of love itself.

I’ve found that if I dig deep enough, the root cause of ALL my physical issues IS a lack of love – lack of love for myself, my people, my circumstances, God, the gift of life, or it can also be my inability to receive love. This “lack of love” theory is also supported by the fact that I’ve seen the application of love move bones back into alignment, cure cancer, and heal chronic pain (these stories are for another time).

In any case, my eye situation was only getting worse – approaching the point of being swollen shut. So, I sat down and asked myself, “Where is the lack of love?”

I came up with 3 possibilities: First, I was angry at the man in my life, and I needed to forgive. Secondly, I wasn’t particularly loving my circumstances that week because I thought the material I was learning in school was useless (so I needed to find something to appreciate about the content to shift my perspective). And thirdly, I wasn’t really loving myself – I was having a “fat week”, I was choosing sugary/processed foods, I was bloated, my skin was breaking out, and I wasn’t seeing myself through God’s eyes as the radiant, beautiful, miracle that I am.

So, I did what I needed to do to restore love in those 3 areas of my life. Then I did about five minutes of energy work on myself (I’ll discuss my “brand” of energy work in a future post, but basically I just felt God’s love tangibly in my heart, as I did in story #1, and I sent that heart energy to my eye with healing intention). Then I fell asleep for an hour. When I woke up, my eye was 75% better, and by the time I had to tutor that evening, it was 100% resolved.

I started testing this process out a year ago, and I have not had a single headache, injury, or pain that hasn’t resolved quickly (if not instantly) using this method. Granted these all have been acute and relatively “simple” conditions. Chronic or more complex disorders would likely require more time to sort through – which is a process that I hope to help my future patients navigate with efficacy and grace.

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So that’s it.

I share these anecdotes simply to open your mind to new possibilities, and I encourage you to draw your own conclusions about this content. I by no means have my healing philosophy nailed down yet, but this post describes the path that I’m being pulled towards. I firmly believe that exploring this “lack of love” theory is going to enable me to most effectively serve humanity.

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And, since this post was largely based on personal experience and anecdotal evidence, let’s end with some research exhibiting the power of belief:

Dr. Gail Ironson, a highly regarded mind-body medicine researcher and professor at the University of Miami ,conducted an interesting 4 year study looking at how beliefs affect the rate of HIV/AIDS progression. She reported that the group who believed that God did not love them lost helper T-cells 3x faster, their viral load increased 3x faster, and their stress levels were significantly higher (measured by cortisol in the blood) compared to the group of HIV/AIDS patients that believed God loved them. Dr. Ironson reported that the belief in a loving God was an enormously protective factor in the studied population, even more protective than just scoring low for depression or high for optimism.²

Interesting...

Peace and blessings beloveds,

Mica

References:

1. Leaf, C. Switch on Your Brain. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books. 2013.

2. Ironson, G., Stuetzle, R., Ironson, D. et al. J Behav Med (2011) 34: 414. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-011-9314-z