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    Super Mind, Super Body
    Super Mind, Super Body
    Super Mind, Super Body
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    Super Mind, Super Body

    By Jaime T. Licauco

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    Ancient wisdom originally believed that the body, mind, and spirit were interconnected. Today, more than ever, modern medical experts consider this ancient wisdom as a gospel. A new era of consciousness is slowly but surely emerging. Long-time friends Jimmy Licauco and Cory Quirino combined their individual expertise into one concise book that may very well become the ultimate guide for living well and looking good.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnvil Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateOct 10, 2017
    ISBN9789712729485
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      Super Mind, Super Body - Jaime T. Licauco

      SUPER  

      MIND, 

      SUPER  

      BODY

      JAIME T. LICAUCO AND CORY QUIRINO

      Super Mind, Super Body

      Copyright to this digital edition © 2013

      Jaime T. Licauco and Cory Quirino

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      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means

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      Published and exclusively distributed by

      ANVIL PUBLISHING INC.

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      Book design: Lia Miranda (cover); Je Garrero (interior)

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      ISBN 9789712729485 (e-book)

      Version 1.0.1

      Contents

      PART ONE

      Toward a Superior

      and Healthy Mind

      BY JAIME T. LICAUCO

      Introduction

      BY JAIME T. LICAUCO

      Healing the Whole Person: Body, Mind and Spirit

      "I f healing were indeed divine, said the great 1st century mystic Apollonius of Tyana, then it must concern itself with the soul as well as the body, for no creature can be healthy in the lower part if the upper part is sick."

      Born some time in 2 – 5 AD, Apollonius performed as many miracles as Christ did, according to his biographers. Among the many miracles that he performed aside from healing were materialization and dematerialization, foretelling the future, and reviving the dead. As early as that time, he already knew that healing, if it was to be effective, should be concerned with the whole person—the mind, body and spirit—and not just with the body alone.

      Paracelsus, another great healer, physician, alchemist, and mystic who lived in the 16th century, echoed the same observation that Apollonius of Tyana did when he warned his fellow physicians that to separate religion from therapy was a grave error of judgment.

      Manny Palmer Hall, in a brief biography of Paracelsus, said: To him, the advancement of therapy depended upon a continuous exploration of the invisible side of nature, a search for causes and the realization that man was not simply a physical creature but a living soul whose internal attitude could profoundly affect his body.

      Modern medical scientists have by and large ignored such warnings by the ancient masters of the healing arts. The human being is now regarded more like a machine with replaceable parts, and treatment has often been reduced to nothing more than mechanical and chemical interventions.

      The modern allopathic system of healing relies more on synthetic pharmaceutical drugs rather than on substances found in nature. And although such drugs have admittedly been able to save lives, they have also killed many others. Some broadminded and impartial medical researchers have pointed out that at times the drugs prescribed by doctors proved to be more dangerous than the diseases they were intended to cure.

      Several well-researched books have been written, which show that modern allopathic or chemical-based medicine have often failed in eliminating the scourge of illness, especially the chronic ones. And many illnesses have been caused by officially and legally prescribed drugs. This despite the so-called strict regulations of such drugs that passed through the Food and Drug double blind, placebo-controlled requirements.

      As one German medicinal plant researcher, Dr. Dietmar Rummel, asked, Have you ever heard of an herbal medicine that has killed over 100,000 people or 10,000 people or even 10 people? Yet this happened several times already with chemical drugs and they were eventually recalled from drugstores.

      Many diseases cannot be cured by chemical synthetic drugs alone. To rely solely on them certainly has been the greatest mistake of modern medical science. Many books have cited case after case of terrible consequences suffered by patients from this kind of treatment.

      Deepak Chopra’s Quantum Healing and Dr. Bernie Siegel’s Peace, Love and Healing have pointed out the necessity of treating the whole person—his mind, body and spirit—and not just the body alone. Not much progress has been made toward greater understanding of some of the mysteries of healing. For example, how does one explain the numerous cases of spontaneous remission of illness? Could they be simply coincidences? Why does placebo sometimes work when it does not contain any medicinal substance at all? And so forth.

      Modern Western medical science does not have the answers to these and many other questions. That’s why it pays to search for other modalities of healing to get the best solution to one’s health problems. These other modalities need not replace modern allopathic medicine, but they certainly can complement it, if properly used and understood.

      I

      Various Alternative

      Healing Modalities

      During the past twenty years, there were many alternative methods that have emerged, each of which has its own set of adherents, disciples, and promoters. The sheer variety of such methods or modalities makes it difficult for the average person to understand and much less to choose which one is best for him or her.

      From my own observation any type of healing modality will surely have success in healing some, but not all. The placebo effect will heal forty percent of the patients brought to a healer. And his followers will drum up that small percentage of success and ignore the sixty percent that failed.

      Because not all types of healing will work for everybody, it would be best for a patient to see different types of healing modalities, provided they are safe and non-invasive.

      There are many ways of classifying these types of unorthodox or alternative healing modalities. In practice there is a great deal of overlapping among them. And sometimes, one successful modality will split into several similar types with hardly any distinction from the original one, except the personalities of their advocates.

      For the purpose of simply understanding these various types of healing modalities, I have classified them into five categories depending on the source of the healing power. This classification is simply for theoretical and pedagogical purposes and may overlap with one another in actual practice.

      The five types of healing modalities are as follows:

      1.

      Pranic or magnetic healing. In this type of healing, the source of healing comes from the bioenergy or magnetic energy of the healer. Included under this category are such techniques as laying on of hands, magnetic passes, Reiki, and Mahikari, among others. In a sense, therapeutic massage and our local hilot fall under this.

      PRANIC HEALING

      2.

      Mental or psychic healing. Here the source or power comes from the healer’s psyche or mind. Under this category fall such methods as visualization or imagery healing, distant or telepathic healing, prayer, shamanic healing, and hypnosis.

      3.

      Vibrational energy healing. The source of the healing energy may come from such objects as quartz crystals, music, shaman’s drums, Tibetan singing bells, and others. Even color therapy may fall under this category because colors emit energy that can heal.

      Under this category may also fall such healing modalities as power pendants, magnetized or blessed water, and relics of holy persons or saints, like those of Padre Pio.

      CRYSTAL HEALING

      4.

      Spiritual or mediumistic healing. In this type or modality, the healing power is believed to come from the spirit or nonphysical entity and not from the healer or any physical object. The healer then is just a medium or channel of healing energy of the spirit. Examples of this type are the English spiritual healers such as Harry Edwards and Tom Johansson; and Brazilian and Filipino faith healers and psychic surgeons such as Jose Ze Arigo, Dr. Cheiros, Eleuterio Terte, and Tony Agpaoa. While in a trance, they are believed to be guided by a spirit entity who does the healing.

      Christian Charismatic healers, Christian Science, and similar healers who call upon the Holy Spirit to heal a sick person also would logically fall under this category.

      PSYCHIC SURGERY

      5.

      Divine healing. This is a type of healing involving direct intervention by God. The healing done by Jesus Christ and the holy men of India, or saints of the Christian and other religions fall under this category. This type of healing is always miraculous and defies all human laws of physics, biology, chemistry, and medical science.

      In practice, the healings done by Jesus Christ can be classified under various categories. They overlap and cannot be limited to one category. For example, he healed by laying on of hands (magnetic healing), by telepathy (as when he healed the centurion’s daughter who was at home), by use of some objects which he had magnetized or empowered, such as mud, and saliva, or by simply commanding a dead person, such as Lazarus, to rise.

      DIVINE HEALING

      The miraculous healings reported in such sacred places as Lourdes in France can be considered divine healing, because they are believed to be a result of God’s direct intervention.

      The above classification of the different modalities of healing is, of course, not comprehensive or complete. I am sure there are many other types of healing which can be classified differently. But this classification can at least help us to understand the more common types of alternative healing modalities that exist in the Philippines and other parts of the world since time immemorial.

      II

      Role of the Mind

      in Healing the Body

      The mind holds no clinical significance in today’s modern medical practice," laments Dr. Bernie Siegel in his pioneering book Peace, Love and Healing. In fact, the mind is completely ignored by most physicians in the treatment of disease.

      Indeed, modern medical science tends to regard the human being as simply a machine, and if something goes wrong with it, all the doctor has to do is to give him something to correct or replace it.

      For example, if one has a headache, he is given paracetamol; if there’s an infection, an antibiotic. If there’s a tumor, it is surgically removed and so on.

      There is hardly any attempt to find out what is going on in the person’s mind or environment that might have a bearing on the disease.

      In 1985, an editorial in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine declared that it was time that our belief on disease as a direct reflection of mental state is largely folklore.

      A hundred years ago, says Harris Dienstfrey, in his book, Where the Mind Meets the Body, "Louis Pasteur fought for the belief that individual diseases were each caused by individual microscopic entities … and is today regarded as a model for understanding all disease." If not a germ, then the cause of the disease could be a deficient gene, or a chemical imbalance in the patient’s body. This view of diseases, he says, obviously leaves the mind with very little influence.

      Some scientists even doubt the existence of the mind, with its own thinking process and emotional states and regard it merely as an epiphenomenon of the brain, meaning it is the result of the chemical reactions in the brain. One American female neuroscientist, when asked about the possibility of a disease having a spiritual or emotional cause, replied, I am a scientist and have no idea what a spirit is or how it affects the body.

      To modern medical scientists, the mind and the psychic functions exist only as abstractions with no real or objective existence in the space-time continuum, according to the book Some Unrecognized Factors in Medicine,

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