Use Your Imagination to Enhance Healing and Vitality

When You Visualize Illness to Wellness

When You Visualize Illness to WellnessDavid R. Hamilton, Ph.D. – This week’s Better You, Backed by Science email is about using visualization for health and wellbeing. I share some science and offer a few practical suggestions.

There’s no question that there is such a thing as the mind-body connection. Not so long ago it was a subject of skepticism, but now multiple labs around the world are probing the effects that mental states have on the body – and the results are fascinating. Continue reading

Unlocking the Mind-Body Connection in Stroke Recovery

Mental Power: Transforming Stroke Recovery Through Visualization

Unlocking the Mind-Body Connection in Stroke RecoveryDavid R. Hamilton, Ph.D. – I deliver a lot of talks on the mind-body connection. During these, I often share research on the use of visualization to speed up recovery from a stroke.

I first became acutely interested in the whole subject while I worked in R&D in the pharmaceutical industry. I worked in the fields of cardiovascular medicine and cancer, but I had a personal interest in the placebo effect.

When I was a child, my mum had suffered from post-natal (partum) depression after my youngest sister was born and mental practice tools helped her a lot. She and I often discussed the ‘power of the mind’. Continue reading

Woo-Woo to True-Woo

Woo-Woo to True-WooDavid R Hamilton, Ph.D. – There’s a dictionary definition of woo-woo. It goes like this: “Unconventional beliefs regarded as having little or no scientific basis, especially those relating to spirituality, mysticism or alternative medicine.”

While having a conversation about my intention to write a book about woo-woo topics that would present some of the evidence in support of them, a friend of mine referred to things like reiki, energy therapies, even meditation and visualisation as a “load of bollocks.” Continue reading

How to Use Visualization for Wellness

Visualize Illness Becoming WellnessDavid R. Hamilton PhD. – Turn illness into wellness in your imagination!

That’s the basic premise for using visualization for wellness.

It can be applied for the benefit of both physical and mental health.

For example, some people with arthritis visualize pouring viscous oil into their joints to lubricate them and create a cushion separating bones. Some people with hay fever imagine their immune system making friends with pollen instead of attacking it. People with cancer imagine their immune systems destroying tumors. Continue reading

Awaken to the Magic of Creative Manifestation

createCelia Fenn – There have been huge changes in your world and on your planet since January 2021. After a year of the Covid “lockdowns”, the pressure is still on in the process of Transformation. We know that many of you feel exhausted and just want to move into an easier time. That time will come, but first there is more transformation and change.

You came to the Earth to be a part of this change. Simply to hold the Light and to be aware and awake and filled with love. There is no pressure on anyone at this time to do great deeds! Rather it is your work to connect with your Soul and your Divine Essence and not to be caught up in conflict and aggression. Continue reading