Episode 19: Using your mind for healing

This episode looks at ways to use your mind to protect your emotional energy and facilitate your physical and emotional well being. 

It contains some ideas for different types of meditations, ways of connecting with yourself and others and mental exercises to improve your health as much as you can. 

These include;

- guided meditational exercises developed by Dr Simonton (psychologist)

- ways in which the use of intuition has been found to be useful in research into Radical Remission by Dr Kelly Turner

- the Buddhist meditation technique called 'loving kindness'

- links to the research into how these emotional and mental states can be beneficial for emotional and physical resiliency, as well as the immune system

- the observation that connecting to a sense of inner calmness or higher power can have a beneficial emotional impact

Please note that this episode does not encourage anyone to 'skip' treatment or put any pressure on anyone to 'heal themselves' or 'only feel positive emotions', all of those perspectives seem to be pretty hard on the person dealing with cancer and ultimately unhelpful and blaming.