Feud for thought
You’re running late, you cram in the last mouthful of toast, dash out to the car, and screech off to that important meeting. You take a wrong turn. Within minutes the car’s grid-locked and you know you are doomed. Your mind spins through a hundred morbid scenarios – they’ll cancel the deal, you won’t get another chance, say goodbye to that promotion … buzz buzz buzz. By the time you arrive you are exhausted. Your head’s thumping like a base drum. You feel sick. You forget their names, you drop your carefully ordered prompt cards on the floor and wish that same floor would swallow you up.
It is truly amazing what physical effects thought can create. Only, thankfully, it works positively too.
This is not a new discovery. Throughout history philosophers and teachers have spoken of the power of thought on the physical. How we cognize the world creates biochemical events which lead to biochemical consequences. Such understanding is the basis for hypnosis and a host of therapies: “As man thinketh, so he is,” says Yogananda, founder of the Self Realisation Fellowship, “Thoughts are things.”
Scientific research bears this out. Some findings are remarkable. For example, a Harvard study a number of years back demonstrated a reversal of certain indices of aging in elderly men after a three day immersion experience in which they imagined themselves to be 20 years younger. It is also well known that certain emotional profiles are more likely than others to lead to heart disease or cancer. The link between stress and certain physical ailments is another area that is well researched.
This power of thought on the physical is certainly apparent in the passion mapping process. While creating their maps some individuals have come to the realization that not honouring particular passions in their lives actually led to physical ailments. One woman (who created her map in the shape of a human figure) was astonished to discover that the positioning of the passion map discs exactly corresponded to particular ailments in those same parts of her own body. Symptoms in those places appeared when the respective passions were being ignored. She has since radically changed her lifestyle to honour those passions and listens much more closely to the wisdom of her body/mind.