Summary: Welcome to Episode 3 of Empowering Meditations with James Cole.<br> In this episode, we explore how you can use the power of your mind to heal your body and mind. This powerful guided meditation for healing will take you on a journey throughout your body to visually and metaphorically heal your body.<br> <br> First up, if you wanted to have an offline version of this meditation without the distracting intro and outro, you can purchase and download as MP3 audio file for only $3 from our Guided Meditation store - https://empoweringmeditations.com/em0003<br> <br> Can you really heal yourself with the power of your mind?<br> <br> Yes, you can. However, it’s not like what you see in sci-fi movies where you just close your eyes and focus for a moment and seal up a wound without a scar or grow a new limb instantly, although that would be cool.<br> <br> It’s more about getting your mind synchronized with your body, to create an environment that is ideal for healing. This then promotes all the natural healing abilities that the body has such as releasing various hormones, the creation of white blood cells and other little tricks, to all work together in healing whatever parts require it.<br> <br> What can actually be healed with the mind?<br> <br> Healing can relate to physical injuries, disease and illness as well as mental and emotional hurt, trauma and disorders. The mind is the organ that controls every aspect of your body, from your thoughts to moving muscles, to your digestion, breathing and everything else. Some of these things you are aware of, whereas the majority of them, happen in the unconscious mind without any conscious knowledge at all.<br> <br> How often are you consciously aware of making your heart beat?<br> <br> I would guess rarely if at all.<br> <br> How does it work?<br> <br> Healing yourself with your mind works by focusing your attention on each area of your body that requires it and metaphorically energizing and healing each part. Metaphor is the core language of the mind and by tuning it to become consciously aware of what is normally left to the unconscious, you can take control of any aspect of your body and change its operation consciously.<br> <br> For instance, if you were to pay attention to your heartbeat, you could actually change its beating speed simply by focusing on it. What is actually happening, is that mentally you are focusing on the speed of your heart and setting the intention to slow it down. Your unconscious mind, which knows every aspect of your body, gets the message that then starts all the little internal processes necessary to make it happen.<br> <br> One of the easiest ways to demonstrate this and something that is closely related to meditation, is taking control of your breathing. Breathing, for the most part, is an unconscious activity. Your unconscious mind as it constantly monitors every aspect of your body, knows if it needs more or less oxygen in the bloodstream. With this feedback, it is able to regulate the speed of your breaths to ensure you get enough oxygen for the tasks at hand.<br> <br> By simply becoming aware of your breathing, you can take control and force it to slow down or speed up. This then results in other physiological responses. By slowing down your breathing, you are telling your body to relax which causes other organs and the mind to relax too. This is why focusing on your breath is such a powerful tool for meditating. By continued slow breathing, you can actually slow down your brainwaves which in turn can place you in an altered state of consciousness.<br> <br> By metaphorically healing and energizing every part of your body, you are giving your mind instructions to do what it needs, to physically heal your body.<br> <br> Why doesn’t the body just do this naturally?<br> <br> Most of the time it does, however, there can be times when an illness or disease an...
