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The Violet Flame—Helping Our Bodies to Heal Themselves
THE VIOLET FLAME—HELPING OUR BODIES TO HEAL THEMSELVES
We aren’t surprised when our body begins manufacturing new skin to heal a cut or when it starts creating new bone to heal a fracture. But we are surprised when something like cancer disappears from our body for no apparent reason. Doctors call this spontaneous remission.
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Some doctors who have studied such cases have concluded that it happens when the body is able to access a state in which the cells can use their natural ability for selfrepair. They speculate that these healings happen when mind, or consciousness, directs the body to heal itself—the so-called mind/ body connection.
What is “mind”? Candace Pert, a molecular biologist who studies the process by which we begin to feel emotions, calls the mind “some kind of enlivening energy in the
Violet Flame to Heal Body, Mind and Soul
information realm throughout the brain and body that enables the cells to talk to each other, and the outside to talk to the whole organism.” 3
Pert believes that the mind is located throughout the brain and body, not just above the neck. She sees the emotions as the connection between the mind and the body.
Scientists have demonstrated that the immune system has an intelligence of its own. They don’t know why some people’s immune systems choose to fight disease while other people’s give in to it.
Andrew Weil, a Harvard-trained doctor who studies the mind/body connection, says he believes that if spontaneous healing can happen to one person, it can happen to all. “All the circuitry and machinery is there. The challenge is to discover how to turn on the right switches to activate the process,” he says.4 If we can figure out how to influence this “mind,” we can turn on our body’s natural healing mechanism.
Helping Our Bodies to Heal Themselves
I believe that disease occurs when the body is vibrating at a different rate from this mind and thus is unable to communicate with the Higher Self. The explanation for healings like Grace’s may simply be that the violet flame restores the natural resonance between the Higher Self and the physical body.
