What is Medical Hexing & Spontaneous Healing ?
ByWhat is medical hexing? And why would we be interested in learning more? I will answer the second question first. Because if you give your health 100% to the medical profession your health might truly suffer especially as you grow older. In way, although not discussed in this post, medical hexing is related to spontaneous healing but in “reverse”. This is a very interesting study I hope to go into further as I learn more myself.
Now for the big question: What is Medical Hexing? I have actually discovered this phrase recently while studying Dr. Mario Martinez’s Biocognitive programs such as The Mind-Body Code: How the Mind Wounds and Heals the Body and also reading his awesome Novel “The Man of Autumn”. I believe it is in the book were he actually uses this term.
Dr. Martinez is not at all attacking the medical profession but he is indeed addressing a very real “problem” which is known in the holistic health arena for quite some time. He only is presenting it, I feel, in such a way as to bring deeper understanding and, for me, some resolutions to some old beliefs and patterns. Most of us into self improvement, holistic health, meditation, new age etc. have worked with ” changing our beliefs “. Gregg Braden talks about the “Biology of Belief”. I have known for a long time that working only with the “mind” and not bringing in the body doesn’t work or at least doesn’t last. We also know that Dr. Candace Pert has said and feels she has proven that the body/mind is the subconscious mind. Great, you may say, what do I do with this? This is what Mario Martinez says: “You may know that your mind influences your health-but what’s influencing your mind? Unless you answer this question, teaches Dr. Mario Martinez, you may be missing a key component on the journey to health and personal excellence.”
Well, you can check out everything that is out there, like I almost have, or you can cut through chase to Dr. Mario Martinez’s Biocognitive cd program and his book. To be honest, I don’t know what will happen for you. Because I come to this after many, many years of “working on myself”, and recently working somatically, with breathwork, guided imagery, mindfulness meditation ala Shinzen Young style mostly and with the body mostly through Continnuum practice (a whole other story which I will share later).
You probably think guided imagery or mindfulness meditation is mental? Well, it is partially so. But the reality is that I have found that, at least the way Belleruth Naperstek does it, guided imagery brings in the body by your being aware of your body. And the real meaning of mindfulness is something like: presence of heart. Being mindfulness is having your attention on your body sensations and much more of course, but what I know from experience and doing many other types of meditation is that you can become sort of disembodied with meditations that do not include the body.
Anyway, I have digressed a bit. I shared the above, since I have worked with all of it and many other modalities, I can not know the kind of insights and results you will have with Dr. Martinez’s program. I should say I don’t know how quickly you will have results. I find that he has incorporated so much of what I already do in such a simple fashion, but he brings in the cultural piece and explains archetypes so simply that any one should be able to go through this series with great success.
Wow, there I go again, digressing. I can’t help it because there is so much “background” behind why I was taken by the term medical hexing that it seems almost impossible to get to that before sharing the latter. I will try to explain it in my own words for I have known of this phenomenon for quite a while. Having witnessed it myself. First case that comes to mind, a second cousin who is diagnisosed with cancer. The tests show he lived with it for a long time. The doctors tell him he has cancer and will die in a few months and he does because he “believed” it. How do I know that? Well, another cousin who not only was diagnosed with cancer after having stomach surgery, was told he would be dead in 6 months. He didn’t believe it and he lived 5 years. Then there is the case of a friend of my Mom’s who had lived with lung cancer for years, and when the doctor told her she had a short time live died in a few weeks.
The doctors are not purposely hexing, of course not! And I am not saying this. These are experiences that I have personally had. But next week I will write more about this and how in a very real way, medical hexing is sort of the opposite of spontaneous healing.
