Speech - oral, written or sign - is the main way of communication and information transfer in human society. However, there are other types of communication and suggestion - on a non-verbal level, associated with emotions and supersensible perception.
A kind word and the Cat is pleased
This phrase, to which the famous sailor Koshka replied to the gratitude of Admiral Kornilov for saving him from imminent death during the Crimean War of 1853-1856, later became winged …
"Pleasantness", or "kindness" of the word, lies at the basis of all modern psychotherapy, which was reported by Professor Konstantin Platonov in the 30s of the last century in his book "The Word as a Physiological and Healing Factor". However, modern science usually speaks of the word as an indirect or directing factor and categorically denies the possibility of words and thoughts to cause the direct materialization of one or another concept or state. In other words, today it is believed that no matter how we call events, people or objects, no matter how we think about them, they will not physically change from this one iota. However, there are significant objections to all this. Let us also add that any denial of the possibility of verbal materialization itself possesses this ability, but already of the opposite nature, in the form of a ban.
For example, such a psychological phenomenon as affirmation is known. This is a statement that, with repeated repetition in the mind or aloud, not only fixes the setting in the subconscious of a person (as a result of which he not only sees everything either in a dark light or in pink tones), but also physically changes his whole life accordingly.
I am a disgusting, pathetic worm
This phenomenon was first discovered by the 19th century English psychologist Francis Galton, who once conducted such an experiment.
Before his daily walk in London, he began to instill in himself: "I am a disgusting, vile, pathetic worm, hated by everyone." And the usually pleasant promenade just got unbearable! The scientist at every step caught on himself hostile and condemning glances. And when he was walking along the embankment, one of the dockers clearly deliberately pushed him into a puddle. The people who were nearby watched this with frank gloating, and none of them extended a hand to help him up. But the misfortunes did not end there. When Galton walked past a horse standing at the hitching post, she suddenly kicked him for no reason.
Deciding not to tempt fate further, Galton for the rest of his life inspired himself only with positive thoughts that really helped him. He outlined his conclusions in a psychology textbook written a few years later.
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The main thing is to believe in healing
However, soon all these discoveries were rejected and forgotten until the middle of the 20th century, when the Soviet researcher Georgy Nikolaevich Sytin developed his own method of so-called attitudes, with the help of which he healed himself, and then helped others to heal.
Sytin returned from the front disabled. The doctors gave up on him, believing that he would not last long, and then Georgy Nikolaevich decided to fight his illness on his own. After a few years, he was not only alive, but also completely got rid of the consequences of his injuries. The medical commission even found him fit for military service.
Sytin published many books, distributed discs and audiocassettes with recordings of healing moods. According to the author, a person must first of all sincerely believe in the possibility of healing.
And more recently, the neurophysiologist from the United States, Joe Dispenza, received the same fame. He was hit by a truck. Ahead loomed the prospect of remaining in a wheelchair for life. However, Dispenza did not lose his presence of mind, deciding to restore his health with the help of the power of thought. After just nine months of enhanced self-hypnosis, according to his method, Dispenza recovered and was able to walk again. All this prompted him to further research the possibilities of consciousness.
The most important discovery of the restless neurophysiologist was that the human brain does not distinguish between physical and mental experiences. To put it simply, his cells cannot tell the difference between the real and the imaginary.
To confirm this hypothesis, Dispenza conducted an experiment with two groups of volunteers. People from the first group pressed the spring of a special mechanism with the same finger for an hour, while people from the second group had only to imagine that they were performing this action. As a result, the fingers of people from the first group got stronger by 30%, and from the second - by 22%. Thus, Joe Dispenza proved that for the brain there is almost no difference between real and mental experience. This means: if we focus on negative thoughts, our brain perceives them as reality and causes the corresponding changes in the body, and then around it.
The law of repetition
Thus, it has been proven that more often than not we become chronic failures of our own free will. In psychology and sociology, this ability is called victimization - an increased tendency of a person, due to wrong thinking, to incur all sorts of troubles: to get injured, become a victim of crime, or go to court himself, etc.
An example of such a loser, prone to injury and nicknamed "Mr. Accident" for this, is a certain Matt Rogers from the UK - a kind of champion of bad luck. During his life, Matt managed to break almost all of his bones. It is enough for the poor fellow to leave the house, as all sorts of misfortunes fall on him. Only in recent years, Matt almost died, falling out of the window, then he was badly bitten by a dog, twice wounded from a gun by a friend, and in the end, Rogers accidentally chopped off his phalanx of his finger.
“Matt should be wearing a bulletproof vest, not letting him out of the room, and padding the walls, floor and ceiling with foam rubber,” his father jokes sadly.
The German psychologist Karl Marbe, who became interested in such cases at the beginning of the 20th century, called it the law of repetition, or the law of negative affirmations.
Marbet determined that the injuries or failures received create a predisposition to repeated accidents due to a kind of "inertia" of the mind and the formation of a pathological attitude in the subconscious. Thus, if chronic losers did not give up on themselves, considering themselves completely lost, but systematically and seriously instilled in themselves positive thoughts, then subsequent misfortunes with them might not have happened.
Laughter cure
A real example of positive thinking and good mood therapy is the story of US resident Norman Cousins, who was diagnosed with spondyloarthritis at the end of the last century. The rest of his life the poor fellow could well have spent immobilized, suffering from constant pain. However, Cousins did not lose heart. Having abandoned the annoying painkillers, he decided to be treated in his own way. First, he read all the literature about the disease, after which he drew up a recovery scheme, which included ascorbic acid in large doses (his stomach, apparently, was in order), watching comedies, sketches and humorous programs on TV. Cousins reasoned this way: if bad mood and stress aggravate the illness, then laughter and joy, on the contrary, should help to recover.
As a result of this technique, his pain disappeared, and the mobility of the joints was restored. After a while, Cousins finally got out of bed and, feeling healthy, began to promote his method to the students of the University of California. Thus, Norman Cousins became the founder of a new direction in medicine - gelotology (treatment with laughter), and funny clowns began to appear in the strict walls of hospitals. Based on these events, Hollywood even released the movie "Healer Adams", where the main role of the hospital eccentric was played by Robin Williams.
Thus, numerous studies and examples from life have shown that words, thoughts and emotions physically affect our life, changing not only our attitude to the world, but also reality itself.
Journal: Secrets of the 20th century №7, Arkady Vyatkin, parapsychologist