Spontaneous Healing

Is it possible for spontaneous healing to take place for a patient suffering a life-threatening disease such as terminal cancer, or heart disease? Dr. Deepak Chopra, a certified MD in both India and US, think it is possible as long as we practice 'silence witnessing' and 're-writing our scripts'.

Every moment, we are exchanging the chemical elements with the environment through breathing, drinking, eating, and all other 5-sense inputs. According to Deepak, our internal organs such as liver renew and replace itself every 3 months. The cancer cells, and the disease heart do exactly the same thing. The cancer cells of the patient now are not the same as those seen a year ago.

If the organs have chances of renewing themselves, why a sick organ will remain sick after the regularly renewable ? According to Deepak, this is because the organs renew itself according to the scripts our conscious have written onto. This script, according to Deepak, is called the cell memory. For spontaneous healing to take place, one must make a real effort to re-write the spontaneous. Positive thinking is not enough. Silent witness to achieve self-awareness through meditation is the key allowing us to re-write the script.

What is the self-awareness? A patient feels discomfort and went to see a doctor. After thorough examination, the doctor found nothing and telling the patient is fine. But actually, the patient is not fine. According to Deepak, self-awareness of discomfort will precede before the diagnosis tools reveal something wrong in the patient. Similarly, during the recovery phase, self-awareness of 'comfort' will precede the medical diagnosis.

Here is a clinical example of Deepak Chopra to illustrate this point.

A woman of stage-4 breast cancer went to the Chopra Center asking for help. The Center provides therapies through the practices to provide patient's care and pleasure through 5 senses including oil massage and aromatherapy. The purpose of these therapies is to enhance patient pleasure and love for life and to eliminate the fear of death.

Few months later at the Center, she was feeling very well. Then she called her oncologist, telling her oncologist that she has been heeled. The oncologist gave her a total body scan. Well, the cancer cells were still there. She relapsed and her cancer got worse immediately. This is how 'fear' can almost kill anyone, healthy or sick.

According to Deepak, this woman did have a happy ending on her story through very hard work on re-writing the script to achieve a spontaneous healing.

So, spontaneous healing is possible if we can enhance our self-awareness and love of the life through silence-witnessing, and through meditation.