Combining Visualization, Manifesting & Prayer for a ‘healthier you’!
According to the teaching in the bible verse “ask and you will receive”, found in Luke 11:1-13 and Matthew 7:7-12, God promises to provide for us anything we need. Prayer is a powerful well-being tool. In combination with visualization and manifesting, prayer and gratitude are indispensable well-being supports.
I believe that we are meant to be healthy. Our bodies were created, pre-loaded with so many amazing abilities and backups. In a normal, properly functioning body our body’s control systems function mostly without our awareness or our interaction, ensuring that all physical, mental, emotional and spiritual communication and bodily functions work in synchronicity. Pretty much an ‘auto pilot’ mode. When symptoms appear, we know that something has changed. Our body may be engaged in a fight against microbes, or in distress from other factors; trauma, what we have consumed, applied to our body, breathed in or have been exposed to. There are many factors, including stressors, toxins, malfunctions and disease that can interfere with the body’s normal, properly functioning control systems, interfering with critical tasks necessary for optimum health.
Your mind is very powerful and it is your job to direct it to create better health. “Aristotle and Hippocrates believed in the power of images in the brain to enliven the heart and body. Today, research shows they were right. Guided imagery is helping patients use the full range of the body’s healing capacity.”1 Visualization, used by athletes, requires seeing a desired outcome by creating a mental image of what they expect, ‘the win’.
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Merriam Webster definition of visualize:
to make visible: such as – to see or form a mental image of ,
e.g. trying to visualize the problem
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Social media provides a plentiful selection of ways to ‘manifest’ your goals. Manifesting your desired outcomes and life; and how you will feel once achieved, are key to ensure success.
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Merriam Webster definition of manifest:
”to make evident or certain by showing or displaying”
Dictionary.com definition of manifest
“to make clear or evident to the eye or the understanding”
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From the dictionary meanings above you can see the similarity between manifesting and visualizing; both powerful tools that can help you to guide your body and mind to better health.
Customized visualizations can provide a temporary ‘manual take over’, get back to work nudge, to encourage your systems back onto the right path of detecting, diagnosing, renewing, repairing, cleaning, healing and protecting.
In my book, The Whole Person Well-being Equation, Chapter 12., I include the ‘why and the how” of using visualization as a self-help tool for improved health. Visualizations need to be specific to be effective, just as they are when an athlete forms a mental image before an event. Detailed information about what needs to change to restore health is key. Matt 20:29-34, Mark 10:46-52 and Luke 18:35-43, relate the story of the two blind men who called out “Have mercy on us, O Lord”, when they heard that Jesus had come by. Jesus replied “What will ye that I shall do unto you?”. They replied “that our eyes may be opened”. All three accounts convey the need to be specific when making a requests.
The general customized visualization descriptions in my book draw a mental image of what the reader is to expect, in most cases, the way the body should function. I have paired each visualization description with a body scan from head to toe, which focuses the desired mental image of the desired correction throughout the body. Basically seeing yourself scanned, like with an MRI type scan, as you set the mental image (intention) found in the visualization description. The intention is applied to every cell of your body, layer by layer as you scan from head to toe.
Can this really make a difference in your body?
“An MRI study in The Journal of Neuroscience found that whether people performed physical finger exercises or just imagined doing them, activity shot up in the part of their brain where nerve pulses initiate muscle movement. There’s no doubt that this mental processing results in real-life improvement.”2
“Just as the mind’s reactions to stress can impair immunity and promote illness, it is believed that certain mental processes, like specific images and visualization procedures, can stimulate the immune system to better fight disease.”3
A series of customized visualizations practiced at bedtime for a period of time can direct your body’s control system back onto the right track. With each detailed visualization you will have set a mental image for your brain to work on over time. Additionally repeating the scan will give your body and mind the instructions (manual override reminder) that it needs to get back to doing everything necessary to correctly restore your desired health. Obviously you will need other health promoting supports in place as well. You can find many ‘must do’ strategies ‘for a healthier you’ in my book, my blog and social media posts. There are no contraindications to adding visualization, manifesting and prayer to other treatment protocols.
The following are a few examples of generalized visualization from my book:
Visualization #1 description (read the information before you begin your scan to have a clear understanding): The normal, healthy body is continually carrying out the tasks in the visualization below automatically. Automatic functions may be compromised due to a number of factors. Page 148, The Whole Person Well-being Equation.
Visualization #1 focus/scan: Restore and maintain your (my) body’s natural, healthy and accurate: Self-detecting (unhide), self-diagnosing, self-repairing, self-healing, self-cleaning and self-protecting throughout the cells of your (my) body.
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Visualization #2 description: (read the information before you begin your scan to have a clear understanding): “The normal, healthy functioning body provides a supply of analgesic, anti-depressant, anti-anxiety, anti-stress, sleep-inducting, immune system strengthening, gastrointestinal normalizing chemicals and more.”4 Page 148, The Whole Person Well-being Equation.
Visualization #2 focus/scan: Restore and maintain your (my) body’s natural, healthy and accurate inner pharmacy production, response, distribution, shut down and elimination.
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The following are a few examples of customized visualization from the section Visualizations to Prevent and Fight Disease and Cancer, in my book. Both are about tumors, each visualization is focused on a different tumor challenge. Alternating these visualizations would be strategic.
Visualization #8 description: (read this information before you begin your scan to have a clear understanding):
What is the body not doing that it should be doing? Tumors are forming because tumor suppressors are not stopping abnormal cell division and behaviour (apoptosis).
Why could this be happening? ”Alterations in one or more tumor suppressors. Specific tumor suppressors are found to be malfunctioning in certain types of cancer. See the CancerQuest Tumor Suppressor Table at https://cancerquest.org/cancer-biology/cancer-genes#toc-tumor-supp-skGF0moV for more details.
Visualization #8 Focus/Scan: Repair, restore and maintain normal, healthy and accurate tumor suppressor function through the (my) body. (Use specific tumor suppressor information from the table and information from your doctor and test results). Page 157, The Whole Person Well-being Equation.
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Visualization #10 description: (read this information before you begin your scan to have a clear understanding)
What is the body not doing that it should be doing? The body’s natural immunosurveillance system is not detecting and attacking tumors and cancer cells.
Why could this be happening? “The surface of cancer cells may lose antigens recognizable by the immune system. There may be immune system dysfunctions like immune suppression and immune deficiency.”5 Multiple factors could be interfering with the body’s natural healthy immunosurveillance, immunoassessment and immunoresponse. You can read about these in my book and work to eliminate these to help your brain and body to have better focus in locating and dealing with cancer cells and tumors.
Visualization #10 Focus/Scan: Restore and maintain the (my) body’s natural, accurate immunosurveillance activity, detecting and attacking tumors and cancer cells. Override all factors causing or contributing to immune system suppression and immune deficiency. Page 158, The Whole Person Well-being Equation.
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You can customize your own visualizations using information you have learned about ‘what is going wrong in your body’ and your test results. The CancerQuest Oncogene Information Table https://cancerquest.org/cancer-biology/cancer-genes#toc-oncogene-t-jckfKVOA and the Tumor Suppressor Table https://cancerquest.org/cancer-biology/cancer-genes#toc-tumor-supp-skGF0moV provide detailed information about oncogenes and tumor suppressors involved in specific cancers. For more information on how to customize your own visualizations using your personal information, read the section in my book on page 160-162 which includes a worksheet to guide you in wording your visualizations.
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What can you do about gene mutations? The HeartMath researchers have shown that physical aspects of DNA strands could be influenced by human intention. This research provides more opportunity and information for customizing your visualizations.6
Elisabeth Hines, C.N.C., C.B.P., Holistic Wellness Practitioner, Health by Design www.mybodycanhealitself.ca
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Sources:
- Mayo Clinic. “Enhance Healing Through Guided Imagery.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 7 January 2008. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080104123246.htm>, Visited May 29, 2023.
- Seeing Is Believing: The Power of Visualization, Your best life, from the comfort of your armchair. Psychology Today, Posted December 3, 2009 |Angie LeVan, MAPP, Visited May 29, 2023
- Can Visualization Techniques Treat Serious Diseases? The amazing power of the mind-body connection and psychoneuroimmunology (PNI), Clifford N. Lazarus, Ph.D., Psychology Today, January 26, 2016, https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/think-well/201601/can-visualization-techniques-treat-serious-diseases
- Clinic for Mind Body Medicine, Philosophy of Healing, Alberta Health Services, www.calgaryhealthregion.ca/programs/cmbm/journey.htm, April 2009
- Encylopaedia Brirannica Online, www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/283636/immune-system, pagevisited 12/8/2010
- You Can Change Your DNA https://www.heartmath.org/articles-of-the-heart/personal-development/you-can-change-your-dna/
- Image: Public Domain Pictures, mohamed mahmoud hassan
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