Dr. Aaron Hartman explains how beliefs and sense of purpose directly affect your nervous system and health. WWII concentration camp survivors with a sense of value were more likely to endure, and he describes two cancer patients whose opposite mindsets correlated with different outcomes. Research shows belief-driven attention modulates neural pathways that influence healing.
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Your biology actually responds to your beliefs. What do I mean? It's interesting how what you believe in, what you hold to, your sense of purpose or attachment to a greater sense of meaning and purpose actually affect your body's health status. So for example, we learned that during World War II, that if someone had a sense of value and purpose, they could actually survive a concentration camp. I personally have had cancer patients who've— one, I think in particular, had a diagnosis of a malignant mesothelioma and one renal cell cancer. They had two radically different paths. One should have lived 5 more years and passed away 2 or 3 months later. The other one should have passed away 2 or 3 months later, lived for 5 years. The only difference was their state of mind and their belief system. If you don't believe this, if you're not sure about this, we have a bunch of reading resources, books, and a website, but we're learning now how what you believe in and center your attention on will actually affect your nervous system, which affects absolutely everything else. If you'd like to learn more about it, follow us and learn how to get your body back on your right intention for healing.