Ideally, this had better be positive yet realistic. Problem-solving ability – Breast cancer may be the biggest problem you have ever faced, but we constantly deal with the many challenges of life. Remember: your brain is in command of your physical body; your emotions control your spiritual body; your physical body can enhance or suppress your connection to Source / God (spiritual experience).

Chronic Stress is a different story. Sound familiar? In a state of Chronic Stress, your brain is constantly firing, giving your body the message to work harder. Your blood pressure goes up, the heart beats faster, muscles tire, and patience wears thin.

Like many folks at some time or another, I’ve witnessed some amazing events or been given incredible anecdotes suggesting a mind-body-spirit connection. When I was at university, my tutor studied psychosomatic affects on asthmatics. Some of the most extraordinary phenomenon I’ve ever come across was that from studies conducted on multiple personality disorder (MPD) patients. These are individuals who had gone through traumatic and painful experiences (usually stemmed from child abuse). As life goes by for an MPD, an increasing number of these amnesically compartmentalized personalities can develop. Each personality with its own unique trait develops usually to deal with the different traumatic and painful situations.

Another MPD was known to have one personality that was belligerent in character, always making trouble and alcoholically intoxicated. However, he could quickly switch to a mild-mannered personality and become totally sober, completely unaffected by the drink.

Some MPD patients have been known to change eye colour during their different personalities….

The outcome produced a significant number of subjects who got well. This contrasted with the other group who were actually told that the pill was only a sugar tablet: This group did not produce any significant results.

Why did the first group produce a significant number of well individuals, when both groups with the same ailment took exactly the same thing, an ineffective sugar pill? The subjects that soon got well from the first group demonstrated the power of the faith they had in this situation -Yet another example of the mind-body-spirit connection.

So, the mind-body-spirit connection covers a wide range of subjects.