Is Self-Healing Possible?

QUESTION: 

      Dear Ms. Morrill, I am writing you in regard to an article you wrote, 'Hypnosis and the Laws of Natural Healing'. I am 29 years old and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis nearly 13 years ago. I have tried every traditional medication, am currently on 7 pills 2 x/day, and feel like a walking pharmacy.

     Most people have thought I was strange, but I believe many of the points you made! It sounds strange but when I lost the use of the right side of my body 2 years ago and neurologists wanted to place me in a wheelchair for the rest of my life saying my MRI showed that the brain lesions were so deep they would never heal again, I disagreed. I would lay in my bed at night, close my eyes, and silently 'talk' (if you will) to each affected body part. I would tell it to remember the days when it was fine, worked properly, envision it working again, etc. Within 10 weeks, I was able to stand on it again. I did the same with my completely paralyzed right arm...I too regained all use of the arm back within a couple months and am now only suffering from the loss of my fine motor skills in my right hand. An MRI at the end of the 10 weeks, revealed 50% of the lesions gone.

       Neurologists were stunned and are still unable to offer an explanation. Everyone I talk to about my 'self-healing' thinks I'm crazy. Do you feel it is possible that I helped to heal myself? I still require a cane and cannot (no matter how hard I try) regain the fine motor skills in my hand. Do you believe with assistance, it is possible to heal those as well?

      Well, I apologize for the length of this letter but I believe in hypnosis and had to write. I believe the bodies we inhabit are just that. I believe we can heal ourselves. Several times I have laid in darkness and felt I was inches from leaving my body. Please, don't think I'm strange. I am normal, in fact, but I wanted to thank you for your message and agree that there is so much our bodies are capable of doing that are yet to be discovered.  

RESPONSE:

      You leave me in absolute awe. Of course, I believe in healing. If I didn’t I wouldn’t be doing hypnotic work as a major part of my counseling practice. I believe our minds are incredibly powerful – that what you believe strongly enough can come true. I’m not simplistic enough to think that this is true of everything in the world, but I certainly have seen some amazing things happen in terms of our mind, spirit, and body improvement and even full cure through using one’s imagination. It’s why I continue to do this work. And a person like you gives me courage to continue.

    Thank you so much.