How can the DM Process be used to help prevent and cure physical illness?
Norman Cousins has pointed out: “If you can reduce the depression that almost invariably affects cancer patients, you can increase the body’s own capacity for combating malignancies.” In his book, Head First, Cousins summarized research which showed that “depression is a demonstrated cause of physical ill health, including deleterious effects on the immune system. Equally striking is the fact that liberation from depression produces an almost automatic boost in the number of disease-fighting immune cells.” Depression is experienced as an overwhelming sense of hopelessness and helplessness. Those attitudes, in turn, are the result of such beliefs as I’m not good enough, I don’t matter, I’ll never get what I want, People can’t be trusted, Life is difficult, and I’m not safe in the world. By eliminating beliefs such as these, depression itself also can be eliminated. Dr. Lynda H. Powell, an assistant professor at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale University Scho
