How do negative suggestions influence health?

Interestingly enough, she found that her spiritual care didn’t ignore health conditions but changed them, not through suggestion, which was liable to be altered by another suggestion, but by understanding.

Understanding the spiritual nature of health, the suggestion of disease and suffering would have less of an opportunity to influence and be less likely to be expected or manifested.

Today, studies show that spirituality heals and contributes years to life expectancies. But, is humanity, as a whole, ready to utilize a divine method?

So, where does that leave us?

Those administering medical treatment should be considering the choice of full disclosure (which carries the possibility of harm) versus portioning information to patients.

As well, those administering spiritual treatment should consider the patients’ needs. They should inform a patient that it is fine to use spiritual care as a first choice, but this doesn’t insure success if they are utilizing it unthinkingly because of dogmatic reasons.

Patients should always have the final say in which form of care they wish to use. They should always feel in control. Patient centered care is an emerging aspect to health care.

Hopefully, we will hear more about patients taking control of their care by advising medical physicians about how much information they wish to hear; and equally advising spiritual practitioners if they wish to try other methods.

These steps just may reduce the influence negative suggestions have on society.