Multiple Personality Disorder and the Power of the Mind to Heal

Split personality disorder has been an enigma tosome of the burden of distress by sharing the pain.
psychologists and doctors for at least 100 years. It isAnother explanation, and this seems more likely...
strange enough that a person can split theircould be that the mind is creating an untouched
personality into at least 2 distinct personas, withpersonality knowing that the original one has been
some even having 100 separate personalities,severely corrupted....much like when we partition a
changing between them at random. Each personalityhard drive in case one part becomes corrupted, then
has their own uniqueness, name and other traits butwe still have the other clean partition to work with.
none of the other personalities are aware of theAnd the reason each part knows nothing of the
others.other and its experiences, could be to protect it from
What is even more strange, and psychologists arethe corruption and disorder of the abused part in
baffled by this, is the psychological and physiologicalorder for that newly created part to function
changes that occur when a different personalityproperly. If the new part had any memory or
takes over. For instance....physical scars on the bodyknowledge of the abuse the other went through, it
disappear and re-appear in an instant with thetoo would become damaged.
dominance of different personalities.How do these dramatic physical changes happen?
Let's say for instance that someone has twoIf the mind and body are linked as closely as this
personalities...and for ease of understanding we'llsuggests, then it would seem that the memory,
name them "John" and "Peter". If John is dominantexperiences and beliefs of the person are linked to
and injures himself, and the wound then heals to aevery cell in the body, so that when the person
scar....this would then become part of who he is. Sochanges personality all previous beliefs and so-on on
now when Peter takes over and becomes dominantare completely erased for the duration....therefore
the scar disappears...only to return when John takeschanging the whole biology, molecular structure, cell
over again.structure and chemistry of the body according to the
The same thing happens to other ailments...allergies,new part.
diseases like diabetes, colour blindness, lazy eye, andSo what does this all mean, and how can it help us.?
even eye colour, have all been observed toThis is showing us how powerful the human mind is,
completely disappear or change when a differentand that our bodies and their ailments both mental
personality is dominant. Intelligence is also affected. Ifand physical are not permanent, but can be changed
John is fluent in French, peter would not be able toby the power of belief and thought. If we believe
speak a word of French.something without doubt surely we can affect our
Even tolerances to administered drugs are altered. Ifown bodies at the cellular level just as people
one part becomes drunk and then a differentunconsciously do with multiple personalities. We could
personality takes over, that new dominant part willjust imagine that we are healed and it would happen,
become totally sober.we could see in our mind that the cancer has gone,
Spiritualists and alternative therapists have putand it would be done. Disease of every kind would
forward the notion that the body and mind arebe a thing of the past. All we need is the unwavering
inextricably linked for a long time now, butbelief of our inner power...and the seemingly strange
psychologists and doctors have been unwilling to seethings that occur with people with multiple
this, to the detriment of their patients. But afterpersonalities should give us this belief.
seeing firsthand what happens with split personalities,There are many ways we can utilize this mind power.
they are beginning to understand the mind-body linkThrough hypnosis we can gain access to the
and what it means for humans and our power to healsubconscious to create new beliefs using visualization
ourselves and become the person we want to be.and other transformation techniques.
'If the mind can do this in tearing down body tissue, IHypnosis is well known to be able to create the
think it suggests the same potential for healing,'' saidsame phenomena described in this article in
Dr. Braun, who directs a 10-bed psychiatric unit thatemotionally normal people. Even without formal
uses psychotherapy, hypnosis and drugs to treathypnosis, a person can learn powerful visualization
people with multiple personalities. He said he believedtechniques which if vivid enough can be very
that the drastic physical changes seen in patientspowerful. Visualization works because the mind
going from personality to personality could becannot differentiate between mental images and real
duplicated for emotionally normal people underimages, so if we see something vividly enough and
hypnosis....(source: New York Times).for long enough, the body's cell structure will begin to
Why do some people have split personalities?conform to what is being seen in the mind. Just like
This disorder usually begins in childhood as a defensewhen a multiple personality takes over from a
against prolonged trauma, usually some kind abuseprevious one, his cell structure and mental state is
either mental or physical. The theory is that the mindchanged according to the beliefs of the new part.
spits in two, so that it can retreat into the otherSo....if you believe something so totally, it will become
personality or personalities in times of extremeyour truth. Please read my other article on the power
distress....and to allow the newly created part to takeof belief to explore this idea further.