What is the psychological vaccination against corona, which enhances your ability to resist?
(Rihab Ben Ammar -Aljazeera Blogs 20.04.2020-)
The most important thing about the coronavirus is the speed of its spread in the absence of vaccination. But there's an alternative available! In addition to maintaining all current means of prevention and strengthening the immunity to enhance the resistance, the psychological aspect plays an impressive role in this subject.
Psychological vaccination against corona is the alternative available to everyone at the moment without any material costs, so how can we ignore it! What is the psychological vaccination against the corona? And how can we do it? According to the World Health Organization, approximately 3,456 people die every day from road traffic accidents! If the media and social media were focusing on this information, as they do with providing us with the statistics of the corona victims and its danger every day, we would probably be terrified even from using any means of transportation. That's simply because it's so easy to build a strong belief that says, "I would surely die if I use the means of transportation, as the road traffic deaths are very high". We must all pay attention to the negative belief, which is formed in our minds these days. The body responds impressively to achieve our beliefs.
Several psychological experiments, which emphasize the importance of belief and its effect on our body have been conducted. One of them is the following: A group of medical students was given stimulants to take and they were told that they were given sedatives. It was noted that half of this group remained relaxed and calm after taking the stimulants. A second group was given sedatives to take and were told they were stimulants. This second group became very active and dynamic. The effectiveness of the medicine is determined by the degree of belief in its effectiveness. If a doctor gives you medication and you strongly believe it will not help, it's not going to help you at all! Not only that, the negative belief can turn the effectiveness of the drug to its opposite.
According to Marisa Peer, known as the best psychological therapist in Britain, one of the rules of the human mind is that when a certain belief is formed by repeating a certain thought, this belief will be saved in the subconscious, which leads the body with all its functions to achieve this belief.-You make your beliefs then your beliefs make you then the universe makes those beliefs real-
This is very similar to installing a program in the computer, the results will be defined according to the rules specified in the installed program. So, the negative belief that the corona is irresistible is the belief which can cause a lack of resistance in the case of contamination and is also the same which can cause a self-destruction! This is exactly the opposite of what could happen if we were vaccinated against the corona. Because the role of vaccination is to prepare the body and create immunity for resistance in the case of contamination.
The following experience enables us to understand what the psychological vaccination is. Which has a similar effect to medical vaccination: One hundred and ninety-nine people with severe head pain were given Placebo to drink, which is a drug with no anti-disease medical components, and they were told they were given a new and highly effective medicine to relieve the head pain. One hundred and twenty of them confirmed that their head pain was gone after using the drug! Another group suffering from stomach ulcer pain, was provided with placebo to drink and was told that it is a new drug that have been proved to be extremely effective against stomach ulcer pain. Seventy percent of them confirmed that they got rid of the stomach ulcers! The only thing that was put on with the placebo was their strong belief in its effectiveness and their certainty of healing. It is that belief that has made the mind give an order to the body to perform all the functions that led to healing. The drug is only a way to form a strong belief in healing. The stronger the belief is, the easier it is to heal.
Even if we look at this from a religious perspective, we understand why certainty is so important in the religion. The role of medical vaccination is to create immunity and qualify it for resistance in the case of disease. Knowing that the certainty of healing is the big matter, why won't we form a strong belief that we are protected and that our body is capable to resist the corona? so, we would play the same role that medical vaccination against corona would play, which is first of all forming the belief of being protected and able to resist.
Let us do what I have called psychological vaccination against corona as long as medical vaccination is not available and believe strongly that we are protected, our immunity is strong and our body is strong and able to resist and recover from corona if we become infected with it. What we must do, of course besides of preserving all the methods in circulation to strengthen the immunity, is to stop watching everything that instills in us the panic and fear of corona since their huge negative effects on the immunity are scientific proven. Also, we have to get more laugh into our lives. The decrease of the presence of laugh and cheerfulnessin our lives affects our health negatively. It is scientifically proven that laugh raises the level of the growth hormone in the blood and this hormone is necessary for the safety and the strengthening of our immune system. Besides, we must do a lot of affirmations which consist of repeating sentences that reinforce the belief that we seek to form and maintain, so that the body can function accordingly.
As we have already mentioned, the repetition of certain thoughts in the mind forms a certain belief and the body responds to its realization. Such as repeating " I am strong, my immunity is strong, I am protected, and I can resist and overcome the corona..." They are indeed simple sentences, but their repetition has impressive effects on the soul and as a result on the body as well. This is how we have carried out psychological vaccination against corona and strengthened our ability to resist.
Rihab Ben Ammar
-Aljazeera Blogs 20.04.2020-
The original blog is in arabic