Phantom Limbs and Illusions of Relief – What does this have to do with the Law of Attraction?

I am always interested in stories that combine science and psychology.

The following appeared in the National Post on Saturday, August 28, 2010 in an article entitled Phantom limbs and illusions of relief;

“In piecing together its impression of the surrounding world, the human brain has a tendency to give priority to vision”, said Terry Borsook, PhD candidate in psychology at the University of Toronto. “What the brain sees, it will believe,” he said.

That preference opens the possibility of tricking the brain, or using illusions to relieve certain kinds of pain, from common arthritis to the rare pain in the “phantom limbs” of amputees.

Mr. Borsook describes “mirror therapy,” in which a patient with phantom limb pain lays their in-tact limb on a mirror and moves it around, while looking at the reflection and imagining it is the amputated one.

By bolstering the imagination’s ability to create its own internal reality with the mirror’s visual feedback, Mr. Borsook said this creates the “uncanny impression” that the severed limb is resurrected, and feels fine.

“That’s the magic.”

It does seem magical, and I can understand why the author would choose to use this word. Creating through the use of your imagination can be an incredibly joyous/magical experience.

In the creation of everything that exists, thought always comes first. Everything that you see around you was once a thought or an idea, that the Law of Attraction matched – a vibrational concept that matured into what we call physical reality. Phantom limb pain – if you bolster your imagination to create a different reality, a different thought, the pain goes away. Here is the best news – this concept of thought first, reality following, can work in any area of your life, your body and the way it looks and functions, your relationships, your career etc.

Borsook goes on to describe current experiments on arthritis patients, in which the key step is getting them to attribute their pain to a cause that can be manipulated. To that end, he uses an “augmented reality” system, which is similar to virtual reality except that it uses real-life as a backdrop. The arthritis patient watches a live video of himself, on which flames have been super-imposed on his painful joints. Once that association is made, the flames are virtually douses, and the patient feels relief. “We’re assisting the person’s imagination” he said.

What are you imagining? Why not assist it? Think about it.

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