Re: Candida-Mind Connection

I don't deny there is a link between stress and disease, far from it: all my illnesses happened after a long period of very traumatic stress.
However, you seem to think that willpower alone can cure us; you are confusing conscious thoughts and unconscious thoughts. We are in control of our conscious thoughts but by definition, we have no control over our unconscious thoughts, and these are the ones that matter the most when it comes to healing.
In order words, you can repeat to yourself all day long: "I am going to get better, I am fine now", if there is a part of you that is still suffering from an unresolved trauma, all this forced positive thinking will have no result, because it just amounts to denial of reality, and denial never works on the long term.
The distinction between the conscious and the unconscious is a basic one in psychology and it is admitted by all schools of thought in this field. By coercing yourself into forced optimism, you are just repressing your deepest/most traumatic emotions, whereas healing, at least psychologically, comes from getting them out.
I had a close friend who got sick with colo-rectal cancer at only 53, and applied daily this positive thinking thing, meditated, forced herself to have positive thoughts etc. She watched too much Oprah I guess :-). While I am convinced that her mind played a role in the cancer (she forced herself to stay in an unsatisfying mariage and job for years), the positive thinking did not do anything for her because it only allowed her to paper over the real issues. She passed away 3 months ago. Tweet