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"One of the first 'wonders' you will learn to appreciate after practicing the HPS 7 Day Wonder wellness system for a while is the incredible power- especially the healing power- of the mind.

Most people seem to take the mind for granted as a mere extension of the brain and an agent in service of the body, until they discover the existence of energy and begin to experience what amazing things the mind can accomplish as commander-in-chief of energy.

Guiding energy with the mind is best accomplished while keeping the body motionless; i.e., in still meditation, which may be done in sitting, standing or reclining postures.

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine states, 'When the mind is quiet and empty, energy will rise to its command, and the danger of disease will turn to safety.' This is essentially another way of stating the basic principle of psychoneuroimmunology, whereby a calm and quiet mind free of worry sets in motion the natural self-healing mechanisms of the body through positive feedback between the nervous and immune systems.

In order to achieve the state of internal tranquility that allows energy to rise to the command of the mind to heal the body, one must learn how to shut off the incessant chatter that spouts from the cerebral cortex. This is the mental roost of the ego and the perpetrator of all the worry and mental machinations the keep the nervous system perpetually locked into the restless 'fight or flight' mode of the sympathetic branch.

Note, however, that the mind never really stands still. When we speak of 'stilling the mind', we mean stilling the discursive thoughts of the postnatal human mind and turning off the shrill high-frequency static produced by the cerebral cortex.

This permits the more subtle, deeper faculties of prenatal spirit, such as intent, intuition and visualization- and at higher stages of practice, telepathy, clairvoyance and other psychic powers - which operate at lower frequencies and express themselves in images rather than word-thoughts, to rise to the fore of the mind and manifest their powers.

These are the faculties which may be used to modulate and guide energy and health."