Activating the Body's Capacity for Self-Healing: A Talk with Dr. Sol Grazi

People can control virtually every function of their bodies and heal every affliction, including damaged spinal chords, heart disease, and even cancer, according to Sol Grazi, M.D.

But most people give doctors control over their healing systems because they don't know what their bodies are capable of doing, he said. As a result, people never learn to activate their bodies' most powerful mechanisms for healing. 

"We talk all the time about people with cancer who have spontaneous recoveries. And we dismiss it," Dr. Grazi said. "We say, 'Well, they happen sometimes but don't count on it.' What we're really saying at that point is, 'It's not going to work.'

"Now, imagine if you came to me as a patient and told me you were really motivated to fight the cancer, manipulate all of the body's mechanisms, visualize the cancer leaving your body, and I listened to you and said, 'That's not going work,' You'll stop believing it's going to work and then it really won't work."

When people internalize that message, he said, they are essentially turning over control of life and death to their doctors.

"Every time someone tells you 'it's not going to work,' every time they say you cannot go past this limit, every time you tell yourself, 'I really can't do these things,' you set up your own limit. It is not the limit of the body," he said. "You have done that by setting up the parameters within which you will allow the body to work."

The solution, he said, it to focus on the body's amazing ability to heal and regenerate. "We know intuitively that the body can heal itself," he continued. "We see a person get sick, and then gets better. It happens by itself. He breaks a bone, and it heals up. It happens because the person already had the mechanism that allowed it to be done. By the same token, anything can heal."