This is not the kind of chill therapy which involves reducing body
temperature to help heart patients. This is an emerging technique
that involves the generating of "chills" through imagery. The
purpose is to establish communication with the trillions of body cells
which have a seemingly infinite capacity to heal the body.
Not everyone is capable of this. Those of you who customarily pull wings
off flies or lack any ounce of compassion for strangers, will likely be
unable to accomplish this. The method of generating the chills is also
highly personal. It will work for some and not for others. Here are
two examples.
You are watching the movie "Forrest Gump." You have sympathetically
followed the trials and tribulations of our perpetually upbeat hero.
Toward the end of the movie, as Forrest waits patiently on the bench for
his bus to arrive, he is informed that his destination is closer than he
thinks. He can walk there. He rushes off and arrives at the home of his
old girlfriend, Jenny. While speaking to Jenny, Forrest hears a knock at
the door and a child is brought in. The boy is Jenny's son. Forrest
didn't know she had any children. Jenny reveals that the name of the
child is Forrest. Tom Hanks, as Forrest Gump, is surprised and
delighted. Then, suddenly, Jenny reveals that the child was named after
his father. Tom Hanks gives an astounded double-take as the truth rushes
at him. He, Forrest Gump, the man for whom few expected very much
because of his simple-mindedness, is the father of the child. A wave of
chills commences at the base of the skull, travels down the backbone and
sweeps through the rest of the body. Your cells have experienced this odd
delight, passing on the feeling cell by cell in an electrical, almost
massaging force.
In the next example, you are watching "Song of Bernadette" starring
Jennifer Jones as Bernadette Soubirous. In 1858, this young French
peasant girl, while out gathering firewood for her family, encountered the
apparition of a beautiful lady. The Lady spoke to Bernadette and told her
wonderful things. Because only Bernadette could see and hear the
apparition, many in the village did not believe her story. The
authorities wanted to stamp out the activities, as they were beginning to
spread, and it made their entire village look foolish in the rest of the
country. But strange events were starting to take place, and the number of
curious was starting to grow. During one of her visits to the grotto
where the apparition first appeared, Bernadette was accompanied by a
surging mass of believers and non-believers. Once again, the Lady came to
Bernadette. She instructed the youth to wash herself at a nearby spring. At
first, Bernadette believed this was the river, as she could not see a
spring. The Lady corrected her, directing her to a spot in the earth.
Bernadette began to dig below the indicated location, covering her face
and arms with the earth, as if washing in the imaginary waters. Behind
her, the sympatheic observers are horrified by her actions. Many in the
crowd are laughing and mocking. At last, her relatives cannot take it any
more. They gather her up, and escort the muddy-faced Bernadette back
toward the village in defeat. As the procession retreats and the crowd
begins to thin, friends of Bernadette remain behind at the grotto, their
backs to the place where the Lady has appeared. Then, suddenly and
slowly, there is a sound and a motion. A trickle of water appears. The
flow increases to a sparkling stream. The friends look around. The
spring has appeared as if by magic, bubbling to the surface from the hole
where Bernadette has been digging only moments before. Quickly, the
friends run after the crowd, loudly announcing what
they have seen. The event vindicates Bernadette and leaves everyone
convinced of the reality of the Holy Apparition.
You will have your own movies and books that contain events and images
that are able to generate chills. You do not have to actually watch the
stories again and again to achieve the effect. All you need to do is to
replay the images in your mind. Adjust the emphasis of the images to fine
tune the intensity of the chills.
This technique is not for everyone. Even the results of the technique are
not clear. Like the little boy who cried wolf, there will be a
tendency for the effect to diminish the more times you replay it. Find
the events which cause within you the chills of pleasure that wash from
the base of your brain down your back and throughout your limbs.
Repeat the process from ten to twenty times. Then meditate upon healing
your body. Give the message to your cells that they must work on your
behalf and initiate the process that restores your body to its former good
health. This technique is to get the attention of your body cells and
mobilize them to the actions that they are fully capable of. Otherwise,
your body at times appears to be working against itself.
You are all on the same team. So why does it appear that sometimes your
body is against you? Reestablish the connection with your body which you
had when you were a child. Your lifestyle and attitudes may have resulted
in an unconscious self-destructive urge. We are exposed all the time to
elements that can lead to cancer and other dire diseases. Yet in many
people the diseases never manifest. The protective barriers and forces
within their bodies have aided them. So why should a disease
manifest in some and not in others?
Don't just sit there waiting for a doctor to give you the magic
prescription that will save your life. You must assist your body with
your actions. Accompany this technique with other beneficial therapies
that have been presented in these pages; from laughter therapy to
imagination therapy. When all else has failed, your mind may be your best
weapon against a debilitating disease. Using your mind may prove
to have far greater control over your destiny. That is what the chill
therapy is all about. It conditions your body to prepare it for a
miraculous recovery.
