by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Syracuse University – Scholarship in Action
A friend once told me about a teenage girl she met at the doctor’s office. The girl talked about the fact that she thought she was pregnant and was looking forward to having her baby. After the girl left the office, the nurse told my friend in confidence that she felt sorry for the teenager who’d come in right before.
Apparently, the young girl wasn’t pregnant at all, but just wanted to be. In fact, she wanted a baby so bad that her body had taken on many of the characteristics of a pregnant woman: Her menstruations had stopped, her stomach started to protrude, she got morning sickness, and she even started to lactate. Because her desire to have a child was so deeply ingrained her psyche, her body convinced itself that she was indeed going to be someone’s mother.
This story is a very telling statement about the depth and power of the human mind. If you want something bad enough, your mind will eventually make it into a reality. Whether it is a good thing or bad, when your conscious and subconscious mind obsesses over the thing you desire the most, you will often find that the contents of your mind manifest themselves into reality over time.
Never let go of your dreams, be conscious of what you allow into your mind, and be careful about the mantras you recite to yourself. All of this eventually shapes your world, your life and your entire existence.
Dr. Boyce Watkins is a Professor at Syracuse University and founder of the Your Black World Coalition. To have Dr. Boyce commentary delivered to your email, please click here.
3 comments:
There is only so much that a psychological implantation into thought processes can produce. There are other factors and variables that must come into play for a mental concentration, or focus, on any ideal to become a realization. So even if a child or woman's mind can want a child to the point of psychosis, it will not happen until she is actually impregnated. Which is easier done than having a psychotic fixation create a representation of fantasy.
These kind of psychological suggestions are well documented. It is why using placebos in medical trials is so important.
The interesting part is not that there are limitations to what happened in this particular case, but rather how this effect can be used for more spectacular purposes.
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