Step 09: Clean Mind: Thoughts

Summary

• Focuses on cleansing and controlling thoughts as a key step in healing and overall well-being.
• Emphasizes that negative, fearful, and toxic thinking can harm the body and hinder recovery.
• Encourages replacing harmful thoughts with positive, hopeful, and empowering beliefs.
• Highlights the importance of awareness—noticing recurring thought patterns and consciously redirecting them.
• Suggests using tools like meditation, prayer, and affirmations to retrain the mind.
• Stresses that thoughts influence emotions, stress levels, and physical health, making mental discipline essential.
• Recommends avoiding sources of negativity (media, conversations, environments) that reinforce harmful thinking.
• Promotes cultivating gratitude, faith, and optimism as daily mental habits.
• Reinforces consistency: mental cleansing is an ongoing practice, not a one-time fix.
• Overall message: a clean, focused, and positive mind supports healing, resilience, and better life outcomes

The Power of the Mind in Healing

• Of the 50 ALS reversals we have spoken with, by far the most important factor in their healing was the mind.
• Neuroplasticity shows that the brain can rewire itself
• Every person we have seen improve made a profound shift in how they think and respond to life
• And that profound shift often became the catalyst for deeper changes in their body and lifestyle
• THE MIND IS BY FAR THE MOST IMPORTANT TOOL FOR HEALING

Cleansing your mind is crucial on your healing journey. Be positive about your life expectancy, your future, and your dreams. A healthy mind will help you heal.

Joe Dispenza proof of the healing power of the mind:

This video PROVES that healing is possible with the mind alone. It is one of many, many examples of people who have successfully healed with their thoughts.

Gregg Braden – Proof of the Power of the Mind and Emotions

Every thought you think send a frequency.

Review of Step 3

• Stay in Empowerment mode, not Victim mode
• Read Ideal Life Statement daily or listen to recording of your ideal life statement
• Conquer Fear of death and disability
• Meditate 10 – 20 minutes per day
• Write 3 new gratitudes and 1 best moment daily
• Read list of positive affirmations daily or listen to recording of these affirmations.
• Volunteer for a short time each month doing something you are passionate about (any organization or cause outside of your family)

No-cebo Effect

The Nocebo Effect is the Opposite of the Placebo effect.

• Placebo: if you think you are going to heal, you are likely to heal.
• Nocebo: If you think you are going to die or be disabled you are more likely to die or be disabled

2 minute video:

3 minute video:

Reduce Stress

Chronic stress affects and puts the body into Sympathetic (fight or flight) mode:

• inflammation
• immune signaling
• overall resilience
• nutrients are not absorbed
• toxins are not released

Way to reduce stress and put your body into Parasympathetic (relaxed – healing) mode:

• meditation
• breathwork
• prayer
• visualization
• can shift the body into a more healing-supportive state (parasympathetic nervous system).

Byron Katie – Stop incoming Stress

Book by Bryon Katie: Loving What Is
Website: TheWork.com
Click for Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet

Stay in your Own Business

There are 3 types of businesses.

• Your business
• The other person’s business
• God’s business

We are only under stress when we are not in our own business

Do “The Work” with Byron Katie (TheWork.Com)

Click for Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet

The Four Questions
Example: Paul lied to me.

• Is it true? (Yes or no. If no, move to question 3.)
• Can you absolutely know that it’s true? (Yes or no.)
• How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?
• Who or what would you be without the though

The Tunarounds
As you visualize the situation, contemplate how each turnaround is as true or truer

• I lied to me.
• I lied to Paul.
• Paul didn’t lie to me.
• Paul told me the truth.

Release Suppressed Emotions

Suppressed emotions are those emotions that you have, for whatever reason, not released, which means they are stored in your body and can create disease.

• You MUST release suppressed emotions or you will stay sick
• Do not suppress emotions in the first place
  • Verbalize the issue and release it
  • Any emotion you do not express and/or release will stay in your body and can cause disease
• Find things that work for you
  • Alex Loyd Healing Code book
  • Body Code and Emotion Code Books by Bradley Nelson
  • Ezov drops from Nutramedix. Follow instructions on the bottle.
  • EVOX with a Zyto with a skilled practitioner
  • Hypnotherapy with a skilled practitioner
  • AO Scan and other frequency devices
  • Talk therapy generally does not work for releasing suppressed emotions

Make sure you can answer YES to the following questions with ZERO doubt. These are in Step 3 of the Healing ALS Registry because they are important.

• I want to be well.
• I believe I can get well.
• It is safe for me to get well.
• It is safe for others that I get well.
• I am ready to get well.
• I am willing to get well.
• I am able to get well.
• I deserve to get well.
• I am taking action to get well.

Tools for Positivity

Emotional progress can happen quickly or small believable steps

• sometimes an emotional change can happen quickly with right thoughts
• other times, if you are in one of the lower states, figure out how to get to a higher state step by step.

Gratitude

Gratitude is the number one way to turn around negative thoughts

• Focus on all the things in your life you are grateful for
• Since you already adding 3 gratitudes per day, go to your past gratitude list to shift your thinking
• Change negative thinking in 7 seconds to gratitude, since the body starts being negatively affected after 7 seconds.

Forgiveness and Love

• Forgive IMMEDIATELY
• Any negative thoughts which create negative emotions you , only hurt you.
• For example, if you hold anger or resentment towards anyone, it produces a negative emotion which reduces your cellular energy, your ability to absorb nutrients and your ability to eliminate toxins.
• Stop judging other people — no human being is perfect, including you
• If you are upset for any reason at anyone send them love
• Another option: Visualizing, Shouting and Forgiving. Instructions are at drleecowden.com
• You do not need to keep negative people in your life, especially energy suckers. Send them love and choose not to be around them.
• If you have a negative caregiver, get another caregiver
• If you have a negative spouse or partner, chances are they are under extreme stress. Find a way to organize caregivers and respite so they get a break.

Serenity Prayer

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.” 

Visualization

• Positive Visualization can be an extremely way to heal.
• Read Todd Mitchell’s story and listen to at least part of his video recording: https://healingals.org/alsreversals/todd-mitchell/
• Watch the video below:

Other Tools for Positivity

• Uplifting Videos
• Uplifting audio or print books
• Prayer, always beginning with gratitude can be a very strong tool
• Volunteering, helping other people, getting out of your own head to focus on othres, can change your entire outlook
• Staying in “empowerment” mode. What can I do to heal? How can I make the best of this situation? Avoid “victim” or “poor me” mode.
• When positive things happen, fully appreciate and enjoy them. When negative things happen, look at these things as challenges that you are learning from.

Inspirational Music

Find inspirational music, something that resonates with you. This can help you turn your thoughts around. 3 minute video below.

A few examples of those who have healed with the power of the mind

Evy McDonald, ALS Reversal, Diagnosed 1980 at age 29

Evy McDonald Part 1

Evy McDonald Part 2

Dr. Joyce Brown, Diagnosed ALS 1988 at age 49

Cathy Cummins, Diagnosed PLS 2005, ALS 2008

Watch Boot Camp 3 Recording presented by Cathy Cummins

Homework

• I understand that my thoughts create my emotions, not the other way around, and that I can choose the thoughts that create positive emotions, which promote healing.
• I read or listen to my Ideal Life Statement and my positive affirmations daily or as often as possible
• I do my best to meditate 10 – 20 minutes per day
• I Write 3 new gratitudes and 1 best moment daily and Volunteer for a short time each month doing something you are passionate about (any organization or cause outside of your family)
• I understand the power of the nocebo effect, and am working to choose my own future instead of conforming some doctor’s prognosis
• I am taking action to reduce negative stress, thereby reduces cortisol. I am also taking steps to be in parasympathetic (appreciation, joy, love, peace, happiness) for the vast majority of the day, since I know is essential for healing.
• I find ways to have fun and enjoy life every day and every week.
• I have forgiven everyone in my life and I have dropped resentments and judgements and replaced them with love.
• I am no longer stuffing/suppressing emotions and instead I am verbalizing and/or appropriately releasing negative emotions before they are stored in my body
• I am taking action to release past negative emotions stored in my body until I know that they are released. I can say yes to the 9 Healing questions listed above.
• In addition to the short videos, I have listened to at least half of each of the longer videos above, Evy, Joyce and Cathy, people who have successfully healed ALS.

References

1. Plasma cortisol level in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis –
   https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26384616/ 
2. Stress exposure affects amyotrophic lateral sclerosis pathogenesis via PI3K/Akt
   and focal adhesion pathways: evidence from three experimental models –
   https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40399476/
3. Functional Decline is Associated with Hopelessness in Amyotrophic Lateral
   Sclerosis (ALS) – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5548143/ 
4. Early immune system changes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis correlate with
   later disease progression – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40286795/ 
5. Emotional Lability at Disease Onset Is an Independent Prognostic Factor of
   Faster Disease Progression in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis –
   https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7505264/

The information we share is for educational purposes and should not be treated as medical advice.
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