What you think affects you and your mind.

Just about an hour ago, I was called to witness once again the power of belief . My neighbor saw me and she told me about her experience in Australia where she went to some months ago to visit one of her children.

This neighbour, together with her husband, was once a Buddhist. Christianity was a religion she did not want to enter into then until her sons persuaded her to go to church.

Attending church lead her nowhere nearer to belief until one day she visited her daughter in another town in Malaysia. While she was there, her daughter took her to a church gathering where a pastor well-known for faith-healing was making an appearance. She told me that was the eye-opening event for her. She saw the blind recover their sight. She saw the crippled walk. She saw a lady feeling her neck so happily as she found the fat lump (Was it goitre which is the increase in size of the neck due to the thyroid gland?)in her throat gone. All those things happened right in front of her eyes. For her, it was the revelation of God's power to cure. It brought the inevitable belief in Jesus and christianity.

She became a Christian. Although her husband followed suit, till this day he is an unbeliever. In many ways, he is still a Buddhist.

Well, this lady told me of her experience in Australia. She occupied a room with two other members of the son's family. She found sleep difficult during the first few nights. There was this pounding sound of some kind of machinery somewhere, as if some workmen were working with the machinery at a development project. Anyway, that was how she described it. The sound kept her awake most of those nights.

After the first two nights, she was curious about the sound. So, she took a walk aound the neighbourhood in the daytime. She looked around but there was no place where a building project could be in progress. That night she asked one of the grandchildren occupying the same room whether they heard any such sound. What shocked her was the reply. They heard no such disturbing sound in the night. Not even in the day-time.

That night, when she heard the sound again, she took out her bible and read a part of it. Then, according to her, the pounding sound stopped. Since then, for the rest of her stay there, she heard no such sound and she could sleep very soundly.

Like many of you, I sometimes do wonder about this. But, I have long ago realised that such things as belief overcoming such problems can and do happen. (Read about my hearing of voices and my nipple being pinched in the middle of the night during the weekends when I was alone in a rented house.)I have learnt to accept it, unless there is some concrete proof that it cannot be.

Belief is a wonderful thing. It has helped many in times of touble. Of course, it could go the other way and cause restless sleep when the belief is negative. What we think affects our mind and whether you believe it or not, that is true. Your own experiences should tell you that.