Positive suggestion and guided visualization speeds healing. Scroll down to read the research from Harvard or Check out these amazing stories of healing in these talks (audio) by Dr Stephen Gurgevich and Dr Andrew Weil. https://www.hightail.com/download/ZWJWOGNXSyszS3BMWE1UQw
Dr Weil describes how suggestions impact the body and physiology and the actual mechanisms at work. Dr Gurgevich tells stories of healing from his 30 years of practice.
Read more from the Harvard medical here:
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/05.08/01-hypnosis.html
Four years ago, Ginandes and Daniel Rosenthal, professor of radiology at the Harvard Medical School, published a report on their study of hypnosis to speed up the mending of broken bones. They recruited 12 people with broken ankles who did not require surgery and who received the usual treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In addition, Ginandes hypnotized half of them once a week for 12 weeks, while the other half received only normal treatment. The same doctor applied the casts and other care, and the same radiologists took regular X-rays to monitor how well they healed. A radiologist who evaluated the X-rays did not know which patients underwent hypnosis.
The result stood out like a sore ankle. Those who were hypnotized healed faster than those who were not. Six weeks after the fracture, those in the hypnosis group showed the equivalent of eight and a half weeks of healing.