It is not a secret that your mind is a powerful thing. Every possibility you perceive is the domain of your mind.

Your mercurial mind is the cause of every action. Nothing happens without it occurring first as a thought or dream. Neither a poem nor a nuclear bomb could exist without the imagination that first pronounced it as possible.

Belief is the greatest thing! With an unassailable belief, all is possible.

If you know it is possible and you want it, then with action you will have it. Equally if you know it is impossible, no amount of wanting or action will have things fall into place.

Evolving certainty in your mind is an important opportunity. Doubt is the bottleneck that inhibits all success.

One way to crush imaginary limitation is to observe those demonstrable affronts to the generally perceived logic. There are many examples that prove the “impossible” is not that.

One example is the use of meditation to resolve physical disease such as cancer. Ian Gawler is well recognised for his success in using and teaching meditation techniques that open the inner oceanic mind to the lesson imbedded in disease and in turn offers a process to resolve it. Allegedly terminal cancer can slow or even disappear on the basis of mind power!

If truth is what is useful, Ian Gawler’s renowned work implies that all disease is a mental illness, a purposeful product of the mind. If this is the case then all the more so that what our culture considers actual mental illness is similarly created, and accordingly this leads to the conclusion that the mind rather than chemistry holds the ultimate cure.

Our cultural construction of mental illness strips from sufferers of sensitivity their essential locus of control. It makes the experience of mental illness one of stigma and shame rather than respecting their typically significant creative power.

I do not encourage the rejection of belief in chemical medicine rather I suggest that the vast creative capacity of your mind is the seminal place to truly pursue wellbeing.

Martin Hunter Jones is an honorary life member of the Australian Counselling Association. He has a practice on the Northern Beaches. Phone 9973 4997.