I healed my chronic back pain and avoided a second surgery by uncovering a subconscious command. As a transformational therapist, and someone who approaches life through a spiritual lens, here’s what it taught me about how the mind shapes reality.
For months, I lived with sharp pain shooting down my left leg. A lumbar hernia was pressing on a nerve, and even after surgery, the pain returned — along with the recommendation for yet another operation.
That was my breaking point. And, unexpectedly, my breakthrough.
Doctors told me the cause wasn’t age, posture, or lifestyle. Structurally, nothing explained why the pain persisted, and they also warned that I would need a second surgery if nothing changed. So I stopped asking only how to remove the symptom and began asking a different question:
Why was my body creating this pain?
As a transformational therapist I turned inward. Through hypnotherapy, I uncovered something surprising. My subconscious mind had created the condition long before I consciously knew about it — as a strategy to receive care and protection at a time when I felt unsafe.
The pattern remained active for years, not because it was useful, but because it had never been updated.
When that belief was recognised and released, my symptoms changed overnight (!), and I was able to avoid that second surgery.
That experience fundamentally altered how I understand illness and healing. It led me to explore more deeply how subconscious patterns, trauma, belief, and physiology interact — and how transformation becomes possible when change happens beneath the surface of conscious thought.
Beyond “Positive Thinking”
When people hear phrases like quantum healing or mind over matter, they often imagine that simply thinking positively can instantly produce physical change.
That is not how healing works.
What is supported by research in psychoneuroimmunology, placebo science, and trauma neuroscience is something more subtle and more powerful:
Our beliefs, expectations, emotional states, and stress responses profoundly shape the nervous system, hormone balance, immune function, and perception of pain.
The body is not an inert machine. It is a responsive system, constantly adjusting to internal signals — especially those generated by threat, safety, meaning, and expectation.
At the deepest levels of physics, quantum theory shows that matter does not behave like rigid machinery, but as dynamic systems governed by probabilities and interactions. This does not mean that human intention directly controls particles. But it offers a useful metaphor: biological systems are not fixed structures — they are adaptive processes, continually shaped by interaction.
In the same way that physical systems change through interaction, our internal patterns — beliefs, emotional states, and unconscious expectations — continually interact with the nervous system and body. Over time, these interactions influence which stress responses remain active, which hormonal patterns persist, and which healing processes are allowed to unfold.
In this sense, the internal world influences the external reality of the body — not through magic, but through biology.
A Simple Metaphor
Think of the body as a garden.
Healing does not happen by commanding flowers to bloom. It happens by changing the conditions: the soil, the water, the light, the climate.
Symptoms are rarely the problem. They are signals that the internal environment has become hostile to health.
Therapy, in this sense, is the process of changing the conditions beneath the surface: releasing subconscious patterns that keep the nervous system locked in protection, and creating the internal safety that allows the body to return to regulation.
When the environment changes, healing becomes natural.
A Story of Transformation
Anna (name changed) grew up in an abusive home. As an adult, her relationships repeated the same painful patterns, and she developed symptoms of CPTSD.
In our work together, something revealing emerged. The beliefs that governed her life — helplessness, self-punishment, fear of protection — were not truly hers. They reflected emotional imprints inherited through family history: unprocessed trauma, unconscious learning, and intergenerational patterns passed down long before she was born.
Research now shows that trauma can shape not only psychology, but physiology, and that stress responses can be transmitted across generations through learning, attachment, and even epigenetic mechanisms.
When Anna recognised that these fears belonged to the past rather than her present, something shifted. She could finally say: “This is not me”.
As her identity reorganised, her nervous system followed. Her relationships changed. Her symptoms softened. Her life began to move in a new direction.
The Deeper Side of Healing
From both my personal journey and my work with clients, I have learned something consistent:
Lasting healing happens beneath the surface of conscious thought.
The subconscious mind governs habits, stress responses, immune signalling, and emotional regulation. When those patterns change, the body often follows — calming hyperactive stress circuits, restoring hormonal balance, and activating natural repair processes.
This is not mystical. It is how the nervous system is designed to function.
Root-cause hypnotherapy and trauma-informed approaches work precisely because they access these deeper regulatory systems, where beliefs become biology and identity becomes physiology.
When inner patterns shift, the body often reorganises around a new state of health.
Bringing It All Together
Reality is not fixed in the way we once imagined. Biology is fluid, adaptive, and exquisitely sensitive to meaning, safety, and expectation.
Therapy, when done deeply, is not about forcing change. It is about removing the internal conditions that keep the body locked in defence, so that healing becomes the natural outcome of regulation and coherence.
That is what healed my back.
That is what allowed Anna to reclaim her life.
And that is what I witness daily in people who are ready to release old programs and step into new patterns of being.
Healing is not about controlling reality. It is about creating the conditions in which health becomes inevitable.
Your Next Step
With the power of technology, I work face-to-face with people all over the world. If this article resonates with you, I invite you to explore more on my website and book a free consultation call.
Healing is possible — and it begins by changing the conditions of your inner garden.
Sources & Further Reading
- Candace Pert — Molecules of Emotion. Groundbreaking work on how emotions influence the immune and endocrine systems through neurochemical signalling.
- Robert Sapolsky — Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers. Classic text on stress physiology, showing how chronic stress reshapes the nervous system and contributes to illness.
- Bessel van der Kolk — The Body Keeps the Score. On how trauma is stored in the body and how therapeutic interventions change physiology and perception.
- Ernest Rossi — The Psychobiology of Mind–Body Healing. Scientific exploration of how hypnosis and belief can influence gene expression, immune function, and autonomic regulation.
- Bower, J. E., Kuhlman, K. R., Haydon, M. D., Boyle, C. C., & Radin, A. (2023). Cultivating a healthy neuro-immune network: A health psychology approach. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 13(9), e12498. Summary: Neuro-immune network associations with reduced inflammation and beneficial immune changes; psychoneuroimmunology as a pathway to support mental and physical health. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10062207/
- Prossin, A. R., Koch, A., Campbell, P., Laumet, G., Stohler, C. S., Dantzer, R., & Zubieta, J.-K. (2021). Effects of placebo administration on immune mechanisms and relationships with central endogenous opioid neurotransmission. Molecular Psychiatry, 27(4), 831–839. Summary: Placebo administration can reduce pro-inflammatory cytokines like IL-18 and modulate brain regions involved in pain regulation. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-021-01365-x
- Rossettini, G., Campaci, F., Bialosky, J. E., Huysmans, E., Vase, L., & Carlino, E. (2023). The biology of placebo and nocebo effects on experimental and chronic pain: State of the art. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 12(12), 4113. Summary: Review of placebo/nocebo effects on pain; highlights psychological and neurobiological mechanisms and variability in chronic pain patients. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10299252/
- Rosendahl, J., Alldredge, C. T., & Haddenhorst, A. (2024). Meta-analytic evidence on the efficacy of hypnosis for mental and somatic health issues: A 20-year perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1330238. Summary: Hypnosis shows moderate-to-large efficacy for pain, procedural distress, and psychological conditions, strongest effects in children/adolescents. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10807512/