The Two Key Processes Behind Healing and Health

When it comes to maintaining good health, most of us think of eating well, exercising, and staying hydrated. But have you ever considered what’s really happening inside your body?

At its core, your body relies on two essential processes to stay healthy and function properly:

1. Nourishment: Building New Cells

This happens when we take in healthy, nutritious food. These nutrients are used to build new, strong cells, helping the body repair itself, grow, and maintain energy.

2. Elimination: Removing Waste

The second process is just as vital—getting rid of waste. This includes removing toxins and by-products that the body no longer needs. If waste isn’t cleared out properly, it starts to accumulate in the tissues, which can cause serious problems.

The Hidden Cause of Disease: Waste Buildup

Although we have access to food, water, and air to build new cells, it’s often the second process—waste elimination—that breaks down. When the body can’t efficiently remove toxins, they build up and start to poison the system. This process is known as autointoxication, or self-poisoning.

What contributes to this toxic buildup? It’s more than just junk food. Stressful emotions like fear, worry, anxiety, and anger—as well as unhealthy lifestyle habits—can actually interfere with the body’s natural ability to clear out waste.

Over time, this inner toxicity leads to inflammation, weakened immunity, and chronic illness. Today, many experts refer to this type of internal breakdown as leaky gut, a condition where harmful substances leak into the bloodstream due to a compromised digestive lining.

A Century-Old Insight That Still Rings True

Interestingly, this concept isn’t new. Over 100 years ago, Charles F. Haanel wrote about the link between toxic thoughts, physical waste, and disease:

“The problem, then, before us in the healing of disease is to increase the inflow and distribution of vital energy throughout the system, and this can only be done by eliminating thoughts of fear, worry, care, anxiety, jealousy, hatred, and every other destructive thought which tends to tear down and destroy the nerves and glands that control the exertion and elimination of poisonous and waste matter.”

I’ve personally felt how emotions affect my body. When I’m upset or nervous, my physical response can be intense. That’s what happens externally—but imagine what’s happening internally in those moments. The stress, the tension, the disruption—it all affects our ability to heal and stay well.

What Are You Thinking—and Creating?

Haanel goes on to say something profound:

“If the state of our health is not all that could be desired, let us examine our method of thinking...Every thought produces an impression on the mind; every impression is a seed which will sink into the subconscious and form a tendency... If these thoughts contain disease, the harvest will be sickness, decay, weakness, and failure.Make a mental image of physical perfection. Hold it in the mind until it is absorbed by the consciousness. Many have eliminated chronic ailments by this method.”

This really hit home for me.

It reminded me of times in my life—outside of health—when I held a clear image of what I wanted. At first, those goals seemed unrealistic or even impossible. But because I stayed focused and believed in the outcome, things began to fall into place.

Your Mind Is a Tool for Healing

That same power can be used for healing. When we focus on vibrant health, believe in our body’s ability to heal, and avoid planting seeds of doubt, we open the door to real transformation.

Yes, eating well, staying active, and reducing toxins are all essential—but so is your mindset.

Hold the vision of health. Let it guide your actions. And remember, every positive thought is a step toward healing.

You have more power than you think—use it wisely.