Elevated Conversations: Using the Mind to Heal the Body with Brandy Gilmore

We’re often told that healing a sick or injured body means getting the right doctor, treatment or medication. What if the first place to go is inside your own mind? In her conversation on the Elevated Conversations Podcast, Brandy Gillmore shares a powerful message: our mind isn’t just along for the ride in healing—it can be the driver. She outlines how emotional patterns, subconscious beliefs, and energetic states all play active roles in the body’s capacity to heal itself. In this blog, I’ll walk through the key ideas she presents, explore what they mean for anyone wanting to heal (or support healing), and wrap up with how you might begin using the mind–body connection as a real practice.

Elevated Conversations: Using the Mind to Heal the Body with Brandy Gilmore

1. The mind–body connection is real and measurable

Brandy’s own story is compelling. Once physically fit and competitive, she experienced life-altering injury and chronic pain—and was told by doctors that she “couldn’t get better.” Medium+1 Instead of giving up, she turned inward and asked: Why do some people in a placebo group heal? What is my mind doing that’s enabling or blocking healing? Medium She discovered that healing wasn’t just about what was done to her body—but what she believed about it, how she emotionally held it, and how her mind interpreted every signal her body sent.

This is not simply “positive thinking.” It’s about uncovering emotional and neural patterns that keep the body in a state of “survival” or “injured,” thereby limiting its natural regenerative capacities. The Official Website of Brandy Gillmore+1 Brandy also emphasizes that there is proof of mind-body change (e.g., thermographic scans, collaborations in studies) validating that internal shifts can manifest external change. Love Heal Thrive Podcast+1

2. Emotions, subconscious programming and healing

One of the central messages: unresolved emotions (anger, guilt, fear, resentment) aren’t just “psychological” issues—they’re biological issues. Brandy explains that when emotions remain unexpressed or unrecognized, they get stored in the body’s system and continue to direct physical processes, often unconsciously. The Official Website of Brandy Gillmore+1

She gives examples of volunteers or clients who have been doing “all the right things” medically, yet are still suffering—because the underlying emotional and subconscious patterns weren’t addressed. The Official Website of Brandy Gillmore The key shift is not just doing more (treatments, supplements, diets) but going within to ask: What is the mind telling the body? What belief is keeping this injury or illness alive? Once emotion is released or re-coded, the body often responds with visible healing.

3. Practical tools: How to start using your mind to heal

Brandy doesn’t leave things floating in theory; she gives practical guidelines to begin engaging your mind in the healing process:

• Identify the belief: Ask what your mind believes about the injury/illness. “I’m broken,” “I’m damaged,” “This will always be this way.”

• Feel the emotion: Instead of bypassing it with “positive affirmations,” feel the underlying emotion (fear, shame, hurt) that’s tied to that belief.

• Re-code the pattern: Once the emotion is felt and acknowledged, replace or rewire the belief with one aligned with health, wholeness, and possibility. Brandy demonstrates dramatic drops in pain (e.g., level-8 pain down to zero) by doing this. Dr. Maya Novak | Healer, Author+1

• Be consistent: The mind–body system doesn’t always shift overnight. Repetition, awareness, and ongoing “listening” to your body and mind is crucial.

• Hope + willingness to change: She emphasizes—get excited about the possibility of healing and be willing to change. Without that internal readiness, the body often stays in the old pattern. Dr. Maya Novak | Healer, Author

  
  

4. Implications for how we think about healing

If we accept that the mind plays a measurable role in physical healing, several implications follow:

• Medical + internal work are complementary, not mutually exclusive. Seeing a doctor or therapist is valid—but so is exploring your inner world.

• You are not powerless: Even if you’ve been told “there’s nothing more we can do,” you still have the power of your mind and energy to influence your physiology.

• Healing is more than symptom-management: Instead of only masking pain, the goal becomes restoring wholeness—body, mind, spirit.

• Emotional and energetic literacy matters: The language of healing isn’t only biomedical; it involves belief, feeling, nervous-system regulation, energetic states—all of which you can learn to influence.

Healing is not only about what happens to your body—it is deeply influenced by what happens inside of you: your beliefs, your emotions, your focus, your willingness to change. Brandy Gillmore’s work reminds us that the mind is not a passive observer—it’s an active architect of healing. If you’re managing an injury, chronic pain, or illness—or supporting someone who is—the invitation is to shift from “What treatment can I get?” to “What is my mind believing? What emotion am I holding? What am I ready to change?” With consistent attention to the inner landscape, the outer body begins to follow.

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