Do You Have What it Takes to be a Self-Healer?: The Type M, or Miracle, Personality

Are you the type of person who is capable of healing themselves of cancer and/or other serious illness? You just very well may be. A lot may have to do with your temperament and personality.

Researchers have studied personality traits of people who go through profound healing experiences and then heal themselves of cancer and other serious illnesses. In studying these people, they have found certain common factors that make up what they are calling the Type M, or miracle, personality.

These traits are:

1) Inner Change. Type M’s go through an existential shift in the way they view themselves and their lives.

2) Regression. This is a return to earlier states of function, in which a person can tap and relive their memories of when they felt happy and contented.

3) Active Surrender. One patient exclaimed that his surrender was predicated on his

understanding that life sometimes just is and the “universe doesn’t arrange itself around my ego.”

4) Altered States. High hypnotizability, fantasy-proneness, dissociation, vivid dreams and perceptual alterations occur to some during their healing journey. One person recalled, “Life became, well, psychedelic.”

5) Emotional Expression. Self-healers tend to emote easy and go through strong mood fluctuations. One personality study of self-healers found that they tend to have “more expressive and sometimes bizarre personalities.”

6) Social Change. Self-healers undergo a change in their interpersonal relationships. They realize that the relationship between them and their environment played a role in their illness and make either an intentional or accidental change for the better.

One doctor-researcher, pathologist Marco DeVries of St. Clara Hospital in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, asked one of his patients, who had healed herself of a fast-moving terminal cancer, what she was doing to have healed herself of the cancer. The woman replied, “I said, it’s just a feeling, something I know instinctively, from the inside. The emotions come up, and something happens in my body because of them, but I don’t have words for it. It is just a big, big trust.”

Do you have what it takes to be a Type M, or miracle, personality? Yes you do. Study the above traits and put them into action. You have to remember that healing is a journey, a process. There are no quick fixes—it is that belief that gets us in trouble.

If we see healing as a process, as an unfolding of the old self and a peeling away of the old skin and a rebirth into the new self, you can then more fully understand the meaning of the six traits above.

What the six traits above have in common is the fact that they all entail that the person let go of old patterns, patterns that are not serving them and are feeding the illness, and instead embrace new ways of seeing the world.

It is quite possible for a person to heal themselves of cancer and other terminal illnesses. One day modern medicine may accept this, although at present they discount this possibility, which is rather unfortunate, because it happens all the time.

One day modern medicine may pay heed to the words of the late Lewis Thomas, who was a brilliant award-winning writer, scientist and physician. Thomas said, “The possibility that medicine can learn to accomplish miracle healings at will is surely within reach of imagining.”

These are wise words from Dr. Thomas. I would put just one revision to his thoughts. I would say that it is not medicine that accomplishes miracle healings. It is people that accomplish miracle healings.

It is medicine’s job on the one hand to stay out of the way of the miracle healings, and on the other hand to help encourage and cultivate them.