It is said that as per Law of belief, whatever your thoughts/beliefs are, you becomes like that. Such notions are predicted in a movie "THE SECRET" also. In this regard I have a query. Some times back I did sexual relations with my friend without knowing her hiv status. Thereafter I got worried about hiv infection and I got tests done from lab and it was negative. Due to fear of hiv, now I do not have any relations with her but I gets tested after every 6 months. Now 5 times I had been tested. Now this fear had come in my nature (like OCD). So Pl explain whether such types of wrong believes also change your body chemistry as per Law of belief and you may get hiv infection and show hiv positive although now you are not in any such sexual relations. Please clarify this issue. Regards .

Dr. Saul PereiraPsychologist47yrs exp

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It is not possible to pick up an infection like HIV by mere imagination. When you entertain an idea in your head that you could have a particular disease, it can be manifested by undermining your immune system and increasing the activation of conditions conducive to having an infection more by the reduction of your immune system by the suggestion and the subsequent strain it causes. In the suggestion, the worrying is the factor that contributes the most. But don't get deceived by the simplicity of this suggestion. For example, a multiple personality disorder patient can induce different body/physiological conditions in the same body by the mere changing of the identity of a person and inducing the disorder supposedly present in that personality. The mind is that powerful. When you worry about something you are auto-suggesting to your body and system that it has got it and the unconscious mind accepts it as real. Then the body accommodates that suggestion to create a proposed reality. Your thoughts and the body are strongly interconnected. An important factor to really enable a suggestion is by faith and belief. Now you don't have HIV as the tests manifest and you cannot suggest to disease to become present in your body, period.  

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