What is Wellness?

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Understanding Wellness

The World Health Organization defines wellness as "...a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” Wellness is the integration of mind, body and spirit. When we balance the physical, intellectual, emotional, social, occupational, spiritual, and environmental aspects of life, we achieve true wellness. The term wellness was first used by a physician named Halbert L. Dunn, who published a small booklet entitled “High Level Wellness” in 1961. Dr. Dunn saw wellness as a lifestyle approach for pursuing elevated states of physical and psychological well-being. He described it as a disciplined commitment to personal mastery. Wellness is an active process of becoming aware of and making right choices toward a healthy and fulfilling life. While illnesses often manifest physically in our bodies, orthodox mainstay medicine and alternative healthcare practitioners often look to dietary, environmental and lifestyles choices. Ironically the missing link in all is that mental patterns drive our dietary behavior, lifestyles and cultural choices.

In his book’ None Of these diseases Dr S I McMillen point out that over 80% of the illnesses that afflicts humanity are psychosomatic(Mind over body) and healthy mental states are paramount and prerequisite to physical and organic health. When a doctor prescribes a medication or a treatment for our illness, our body starts the healing process before the medicine is in our body or the exercise or surgical procedure has taken place. Just seeing a doctor gives us confidence that healing will occur. Depending on our cultural background, this is true whether the physician is a neurosurgeon at the Mayo Clinic or a tribal witch doctor. This is attributable to an extraordinary healing ability of the mind-body connection by a process known as the placebo effect. What happens is that healing starts when we believe it will occur and make conscious effort to recover. Our mind buys into it and your body actualizes our intention.

Wellness means, finally, to drop one's ego. To give up greed, to cease chasing after the preservation and the aggrandizement of the ego, to be and to experience oneself in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using." In this act of true response lives the area of creativity, of seeing the world as it is and experiencing it as my world, the world created and transformed by my creative grab of it, so that the world ceases to be a strange world "over there" and becomes my world. Well-being means to be fully born to become what one potentially is; it means to have the full capacity for joy and for sadness , or to put it differently, to awake form the half-slumber the average man lives in, and to be fully awake. If it is all that, it means also to be creative; that is, to react and to respond as the real, total man I am to the reality of everybody and everything as it is. Wellness is possible only to the degree to which one has overcome one's own narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty (in the Zen sense). Well being means to be full related to man and nature affectively, to overcome separateness and alienation, to arrive at the experience of oneness with all that exists--and yet to experience myself at the same time as the separate entity that I am, as the in-dividual

The great physician and humanitarian, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, gives us this insight - "The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us (medical doctors) succeed. Each patient carries his own doctor inside himself. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work. - According to Dr. Herbert Benson of the Harvard Medical School, " "We know that belief can lead to healing or at least improvement in 50 percent to 90 percent of diseases, including asthma, angina pectoris, and skin rashes, many forms of pain, rheumatoid arthritis, congestive heart failure. They're all influenced by belief. We in medicine have made fun of belief by calling it the "placebo effect," or insisting that "It's all in your head." Yet, belief is one of the most powerful healing tools we have in our therapeutic arsenal." .This is healing from within and as we explore the process of freeing the roadblock s to our inners transformation we examines the healing anatomy

What is wholeness?

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Wholeness is derived from the Greek root "Holos" means "Whole" which is more than the sum total of its parts. It can be written as Holistic (Greek) or Holistic (English) It a state in which the union of the unconscious with the conscious has been achieved. Wholeness" means that the physical, mental, emotional and vital force are all in balance between themselves and with the spiritual consciousness known as the Soul. The body is, or should be, an expression of the Soul. Healing is the natural way in which all imbalances are rectified so that the symptoms of the stress or illness can be controlled. Sometimes our own natural ability to heal ourselves cannot cope so we need the help of others. Drugs may help in the short term but healing happens separately and this is why it is important to understand the process so that patients can help themselves back to health. Healing is the act of getting rid of all the imbalances and creating harmony with the Soul. Consequently, Holistic Medicine is active patient centred".Complementary" means to "complete". Patients are helped back to "wholeness" using physical, mental, emotional, vital force and spiritual dimensions of treatment.

The Wholeness of God is present (pre-sent) at every point in time and space. No matter where we may be, the Wholeness and the Holiness of God is. Wherever we are, God's Good is. We don't get rich as much as we get an awareness that we are already rich.

Wholeness is a system of medicine which treats the physical, mental, emotional and vitality of the patient together with the spirit. This central view runs through a variety of disciplines which traditionally work towards the same goal where harmony between all levels of consciousness including the vital force and spirit must be achieved if true healing is to happen. Healing the whole person has traditionally been seen as part of a co-ordinated programme of treatment. However, the scientific approach has tended to separate the treatment of the symptoms from treatment of the cause. Science does not recognize the common factor which unites all traditional medical approaches i.e. the vitality or spirit of the patient.

Wholeness is balance. We have an equal respect for every aspect of our life; thus, we do not favor any one part at the expense of the others; for example, we don't spend an inordinate amount of time developing ourselves physically at a health club when we need instead to give more time to our family. Out of this base of equal respect, we do allow values to emerge, making one thing more "valuable" than another, but we recognize that the contrary is also worthwhile in its own time; for example, if we value "commitment" as a virtue, we also honor our opposing desire for "freedom." We accept both sides of our dualities, knowing that the characteristics which we have selected to define our ego are there only because they serve our purposes at this time; they are not innately "better" than the material which is in our shadow. If we insist on one side or the other (and then we try fruitlessly to maintain this position with a peaceful stillness, in a system which is inherently active and ever-changing), we are fighting the dynamics, and we are darkening our repressions. Instead, we can "bear the tension of our opposites," enduring the continual conflicts between our light and dark, our kindness and cruelty, etc. If we patiently abide the struggle, we learn from each side and we observe a solution emerging from the paradox, arising not by rational arbitration or compromise but by the synthesizing grace of spirit. Wholeness is having a center. Whether we identify that "center" as the ego, the soul, or the Self, we have a nucleus. The center gives purpose to our activities; we are not performing unrelated acts, but rather we are choosing acts which are coordinated to move us in a particular direction in life, toward the fulfillment of meaningful goals.

In his book, the seasons of a mans life, Daniel J Levinson indicates that our journey toward healing is a return to wholeness. We start our infancy in the oceanic wholeness of the Self, where we do not recognize ourselves as being distinct from our surroundings and our mother; eventually, we discover that we are a separate individual. During the first half of life, we develop our ego and its outer manifestations -- career, home, family, and social presence; during this ego-building phase, we claim particular traits to constitute our ego, and we push the opposite traits into our shadow. At midlife, the ego reaches its zenith; generally, we have attained somewhat of our peak in career, and we have settled into our home-life, our habits, and our social milieu. After midlife, the psychological and spiritual cycles propel us back toward wholeness, as we re-integrate whatever we separated out from ourselves during the ego-building stage; now we draw back the shadow, the anima or animus, etc. -- and we encounter the Self. But this regained wholeness is not like the amorphous, oceanic wholeness of infancy; instead, it is a crisply defined system based upon consciously integrated relationships among the distinct elements of ourselves and the outer world

What Is Disease?

Disease is an outward manifestation of inner disharmony. While health is an outward manifestation of inner harmony. This is an obscure event because since we emanate from a perfect nature, disharmony becomes an illusion of the mind. The implication of this is that the mind have laws and principles by which it operates as we journey to realign our life with the perfection of the spirit that surrounds our soul. While harmony already exist in us we make choices that misalign us with that harmony which leads to the illness we now manifest. This is likened to eclectic switch. The decision to switch the light on or live in perpetual darkness is ours. Similarly, since electricity is a neutral energy, it can be applied to great use for the benefit of humanity and on the flip side we can use electricity to uses that can be very detrimental to humanity like using and electric welding machine to break into a bank safe. What every use we apply it to; we reap the consequences or the rewards.

The mind, the body, and the spirit are all inextricably interconnected. When one allows the mind to indulge in negativity, we open our soul and body to all manner of corresponding conditions. Studies show high incidence of decline physical energy and vitality resulting from a string of guilt; chronic aches and pains due to a long-held and suppressed grudge; skin rash after a quarrel with someone; colds due to mental stress over such things as exams, trips, and arguments; heart rhythms changing in response to positive or negative thoughts; high blood pressure from bouts of anger, or fear and stress, or imagined problems and cancers from repressed negative emotions. When imperfections in our consciousness conflict with cosmic consciousness, disharmony and disease manifest in the body. This calls for realignment on our part to cosmic or divine ideals of love, faith hope, will and forgiveness.

The body is like electricity whose life fore is thought. Thought generate emotions. According to Emrika Padus in Prevention Magazine, ‘a growing body of evidence indicates that virtually every ill that can befall the body - from acne to arthritis, headaches to heart disease, cold sores to cancer - is influenced, for better or worse, by our emotions" Repressed traumas, paired with tremendous emotion, can actually store themselves in a part of the body. Buried inside each of us are repressed child hood emotions and experiences that express themselves as we grow up into adolescence and adults. A proper understanding of the workings of the mind body and spirit and its intricate relationship to the universe is necessary to alleviating these disharmonies and uplifting our immunity from degenerative diseases

Thought generates the energy current that drives all biochemical activities. Thoughts generate the emotions that become feelings which are stored in the subconscious mind and become encoded into our systemic DNA where they affect our cells and organs positively or negatively. When they are negative they block Gods healing currents from getting to us. When that energy is too strong, the body determines that it can be harmful and it will compact it to the smallest common denominator that it can. Whatever organ is the weakest at the time of the persistent negativity will harbor this as energy cyst that may manifest as disease. By understanding how negative emotions circumvent healing, we can understand how we consciously or unconsciously interfere with our healing process.

From acute to chronic

The initial manifestation of this breaking point that point to cracks in our immunity to disease is the acute stage. Acute Stage is the initial manifestation of a disease. This is also referred to as the alarm phase. When some new stress factor strikes the organism it causes a sudden release of internal stress-hormones – corticosteroids and catheholamines. If the stress is very intense it can damage the regulatory systems of the organism permanently and at once but if we are lucky, if we have positive coping skills we will smoothly progress further to the "adaptation phase”. Diseases associated with stress may appear in the first "alarm phase", but they mainly appear in the third "exhaustion phase" when the organism cannot fight stress any more. This third phase usually develops after a period of months or years. Everything depends on the duration of the “adaptation phase". Sometimes the organism may be lucky and escape this third phase altogether, provided that it can keep the stress under control. The "adaptation phase" is usually a safe period. The more we can stay in the "adaptation phase", the better.

Chronic stage is characterized by low metabolic activity, increasing toxic buildup throughout system, lack of vitality. Heavy accumulations of toxic waste interfere with vital cellular activity. At least 80% of all recognized diseases could be classified as chronic. This is referred to as the exhaustion phase when the organism fails to fight physical, emotional or metabolic stress any more and simply gives up. In this "exhaustion phase", disease symptoms rapidly appear and get worse. This is considered the breaking point and chronic degenerative disease manifest. This stage is perpetuated if; environmental, emotional, professional, social, marital and dietary stressors are not resolved

When under the influence of any of the emotional and mental stressors, the levels of the stress hormones in the blood shots up .Significant positive correlations exist between levels of endogenous cortical and appetite loss, fatigue and nausea/vomiting in patients with degenerative diseases. High levels of cortisol suppress the activities of all arms of the immune system immune system whose primary responsibility is to destroy diseased cells from being overproduced. Similarly high levels of cortisol in the blood also suppress the levels of another hormone called melatonin that is responsible for calmness and restfulness. Low levels of melatonin leads to cellular disorientation, sleeplessness and insomnia. This forced the body to enter a "survival mode" that evolved to keep us alive in the short-term at the expense of fixing potential long-term dangers such as damage to DNA and cells. This would then lead to increased risk of developing disease. Stress involves a shift in blood flow from the digestive system to the brain and other major organs. This leads to improper digestion, release of improperly digested food into the blood stream causing wide varieties of metabolic illnesses.

Stress causes the depletion of the ‘feel good’ hormones –adrenaline. Adrenaline is primarily responsible for the transport of sugar away from our cells. When adrenaline levels are depleted in the cells, sugar accumulates in the cells. This is really bad news because microbes like viruses, parasites and bacteria are sugar loving. They are attracted to the cells where they feed on the sugar. Sugar creates acidic environment. Excess sugar sets the stage for fermentation and disease.Our bodies do react to the thoughts we make. All physical forms are manifestation of thoughts and ideas. Our psychological/emotional state affects the endocrine system. For example, the emotion of fear is related to adrenaline. If no feeling of fear exists there is no adrenaline and the same applies in reverse- no adrenaline, no fear. They work in relationship to each other. The hypothalamus, the emotional center of the brain, transforms emotions into physical response. The receptor of neuropeptides, the hypothalamus also controls the body is appetite, blood sugar levels, body temperature, adrenal and pituitary glands, heart, lung, digestive and circulatory systems. Neuropeptides, the chemical messenger hormones, carry emotions back and forth between the mind and body. They link perception in the brain to the body via organs, hormones and cellular activity. Neuropeptides influence every major section of the immune system, so the body and mind do work together as one and indivisible unit.

Following natures trail

According to Stewart Mitchell in his book Naturopathy: Understanding the Healing Power of Nature, “Naturopathy is a philosophy which encompasses a view of life, a model for living a full life. The word naturopathy is a Latin-Greek hybrid which can be defined as ‘being close to or benefiting from nature.’”The roots of naturopathy are found in the ancient Greece of Hippocrates, who recognized and wrote about the healing power of nature. As a specific discipline, naturopathy is related to the European nature cure, which evolved during the 19th Century. Begun as a result of observing the healing effects of nature, these methods use fresh air, sunlight, water, diet, exercise and rest to promote health.

Benedict Lust, a German immigrant who is recognized as the father of American naturopathy, first came to the United States in 1892 at age 20. Lust (pronounced “Loost”) initiated a movement that he later named naturopathy, which he described as “first instruction, then inspiration, and ultimately growth.” From the beginning, naturopathy has been deeply concerned with lifestyle. The basic tenet of naturopathy is that human life is governed by the same self-regulating, self-repairing forces that care for all living things.

Naturopathic Medicine is a natural approach to health and healing that recognizes the integrity of the whole person. Naturopathic Medicine represents the "vitalistic" tradition of medicine in our Western world. That is, it treats disease through the stimulation, increase, and support of the person's inherent healing capacity. These treatments are chosen to work with the patient's vital force, respecting the natural healing processes of nature. Its methods are natural in that they utilize readily available resources such as food and water, but do not require specific products. Naturopathy embodies philosophies and principles involving pure water, clean air, wholesome food, proper diet and nutrition, exercise, proper living, appropriate rest, right thinking, absence from toxic substances, body ecology, effective management of stress and a number of other natural subjects which lead to a balanced living concept. Physical health is primarily a reflection of God's universal law of cause and effect. A man reaps what he sows. How we care for our bodies is both a physical and spiritual issue which impacts our health and the health of our offspring. In cases where health principles have been violated the only true "cure" is for the body to restore its own protective mechanisms by removing those physical and spiritual roadblocks which hinder proper restoration and/or healing.

Foundations of natural cures

Physical health is an important factor toward effective service and worship. A body that is diseased or in ill repair has a diminished capacity for effective service and worship.

We believe that good health is built upon Biblical principals. In order to maintain good physical health one must consistently breathe clean air, drink pure water, eat health promoting food, exercise properly, and get adequate rest, as well as learn how to effectively handle stress. We believe that health-promoting foods are primarily from the garden. A healthy diet is one that is balanced and centered on fruits, vegetables, and grains. In addition, these God given foods should be in forms closest to their original state and free of chemicals.

Any one genuinely interested in healing should take the following invocations to heart

Evoke the positive and release the negative: Strive to evoke the healing power of love, hope, humor, and enthusiasm; and to release the toxic consequences of hostility, shame, greed, depression, anger, grief, and fear.

Adopt an attitude of unconditional love: Unconditional love is life’s most powerful medicine.

Health is more important than the absence of illness:Optimal health is far more than the absence of illness. A state of optimal health includes the pursuit of the highest qualities of the physical, environmental, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social aspects of human experience invasive health care measures are sometimes necessary. At times surgery and other invasive medical procedures may be necessary lifesaving measures. Such occurrences should be rare, but should also be preceded and followed by good health measures. We believe that invasive measures do not heal. At the same time, we believe that healing only comes when the body's own God-given protective mechanisms are restored.

Spiritual health is of utmost importance.: As important as physical health is, it is only a means to an end, not an end in itself.

Man was created to love, obey and serve God. Of what profit is it to be well physically, and yet have neither peace with God or a sense of His purpose for life?

Naturopathy

The following principles make Naturopathic Medicine different from all other medical modalities:

First do no harm: Primum No Nocere:Illness is a purposeful process of the organism. The process of healing includes the generation of symptoms which are, in fact, an expression of the life force attempting to heal itself. Therapeutic actions should be complementary to and synergistic with this healing process. The physician's actions can support or antagonize the actions of the vis mediatrix naturae -- the healing power of Nature. Therefore, methods designed to suppress symptoms without removing the underlying causes are considered harmful and to be avoided or minimized. Expend as much effort determining what kind of person has a problem as they do determining what kind of problem the person has.

The healing power of nature: Vis Mediatrix Naturae:Recognize the healing power of nature and understand that the body has an innate capacity to heal itself. The body has an inherent ability to establish, maintain, and restore health. The healing process is ordered and intelligent; nature heals through the response of the life force. The physician's role is to facilitate this process, to identify and remove obstacles to health and recovery, and to establish or restore a healthy internal and external environment. Identify and treat the cause:

Tolle Causam:Illness does not occur without cause. Underlying causes of disease must be discovered and removed or treated before a person can recover completely from illness. Symptoms express the body's attempt to heal, but are not the cause of disease. Symptoms, therefore, should not be suppressed by treatment. Causes may occur on many levels including physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. The physician must evaluate fundamental underlying causes on all levels, directing treatment at root causes rather than at symptomatic expression.

Eliminate the cause of poor health and strive to determine the underlying cause that contributed to the problem and work to eliminate it instead of just treating the symptoms

The physician as teacher: Docere:Are you a passive participant in your healing or an active participant? A cooperative doctor-patient relationship has inherent therapeutic value. The physician's major role is to educate and encourage the patient to take responsibility for their own health. The physician is a catalyst for healthful change, empowering and motivating the patient to assume responsibility. It is the patient, not the doctor, who ultimately creates/accomplishes healing. Teaching with hope, knowledge, and understanding, the physician acts to enable patients to heal.

Heal the whole person: Tolle Totum;Health and disease are conditions of the whole organism, a whole involving the complex interaction of many factors. The naturopathic physician must treat the whole person by taking these factors into account. The harmonious functioning of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects are essential to recovery from and prevention of disease. This requires a comprehensive approach to diagnosis and treatment.

HONOR THE WHOLE PERSON as illness indicates a malfunction of the whole person and is not an isolated event.

Prevention is the best cure:The ultimate goal of any health care system should be prevention of disease. This is accomplished through education and promotion of life-habits that create good health. The physician learns to assess risk factors and to sharpen their deductive reasoning, and understand the patient's circumstances. Appropriate interventions are then sought to avoid further harm or risk to the patient. Building health works better and more surely than fighting disease. Prevention is best as Prevention of imbalances is preferable to correcting imbalances.

Deep Healing

Healing also involves a change in attitude that changes every facet of life. If it does not do this, it is not healing. Healing is much more than suppression symptoms; it is a process that can be embraced - a channel toward wholeness and oneness. To remove a symptom, for example, it can be suppressed, or moved to a different part of the body, such as shifting the weight so that a back pain becomes a knee pain. This happens all the time, by the way. Healing is not just about shifting the symptom picture. Healing is far more about lifestyle, diet, rest, sleep, the company one keeps, even the job one does and how one views the world. It is definitely a path or way of living that one either embraces or not. For example, symptom removal of a wart usually just means a visit to a skin doctor. To remove the cause, however, might mean not walking barefoot in a locker room any more forever. This is a trivial example, but a good illustration of a lifestyle change versus just a doctor visit.

Deep healing is about actual removal and reversal of the cause at any of several deeper levels. It is essentially a change of the process involved in becoming imbalanced spiritually mentally and physically. It is a rebirth to one's true nature and the deeper meaning of life’s purpose. It does not leave traces or problems in the body. It tends to be restorative and permanent, far more so than symptom suppression. It takes more work and time than just symptom removal in most cases, though certainly not all of them. Often involves healing reactions or wellness crises are felt. It involves replacing less preferred minerals and other nutrients with more preferred ones. It is often far more subtle and may require effort on many levels of one’s being than mere symptom removal. It goes beyond healing and is preventive of future problems as well. It always leads to some degree of development of the subtle human bodies when it is done properly.

Healing is reversal process in which the damage to the body is actually revisited and reworked or healed. This is very different than covering it over, as it were, as is often done with drugs or symptomatic nutrient or herbal therapy. One may retrace and reverse both physical and mental or emotional harm to the body. Examples of physical harm are retracing an infection or improperly healed wound. An example of retracing mental or emotional damage may be to revisit an emotional trauma, for example, and pour out one’s heart in crying for a few days until the hurt has been expunged from the body and mind completely and one is again free of the trauma completely. One may also need to give up false attitudes or beliefs. An example of undoing spiritual damage has to do with restoring one’s belief in a higher power or God in one’s life. This could have to do with restoring faith, love and hope in one’s life.

This means that much more is possible with deep healing. By learning discipline, for example, and by resting a lot more, energies can be stirred in the human body and mind that offer far greater benefits in the long run. The lazy person’s approach of symptom removal only does not and never can offer the same incredible possibilities. This is a major difference between deep healing and symptom removal. Modern medicine, for example, is well known for the adverse effects of its many invasive treatments such as drugs, surgery, radiation therapy and more. Deep healing never causes these effects, one of its many intense benefits. This means it is far less costly in the long run, often, and offers complete cures, although they are rarely recognized as such by doctors, who cannot believe that other methods are better than theirs. Since deeper causes are addressed and correction is not a mere shifting of symptoms to other parts of the body or different symptoms, results tend to be far more permanent and complete. This is the case because deep healing must address many levels of functioning such as diet, lifestyle, activity level, attitudes and more in some cases. However, this probing is helpful for the person on many levels, which offsets some of the effort involved

Very often during retracing or healing, old symptoms or even new ones flare up and become worse at times during the healing process. They are always temporary, but can be quite startling and unpleasant. They can include anything, from an upset stomach and headache to diarrhea or a flu or sore throat. The cause of purification reactions is a tremendous increase in vitality. This is the key that must be recalled at all times. It is not a disease crisis, but an increase in energy that causes the body to throw off poisons or heal in a vigorous way that gives rise to the healing reaction or crisis, as it is sometimes called. However, these flare-ups can be a very confusing aspect of healing. They cause deep healing to look more like illness, while symptom removal can look like healing. This seeming paradox is quite common, in fact, and stops many people from pursuing healing. So it is important to be forewarned about the possibility of reactions or flare-ups at any level of healing – physical, mental, emotional or spiritual.

Deep healing is quite subtle. It may not provide instant relief, and it may not give a person boundless energy, at times, as it brings up other layers, perhaps, that also need healing. For this reason, it is difficult to discern, at times. This is also important for our health care system, which is now burdened by a system of medical care that is not preventive and often causes expensive adverse effects such as lawsuits, unneeded surgeries that cost billions of dollars annually, fraud in the system and much more.

True healing methods are generally less costly in the long run and improve health because they are preventive. For example, healing of cancer tends to improve and detoxify the entire body. This means the person is also far less likely to develop any type of cancer in the future. Also, they are less likely to get diabetes, heart disease, infections or hundreds of other conditions thanks to the deep healing of their one condition, cancer. This needs to be read many times by those who are policy makers in health care.

Deep healing is, in fact, quite foreign to our medical system and to our culture, in general. I will therefore use the word “medicine” when the intention and usually the outcome as well is not healing, but symptom removal. This is to distinguish it from real or deep healing.

Symptom suppression common in orthodox medical approaches

Retracing reactions or flare-ups do not occur often, or does so only rarely as a “side effect”, not as the rule. This can be an advantage, as it avoids fear about these reactions.

However, we know that it also means that medicine’s approach is far more superficial and does not raise the body’s internal vitality nearly as much as does deep healing.

Adverse effects or unintended negative effects often or even always occur. This is sometimes called iatrogenic illness or doctor-caused problems. These range from hospital infections to botched surgery to adverse drug reactions that can be lethal.

Many times, these are not obvious, even for years afterwards. For example, a seemingly safe vaccination may cause a post-vaccinia syndrome years later that is difficult if not impossible to directly link to the earlier intervention. For example, dementia at age 70 might be hard to link to a few micrograms of mercury that were used as a preservative in the flu shots the person received for years with no apparent side effects.

The “cure” is far less permanent. Because the vitality of the body is not increased, the treatment or cure is much less likely to hold. This is very common problem in modern conventional medicine and naturopathy as well using symptomatic herbal or homeopathic remedies or energy medicine machines, for example.

While the machines and herbs and remedies can increase vitality a little, it does not last in most cases. therefore, the problem can come back in a recurrent fashion or it can become chronic. Both these situations are impermanent cures that make more business for the doctor or naturopath, but are not in the patient’s best interest at all.

Interestingly, only licensed physicians can use the words cure, diagnose and treat. This is odd, considering that they often do not cure anything, even if they say they do. Perhaps if they really did cure disease at the deepest level, they would not need a legal monopoly on the word cure and treat and even disease. Full restoration of function does not occur as often. For example, after surgery, scar tissue usually remains, function is not quite perfect and so forth. Similarly, with drug or herbal therapy, often one must continue the remedy forever of symptoms come back.

Antibiotics often do not kill all the bacteria and a few resistant organisms may remain to cause problems later. These are but a few of the incomplete correction of the problem that are common in conventional medicine and modern naturopathy.

Prevention does not occur. This goes back to the basic principle that symptom removal methods generally do not increase vitality significantly. Therefore, they are not preventive of future illness which is based on low energy, toxic accumulations in the body, nutrient deficiencies and so forth.

Spiritual development of the person usually does not occur nearly as much. This is undoubtedly true, as witnessed by the attitude of most patients in doctor’s offices. They only want a fast “cure” and do not want to be bothered with more. Only a different attitude on the part of all parties will change this, I am afraid. Instead of integration and true healing, symptom removal often leads to fragmentation and much worse overall health on many levels. Indeed, Western medical science has pursued a path of fragmentation, separating mind from body, thought from emotion, and organ from organ. This has produced many marvelous technologies for symptom removal. However, not only does it not produce healing in most cases. it fragments the human anatomy and understanding even of the mind.

What you need to know about your healing

You are powerful, mysterious, complex, multidimensional being and no matter how frail and dysfunctional the body may be.

There is a oneness of body, mind and spirit.

Events originate from within. You create our lives. This power is never taken away, though it may be given away temporarily.

Healing has to do with taking full and complete responsibility for all of one's creations.

Techniques, methods, and therapies may facilitate healing. However, ultimately, life heals or love heals not a pill or operation. These, however, are needed today if we cannot heal on other levels to the point where medicines, herbs, vitamins and other props or aids are not required. So do not abandon your healers and modalities.

Healers, doctors, and therapists are facilitators only.

Desire, intention, allowing and surrender play critical roles in healing. Forgiveness of self and others are important aspects of the healing process. Discipline, derived from same root as 'disciple', is an important aspect of healing. Shifting one's perspective to embrace these axioms of healing is one of the most important activities one can engage in.

The bottom line is this ..: The human body "WILL HEAL"... If we get out of our own way and allow it, it heals itself. It is our basic nature. Anybody who tells you other than that is trying to sell you something. No matter what you have been told. Don't give up on yourself and don't buy into the lines like ... ‘oh well you've had a good life'... 'at your age'... and the worst of all ...'there's nothing further I can do, I suggest you finalize your affairs'... How dare anyone tell you to give up! So much in society combines to convince us of the propaganda that some things never get better. It's up to you ... do you want to get better? Make things better? It is human nature to make things better, evolve and grow.”-Shé D'Montford, Shambhallah, Australia

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