The Concept of Self-healing
As every person knows, occasionally the miraculous human body becomes ill or diseased in some way. Certainly no one would consciously choose this. And yet, from my spiritual study I've come to believe there does seem to be a direct connection between unresolved emotions and physical dysfunction. One of the pioneers in this area is the author Louise Hay, whose 1984 book “You Can Heal Your Life” is one of the most popular self-help titles ever published.
Another author who addressed this subject in comprehensive detail is Karol K. Truman in her book “Feelings Buried Alive Don’t Die.” Add to that the work of Deepak Chopra in “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind” and numerous other books as well. In the Hay and Truman books in particular, the authors go so far as to actually identify the specific types of thoughts/emotional patterns that underlie a laundry list of diseases.
Although I had read (and found value in) the Louise Hay book back in the early 90s and Truman’s book perhaps in 2005, I experienced something two years ago that set me on a determined path to learn as much about the concept of self-healing as I possibly could. Bottom line, I was diagnosed with a tooth infection in an upper molar and was told I had two options, either an extraction or a root canal. The problem was this diagnosis diametrically opposed my overriding belief that “with God all things are possible.”
Now, to be clear, I’m not recommending that anyone reading this post take the same path I wound up taking, because each person is different, and dental infections are not something to mess around with. In my case, the quiet voice in my head regularly assured me that I would be safe from any serious ramifications of choosing a natural healing path. Naturally, the dentist I was seeing at the time painted a very bleak picture of my prospects for finding a natural solution to this issue, and even yelled at me when I told him about my intentions to do so.
What I didn’t know at the time, was that this issue would be perhaps one of the greatest gifts I’d ever receive in my life. For what it did was inspire me to uncover every stone looking for the right combination of therapy or treatment to heal what I was told was incurable. In this process I learned about all sorts of cool alternatives, including: energy healing sessions, feelings processing, homeopathy, color light therapy, magnet therapy, and more. In my heart I always knew the tooth could be saved, and I was committed to allowing that to occur.
As I write this post today, the tooth is alive and well, exhibits no pain, and serves as a constant reminder to me of how important it is to follow one’s inner guidance and not simply buy into accepted healing paradigms without going within and checking one’s “gut feel.” I also have to say that I significantly benefited from the advice and counsel of trusted clairvoyant friends and others in the natural healing community.
In future posts I’ll be getting more deeply into the different healing modalities I applied in addressing the situation, with the intent being just to share information that I’ve found to be incredibly valuable and interesting. One thing I can say for certain is that I now have no doubt that each and every one of us has the innate ability to self-heal; we just need to check in with our inner guidance and be willing to roll up our sleeves and make the effort necessary to identify and then apply the ideal healing modalities use in any given situation. This is not to suggest that one should not consult with the conventional medical community, but that the ultimate responsibility for healing our bodies belongs to us.
To close this post, below I’ve pasted in a very interesting passage from a very cool book that I’ve just read called “Dying for a Change” by William Murtha. I received an advance copy of it from a friend recently, and had a hard time putting it down once I started. I highly recommend this work as it's a fascinating true story of the author's fight to survive hypothermia and drowning in the freezing waters off the coast of Britain. In the midst of this near-death experience he suddenly became aware of a "Presence" that engaged him in an enlightening and heart-warming conversation. Below is an excerpt from the book that applies directly to the subject of today’s post:
Presence: “We are all born with this natural ability to self-heal. It is woven into our genetic code and the cells in our body. As children, we instinctively know this. We don’t question it. But as we develop and mature into teenagers and then adults, we forget about our own natural healing abilities. We very quickly detach ourselves from all beliefs that the mind is infinitely more powerful than the body. When you have a cut on your skin, the cells and stem cells in your body go to work right away. They are consciously aware that your skin must be patched up immediately to avoid any chance of infection or bleeding to death. This intelligence and organism inside you knows precisely what must be done to heal you. There is no pause because your cellular system instinctually knows what its healing function is. It just gets on with the job at hand without any conscious interference from you. But with other external matters, it is wildly different. We falsely hold the outdated model that we cannot heal ourselves. This is something that our present culture abides to and honors. But, sadly, this false wisdom is not from actual experience. It’s a belief that our young and immature culture has grown up with and adopted.
William Murtha: So why do we lose sight of this inherent natural ability to self-heal?
Presence: Because we are socially conditioned to believe that only doctors and medication can heal us. We are brought up with the false understanding that only pharmaceutical companies and modern medicine can “fix” us. It never even enters our heads to question that something more profound is possibly going on here. We never think to look into what the power of the mind can do for our physical condition. Heck, the majority don’t even use their minds, let alone tap into their infinite potential. Scientists who study the positive and yet bizarre effects of placebos know that something extraordinary is going on. They know, without question, that the majority of the healing taking place is actually due to the patient’s own belief in the doctor’s prescription when a placebo is administered. These scientists know that it is the patient’s own self-healing that is curing his or her illness. After all, how else could somebody become completely cured by a placebo that is really nothing more than a harmless sugar tablet?
Bye for now.
Another author who addressed this subject in comprehensive detail is Karol K. Truman in her book “Feelings Buried Alive Don’t Die.” Add to that the work of Deepak Chopra in “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind” and numerous other books as well. In the Hay and Truman books in particular, the authors go so far as to actually identify the specific types of thoughts/emotional patterns that underlie a laundry list of diseases.
Although I had read (and found value in) the Louise Hay book back in the early 90s and Truman’s book perhaps in 2005, I experienced something two years ago that set me on a determined path to learn as much about the concept of self-healing as I possibly could. Bottom line, I was diagnosed with a tooth infection in an upper molar and was told I had two options, either an extraction or a root canal. The problem was this diagnosis diametrically opposed my overriding belief that “with God all things are possible.”
Now, to be clear, I’m not recommending that anyone reading this post take the same path I wound up taking, because each person is different, and dental infections are not something to mess around with. In my case, the quiet voice in my head regularly assured me that I would be safe from any serious ramifications of choosing a natural healing path. Naturally, the dentist I was seeing at the time painted a very bleak picture of my prospects for finding a natural solution to this issue, and even yelled at me when I told him about my intentions to do so.
What I didn’t know at the time, was that this issue would be perhaps one of the greatest gifts I’d ever receive in my life. For what it did was inspire me to uncover every stone looking for the right combination of therapy or treatment to heal what I was told was incurable. In this process I learned about all sorts of cool alternatives, including: energy healing sessions, feelings processing, homeopathy, color light therapy, magnet therapy, and more. In my heart I always knew the tooth could be saved, and I was committed to allowing that to occur.
As I write this post today, the tooth is alive and well, exhibits no pain, and serves as a constant reminder to me of how important it is to follow one’s inner guidance and not simply buy into accepted healing paradigms without going within and checking one’s “gut feel.” I also have to say that I significantly benefited from the advice and counsel of trusted clairvoyant friends and others in the natural healing community.
In future posts I’ll be getting more deeply into the different healing modalities I applied in addressing the situation, with the intent being just to share information that I’ve found to be incredibly valuable and interesting. One thing I can say for certain is that I now have no doubt that each and every one of us has the innate ability to self-heal; we just need to check in with our inner guidance and be willing to roll up our sleeves and make the effort necessary to identify and then apply the ideal healing modalities use in any given situation. This is not to suggest that one should not consult with the conventional medical community, but that the ultimate responsibility for healing our bodies belongs to us.
To close this post, below I’ve pasted in a very interesting passage from a very cool book that I’ve just read called “Dying for a Change” by William Murtha. I received an advance copy of it from a friend recently, and had a hard time putting it down once I started. I highly recommend this work as it's a fascinating true story of the author's fight to survive hypothermia and drowning in the freezing waters off the coast of Britain. In the midst of this near-death experience he suddenly became aware of a "Presence" that engaged him in an enlightening and heart-warming conversation. Below is an excerpt from the book that applies directly to the subject of today’s post:
Presence: “We are all born with this natural ability to self-heal. It is woven into our genetic code and the cells in our body. As children, we instinctively know this. We don’t question it. But as we develop and mature into teenagers and then adults, we forget about our own natural healing abilities. We very quickly detach ourselves from all beliefs that the mind is infinitely more powerful than the body. When you have a cut on your skin, the cells and stem cells in your body go to work right away. They are consciously aware that your skin must be patched up immediately to avoid any chance of infection or bleeding to death. This intelligence and organism inside you knows precisely what must be done to heal you. There is no pause because your cellular system instinctually knows what its healing function is. It just gets on with the job at hand without any conscious interference from you. But with other external matters, it is wildly different. We falsely hold the outdated model that we cannot heal ourselves. This is something that our present culture abides to and honors. But, sadly, this false wisdom is not from actual experience. It’s a belief that our young and immature culture has grown up with and adopted.
William Murtha: So why do we lose sight of this inherent natural ability to self-heal?
Presence: Because we are socially conditioned to believe that only doctors and medication can heal us. We are brought up with the false understanding that only pharmaceutical companies and modern medicine can “fix” us. It never even enters our heads to question that something more profound is possibly going on here. We never think to look into what the power of the mind can do for our physical condition. Heck, the majority don’t even use their minds, let alone tap into their infinite potential. Scientists who study the positive and yet bizarre effects of placebos know that something extraordinary is going on. They know, without question, that the majority of the healing taking place is actually due to the patient’s own belief in the doctor’s prescription when a placebo is administered. These scientists know that it is the patient’s own self-healing that is curing his or her illness. After all, how else could somebody become completely cured by a placebo that is really nothing more than a harmless sugar tablet?
Bye for now.
Posted by Jeff Maziarek at 11/10/2009 2:00 PM 
Categories: Self-healing
Tags: Louise Hay Karol K. Truman William L. Murtha Deepak Chopra Dying for a Change
Categories: Self-healing
Tags: Louise Hay Karol K. Truman William L. Murtha Deepak Chopra Dying for a Change
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