Healing Ourselves
Dear friends,
The following article provides clear, wonderful advice for life in general, and especially for times when you find yourself physically ill. May we all choose ever more often to live through loving.
With love and best wishes,
Fred
HINTS FOR HEALING YOURSELF
By Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D.
"The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body
to heal itself." wrote Dr. Norman Cousins after he had recovered from a
"terminal" illness. He did this partly with organic foods, clean
water, deep renewing sleep, a peaceful home environment, faith, lots of
laughter, and videos which uplifted his spirit and lightened his
terminal diagnosis.
Certainly medicine, professional diagnosis and treatment are important aspects
of becoming well. But medical science still remains ignorant as to precisely
why some people heal and others succumb to disease. Indeed, the healing
process itself remains a rather mysterious event. We do know however, that
the individual person has a lot more power and control over his or her own
healing than was ever acknowledged before. Here are some
"hints" which might help you realize your own power and ability to
help you heal.
1. Practice acceptance of your illness.
Acceptance of your illness is not the same as resigning yourself to it.
Resignation can lead to depression and depression is not supportive of
healing. While you are ill, acceptance of disease as a part of you will allow
you to create in yourself the atmosphere of caring, tenderness, and love in
which your illness is more likely to heal. It also allows energy to be freed
for other activities and other interests.
2. View illness not as a loss, but as an opportunity for new
growth and development. If a starfish loses one of its arms, it
merely goes about growing another. If a salamander loses its
tail, its primitive nervous system begins regenerating another
immediately. Certainly our human nervous systems are more sophisticated than
those of a starfish or salamander. When we heal, we grow new tissue, new
nerves, and new cells. While you are healing physically, why not also grow
new ideas, new attitudes, new ways of viewing ourselves and the world, and
new loves?
3. See your illness as your body's attempt to redirect your
life in a positive direction. Avoid harshly judging your
illness and resenting your body for having it. Avoid judging yourself
altogether! Your body is always valiantly trying to be well. It has powerful
tools in its biochemical, cellular, and nervous repertoire to regain its
healthful balance. If you are positive and peaceful about your own ability to
be well, then illness just becomes a "redirection" of your life.
Someone once said, "Illness is God's way of getting your
attention!" Pay attention to that message and allow it to redirect your
life.
4. Realize that death is not a disease, and it is not a
failure. The death rate for all living beings is still one hundred
per cent. If staying alive is your only goal, you will most certainly fail at
attaining it. As you accept the inevitability of your own death and
realize you only have a limited amount of time to experience being alive, you
increasingly realize that you might as well enjoy (as best as you
possibly can) the moment-to-moment experience of aliveness, including your
illness or pain.
5. Avoid making physical wholeness your goal. Nobody
exists with a perfect physical body. Our functioning varies from moment to
moment and certainly from day to day. A lot of people heal into peace of mind
and self-love without ever becoming physically well. Consider the
possibility that making goals of developing your own inner peace
and your own ability to forgive and love yourself might promote your
healing a lot faster than self-hate, self-criticism, and resentment toward
your illness. Use your illness as a situation to learn about hope, love,
acceptance, forgiveness, peace of mind, openness to living, and mindfulness
to the moment. In doing so, you just may cause the disease to
go into remission or to heal in the process.
6. Our bodies respond to self-love and the love sent to us by
others. If you send your own body loving messages, and if you are open
to receive the love of others, your body's immune system responds with
something like "Hey, this person likes being alive, lets get to
work and fight for his or her life with all the power and energy we can
muster." Negative thoughts produce certain chemicals in our bodies.
Positive thoughts produce another set of chemicals. The former
weakens the immune system. The latter strengthens it.
7. Finally, use your body and the life in your body to
love. Loving is the only path to immortality. Your love lives
on long after you physically die. If you spend most of your life hating, you
spend most of it dying. If you spend it loving, you leave a legacy of peace
and development to all those persons you touch with your love. A legacy of
love. What a gift to offer future generations! Spend most of your
life loving and you will only spend a few brief moments dying.
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