"In many ways, life itself is a continual process of healing, of moving toward balance and wholeness in the midst of change." - Martin Rossman, MD
Topic of day - how chronic illness fits into your bigger life picture...and how to use a big picture approach to healing.
What should you do, when chronic symptoms get your attention?
Chronic illness - disorder or disease - is different from a short-term discomfort. It is there 24/7. The problems that your illness raises are there all the time. You may try, but it is not really business as usual. Nonetheless, following along the same mindset that conventional drugs encourage, you take medicines to force your chronic symptoms to stop bothering You.
It is important to consider that it is not just conventional drugs that can suppress your symptoms. If you go to an energy healer who does not understand the true meaning of "holistic" or whole systems, you may still experience suppressive treatment. The risk is that you just shove the illness process around your body and mind, blocking it from showing up one place only to have it pop up in another.
What does that mean for you and your life? Disease, disorder, health conditions are part of your own personal growth process in this life. Resolve the issues that the health problem expresses, and you heal. Sometimes you can do this by will power alone, but most of the time it takes other kinds of help from systems of healing.
What can you do to get started toward healing? A very simple but powerful step: set the intention to heal. Not just at the local level of where your symptoms happen to have shown up at this point in time, but rather, at the global level, You, the Big Picture.
You are calling upon the larger universe to work with you to fulfill your goal, whatever it might be. Some people call this "the attractor factor." Others call it using the power of intention. People have written books on the subject.
Set your own intention to heal at the highest possible level of your being, spirit-mind-emotions-body.
Be positive, brief, and clear in what you say. Write it down and post the paper in a place where you can see it often during every day. Put your full emotional energy into the intention to heal.
What you will find is that things will start falling into place in expected and unexpected ways for you. You might run across a product in the health food store or hear about a new practitioner in town or finally join the yoga class that helps you get going on your own self-help program for this year. It will be many events and processes, internal and external, that will help the healing get started and keep going.
Setting the intention to heal is a powerful method that involves your whole being as a system. Intention is the largest step to take in developing a complete program or plan for your own personal healing.
Until next time, keep healing!
Iris R. Bell, MD PhD
Alternative medicine information from a doctor who is also a patient.
http://dririsbell.com
ebook http://gettingwhole.com
P.S. For those of you who use herbs and supplements, the US National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has recently added a useful website to look up information in this area. It's free and available to everyone: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/herb_All.html
Hi, Iris,
I love what you wrote on setting intention to heal!! I am going to copy it to give to clients! Thanks
Posted by: Marcey DiCaro | August 28, 2006 at 07:38 PM