THE HEALING PATH

By Lawrence Wilson, MD

© Revised, June 2008, The Center for Development

There is much confusion today over what is real, deep healing. Many people confuse symptom removal with healing, for example. This article will distinguish these two, with an emphasis on understanding real healing and real healing sciences, as opposed to sciences that mainly remove symptoms.

WHAT IS REAL, DEEP HEALING?

Hear are some qualities of real healing:

1. Healing is much more than eliminating symptoms.

2. It is a path that can be embraced - a path toward wholeness and oneness.

3. It is essentially a reversal of the process involved in becoming ill or imbalanced in some way at some level.

4. At the same time, it is an awakening to one's true nature and the deeper meaning of life.

5. It rarely leaves a trace or adverse effect on the body.

6. It tends to be permanent, or far moreso than symptom removal.

7. It takes more work and time than just symptom removal in most cases, though certainly not all of them. Sometimes just rest is needed, for example, instead of so much running around.

8. Often involves so-called purification or healing reactions.

9. It involves replacing less preferred minerals and other nutrients with more preferred ones.

10. It is often far more subtle and may require effort on many levels of one’s being than mere symptom removal.

11. It goes beyond healing and is preventive of future problems as well.

Let us examine these in more detail.

1. MORE THAN SYMPTOM REMOVAL

healing is a much deeper process than just symptom removal. 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. It is about actual removal and reversal of the cause at any of several deeper levels.

2. A PATH TO EMBRACE

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 more about a path, in this sense, through life that one either embraces or not. This is very different from symptom removal, which requires much less time, effort and commitment in most cases.

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.

A far more critical example is how diabetes is “treated”. Symptom removal, only partially effective, would be to take an oral anti-diabetic medication or insulin and make minor dietary adjustments.

Deep healing is to make major dietary changes, start exercising, lose 100 pounds or more if needed and alter the behaviors, attitudes and all aspects of lifestyle that gave rise to the diabetic condition. It would also involve taking herbs and nutrient supplements to rebuild the pancreas and other organs of the diseased body that would entail extra time, cost and effort.

3. HEALING IS RETRACING

Healing is a reversal process, first and foremost. This is sometimes called by different names. The most common name is the retracing process. Healing is retracing or returning to one’s old healthful patterns of existence after something has harmed oneself.

Physical harm. The harm could be of a physical nature, such as a fall, a bullet wound, an invasion by bacteria or other germs, a broken bone, a cancer or some other insult to the body.

Mental harm. The harm may also be one of a mental nature. This might be the acceptance of a false idea as true. This can be as simple as believing one is ugly or stupid. It could be far more complex, such as accepting that one is a victim or someone else or something else, and therefore one is entitled to a benefit from the government, for example. It is anything that is a belief or an idea that is incorrect.

Emotional harm. This is anything that upsets the mood or natural balance of the personality. It could relate to a fear, anger, upset, aggressiveness or other emotions. Many times we become frightened as young children and the fear stays with us for years, for example. Others are made angry or upset and this trait remains long after the original cause is over with. These are examples of emotional scars or wounds.

Spiritual harm. The wound can be of a spiritual nature as well. I want to be very careful what we call spiritual, as mostly what is called spiritual I would call mental/emotional. Spiritual, by this meaning, is anything to do with the union of body and mind with the dimension of consciousness that is not here on earth.

This may sound confusing. In fact, humans live on many dimensions. The physical plane is just one of them. Humans should be in touch with other planes of existence.

This is the natural state, not something reserved for wise men, psychics and others. We might say that spiritual wounds are those that separate the physical self from the divine self. This is inaccurate and incomplete, but gives the right idea, at least. Other articles on this site, for example, Spiritual Development, discuss spiritual matters in more detail.

4. HEALING IS AN AWAKENING TO ONE’S TRUE SELF AND FULL POTENTIAL

This means that much more is possible with deep, full 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 topic is somewhat beyond the scope of this article. It is discussed more in the article on this site called Spiritual Development.

5. NO ADVERSE UNINTENDED EFFECTS

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.

Real 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.

6. FAR MORE PERMANENT RESULTS

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.

7. REQUIRES MORE TIME AND EFFORT IN MANY CASES, THOUGH NOT ALL

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.

8. IT OFTEN INVOLVES PURIFICATION REACTIONS OR FLARE-UPS

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.

9. IT INVOLVES REPLACEMENT OF LESS PREFERRED NUTRIENTS WITH MORE PREFERRED ONES

This is a critical concept in nutritional balancing science. It is illustrated with the periodic table of the elements. We know that lead, for instance, is located just below calcium. This means that lead “looks like” calcium in terms of the structure of its atoms. This is why it is just below calcium in the same column on the table of the elements.

For this reason, lead easily replaces calcium in certain enzyme binding sites in the bones and elsewhere. However, lead is not the “preferred mineral” for the bones. When too much lead accumulates, the bones are weaker and do not function as well. The same is true when lead replaces calcium in the nervous sytem and elsewhere. It leads to violence, for example, and ADHD in children.

True, deep healing must reverse this imbalance and replace the less preferred lead with the more preferred calcium in the bones and elsewhere. Obviously, this is complex process that takes some time and effort. Articles on this webiste about nutritional balancing science explain more about how it is done quite easily when we understand the relationships between the minerals.

The concept also applies to many other minerals in our bodies, so the replacement process is long and complex in practice. It is accomplished mainly with excellent nutrition and rest and methods to detoxify the body and enhance its vitality greatly.

10. IT OFTEN REQUIRES EFFORT ON MANY LEVELS AND IS QUITE SUBTLE AT TIMES

This has been covered in some depth earlier. However, it is repeated to a degree to emphasize how subtle and difficult at times real deep healing can be.

11. IT GENERALLY GOES BEYOND HEALING AND IS PREVENTIVE OF FUTURE PROBLEMS AS WELL

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.

Now let us now contrast deep healing this with Western conventional medicine and even most naturopathic and holistic approaches.

WESTERN MEDICINE IS NOT HEALING IN MOST CASES

True 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.

Here are characteristics of symptom removal common in Western medical approaches, including most naturopathic medicine as well:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

There is so much more to life than treating symptoms. However, doctors must be able to explain this to their patients in a practical and convincing way. Only then will patients see that changing their diets, lifestyles, attitudes and even more in some cases is worth all the effort.

7. 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. One is either anxious or bipolar or depressed, but a combination is hard to imagine for the medically trained doctor.

EXAMPLES OF TRUE, DEEP HEALING ON THE PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL PLANES

PHYSICAL HEALING

Physical healing is most familiar to us. It means the complete repair and regeneration of the physical organism. While is sounds simple, it is often not as easy as just resting when one is sick or taking a pill or two.

Physical healing requires that the body have at hand all the physical nutrients and structural material it requires to fully regenerate all tissues and organs. This is not available, for example, in most people’s diets. So healing often involves improving the diet and often it means taking supplementary nutrients as well.

EMOTIONAL HEALING

Emotional healing requires the following:

1. Getting off what is called the emotional roller coaster. The roller coaster effect occurs when one is ruled by uncontrollable emotions that at best exhaust the person and at worst lead to addictions, bad behaviors and more.

Moderating the good and bad emotions are needed in order to avoid the wide swings that characterize the roller coaster. Maturity is part of the process, along with what is called detachment.

Many methods can help to even out the emotions. They range from removing toxic metals and enhancing nutrition to more rest and sleep. Others are traditional therapy and many non-traditional techniques such as meditation, biofeedback and so many others.

2. Emotional detachment. This is a separate phenomenon from #1 just above. It is actually a retraining of the mind to observe itself at all times. This way, one becomes much more detached from everything and everyone in a positive manner, however.

It is not isolation or not caring. However, the person is much less involved and therefore reacts less and can be more present and objective with everyone and every situation.

The meditation article and exercise we offer on this site causes emotional detachment automatically, a fascinating process to behold in oneself and in your loved ones.

3. Letting go of the past, especially negative emotional traumas. Emotional healing involves and requires letting go of all that is not conducive to a positive emotional environment. For many, this is the most difficult step in emotional healing.

The traumas of the past leave powerful imprints on every aspect of our lives, from our posture and body image to our identity and personality traits. Slowly, one can bring up these traumas and let them go.

The process happens automatically with nutritional balancing science and meditation, for which reason we recommend these sciences. It can also be hastened in many cases by chirpractic, bodywork like rolfing or structural integration and other deep balancing techniques.

Even acupuncture and acupressure can help, as can many other natural therapies. This is the opposite of burying the past, as drug medicine often accomplishes very well, at least until the problem overflows, often in a fit of rage and violence that ends tragically.

This can mean a change in one's relationships, one's family situation, work or even location. It is inherently disruptive, and for this reason requires a fair amount of emotional maturity. It is thus usually done a little later in life, say in the 30s or 40s and often not before.

MENTAL HEALING

1. Taking stock. At a mental level, healing involves taking honest stock of one’s attitudes and beliefs. This is most difficult for the great majority of people. It must be done over and over, as old attitudes easily creep back into the consciousness, especially if reinforced by family members, parents, friends, the media and others.

2. Letting go of false beliefs and harmful attitudes. Mental healing, as here explained, means letting go of any attitude or belief system that is not compatible with the truth of who we are and what is going on in our world.

The most common belief that must be eliminated for good in all spheres of life is victimhood. This is the ultimate ego trip. It is about self-pity, comparing oneself with others, feeling one is “entitled” to the money, things, and more that seem to belong more to others and much more.

Political beliefs based on victimhood include the entitlement mentality, socialism, the redistribution of wealth by force through taxes and much more. These attitudes and beliefs are hard to face for most people. The party that does so the best is Libertarian, although they are not without problems at times.

3. Balancing attitudes and action. Mental healing is also about balancing the mind and body. For example, there is a time for analysis and a time for action.

There is a time for reflection and a time for moving ahead with faith. There is a time for lulling oneself to sleep and a time to wake up and face the world.

These are mental/spiritual balance ideas that are needed by all of us and take time and experience to develop. Years are required in most cases to learn about a balanced mind and body.

This is the reason we don’t let teens make all our life decisions for us, for example. They have not learned these delicate balances and so they make many mistakes and take chances that are not wise. They require loving, firm parents in most cases to restrain them until they learn more about their own beliefs, attitudes and can balance all of it together.

4. Taking full responsibility for oneself. This is an essential area of mental balance related directly to the problem of feeling like a victim. Full responsibility is impossible for a victim, who is y definition being used in some way by someone else.

5. Committing to the higher self and to happiness and health. This is another advanced mental balance that all must achieve if they want long life and health. It means releasing any habit, behavior, job, persons, attitudes that are blocking true happiness and healing.

This is not an easy task, as that which looks daunting may be the best thing for one’s develaopment. That which looks easy may be holding one back by not developing the talents and faculties.

For example, many books have been written by wealthy people begging others not to give money to their minor or even adult children. The reason, while it seems harsh and cruel, is that it often holds the children back. They become lazy, dependent, angry and spoiled. That is a tough one for most parents, of course, but no doubt true enough.

6. Related mental traits that are needed are discipline, forgiveness of self and others, desire, allowing and surrender. These are covered in more detail in other articles on this website, such as Steps To Mental Healing.

SPIRITUAL HEALING

As with mental healing, spiritual healing is a complex, lifelong process for everyone. It involves many aspects. Here are just a few. The article entitled Spiritual Development contains much more on this subject.

1. Reducing the influence of the ego. The ego, with which everyone is identified most of the time, is small and insignificant no matter what it thinks. Moments that are called peak experiences, ecstasy or enlightenment are when the ego has somehow been put aside.

2. Touching the deeper self, which is vast, powerful and mysterious. It has been approached through LSD therapy, but this is a dangerous method.

Near-death experiences and out-of-body experiences touch it. People returning from these experiences are often transformed. Their lives change dramatically and their illnesses and neuroses often vanish. Excellent books about these experiences are those by Raymond Moody, Damian Brinkley and others.

Writers from biblical times to the present have described vast realms and dimensions inhabited by incredible beings, places we visit during sleep, and so forth. We seldom give ourselves credit for the beings we are.

3. A focus on the upper chakras and the spirit in oneself and others. While physical symptoms may be addressed along the way, the spiritual self also needs to be a focus. This is far from easy for most everyone.

Sexual desire, for example, is a lower chakra phenomenon, as are all human relationships, family relations, work considerations and more. So this takes vigilance and usually guidance of an advanced person who can see things more objectively.

For example, what many consider a spiritual focus such as affirmations or meditation, can easily turn selfish as one asks for love, money, happiness and more. So the pitfalls are numerous and for most people it is mainly a losing or difficult uphill battle.

Jesus and others taught the way, but it is not an easy road. He said one needs constant “vigilance for the kingdom of God”, and said as one advances, even more vigilance is required or one can slip dangerously down the slope of subtle ego desires.

REQUIREMENTS FOR DEEP HEALING

For healing, certain requirements are helpful, if not absolutely necessary. Here is a short list of these:

1. One must follow the four-step program to develop the will to live. This is explained in a separate article entitled The Will To Live. The first two steps are desire and intention. Desire is the movement of the being or emotion in a direction. Intention is sustained desire over time and space.

The other two steps are allowing, which is the willingness to receive assistance, and surrender. The last step is taken for you if you do the others correctly.

These four steps, done daily, will help anyone develop a will to live. One must realize that many diseases such as cancer, for example, take away the will to live. So does any pain syndrome, any mental problem and any disability such as the inability to cook for oneself or walk or stand up right.

So developing a will to live is essential in these cases, but really is important for everyone at all times.

Even societal influences can kill the will to live, such as the news, high gas prices and so forth. Wars always cause this problem, though wars of liberation, such as liberating Iraq from terrorists, should have the opposite effect if people were thinking clearly. The media, and the media alone, are to blame for negative opinion about this noble American effort that is succeeding mightily.

2. Relax. This may seem like an unlikely first requirement for the deepest healing to take place. However, resting and relaxing the nervous system are very important requirements. Rushing around to find the latest cure or method can destroy effectiveness of even the finest healing method or program.

This one comes first because it is the basis for learning to tune in, so to speak, and become very intuitive about what you actually need and what is being sold to you as beneficial by others or by the media, for example. Learning to relax and sit back and enjoy yourself first is thus essential for deeper healing to take place.

3. Rest. This is placed second because so many people do not get well, even if they are doing an excellent healing program, because they do not rest enough. Rest also facilitates spiritual development, a key to healing today.

4. Believe in what you are doing. To the extent one believes in any method, it will be the most effective for healing. This may be hard to believe, but it is often true.

Having said this, we much prefer natural, low-toxicity, non-invasive methods to traditional or conventional medical methods most of the time. The reasons, however, are not that the medical methods don’t work. It is that they are not deep enough, as explained earlier in the section about healing versus symptom removal.

5. Do whatever it takes to follow your healing method. At times, one may have to be tricked into healing by being placed in fearsome machines, experiencing pain, or by other means such as fear, shame, gimmicks, embarrassment or others. This is all fine and whatever is required to follow a program and dscipline oneself is worth the effort.

Many people fail, however, because they do not follow through or become discrouaged in some way by friends, family, their own depression or other factors.

6. Open yourself to unlikely and unlimited possibilities. Some would call these miracles. Understanding the limitless possibilities for healing in itself facilitates healing, as it helps release the fear and despair that are often at the root of what must be overcome for healing to occur.

7. Develop compassion or self-love to a very high degree. Some say that only love heals. Love is the essence of what we are, and the force that keeps us going. It has nothing to do with romance, sex, families or friends. This concept of love is explained in other articles on this website

From this view, healers and techniques serve only to remind us of our loveliness and wholeness. When we love ourselves enough, negative energy patterns disappear and the body heals.

In fact, healings occur all the time that would be called miracles. We just accept them and doctors give them fancy names such as spontaneous regressions and the like.

8. Reclaim your power. Healing requires giving up the victim mentality, and recognizing and reclaiming power. The ego part of oneself is a fearful victim that seeks safety and security. The grander part of oneself is powerful, adventurous and unafraid. This is the part of each of us that will lead us out of our bondage to illness and depression. One must often embrace this part and turn away from the fearful side each of us has in order to persist and succeed.

9. Take responsibility. With power comes responsibility. The attitude of taking responsibility for whatever exists in one's life is very empowering. It should not create guilt.

If one created a mess, one can un-create it. No need to waste time and energy in self-pity or blaming others. Even if one does not know what to do, just the idea that one has the power to alter one's life is new for many people and most empowering.

10. Develop a sense of humor. This is not an absolute requirement, but can be really helpful. Some readers are familiar with Norman Cousins’ experience with a crippling form of arthritis called spondylitis.

When his doctors told him there was little hope of a cure, he cured himself watching humorous movies. At first, laughing gave him temporary relief from pain. After a while, the relief lasted longer until the pain did not return.

Laughing breaks one out of the negative thought and belief patterns that often created the illness in the first place. It is hard to laugh and be depressed or angry at the same time.

Humor temporarily detaches one from predicaments, reduces stress and releases beneficial substances into the blood.

11. Detach emotionally. This idea is mentioned earlier. However, it is also a key to healing of any kind.

Emotional detachment allows one to examine beliefs and behaviors without defensiveness or guilt. It helps one explore new ideas and therapies, avoid resentments and guilt, and stay calm in the midst of chaos.

12. Participate actively. Research has shown for years that people who are ornery, who question everything and who take an active interest in their healing do better than the passive patients that doctors often adore.

So if you want to do well, question everything. However, do not disobey orders. The two are not the same. Go through with your program even if it seems odd and as long as you are responding. Try to stay out of passive mode, which is usually a give-up mode of behaving.

TECHNIQUES AND MODALITIES

Healing is facilitated or impeded by a myriad of techniques or modalities. I believe that anyone may become well in time and with effort. However, the exact methods they will use will vary greatly.

Some cases simpler than others. In some people, it will be easy and one modality or method will suffice. In other cases, such as my own, several methods together were needed at times, such as meditation, sauna therapy and coffee enemas. Otherwise I don’t know if it would have been possible.

One has only to consult the holistic healing section of a library or book store to be deluged with healing methods and modalities. For this reason, the same condition can be approached through thousands of methods, literally. The idea that only medical doctors, or only some other system is capable of assisting one’s healing is bunk. There is nothing more to say about that idea.

Using combinations of modalities. In addition, one will usually heal best using a combination of physical or structural methods such as chiropractic or bodywork in addition to physical methods such as sauna therapy, hydrotherapy such as colon cleansing and more. In addition, nutritional and other biochemical approaches are most helpful along with the physical methods.

Other levels or varieties of therapy include electrical or energetic ones, emotional, mental, spiritual and even other subtle ones. All may be helpful or even needed in some instances.

Looking at a sunset, petting your cat, sitting under a tree, talking to a friend and thousands of other experiences can also facilitate healing. Have we all not had such experiences? Use them to your advantage as part of your support system, to use a modern term.

Complexity is reality in the healing area. The multiplicity of healing methods reflects just how complex our bodies are, in truth. It also reflects how exotic and remarkable is the universe in which we live. That is, people have figured out many ways to approach the body and mind, many of which seem very unlikely, such as rubbing the feet and sticking needles into the body, as just one example. However, these are among the best, in fact.

Preventing confusion. It is easy to become totally confused and sidetracked by running from therapy to therapy or modality to modality. This is a sure way to stop healing in most, though not all cases. Here are a few guidelines to help prevent this situation:

1. Distinguish methods that bring wholeness from the many remedies that simply suppress or rearrange symptoms.

2. Give a method some time, at least a month or two, before switching.

3. Be sure the one or ones you are using can be combined, so you are negating the one with another.

4. Especially with supplements, herbs, drugs and other physical products, do not combine regimens unless you are absolutely sure they are fully compatible. We also warn people, for example, never to combine other vitamins, herbs, teas and other things with the supplements recommended on a nutritional balancing program. Doing so will usually negate the regimen which is fine balanced for each person.

5. Watch out for healing reactions. Keep in touch with your professional guides, counselors, doctors or whomever you are working with. Healing reactions are not bad, but disease reactions are. You must understand your program and know if it is working, no matter how you may feel at a particular time. This is an important reason for failure, as mentioned earlier in this article.

6. Go slow and steady. People who stop and start programs rarely are successful. They are almost as bad as people who flit from program to program. Be steady and strong, as they sometimes say. Think long-term and hang in there.

However, if you are clear your method or practitioner is not helpful, then move right on and don’t linger and second guess yourself. Far better to abandon the old and move on than to waver, unless you are not sure, in which case get more professional help.

7. Trust. This may seem odd, but many people fail because they have no faith in anything or anyone. They fail because they cannot give up control and allow a method to do its work.

Remember, many times to get well requires a change in your body, your thinking, your lifestyle or some other part of your identify. Those who cannot give up the past often fail for these reasons. So you must trust the universe, trust in God if you believe in him, trust your practitioner and trust that the future is great.

HEALERS AND DOCTORS

Healing happens! Doctors, nurses, therapists, ministers and counselors facilitate the healing process, but do not cause it. Any doctor or healer who gets puffed up with his or her successes is an egotist, pure and simple. Avoid these people if at all possible.

However, some have developed certain gifts, or are more open, in touch with their abilities and willing to share with others. These are the people to work with as healers, nurses, doctors and other therapists.

We are all healers, in fact. Whether it be with a smile, a loving handshake, a hug or many other ways, we are all healers if we choose to be. Do so, however, at your own risk.

The medical and health authorities only authorize doctors, nurses and other “approved” people to heal. This is total nonsense and one reason health care costs are skyrocketing.

Research reported by Dr. Bernie Siegel, MD indicates that those who question and even disobey their doctors, taking back control of their healing process, fare better than the "good, cooperative patients”. What does this say about the present structure of our medical system?

THE CHALLENGE OF HEALING

The challenge is not to give up the quest and fall back into the fragmented way of thinking that characterizes conventional medicine and often even natural health care.

For example, I lived in Phoenix, Arizona for over 15 years. I loved it when I first moved there. However, as Phoenix grew more crowded and polluted, I grew more healthy and more spiritually oriented. I was doing my coffee enemas, vitamins in a nutritional balancing program, meditation every day and more.

I found myself depressed and anxious living there. I realized I had to leave, though it meant giving up my business and friends and moving somewhere, I knew not where. It all worked out, but it was a supreme challenge. I could have just stayed in the city, but was willing to continue the adventure, as I call it.

Many others face similar challenges in their work, relationships or other areas of life. The challenge is to keep going, especially as we get older and more frail with age.

PEOPLE WHO HEAL AND THOSE WHO DO NOT

Having worked with over 30,000 patients, those who heal tend to be those willing to make whatever changes are needed to facilitate the healing process. Those who want healing "on their own terms" do far worse.

This includes the time frame for healing, what healing looks like and feels like, and the outcome in terms of every aspect of one's life.

EASY CASES

If healing occurs very easily, it is usually not deep healing. It was a superficial problem, even if it looked scary, and therefore it responded to a simple intervention. This is important because some claim healing that is really not very profound.

Healing, by contrast, must involve all aspects of life and must touch the deepest places inside one.

Healing also involves a change in attitude that changes every facet of life. If it does not do this, it is not healing. At times, distinguishing a superficial “healing” from a real, deep one may be difficult. However, these guidelines can help a lot.

SUMMARY

Certain axioms or themes are involved in the healing process:

· We are each powerful, mysterious, complex, multidimensional beings, no matter how frail and dysfunctional the body may be.

· There is a oneness of body, mind and spirit.

· Events originate from within. We 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.

Resources

A Course in Miracles

Anatomy of an Illness by Norman Cousins

Getting Well Again by O. Carl Simington

Journey Beyond Words by Brent Haskell

Journeys Out of the Body by Robert Monroe

Joy's Way by Brugh Joy

Life After Life by Raymond Moody

Love, Medicine and Miracles by Bernie Siegel

Love Without End by Glenda Green

On Death and Dying by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Patient Power by John Goodman and Gerald Musgrave

Pray Well by Walter Weston

Quantum Healing by Depak Chopra

Saved by the Light by Damian Brinkley

Space, Time and Medicine by Larry Dossey

The Healing Path by Marc Ian Barasch

The Jeshua Letters by Marc Hammer

Who Lives by Richard Moss

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