What Does True Healing Look Like?
When I talk about True Healing, I mean Active Healing, the type that we have to work at. Most of the time healing just happens, our bodies are programmed to heal and get better, and we are not even aware of this amazing miracle happening. Active Healing, on the other hand, takes hard work, and it is what is needed if you want to heal from chronic illness where you find that your body does not automatically heal in the way you have always expected it to. I write from personal experience having reversed my own symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis and now working to help others heal themselves from this and other autoimmune and chronic health conditions.
The first step in Active Healing is for you to believe that you can get yourself better and for you to make the changes to your life necessary to make this happen. Sometimes this is challenging because we are so invested in a medical solution and that when a doctor tells you that you are stuck with symptoms or with a condition for life, it takes a lot of energy to believe otherwise or to engage in the steps necessary to prove the doctor wrong.
Active Healing involves a reconnection of the conscious link between your body, which is telling you that something is wrong, and your need to understand that you will have to make some changes to make yourself feel better. It is a long-forgotten wavelength of hearing. It is cause and effect. It is about owning your solution and responding to your body’s messages. When it comes to chronic conditions, this is sometimes the only way out as the conventional medical paradigm is not able to offer a pill for this ill. At best doctors may be able to offer immune suppressing drugs, but nothing that will reverse some of the decisions and exposures of the past that may have eventually taken their toll upon your physical form.
So the first step in Active Healing is to believe that you can. The second step is to have the resolve to do it. Changing your diet and lifestyle is not easy – but it’s a lot easier than being in pain. It is usually at this point that new patients are at when they track me down and ask for my help. The third step is about making the changes necessary to get your life back on track.
To return to the question, what does True Healing look like? It’s a journey, and often not a linear one. It may ebb and flow, stall and even spiral and there may be times where you may feel as though you have gone forward a few steps and back a couple more. This is a normal. While it may feel at times as though you are going backwards, this is never really the case. Although your symptoms may at times regress, you have a greater knowledge of the root causes of your conditions, and you may already have reversed and addressed some of these already.
For me, the journey was about envisioning a healthy future and then moving obstacles so that I could reach that. Every step nearer was liberating and empowering. Along the way I have become mindful about everything that goes in or on my body, be it food, water, cosmetics, air particles or negative thoughts. No substance passes my lips without me questioning whether it is good for me or otherwise.
Working with others is a true gift, and there is nothing more enriching to my life and purpose to be told by one of my patients that they feel better than they have in the last 10 years, or that they can’t remember feeling as good as they do.
True Healing for me has been a revelation, a liberation and life transforming beyond my imagination. While I would not wish ill health upon anyone I am grateful for my health challenges because I feel better than ever and I am brimming with joy at the possibilities that helping others can bring.