June 11, 2003

• Healing

  
  

  “It is a trade secret, but I’ll tell you anyway, all healing is self-healing.”
   – Albert Schweitzer
  
  
  If I have my way in this life, I will heal the planet.  Not the entire planet single-handedly, of course.  I work one-on-one or in small groups.  All of my efforts take up where others have left off, and everything I do is assisted and supported by the work of others.  I don’t suppose the job will be done within my lifetime, so there will be others to take up where my peers and I leave off.

  
  

  I have long understood what Dr. Schweitzer said, that all healing is self-healing.  I knew I had to heal myself, and I know that the most I can do for anyone else is to empower him or her to do the healing.  One thing I can do is to assure them that they are worthy.  Once we realize our worthiness to live, not just to survive–that, too, but also to have a life of quality, purpose and satisfaction, then we have the first key:  motivation.

  
  

  There are many other keys, and the doors to healing that need to be unlocked are different for each of us.  Genetic, environmental, cultural, psychological, and biochemical factors vary from person to person.  No physician could possibly learn as much about each of his or her patients as the patients can learn about themselves.  Even if physicians were focused entirely on healing their patients, it is too great a task for them to accomplish without the willing and informed participation of the patient.

  
  

  Sadly, too few people understand this, and the medical profession isn’t going out of its way to inform them.  As in many professions, medical people are in it to make a living–a better-than-average living, for all but the rare few such as Patch Adams who take pleasure in altruism more than in affluence. 

  
  

  Furthermore, for most physicians, the job as they perceive it is to ease suffering, not to HEAL.   If a patient’s condition can be reversed or healed by changes of diet or lifestyle, some doctors might recommend such efforts, if they have been taught those connections.  Many are never educated in preventive or curative medicine.  

  
  

  Mainstream medicine is allopathic: 
  “That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated.”  (http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk)
  This usually translates to symptomatic relief, making the patients feel better or function better until their condition or some other one kills them.

  
  

  My first priority is and always has been my own healing.  From my earliest childhood my survival was at risk.  I fought through infections, injuries and iatrogenic* illness (*caused by medical treatment).  The stories of some of them are in my left module memoirs, for the entertainment of the curious among my readers.  The “temporarily die” entry is a good one, if you have time for only one.

  
  

  I have, however, never been able to keep good things to myself.  When I learn some newly discovered or little-known fact of biochemistry or physiology, or a technique such as the PainSwitch, I just have to share it.  Last night at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting, the topic of medically mediated addictive relapses came up.  Several members of the group had stories of prescription meds that precipitated cascading drug binges for them.  Not one of us, as it turned out, is a fan of the medical profession.  I was not the only one there whose entire addictive career began with prescribed drugs taken according to doctor’s orders.  It is an old and a common story. 

  
  

  I was pleased last night to be able to share the painswitch technique in a few brief words with two men who were at that time simply enduring severe pain because they knew that the available painkillers would make their lives unmanageable.  I cannot adequately describe my pleasure as I watched the face of the man across the table from me relax and his eyes clear as he discovered the “magic” of his own mind-power.  It is moments such at that, which make all the effort I have put into my survival and healing worth the trouble.

  
  

  Recently I’ve also been getting the same sort of kick out of my renewed healing partnership with my shaman/soulmate Greyfox.  If you are one of SuSu’s readers who also reads KaiOaty, you are probably already aware of it.  Greyfox is now doing past-life readings for our clients over there in Coyote Medicine’s Cyber-Clinic.  He does the trance journeying, and I am his scribe.  I have already transcribed two readings he did yesterday, and have the notes on two more yet to post.  He will be home every week, on Mondays and/or Tuesdays, and will do as many journeys as he can when he is here.

  
  

  The healing power of these karmic insights are beautifully evident (for the curious or skeptical reader) in the reading he did for JennyG, which I posted on KaiOaty yesterday.  Jen told me in an email that she has blogged about it, but I haven’t been there yet.  Greyfox got chills doing the reading, I got chills listening to him describe it, and the chills are spreading, to judge by comments we’ve gotten already.  And the beat goes on….

  
  

  

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