The Preconditions Necessary For Healing An Illness

Your body’s healing power is always present within you – the conscious being – who uses the physical body as an instrument to express his/her individuality and purpose. True healing, which has nothing to do with suppressing symptoms of disease, cannot be enforced by even the best of treatments unless the preconditions for healing are already in place. The following are some of the most important clues about how this healing power can become activated in you:

Before you can heal an illness, you have to accept it.

Acceptance of your illness is not a sign of resignation or passiveness that would just result in depression and fear. Acceptance of your illness rather shows that you are willing to take responsibility for yourself and your situation. This will help you infuse your body with feelings of compassion, love, tenderness and energy. Accepting what is will allow your own healing energies to stream into your body and provide it with the calm, relaxed state it requires to return to a balanced condition (equilibrium). For as long as you feel you are a victim of some misfortune, food, medicine, or even karma (effect of past actions), you are far from being healed. Rejecting an illness only energizes your resistance to it, which is stressful for the body and mind and puts all the cells of your body into a mode of self-defense. Stress undermines immune functions and prevents the healing response. By accepting your illness, you are no longer subjected to fear and insecurity but in control of yourself. This will also help you to understand the true reasons behind your illness.

Instead of seeing an illness as a negative event that you need to fight against, you will need to perceive it as an opportunity to become stronger in areas that have been weak and underdeveloped.

“Detours” can lead you into important areas that you would otherwise miss out on. Rejecting or fighting disease also repels the opportunities that disease always brings along. Since disease has no power or agenda except to heal your body and mind, it is wise to work with the illness, not against it. Physical healing involves repair of damaged cells and growth of new ones. At the same time, while undergoing the process of healing, you have the opportunity to grow stronger, become more relaxed, peaceful, and content. Growing spiritually and emotionally as a result of an illness greatly minimizes the necessity for further detours, such as repeated or new physical disorders.

Since your illness is only your body’s attempt to redirect your life in a more supportive and fulfilling direction, there is no reason to fear it or to be upset about it.

Your body is doing the very best it can to make it easier for you and help you return to a state of balance. Therefore, you may greatly benefit from not judging yourself or your body for going through such a healing crisis. You are certainly not a victim of some kind. Your body is totally on your side, never against you. Make your body your friend and stop treating it as an enemy.

Don’t be fooled by the medical concept that there are autoimmune diseases which supposedly make the body attack itself! By design, the body is not suicidal unless you are (consciously or unconsciously). Instead, the body is merely attacking toxins that have settled in the joints, blood vessels, lymph ducts, or cells. The resulting inflammation merely is a survival response and should not be mistaken for a disease, even if it involves pain, infection or proliferation of cancer cells. Remain positive and peaceful about your own healing ability, and trust that the body is always engaged in trying to make you well again. Your illness can be your personal guide for a new purpose or orientation in life. A wise man once said. “Illness is God’s way of getting your attention!” Once you pay attention to your illness and accept it as a blessing in disguise rather than a nuisance or threat, it will reveal its inherent blessing to you and surely help you live your life in a gentler, more nurturing way.

Avoid making physical wellness your goal in life; instead, let it be your process each moment.

Seeing health as being a goal you have to fight for implies the idea that there is something fundamentally wrong with you. For example, if you suffer from pain, don’t perceive this as a sign of sickness, but rather as a healthy response by your body to deal with an imbalanced situation. Sickness is but a process of healing that the body is going through. Trying to escape the present and reach a better future merely drains your energies, which makes it difficult for the body to heal itself. Being well is a matter of being in the present moment, and not a fictional, futuristic dream. The current moment is the only sure thing you can possibly own in life, and it is perfectly suited for you, even if it doesn’t feel that way. If you resist or reject something such as an illness, you will be stuck with it until it is able to remove the fear that lurks behind your resistance.

Accepting the illness, on the other hand, makes it useful for you, regardless of its appearance. Attending to your goal of becoming well sometime in the future is unrealistic because it takes you outside the present reality into one that hasn’t happened yet.

Life is not about attaining a perfect physical body, but being able to live perfectly well with its imperfections. This is true health.

Energy follows thought. Living for a goal, such as trying to get rid of a disease, robs the body of your attention, and therefore, also of the energy necessary to heal and sustain itself. By living from moment to moment, your full attention is present in the body. This is all the cells of your body need to know and feel in order to do or resume the job assigned to them. Cells that are “fed” with loving, caring attention believe that you are present and alive. By contrast, cells that are being attacked for “making you suffer,” either through harsh words, anger, and threats or drugs, surgery, and radiation, are paralyzed in their healing capacity because they believe you dislike or hate them and want them to die. Cells are living, conscious beings just like you are. By attending to the present moment of being ill without any judgments, but with loving acceptance, you automatically program your cells to carry out a healing response.

——————————
This is an excerpt from my book TIMELESS SECRETS OF HEALTH & REJUVENATION