DEEP HEALING - THE HEALING PATH
by Dr. Lawrence Wilson
© February 2019, LD Wilson Consultants, Inc.
All information in this article is for
educational purposes only. It is
not for the diagnosis, treatment, prescription or cure of any disease or health
condition.
There is much confusion today over what is deep healing. Many people confuse symptom removal
with healing, for example. This
article will distinguish these two.
WHAT IS DEEP HEALING?
Below are qualities of deep healing:
1. It is much more
than eliminating symptoms.
2. It
is a path or process, rather than a remedy or simple one-time endeavor. It is a rather special path toward
wholeness and oneness.
3. It is a reversal of
the process involved in becoming ill.
4. At the same time,
it is a re-awakening to one's true nature and the deeper meaning of life.
5. It does not tend to cause Òside effectsÓ,
Òadverse effectsÓ or Òunintended consequencesÓ, as do symptomatic approaches.
6. It tends to be permanent, far more so than
symptom removal.
7. It requires more work and time than just
symptom removal. The effort may be
on different levels such as lifestyle, diet, taking supplements and more.
8. It often involves healing reactions or
retracings.
9. It always involves prevention, and not just
handling current problems.
10. It always leads to some degree of development,
as defined on this website, when it is done properly.
Let
us examine these in more detail.
1. MORE THAN 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 definitely a path or way of
living that one either embraces or not.
For example, the allopathic and to some degree even the
naturopathic approach to diabetes, a serious disease, involves taking remedies
and improving the diet.
The healing path approach is to make huge dietary changes in most
cases, stop drinking coffee and all caffeine, drink much more water, exercise
gently every day, lose 100 pounds or more if needed, and alter behaviors,
attitudes and perhaps other aspects of lifestyle that gave rise to the diabetic
condition. It would also involve
taking specific nutrient supplements to rebuild the entire sugar metabolism
system, but not remedies.
3. DEEP HEALING IS A
REVERSAL PROCESS OF THE CAUSES OF ILLNESS
Healing is a reversal process in which the damage to the body is
actually revisited and reworked or healed. This is very different than covering it over, as it were, as
is often done with drugs or symptomatic nutrient or herbal therapy.
Emotional traumas are also reversed, and not covered over. An example of retracing mental or
emotional damage may be to revisit an emotional trauma, for example, and
re-experience the feelings, perhaps for a day or a little longer, until the
brain can properly process the feelings and move on. This occurs often during development programs. One may also need to give up false
attitudes or beliefs, and learn to forgive others.
4. HEALING IS AN AWAKENING
TO ONEÕS TRUE SELF AND FULL POTENTIAL
This means that much more is possible with deep 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 sort of lazy manÕs approach to just healing the symptom can never can offer the same incredible possibilities. This topic is somewhat beyond the scope
of this article. It is discussed
more in articles on this site such as Introduction
To Development.
5. NO ADVERSE SIDE EFFECTS
OR 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.
Deep healing very rarely, if ever, causes these effects. It is one the primary benefits of a
whole system, deep healing approach.
This means, among other things, that deep healing is far less costly in
the long run, reduces suffering much more, and has other benefits.
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
This
is the case because deep healing must address many levels of functioning such
as diet, lifestyle, activity level, attitudes and even
more in some cases. So deep
healing using development is a more total approach that develops discipline and
touches many areas of life.
8. IT OFTEN INVOLVES
PURIFICATION REACTIONS, RETRACINGS OR FLARE-UPS
These are temporary flare-ups of symptoms, some old and some new,
during the healing process. They
can be startling and unpleasant, but are usually over in a day or two, or
less. 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 reactions confuse people who do not understand the
concept. 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. They are explained in detail in the
article on this site entitled Retracing And Healing
Reactions.
9. DEEP HEALING ALWAYS
INCLUDES PREVENTION OF FUTURE PROBLEMS
The current health care system is not preventive at all. In fact, it causes more disease due to
side effects or what medical people call unintended consequences. Deep healing is the opposite.
For example, deep healing of cancer or any other chronic
degenerative illness must improve and detoxify the entire body. This means the person is far less
likely to develop any type of cancer in the future. Also, they are less likely to develop diabetes, heart
disease, infections or hundreds of other conditions thanks to the deep healing
of their one condition, cancer.
This idea needs to be understood much better by our governmental health
care policy makers.
10. IT ALWAYS CAUSES
DEVELOPMENT, AS DEFINED ON THIS WEBSITE.
This is another mark of deeper healing systems such as
development. Mental development
has to do with the opening of certain brain centers that requires a fair amount
of biochemical adaptive energy to be present and it requires other balances in
the body. It does not happen, as a
rule, with any allopathic, homeopathic, naturopathic, herbal or symptomatic
nutritional therapies.
It can occur, however, due to some deep body
work methods such as Rolfing, and it occurs with certain spiritual
systems including some Christian prayer methods. However, in our experience, it does not occur to the extent
that it occurs with development science when done thoroughly and properly.
Let us now contrast deep healing with Western conventional
medicine, and even with most naturopathic and holistic approaches.
CONVENTIONAL ALLOPATHIC AND
NATUROPATHIC METHODS DO NOT PRODUCE DEEP 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 ÒmedicineÓ 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 Òside effectÓ, not as the rule. This can be an advantage, as it avoids
fear about these reactions.
However, we know that it also means that medicineÕs approach is
far more superficial and does not raise the bodyÕs internal vitality nearly as
much as does deep healing.
2. Adverse effects
or unintended negative effects often 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-vaccine 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 ÒcureÓ is
sometimes 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 as when 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 patientÕs 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. Similarly, with
drug or herbal therapy, often one must continue the remedy forever or symptoms
come back.
In the case of antibiotics, they may 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. Development of
the person usually does not occur nearly as much. This is undoubtedly true,
as witnessed by the attitude of most patients in doctorÕs offices. They only want a fast ÒcureÓ 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.
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.
Many times it is tempting to look for medical or holistic short
cuts to save time or produce the relief of annoying or scary symptoms.
PEOPLE WHO HEAL AND THOSE
WHO DO NOT
Having
worked with over 50,000 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 not do as well.
Those who heal also tend to be disciplined and not too afraid of
change and healing reactions.
Those who are most successful also do not give up easily when things get
a little rough. Instead, they ask
for help and relax as much as possible.
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.
Deep 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 ÒhealingÓ 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:
á
We are each powerful,
mysterious, complex, multidimensional beings, no matter how frail and
dysfunctional the body may be.
á
There is a
oneness of body, mind and spirit.
á
Some events originate from
within. We co-create our
lives. This power or SOVEREIGNTY
is never taken away, though it may be given away temporarily.
á
Deep
healing is helped by taking full and complete responsibility for all of one's
co-creations.
á
Healers, doctors, and
therapists are facilitators only.
á
Desire, intention, allowing
and surrender play critical roles in healing.
á
Forgiveness of self and
others are important aspects of the healing process.
á
Discipline, derived from
same root as 'disciple', is an important aspect of healing.
Shifting
one's perspective to embrace these axioms of deep healing is one of the most
important activities one can engage in.
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