The human body has been seen to illustrated remarkable natural healing potential. Our body’s ability to organise inner systems of survival and self-healing are still beyond the understanding of scientists and researchers.
Natural healing is associated with all aspects of the person’s energetic state of being as shown in the pyramid diagram below, the area inside the pyramid represents our present dimension of interaction with worldly reality:-
In this diagram A, B, and C relate to worldly aspects of energetic activity that accumulate as karmic reaction; D = spiritual in the sense of soul spirit and the higher realms of human consciousness that are beyond limitation. The space within the pyramid represents the physical realm, which is linked with the spiritual through the etheric realm and heart to soul connection – often expressed as love and creative expression.
A, B, C, and D are all intrinsically linked. Whatever happens to one A, B, or C on the base triangle influences the others on that basic energetic level. However, what influences the top of the triangle comes from both the spiritual realm above and the physical Karmic level below.
A Naturopath chooses to work with those areas of healing and therapies that work as closely as possible with the energy systems normally used in the body for good health, fitness and healing. The use of allopathic medicinal drugs would normally be avoided so as to avoid the risk of adverse side effects – chemical influences that disrupt the body’s natural focus and ability to heal. With this theory in mind, I have briefly described what I have learnt and experienced while studying natural medicines during the last few decades of our present time. The following notes are for interest purposes only, and individuals must make their own enquiries and acquire their own knowledge, experience and understanding from reputable sources.
Causes of Illness, Injury and Disease can be described in four categories
- Physical and biological disturbances that disrupt the body’s ability to maintain the biological harmony required for perfect growth, health and rejuvenation.
- Karmic causes, actions instigated by disturbed and/or disrupted energy forces that in some way harm other living beings. These energies cause psychological and spiritual disturbances within ourselves, which if not addressed and successfully cleared, will after some time, (or lifetimes,) cause illness, injury or disease.
- Environmental causes such as geographic disasters caused by humanitarian abuse and adverse interference with the natural ecology of the planet e.g. the Chernobyl disaster. However, ones situation within an environmentally challenging environment will still be influenced by ones Karma (2) e.g. the Titanic shipwreck. This is why some people come through dangerous situations unharmed, while others are affected by illness, injury or disease.
- Conscious and/or subconscious thought patterns.
In his work ‘The Missing Secret’ Joe Vitale describes the relationship between our thoughts and our health, illness and injury.
The author’s personal example of this is as follows:-
At the age of 50 plus I had a serious accident. I could not breathe and feared I was going to die. Believing my final moments had arrived I started chanting the Maha mantra: HariKrisna, HariKrisna, KrisnaKrisna, HariHari, Hari Rama, Hari Rama, Rama Rama, HariHari. Miraculously my body received air when I chanted, if I stopped chanting my lungs were unable to take part in even the smallest breathing movement. Only after 3 hours of chanting could I sustain, without chanting, a shallow form of breathing. I could hardly move any of my body except my hands a little.
In hospital I argued that I did not want an operation, one of the country’s top surgeons in this field of work, discussed how I was lucky not to be already paralysed due to a fragment of bone that was pressing dangerously against my spinal cord. I asked him if, in the future, the metal cage he was going to secure around the broken area of my spine could be removed. He said I could ask him in two years’ time. Later I discovered it was not something that he would normally consider as a future possibility. He heard my need and faithful hopes of a full recovery.
During my recovery in hospital I considered what had brought this accident into my life.
I recalled that prior to this awful event I had been thinking that I no longer valued my life as worthwhile, that there was no joy or valid purpose left in my life. These thoughts were focused on my judgement of myself because I was unable to love my husband unconditionally. I was tired of looking after and helping other people, I needed someone to love me (3). If the giving and receiving of love was not possible for me, I had little aspiration for living (1). I felt sure my husband no longer wanted to be married to me and this was true. However, the accident showed me that he did not wish me any harm. When he saw the accident happening he called me so sweetly that I could feel his love and I turned to receive this sweetness. My turning almost certainly saved my life, and protected me from the full force of potential damage or even death.
During my recovery in hospital I had a new conversation with God. I knew and gratefully acknowledged that even in this difficult situation my life was worth living (1). Also, if I was going to be in a wheelchair I wanted to take full responsibility for myself, I did not expect or want anyone to look after me (2), I would successfully love and look after myself. My husband appeared not to want me as a wife and he certainly did not want a disabled unwanted wife. In hospital I successfully used the different means of natural healing that I had spent so many years learning and sharing with others. This knowledge and faith in my own healing ability brought me through my situation with minimal pain, absolutely no pain killers or allopathic medication outside of that administered during the operations and incredible levels of successful healing. I also received much love and healing from my closest friends; and the miracles of my recovery showed me that, whatever happened, I was always receiving the Lord’s loving care and merciful blessings, if this was according to my wishes. Therefore, I did not need a wheelchair in order to have someone there to look after me (2). I wished my husband would find someone with whom he could give and receive love. I could not believe that person could ever be me and that was alright (4). He left to be with someone else soon after my return home from hospital and by his request and for my own relief I divorced him (4). We have remained independent of each other and now many years later we have good feelings of respect, appreciation and friendship towards each other.
Two and a half years later I had a second operation to remove the metal cage like structure that was holding up my broken spine. Upon recovery, when I stood upright for the first time, my spine collapsed and my arms hung limply at the front of my body. I immediately went to see Dr. Nelson Brunton and he gave me acupuncture. Nelson had seen me regularly since my accident and he was always delighted to see how successfully I was recovering. 2½ years later he witnessed the biggest miracle of all, after just this first acupuncture treatment, I could stand up straight with my arms falling correctly positioned at the sides of my body. Nelson said this level of success was because I had not tried to stand before having the treatment and because of my conscious awareness of the power of natural healing energy within my body. My miraculous recovery continued. I am deeply grateful to Nelson Brunton and Mark Lange (www.bowen4wales.co.uk)who have also helped me regain an almost normal level of mobility. I now have to look carefully at what I am saying to God and what I am requesting within my thoughts as my chosen way forward in life.
| The voice of the ego, a stubborn self-elevating psyche that makes itself the centre of the universe and assumes that it knows best how to think and behave; taking the place of God -the Lord of our own and indeed all creation. Thus the ego becomes autonomous, that is to say strictly self-governing, self- regarding, self- absorbed. The sinful ego separates the person from God’s justice and love in order to become commander of all that surrounds it. The ego seeks to order the cosmos according to its own needs and plans. When as is inevitable, the universe does not obey, the ego commands even more imperiously and comically, sometimes surrounding itself with titles and honours and weapons of violence. The gift of human consciousness was presented with the gift of free will and the disposition to listen and obey. However, when Adam and Eve presented their refusal to obey their creator and maintainer in the Garden of Eden they initiated their own death and death to all their ancestors through separation from direct association with God in the Garden of Eden. Thus we all now play ‘To be or not to be’, the act of commander, and fail to acknowledge that we were originally built to listen and to obey the eternal source. Our chosen responsibility to the needs of our ego has for most of us separated us from listening and receiving the care and guidance of our creator and maintainer.
Thus, in the words of Dan Millman:- “Well I’ll tell you, the way most people live, kills them – you know what I mean, Don? They may take thirty or forty years to kill themselves by smoking or drinking or stress or overeating but they kill themselves just the same.” [Quoted from ‘Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman; H.J. Kramer, Inc. 1984:73] |
Important warning systems supporting wellbeing and a happy healthy life style
Pain as an important system of Communication
Pain is created by the body in order to:-
- Alert the person to cellular damage and restrict further activity that would be detrimental to the healing process.
- To illustrate that the person has not affected an appropriately successful healing process.
- To encourage psychological awareness of areas of resistance to the body’s natural healing processes.
The author has experienced pain free healing without any need for pain killing medication after very serious injuries. Her experiences have led her to an understanding of how pain is used to encourage the person to find positive ways of supporting natural healing. This process may include not only physical aids and appropriate rest, but also the need to clear psychological stress related to emotional conditions that can manifest as accidents or illness. In other words, if the patient is able to meet the healing process successfully there will be no experience of pain throughout the healing period of convalescence. If however, there is any resistance through unsuitable movement, impatience, stress or unresolved psychological issues, the healing process will be accompanied by resistance related levels of pain.
In our very busy life styles, where production during our working day is directly related to the quality of our survival and enjoyment, injury and illness may need to be directly linked with pain and discomfort in order to ensure that the body is given enough time and rest to facilitate a healthy recovery. Many people are impatient and by using allopathic pain killers they override the more holistic natural healing processes. As a result they sabotage a full recovery and later weaknesses and other associated illness can occur. Therefore the author is careful to educate people who choose natural healing to learn that this often eliminates pain. Therefore, the patient must consciouslyaddress the body’s requirement for restful care and appropriate nurturing if a full recovery, without secondary complications, is to be achieved.
The Question of Listening to Pain and Conscience
Pain warns us not to act against acting in ways that would damage our physical body or prevent healing within the physical body. Similarly our conscience warns us not to act in ways that can damage our inner state of wellbeing.
Indeed who suffers the most the bully or the victim? In suppressing his/her own conscience the bully damages his/her own peace of mind and thereby attracts other likeminded individuals who also bully without any conscience. This is illustrated in the sayings – ‘like attracts like’ and ‘you reap what you sow’.
It would appear that pain and conscience are safety nets that rescue humans from their lack of inner perception and mind-full wisdom.
| Job28:18
No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; |