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The mind, the body and the soul are inseparable. Each has its own needs if it is to remain healthy. When you remove the obstacles preventing those needs from being met, Healing Happens.
Carol Ritberger, Ph.D.
Since 1981, I have been helping people understand the hidden contributors behind stress, life crises and illness from the perspective of personality typology, behavioral medicine and medical intuition. During that time, I've seen changes in the role medicine plays in the healing process. I've seen a change in how illness is diagnosed and treated, and I've seen a new model of illness and healing emerge. It's a psychospiritual model that sees:
- Illness, as being a psychospiritual crisis involving the mind, the body, and the soul, rather than being the result of external factors such as viruses, bacterial infections and environmental contaminants.
- Diagnosis, as holistically oriented, rather than pathology oriented. The diagnostic process is now taking into consideration hidden contributors such as personality, thoughts, emotions, attitudes, and beliefs. It's looking at the direct connection between how the mental state affects the physical state.
- Treatment, as being about illness prevention, rather than being crisis intervention treating symptoms and relieving pain and discomfort. Instead, people are being educated on what they can do to improve their health, reverse the aging process, manage stress, and eliminate chronic illnesses.
- Healing and curing as not being the same. Neither in approach nor in outcome. Curing seeks to fix the body and restore it back to where it was before it became ill. Healing seeks to make it better than it was before it became ill by removing the obstacles preventing the mind, the body, and the soul from creating good health.
- Good health, as being a process rather than being a result. A process involving living a lifestyle conducive to good health, making healthy choices, engaging in healthy relationships, and doing something each day to give the soul what it needs, which is to grow personally and evolve spiritually.
Albert Schweitzer said, "The doctor of the future will be oneself." I know that there is a powerful, spiritual aspect of healing that lies within each of us because I have seen this phenomenon too many times to doubt it. I have witnessed the healing power of the soul. I have worked with people who were told they had only days or months to live and who lived years beyond. Why? Because they believed they would. I have observed the courage it takes to change whatever is needed to restore good health and I have witnessed the miracle of healing.
Edgar Cayce said, "Healing of the physical without the change in the mental and spiritual aspects brings little real help to the individual in the end." How true, because the mind and the body imprint and imitate each other. What we think, we become. What we become, we think. It's an insidious process that can predispose us to illness or it can lead us to health.
If healing is your choice, here are some thoughts to ponder:
- You have the power to heal yourself - The physical body is designed for self-healing. It comes equipped with a defense system that will ward off the external and internal contributors to illness. It's designed for self-regeneration by creating new healthy cells daily. It's designed to repair and revitalize itself. All you have to do is stay out of it's way by not creating obstacles preventing it from doing its job.
- Only you can heal yourself. No one else can - Healing is a personal journey of self-discovery and personal development. No one else can experience your emotions or understand the workings of your mind. No one else can create your thoughts. Others can help you recognize unhealthy thoughts, but only you can change them. You are your own best healer.
- Heal the soul first, then the healing of the mind and body will take place - While the perspective of medicine is to heal the body first, the psychospiritual perspective reminds us to heal the soul first, for it's the source of your being and is the spiritual nature that animates your mind and body. If you begin here, then the mind and the body will heal simultaneously. What are the needs of the soul? They are to live joyfully, passionately, purposefully and to express these qualities in what you think, what you say and what you do.
- Only love heals - The energy of love carries within it an incredible healing power. When you send love to any part of your body that's hurting or not functioning properly it engages the healing powers of the soul and the mind. The mind shifts its attention from identifying a problem to finding solutions to heal the problem. The soul embraces that part of the body and floods it with the healing energy of love.
- Forgiveness creates the space for love in the heart - When your heart is full of fear or anger, sadness, or despair, there's no space for love, and without love it's difficult to remain healthy. While love is associated with the soul, forgiveness is associated with the mind, and represents the release of the emotional charges attached to hurtful thoughts. Thoughts that create victim behavior and cause you to live life tentatively rather than fully.
- Change is the only action plan - The journey of life is one of change. The journey of healing is one of change. Change is what happens from one thought to another. It's what reshapes your thinking and moves you from the past into the present and from the present into the future. The first step in healing is forgiveness. The next step is love.
- Focus on what you want rather than what you don't want - Healing works with the Law of Attraction, The best way to see whether your thoughts are healthy is to look at your lifestyle, your relationships, and your health. If what you see isn't what you want, then change it. When you do, healing is the outcome.
Will this new model of healing be better? It depends on who you ask? If you ask doctors, they'll tell you maybe. If you ask alternative practitioners, they'll tell you yes. But you, yourself, are the real person to ask. Do you believe you can heal yourself? Are you ready to make the changes that will promote good health and psychospiritual well-being? Do you believe that the greatest miracle of life is you? If you do, then I encourage you to think healthy thoughts and live each day as if it's the first day of your life.
Thank you for visiting my website and for your interest in my work.
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