I’ve noticed lately, on my drives to and from the office, lots of talk on radio about ‘fighting’ disease and ‘battling with’ disease. The frequency of it has startled me, not only in the references to our need to fight for health but also in the seemingly entrenched view that fighting is indeed, essential to wellness.
That is not my experience. Over the 20+ years of working with others (many of whom have been seriously ill with a wide range of chronic, degenerative dis-eases), fighting/battling was never the approach that brought a return to wellness.
It was always more about listening; about changing our perception of just what the dis-ease was aobut; about discovering how to perceive and decode the message that the body was trying to send through what we call ‘disease’ or ‘breakdown’ of the body. Without exception, when the intelligence of the message was digested or metabolized by the body, the dis-ease disappeared. For most people, this experience falls into the category of ‘magic’ – and yet, it is nothing more than good science.
Just because something is unusual, different or unexpected, it does not mean that we must brace for battle. On the contrary, ‘battling’ dis-ease only adds to the stress of the dis-ease itself. Battling demands bracing against – and it also demands fear.
A fear response in the body will collapse potential, not expand it. An attitude of curiosity, coupled with the willingness to invest ourselves in our own potential, allows things to open and expand. In that moment, information flows, the ‘wave’ moves through the body and in its movement, life has already changed who we are.
Battling dis-ease presupposes that what is there is bad, unwanted, invasive and an intrusion on what we believe we should be. One thing I know for sure about that: we’re wrong. How unfortunate it is that we’re willing to die to be right about it.
Breathing is good…..
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