The need these days is to pay attention to becoming the best that you
can. It has been truly said that everything being the same would be
boring, so we are challenged to open to the greatest part of ourselves to become
the unique best that we are.
We must no longer blindly follow the dictates of those wish to be known as a
sort of 'Medical Deity', rather we must, by necessity, take charge of our own health and be
responsible for the inside and outside.
As adults we must be self-responsible, not distaining the
help of others, but working with that information to make our own decisions.
John Robbins talks about healing in his book
"Reclaiming Our Health" and I
would like to quote a bit of it here so you can see more clearly where my own opinion lies
in this matter.
"Healing has to do with your experience of yourself and your
experience of life. Even if you do not recover physically, it is possible to find renewed
meaning in your unique journey, to move into greater wholeness and fulfillment.
Whether or not your health is restored, it is possible to develop greater appreciation for
the value of what is emerging in your life-adventure and to gain better clarity about what
is important to you.
Illness, even terminal illness, can be an opportunity for healing.
Everybody has the capacity for healing, though it means different things
to different people at different times. For some it involves increasing self
acceptance, and as awareness that, given the limitations of their lives, they still have a
contribution to make. For others, healing means taking more responsibility for their
lives, giving up self-destructive habits, and making more life affirming choices.
For others, it may involve coming to terms with a sense of loss or frustration, and
allowing new life to awaken in its time."
Thank you John.
I was born with a hip socket that was not formed properly to cup the
head of the femur, so during puberty, my hip would partially dislocate and I would
experience intense pain. I was the second person in the United States to have hip
replacement surgery only mine involved bone graphs to repair the gap where the socket was
to be whole. Unfortunately, the doctor overcorrected, so I was told and
told early that
people with chronic hips, had chronic backs and that I would be in a wheel chair by the
time I was 20. I guess you can tell this put a damper on life...it messed up my dancing career and my schooling too. However,
I was not in the wheelchair until after my third child was born and then I only stayed for
a couple of months until I decided that one cannot clean a bathtub easily from a
wheelchair, nor chase after 3 active children. My healing was in not taking the easy
way out that my body offered, but standing and walking and living each day doing the best
that I could do. Now some 30 years later, I am still free of the wheelchair, even
tho' I do depend on a cane to get around. I describe myself as very healthy...and
seldom have a cold or infection. Healing professionals have a great responsibility
to not program negative results, such as wheelchairs, but we as individuals have an even
greater responsibility to take charge of our own health. A recent x-ray shows
that the artificial hip on the right side has come apart (the socket has come
lose and the screws that held it in place have come out of the bone and are
floating in the hip area) but, thanks to all the healing work I have
done helping the spiritual to manifest physical, the hip has grown a stabilizing
cover and acts like a flexible fusion of the joint. I still have a cane, and
still am walking.
