Originally posted by iron~orchid
I have been taking a product that has Ephedrine for over three years and my body tells me if the dosage I allow myself is incorrect or not. I have better health during this time period that my past history. I have had the regular "medical" check ups and bloodwork done and they have come out with a better than healthy results each time. One doctor said, after reading my the results of my blood tests, "you're so healthy, it's sickening."
This Ephedra product is not intended as a cure for a disease, so why is it on the board for discussion of healing ?
It is important to have an appreciation of what is to be healed. Broadly speaking, perhaps all healing is the same because all illness is the same. At the same time, it makes some difference whether the focus of the healing is on a broken leg or on a broken leg that won't heal. Are you addressing the cancer or the harmful effects of the chemotherapy ? Are you treating depression ? Accident proneness ? An increased incidence of illness ? Anger and grief ? Not all physical illness is necessarily the result of some underlying trauma, but most physical illness has emotional trauma associated with it, and the emotional trauma can on occasion drive physical illness. It is also apparent that both physical and emotional illness can be driven by spiritual disease.
A patient has to find a deep-seated commitment to his or her own healing as this is a huge piece of the process. Without that, many healings cannot occur. This is the first hurdle a patient must jump over on the road to recovery or prevention of illness.
It is also helpful to have some understanding of the mechanics of the illness or injury. Despite my own desire to believe one walks across water simply by virtue of one's own "can do" belief, we live in a cause-and-effect world, at least on some level, and healing has cause-and-effect attributes and consequences. So it is helpful to know that a cancer of this or that type has this or that origin, has this or that expected course, or this or that expected end result. And I believe it is also helpful to know how medicine would treat that particular illness or injury or disease.
It is important to have an appreciation of where a person is spiritually and emotionally if encouraging self-healing. The healing process is a great opportunity for patients to do spiritual inventory and take steps to promote their own understanding and faith, to examine some of the larger emotional based processes that drive their life, and understand the energetic consequences of those processes and what role they play in life. Those whoese lives tend to be based on fear or sex or possessions all ahve different outlooks on life, and all are driven by different intentions.
The format for healing is critical. What is the instrumentality that does the healing ? Healing can take all sorts of forms, and we have to be careful not to limit our understanding of healing to a traditional medicine-based or Western model.
