2. Believe That You Can Heal…
Because You Are Healing
Your body is a healing machine. It doesn’t know how to get sick. It isn’t dysfunctional. It’s literally healing all the time. Recently someone told me, "Sometimes stuff happens in my body and I just wait it out. In a while, it just goes away. My body just heals itself.” It was said so nonchalantly that I couldn’t help but be in awe. Of course it does! So many people have been taught to believe it doesn’t but the proof is all around you. We are healing all the time! I know, you’re experiencing symptoms and those are uncomfortable, how can the prove that you are healing? Symptoms are your body’s way of communicating with you. When symptoms are chronic, they are evidence that you haven’t put your body in an ideal environment for healing, and so it has engaged in adaptive measures to achieve homeostasis, they are still proof that your body is healing. They are also your body’s way of nudging you to change something, or maybe everything, so that it can heal more effectively. Just because you dislike or misunderstand what your body is doing doesn’t mean that your body is making a mistake. Your body is under no obligation to make sense to you. Your body’s only obligation is to serve you. It knows what is best for you. It is following the laws of nature, which bend for no one and nothing. You must surrender to the laws of nature to achieve the health you desire.
One very powerful healing force you have in your arsenal is your belief system. In medical studies, practitioners and participants alike aren’t allowed to know what or who is being treated. These are called double-blind experiments. Some participants don’t receive the substance being tested but rather a fake dose or sugar pill, it’s called the placebo, while others do receive the substance. Neither the participants nor practitioners know who is receiving the placebo. A participant may experience improved heart health simply because they believe they are receiving powerful drugs to heal their heart. Because beliefs are so powerful that they have a significant influence over the outcome. But why can’t the practitioner, who isn’t even consuming the substance, know? Even the practitioners beliefs can alter the outcome a patient experiences. Scientists and doctors agree—your mind is very powerful. It is powerful enough to change the outcome of your actions. Use that power to your advantage.
Thank your body for working so hard for you. Thank it for telling you when it needs help so you may assist it more effectively. Thank it for always showing up for you. Thank it for not giving up even when your environment made it more challenging to heal. Feel gratitude and hope at every opportunity. It is key to healing. No matter the path you choose to aid you on your healing journey, your beliefs may open the flood gates for healing or become a barrier to it. The choice is yours.
In case you didn’t catch it, start reading from the first blog Principal Number One so that principles and concepts build on one another.
