Body Healing Wisdom

All healing does take place from within. While external therapies can be enormously helpful to facilitate healing, they do not do the healing, only the body does. If that is truly the case, then why isn’t the body always successful in doing what it innately knows how to do?

Treating Effects

To begin to provide some clarity to that question, it is important to understand that the body is always trying to heal and is doing the best it can with the information network and resources it has available to it. Many times the manifestations caused by the efforts to heal are misinterpreted as problems rather than the effects that they are. Treating these effects as primary problems never leads to healing. However, suppression of symptoms may be successful in the short term, but at what price?

For example, taking a drug to lower cholesterol might be effective at achieving that goal, but at the same time the patient may experience liver stress or congestive heart failure as a result of the treatment. In other words, the high cholesterol is an effect, not the cause. Side effects with this approach are always a concern. (Remember the recent Vioxx publicity). It is not possible to treat enough effects to take care of the cause.

Stimulus and Response

The body operates on a stimulus-response basis. It is usually responding appropriately to the stimulus it is subjected to. If the stimulus is negative to the body, the response will not appear healthy, but it is what the body needed to do under the circumstances in order to try to maintain homeostasis (balance) and keep the body surviving. The body has a priority system for survival and for healing. It will do what is necessary to keep the body functioning, including sacrificing non-critical systems to shunt more energy to essential systems. A person can still live without a spleen or with erectile dysfunction, but if the liver or heart stop functioning, the body dies.

If the body does not have the resources to heal, or if there are major blockages to healing, it will go into this survival mode, but resolution of the causes of dis-ease usually does not take place. Quite simply, the negative stimuli must be identified and eliminated (this can be food, toxins, emotions, beliefs, etc.) and replaced with positive stimuli. The body will then give a new appropriate response that will aid, instead of hinder, the healing process.

Distorted Information

The body may not heal because of distortion in its information network (brain and nervous system). This distortion may be caused by memory from past experience, either external or internal, that formed erroneous patterns that over time continually cause repeated dysfunction. For example, a person may have been in a serious accident 10 years ago, with accompanying emotional trauma related to it and their body is still acting like the accident just happened. This is an inappropriate response for the present time.

The body’s control system does not see things clearly, or misinterprets what it sees. This can make healing very difficult, especially when there is significant stress present which amplifies the distortion. Another example would be of a child that adopts a belief that they are not worthy or they don’t deserve good things because they were continually told how "bad" they were. This child may grow to an adult that doesn’t believe at their core they deserve to be well.

Although this belief is based on a lie, our control systems are literal and respond to the interpretation patterns engrained in the neuronal pathways regardless of whether they are true or not. For true healing to take palace, awareness of the errors can many times cause an immediate shift and upgrading for appropriate, present time response. The person may then gain great benefit from the therapeutic modalities being employed as the body does what it knows how to do very well, heal itself.

Regards,

Dr. Dennis K. Crawford

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