Absolute Essentials for Healing

The three most important things you need for healing to occur in your life.

How much do you believe that you can influence your life and health? How much do you believe that your brain and body influence each other?

If you don’t understand how these concepts might work, how ‘open’ are you to finding out more?

Are you expecting therapy or the medical profession to help you without you doing any work to help yourself?

The ‘placebo effect’ very clearly proves the effect that our mind can have over illness. A positive belief and expectation is the foundation stone of healing. Your expectation will influence the outcome more than you know.

Your underlying beliefs will influence the benefit that you get from therapy. It is clearly easier to train or teach somebody who is prepared to take an active role in their healing.

I know about (and practice) some awesome techniques that bring about incredibly quick results in some cases, particularly for emotional trauma.  However in many cases there simply isn’t a ‘magic bullet’.  There is no therapist or medical practitioner who deals with everything and knows everything. Even a masterful healer like Jesus was unable to heal some people!  Interestingly, they were people from his home town who had no belief in him!

I know how annoying it is to have ‘positive thinking’ rammed down your throat, and in no way do I suggest that it is the be-all and end-all.  I am sure there are people who have been healed and yet have had a negative outlook, just as I am sure that there are people with the  most positive outlook that have not been healed. However, I do know that there has been much research to show that you are much more likely to get better if your attitude is generally positive.

While many people report ‘healing’ from faith and belief alone (and I absolutely believe this to be possible), most mortals require a little more than that.  Your feelings and thoughts can sometimes take a ‘dive’, but giving up hope is a killer. We need hope to allow ourselves to find healers, seek answers and do something about our problems.  This is the primary reason why depression is so hard to overcome – because the lack of serotonin and ‘feel good’ chemicals make a person feel hopeless and hope is the thing they most need.  Many depressed people do not seek help because they simply have no hope of an answer.

It is important, in these cases, to remember that our physical body is affecting our emotions, and unconscious patterns affect both our thoughts and our body.There is nothing more debilitating to a depressed or ill person than to be told that they should just ‘pull themselves together’ or that they are making themselves ill by their negative thinking and behaviour.  It may well be true,  but you can’t undo a lifetime of learning, most of which is unconscious, by  ‘just pulling yourself together’!  Nobody wants to ‘pull themselves together’ more than they do! And they would have done it in a nano second a long time ago if it was that easy.

ooops, I digress – sorry, but I touched on one of my hobby horses!

So you have hope, and you have a fairly positive outlook – what else do you need to heal yourself? Faith and persistence! Faith keeps us going. Faith enables us to hold on to our hope. Too many people give up way too soon, despite hope and a positive outlook. Sometimes the journey to our own healing is a blessing in disguise as it takes us along a pathway of learning and discovery that would have been lost to us.’Faith’ is knowing that there is an answer out there. ‘Faith’ is knowing that the journey is a part of our own personal life path, and that along the way we will find that all things do work together for good. ‘Faith’ is seeing evil and yet believing that with enough light we will put out the darkness. ‘Faith’ is believing that no matter how little your part is in the healing of the world, it is worth something.

Love, to me, is what underpins all positive thought. “We will win this war” is not positive. It is born of fear and hatred. It is one-upmanship.  “I will get rich” may sound positive, but it, too, may be born of fear of poverty. Our positive attitude, our hope and our persistence need light to succeed.

A very long time ago I had a verse printed on an invitation card. It read And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”   1 Cor 13:13

Love and hope cannot survive without faith to persist. Who can do anything if there is no hope? What is anything worth if there is no love?  Have faith in yourself to find the help that you need. Love yourself enough to do it, and let hope guide you.