Step
1: Believe You Can Heal Yourself
Don’t believe that
positive belief can cure the body? Think again!Don’t believe
your health condition could possibly resolve? Check out the Spontaneous
Remission Project, a compilation of over 3,500 case studies proving that
spontaneous remission has been reported for just about every illness out there-
Stage 4 cancers, HIV, diabetes, high blood pressure, thyroid disease,
autoimmune diseases, even an untreated gunshot wound to the head!
For my skeptical
physician mind, reading through all these case studies was a paradigm shift.
It’s kind of like the story of the 4-minute mile. Exercise physiologists used
to think the body was physiologically incapable of running a mile in less than
4 minutes — and so no athlete ever did it. Then in 1954, Roger Bannister ran a
mile in three minutes and fifty-nine seconds. Once that limiting belief was
shattered, virtually every athlete that competes in a world-class event has run
the mile in under four minutes. Today’s world-record time for the mile is
3:43:15, more than 15 seconds under 4 minutes.
What if your belief
that the body can’t heal itself is like the 4-minute mile? For some
mind-blowing stories about how positive belief can radically affect your
health, watch my TEDx talk Is
There Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself?.
Scientific data
proves that once you believe healing is possible, it can be. So what do you
believe?
Step
2: Find The Right Support:-
To say that you can
heal yourself is sort of a misnomer because the scientific data proves that,
equally essential to positive belief is the nurturing care of a true healer,
someone optimistic who shares your positive belief, includes you in true
partnership, respects your intuition, cares for your wellbeing, and ensures you
that you won’t be alone on your self-healing journey.
Do you have the
right healers on your health care team?
Step
Three: Listen To Your Body & Your Intuition:-
Nobody knows your
body better than you, not even a doctor. We doctors may know the arteries of
the leg or the anatomy of your organs better than you, but you know what’s best
for your own body better than anyone else.
Yes! Your body is
indeed your business. So listen to your intuition and trust what it tells you.
Not in touch with
your intuition? Then listen to your body, which is one vehicle your intuition
uses to speak to you. If you have a physical sensation in your body pain,
tightness, nausea, clenching, dizziness ask your body what it is trying to
communicate to you. Then listen up! This is the voice of your inner wisdom and
it will always lead you directly to your true north.
Step
Four: Diagnose The Root Causes Of Your Illness:-
Your doctor may give
you one kind of diagnosis- migraines or irritable bowel syndrome or breast
cancer, for example. But the kind of diagnosis I’m talking about gets at the
root of what might have triggered stress responses in your body and deactivated
your body’s self-healing mechanisms, thereby making your body vulnerable to
illness.
What aspects of your
life are activating your stress responses? What relaxation response-inducing
activities like meditation, creative expression, laughter, engaging in work
you love, massage, yoga, or playing with animals — have you been neglecting?
Illness is often a
wake up call, forcing us to get down and dirty with what’s really true in our
lives. We can either play the victim or we can use illness as an opportunity to
awaken.
If you’re struggling
with a physical issue, what might lie at the root of it? For more ideas about
what might lie at the root of your illness, check out my TEDx talk The Shocking Truth About Your
Health.
Step
Five: Write The Prescription For Yourself:-
This won’t be the
kind of prescription you fill at a pharmacy, though it certainly may include
elements of Western medicine. It’s more of a self-guided action plan intended
to make your body ripe for optimal health and full recovery.
So ask yourself,
“What does my body need in order to heal?” Your Prescription may include diet
changes, an exercise regimen, and a conventional medical treatment plan. But it
may also include getting out of a toxic relationship, quitting a soul-sucking job,
adding a meditation practice, taking steps to get out of debt, or following a
passion.
Be as specific as
you can. Then muster up the courage to put your plan into action!
Step
Six: Surrender Attachment To Outcomes:-
What if you’ve
adopted a positive attitude, found the right healer, tapped into your intuition
and your body, diagnosed the root cause of your health condition, written The
Prescription for yourself and put it into action- but you’re still sick? Are
you doing something wrong? Is it your fault you’re still sick?
Absolutely not and
any talk of guilt, blame, or shame for someone on a healing journey only
activates more stress responses and harms the body.
So what’s the deal?
This is where the art of surrender comes in. Some patients do everything
“right” and spontaneous remission happens. But others are the proverbial choir-
and they’re still sick. Why does this happen? Honestly, I don’t know. The only
real answer is a spiritual one. Perhaps our souls come here on this earth to
learn lessons, and illness can be a spiritual practice, a way to learn our life
lessons and a part of our soul’s destiny.
What I can say is
that if you’ve followed the 6 steps, you’ve done everything within your power
to make your body ripe for miracles — and the rest is out of your hands. So
take a deep breath, trust The Universe, surrender attachment to any particular
health outcome, and let any health condition you face be an opportunity for
spiritual awakening.