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Today's
Meditation:
We
seem to have a very strange idea about what healing is all
about. We always want to put a band-aid on
everything and treat the symptoms rather that treating the
actual causes of the disease. Study after study
shows that a huge portion of disease and sickness comes
from our mental state--in fact, many of our sicknesses are
caused by our thoughts and actions. Think about
ulcers and high blood pressure and heart disease, for
example, and you'll see clear examples of how we think and
act can affect us physically.
While
there are many doctors who believe that "modern
medicine" is the answer to everything, many more
doctors are convinced that how we think and act can help
to control the healing process. Learn how to love,
accept, and treat your body well and you can learn how to
help your body to heal. Giving a person who has
ulcers some medicine will often treat only the symptoms, and not
very well at that--the underlying causes of the sickness
are still there, and still untreated. Treating the
clogged arteries of an obese person who eats foods that
cause clogged arteries will help for the moment, but in
the long run the causes of the problem are still firmly in
place.
Of
course, not all diseases are the result of thinking and
acting, but many are. And if we want to
heal--whether emotionally, physically, or spiritually--we
need to look at who we are if we're to discover the root
causes of our sicknesses. Hippocrates knew this
truth almost 2,500 years ago, yet it often gets buried in
the science of medicine. Science is a beautiful part
of our lives, but our humanity and individuality always
will be more important than the knowledge of science.
If
you do become sick, who is the person the doctor will be
dealing with? What kinds of thoughts and attitudes
will you bring to your own attempts at healing?
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