Extraordinary healing powers of the human body
Your body has a remarkable healing system! Tap into this strong and seemingly mysterious power within you and find true and lasting healing. If you are sick or weak, or even if you are just not feeling as good as you would like to feel, your healing system may be slumbering, but it is just waiting to be called into action and it is as necessary to your good health as your respiratory system and your digestive system.
As many of you already realized, your body is an incredible creation. No other machine in the world is like it. So use the power of your mind to affect your body. Program' yourself to think and feel positive about yourself and others and you will see definite changes in the health of your mind, body and spirit.
Let us think for a moment about childhood, and all the injuries children sustain, and the tears they shed throughout the early stages of growing up, as they learn to crawl, stand, walk, climb up and down stairs, run, ride a bicycle, and swim. Add to this the multitude of rashes, fevers and infections they must endure, and it is difficult to imagine that any child could ever make it into adulthood in one piece. And yet, most of us did.
Because health is your natural, normal state, illness represents an unnatural, abnormal state. What do I mean by this? The word health' is related to the word healing', which are movement toward wholeness and a sense of well being. When you are healthy, you feel whole and well, and you have a comfortable, vibrant, free-flowing, at ease feeling in your body, but when you become ill, you lose your health. You loose your feeling of ease, and you become afflicted with dis-ease'. Disease represents nothing more than a temporary departure from your natural state of health.
There is a simple solution to help your body to heal itself, and that is by listening to your body. Your body continually provides you with clear, updated information relayed directly from a precise, highly intelligent, early warning system designed to inform you when you are in danger of losing your health.
Now, when people first hear of the healing system, they often confuse it with the immune system. Before we carry on with our subject, let us take a brief look at the differences between the healing system and the immune system. The immune system focuses largely on attacking and protecting your body from foreign invaders. And the healing system focuses more on healing, growth, regeneration, restoration of function, and maintaining health. Your healing system and immune system work together and cooperate with each other to keep you healthy. For example, if your body has sustained damage from an infection your healing system will work side by side to repair the damage as they fight against, neutralize, and remove the infectious agents to prevent further damage to your body. Your immune system will attack the infection that caused the problem, and your healing system will actually repair the damage the infection caused to your body.
Understanding how your healing system functions require a different way of thinking about how your body works. Thinking in terms of energy does not ignore or nullify the existence of certain structures within your body, rather, this view gives you a deeper look into the dynamic forces that govern your health. When these dynamic forces become unbalanced, you can easily see how problems that create illnesses and diseases in you body arise. Armed with this knowledge and insight, you will be able to more effectively remedy thee problems by working with, rather than against, your healing system.
Consider sneezing, for example. We usually think of sneezing as a symptom of the common cold, or the beginning of an allergy. In reality, sneezing is a normal healing-system, and helps the pathogens, rid the body of disease, and help the body maintain its integrity. Sneezing also is a protective mechanism that helps to prevent the further advance of unwanted foreign invaders into the deeper, more delicate structures of the respiratory system, such as our lungs and sinuses, and is another common way that our healing systems safeguard our health. Most people, including doctors, often confuse many other healing responses with symptoms of a disease. Following is a list that is worthwhile to have a look at:
Coughing
Diarrhea
Fainting
Fever
Nausea
Pus
Runny nose and nasal congestion
Swelling and redness
Tearing of the eyes
Vomiting
Although this is only examples, it is always advisable to consult a medical practitioner. Feel free to discuss the body's healing system with him.
You can start today with the following easy steps: Shift your awareness away from your symptoms, your discomfort, and your thoughts of an illness or allergy, even if this are real problems for you. Instead, trust that your healing system is making necessary physiological adjustment to correct imbalances and restore your body to its natural state of health. Focus less on disease and more on health.