by Toni McKilligan

Created on: June 09, 2008

Injury and disease are often viewed as being separate from us, as things that happen to us, but are not ours and do not belong to us. The pain and physical changes that accompany them are seen as unnatural. We just want them to go away and so we resist them.

Whenever an injury or illness strikes, however, it is a sign of imbalance within the holistic system that comprises our Being. Looking at them and the pain that comes with them not as foreign invaders, but rather as messages pointing us to what we really need changes them drastically. Instead of fighting a cold or battling cancer, we might want to pay closer attention to the deeper meaning behind them.

Our bodies are complex systems made up of trillions of individual cells, each one with a specific job. The individual cells work in teams (organs, bones, tissues, etc.). They also work in absolute cooperation with all the other teams and the teams work together to keep the whole unit functioning. That is the physical level of existence. Besides the physical, there are the emotional, mental and spiritual aspects to be considered. These may not be tangible matter, but without them the physical system cannot be sustained.

When all four aspects of Being are not cared for and kept in balance, the whole system starts to break down. It may not be detected at the spiritual level, but that is usually where imbalance begins. From there the domino effect transpires and mental and emotional issues start to surface. If they are ignored, the physical Being eventually becomes involved and the result is often disease and even injury. That's usually when we sit up and take notice.
That's also when we dash off to the doctor who addresses the symptoms of the physical condition, but often fails to even acknowledge the imbalance of the other three equally important aspects of Being. Of course, allopathic medicine is indeed helpful and often necessary (particularly in the case of injury). It seeks to cure, but not necessarily to heal. And sometimes in the course of curing one thing, another thing is instigated. Thankfully, science is beginning to see the incongruity of its approach to medical treatment of both injury and disease.

In recent years, alternative healing methods have been worming their way back out of obscurity and are now taking their rightful places next to allopathic treatments for what ails us. More and more traditional allopathic physicians are recognising, if not practicing themselves, homeopathy, Chinese and Ayurvedic

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