![]() None of us can truly imagine a world without medicine, because medicine has been helping to improve our world and our quality of life for well over a century. Not to mention the two times I had pneumonia before that, as an infant and again at three-years-old. These saved my foot, and possibly my life, when I was four and developed an infection from stepping on a broken soda bottle. We had antibiotics if we developed a bacterial infection. We couldn’t go to school without them, in order to protect each other and those whose immune system might not be able to respond as well to the vaccines. Myself and all the children my age benefitted from the available vaccines for polio, smallpox, measles, and mumps. It was pretty common to see lots of different children who had to live short and painful lives due to conditions that can be prevented or treated now. Being an older person, I went to school with people who were disabled because of things that there was no vaccine for, or no medical treatment for yet. You know, once I did this, I began to realize that there is no way I can ever say that I reject doctors or medicine. Using the Reiki principles, I worked with my anger, my fear & worry about doctors, and I was very honest with myself. And even though I justified this by telling myself that it was less than I had needed in years past, I still very much needed the medication in order to function. All those years, I had still required a pill every day to control seizures. I had been fooling myself with my trauma and anger, and once I saw that, the scaffolding of my self-righteousness began to crumble away. Slowly, it dawned on me that it wasn’t really true – I didn’t have to choose between medical care and supportive practices like Reiki. I was actually becoming very UN-healthy through this thought process. I told myself I could do it on my own, if I just ate right, meditated enough, did enough yoga, enough self-Reiki. I think there are many of you out there who can relate to this. I was sure that the medical community was bad and that I had to choose one side or the other. I used that anger to justify my position and to remain self-righteous about using only alternative methods. ![]() On a mental and spiritual level, I was blind to how much anger and resentment I carried. My chronic health conditions worsened, I ignored new issues that may have received better care if treated sooner and remained ignorant of treatment options for a longstanding illness that kept me sick no matter how healthy I ate, how much meditation and yoga I did, or how much Reiki I practiced. ![]() In fact, I can honestly say that a few of the doctors I have encountered were actually abusive and traumatizing.Īnd yet, as I began healing those wounds, I saw that I had only been punishing myself by pushing the medical community away, refusing to go to the doctor for preventative care or treatment. Some of the situations, procedures, and doctors I dealt with over the years were beyond unpleasant. I have spent much of my life facing health challenges and, of course, those were not easy to deal with. It took me many years of healing work within myself to realize that this was trauma in me that needed my care and attention. I admit, I have bought into this mental divide myself, feeling a huge pushback against a medical system I felt had been cold-hearted and had let me down at times. Although it has its flaws, and those practicing it are human beings with healing needs themselves, we have all needed help from medicine, and we all know family and friends who have as well.
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