Preconditions Necessary For Healing An Illness
Your body’s healing power is always present within you—the conscious being who uses the physical
body as an instrument to express his/her individuality and purpose. True healing, which has nothing to do
with suppressing symptoms of disease, cannot be enforced by even the best of treatments unless the
preconditions for healing are already in place. The following are some of the most important clues about
how this healing power can become activated in you:
Before you can heal an illness, you have to accept it. Acceptance of your illness is not a sign of
resignation or passiveness that would just result in depression and fear. Acceptance of your illness rather
shows that you are willing to take responsibility for yourself and your situation. This will help you infuse
your body with feelings of compassion, love, tenderness and energy. Accepting what is will allow your
own healing energies to stream into your body and provide it with the calm, relaxed state it requires to
return to a balanced condition (equilibrium).
For as long as you feel you are a victim of some misfortune, food, medicine, or even karma (effect of
past actions), you are far from being healed. Rejecting an illness only energizes your resistance to it,
which is stressful for the body and mind and puts all the cells of your body into a mode of self-defense.
Stress undermines immune functions and prevents the healing response. By accepting your illness, you
are no longer subjected to fear and insecurity but in control of yourself. This will also help you to
understand the true reasons behind your illness.
Instead of seeing an illness as a negative event that you need to fight against, you will need to
perceive it as an opportunity to become stronger in areas that have been weak and underdeveloped.
“Detours” can lead you into important areas that you would otherwise miss out on. Rejecting or fighting
disease also repels the opportunities that disease always brings along. Since disease has no power or
agenda except to heal your body and mind, it is wise to work with the illness, not against it.
Physical healing involves repair of damaged cells and growth of new ones. At the same time, while
undergoing the process of healing, you have the opportunity to grow stronger, become more relaxed,
peaceful, and content. Growing spiritually and emotionally as a result of an illness greatly minimizes the
necessity for further detours, such as repeated or new physical disorders.
Since your illness is only your body's attempt to redirect your life in a more supportive and fulfilling
direction, there is no reason to fear it or to be upset about it. Your body is doing the very best it can to
make it easier for you and help you return to a state of balance. Therefore, you may greatly benefit from
not judging yourself or your body for going through such a healing crisis. You are certainly not a victim
of some kind. Your body is totally on your side, never against you. Make your body your friend and stop
treating it as an enemy.
Don’t be fooled by the medical concept that there are autoimmune diseases which supposedly make
the body attack itself! By design, the body is not suicidal unless you are (consciously or unconsciously).
Instead, the body is merely attacking toxins that have settled in the joints, blood vessels, lymph ducts, or
cells. The resulting inflammation merely is a survival response and should not be mistaken for a disease,
even if it involves pain, infection or proliferation of cancer cells.
Remain positive and peaceful about your own healing ability, and trust that the body is always engaged
in trying to make you well again. Your illness can be your personal guide for a new purpose or orientation
in life. A wise man once said. “Illness is God's way of getting your attention!” Once you pay attention to
your illness and accept it as a blessing in disguise rather than a nuisance or threat, it will reveal its
inherent blessing to you and surely help you live your life in a gentler, more nurturing way.