I see it all the time. You have a chronic disorder like diabetes, cancer, arthritis, cardiovascular or auto-immune disease. Doctors only manage disease, so you decide to investigate alternatives and fix it yourself. You might have a session or two of acupuncture, Reiki, or aromatherapy. Fix yourself a colourful salad, purchase the latest fad supplement, invest in a juicer and start bouncing in the garden, trying not to land, head-first, into the ornamental fish pond. Nothing works.
Why? It’s easy to blame a therapy or therapist but the most common reason for failure is because you are practicing ‘Water Pistol Medicine’. What do I mean? Imagine your house is on fire. You call the Fire Department in a panic. Minutes later, you are relieved to hear the sound of the siren, only to look on in disbelief as the fireman leaps out of the truck holding only a water pistol. Your house burns down. Now, apply the same approach to your health. Your body is sick. You buy an over-the-counter supplement and follow the directions. You don’t improve. Deflated, you conclude supplements are ‘useless’ and purveyors ‘quacks’. They aren’t really. You've just been squirting a water pistol on a house fire. Let’s change the scenario. You call the Fire Department and the fire truck arrives. This time they attack the fire from all sides, with 10 hoses, aggressively and continuously, so there is no chance of the fire re-igniting. They save the house. What do you think will happen to your disorder if you do the same? Attack your disease ‘fire’ with multiple alternative ‘hoses’... cellular and regenerative detox, massage, sauna, herbs, hydrotherapy, emotional and psychological healing, exercise, acupuncture (or other ‘energy’ medicine) and flood the body with nutrients. What if you also resolved toxic relationships, found the money to pay your bills, escaped back to nature, learned to relax, and de-stressed? Wouldn't all that have a better chance of extinguishing your disease ‘fire’? You bet. Now you may not be able to afford all those different therapies, have the time, or know exactly which therapies to have in your healing toolbox. But at least you now know why you haven’t been getting anywhere. You've been trying to extinguish a raging inferno with a water pistol. Be well. Paul |
AUTHORPaul Keenan, Health & Wellness Consultant ARCHIVES
November 2018
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