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What is HEALING to you?
Finish this sentence. . .
HEALING is ________. People heal me with/when_____________. I want to see __________ in mainstream medical care.
Feel free to include an example of your uncommon path to wholeness or how you helped someone become healed.
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Bruce Hopkins
"No single therapeutic agent can be compared in efficiency with this familiar but perfect tool...the human hand. If half as much research had been expended on the principles governing manual treatment as upon pharmacology, the hand would be esteemed today on a par with drugs in acceptability and power.
J. Madison Taylor, M.D. 1908"
Debra Smith 200+
So to complete the task:
HEALING is being touched by caring people. People heal me with/when they engage me and touch me on the arm, the back or in medical systems touch me beyond just examining the broken parts of me. I want to see eye contact and acknowledgement that we are people in mainstream medical care.
PS. I do know something of what I am talking about as a person who survived cancer surgery.
douglas macrae smith
I feel much better when I am able to embrace life/death fully.
Bruce Hopkins
I am an oncology massage therapist. I have been privileged to walk down the final road with numerous patients who healed as they were dying of their disease.
Some heal along the road, some at the last moment, some, never. This healing is primarily characterized by total acceptance and all-encompassing love. It is often manifested by a radiant presence.
I have been transformed by what I have witnessed.
Autumn Frisco 10+
People heal me when they share what they are passionate about.
I want to see engaged patients in mainstream medical care
I want to hear patient's stories.
I want patients to stand in their truth and make conscious decisions regarding their health.
Benny boy
healed alot of wounds for me.
also everyone is doing everything for themselves.
Deepak --
Healing works many-times by sharing as well, sharing your pain, happiness for simply the joy and comfort of knowing that one is not alone. This word does not have to mean that a person is healed from negative to positive, but a person can also be healed by simply exploring their surroundings and finding that there's much much more to be understand and learn.
Autumn Frisco 10+
Christophe Cop 500+
Every method that really works, becomes regular medicine.
That does not mean that all accepted methods are properly applied though.
Autumn Frisco 10+
quote:That does not mean that all accepted methods are properly applied though.
Sometimes a good method is applied too much, too long and too hard to allow the body to heal itself. There needs to be a balance.
Christophe Cop 500+
Nature can make us seriously ill, so I would not rely on Florence's wisdom when I'm Ill, I would go see a doctor. (though I do have a lot of respect for her contributions to society, I think you should be careful not to romanticize her opinions)
Autumn Frisco 10+
Medicine can only do so much, if a patient is not attended to, if their mental state and llifestyle not addressed- the patient will be in a cycle of damaging the body to correct something else- with chronic conditions at least. Medicine can also make you seriously ill, it is about becoming aware of your own self and knowing what is right for you and when.
Gisela McKay 30+
I want to know how to get into the first category, because I think the mind is far more influential that any of us really know.
I think part of that is understanding why your sort dies, and in particular how you parse things like this study http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-08/uoia-bhn080609.php where the placebo had a 63% efficacy.
I understand that for people like you "placebo effect" is sematically equivalent to "does not work", whereas I want to know how those people - through only the power of belief in the action of taking the pill (but clearly not in taking a capsule with visible herbs to the same extent) - managed to effect the physical changes required.
In my universe, harnessing that power and consciously directing it to solve issues *where possible* (preferably without the actual placebo) has value. You would rather have the pill, regardless of potential side effects. Why?
EDIT: Actually, I am going to reword this and start a new thread.
Scott Armstrong 50+
Physical touch - it's the proof we're not alone.
Autumn Frisco 10+
It's definatley important to have both!!
Silvia Marinova 20+
People heal me with goodness in their heart.
I want to see more humanity in the mainstream medical care ... somehow we forgot that there are people who are being treated and the doctors act like machines towards other machines: if it doesn't function why bother?
Autumn Frisco 10+
Yes, as a whole there is a shift from real patient-centered care to illness centered care right?
Simon Sinek has a TEDx talk on youtube "first why and then trust" and if you what it I think that the problem in medicine is the split that he talks about- and I believe there is hope to find our way back to the person- I actually believe that is the only answer to the future of healthcare
Silvia Marinova 20+
Pain induces anger, distrust, rage even and I believe the world is a better place without those things so it's good to have a way of getting rid of them.
Patient centered healthcare is very important because each individual is unique (or at least we like to think we are?) and being so different things help. But you know for me there are two universal healers: LAUGHTER and MUSIC.
Autumn Frisco 10+
Silvia, I am going to prescribe you go out with some good friends and see some live music this weekend. If you are still having troubles, I will be here next week!
Sometimes I guess we are our own Dr's in this way. Letting go of our to do list and feeding the soul instead.
Silvia Marinova 20+
lynn eschbach 30+
Autumn Frisco 10+