The need these days is to pay attention to becoming the best that you can.  We must no longer blindly follow the dictates of those wish to be known as a sort of 'Medical Deity', rather we must by necessity take charge of our own health and be responsible for the inside and outside.

Doctors and others can heap, but we must, as adults, be self-responsible.

John Robbins talks about healing in his book Reclaiming Our Health and I would like to quote a bit of it here so you can see more clearly where my own opinion lies in this matter.

"Healing has to do with your experience of yourself and your experience of life. Even if you do not recover physically, it is possible to find renewed meaning in your unique journey, to move into greater wholeness and fulfillment.   Whether or not your health is restored, it is possible to develop greater appreciation for the value of what is emerging in your life-adventure and to gain better clarity about what is important to you.

Illness, even terminal illness, can be an opportunity for healing.

Everybody has the capacity for healing, though it means different things to different people at different times.  For some it involves increasing self acceptance, and as awareness that, given the limitations of their lives, they still have a contribution to make.  For others, healing means taking more responsibility for their lives, giving up self-destructive habits, and making more life affirming choices.   For others, it may involve coming to terms with a sense of loss or frustration, and allowing new life to awaken in its time."

I was born with a hip socket that was not formed properly to cup the head of the femur, so during puberty, my hip would partially dislocate and I would experience intense pain.  I was the second person in the United States to have hip replacement surgery only mine involved bone graphs to repair the gap where the socket was to be whole.  Unfortunately, the doctor overcorrected, so I was told early that people with chronic hips, had chronic backs and that I would be in a wheel chair by the time I was 20.  This messed up my dancing career and my schooling too.  However, I was not in the wheelchair until after my third child was born and then I only stayed for a couple of months until I decided that one cannot clean a bathtub easily from a wheelchair, nor chase after 3 active children.  My healing was in not taking the easy way out that my body offered, but standing and walking and living each day doing the best that I could do.  Now some 22 years later, I am still free of the wheelchair, even tho' I do depend on a cane to get around.  I describe myself as very healthy...and seldom have a cold or infection.  Healing professionals have a great responsibility to not program negative results, such as wheelchairs, but we as individuals have an even greater responsibility to take charge of our own health.

My path led me to be trained in various forms of healing
and day by day I heal to the wholeness of me. 

In Health,