Blind Freddy

Why don't we recognise our own natural ability to heal?

I’ve just come back from walking our two very pushy dogs up (and down) a largish hill. Probably a kilometre or so. Not very far. But for someone who was in a wheelchair on oxygen just a few years ago, it is a great feat.

Fortunately, when the odds looked very dismal, someone believed in me and showed me how to heal. Physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. Helping me to engage my own innate healing abilities alongside good medical help.

It’s a strange thing when I work or talk with people that we don’t recognise our own inbuilt abilities to heal. After all, we recognise our ability to read, to write, to walk, to dance and to breathe. But we often don’t recognise our ability to heal - in fact we are conditioned to see ourselves as ‘broken’ and needing outside help. To look outside of ourselves and rely on others to fix us.

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But so much help can be found on the inside.

Much of my work is about helping people to remember how to heal emotionally. And this supports our physical and mental health too. A long forgotten gift of emotional healing, that often happens quietly while we sleep. Grossly overlooked in its potential to contribute to health and wellbeing in the fast pace of the modern day left brained, material, “pill for every ill” based world.

And while there is much benefit in left brain, material and appropriate medication, how much more benefit might there be if we also engaged the right brain, immaterial and innate healing capacities?

It’s not about making one wrong, it’s about making both right.

Take the placebo effect for example.

Why are we taught to malign this incredible ability to allow our mind to support our healing?

Not only is our mind important in our healing, our brain actually creates metabolic and immunological effects in response to an appropriate therapeutic interaction, a quality relationship between therapist and patient. Now who wouldn’t want that!

This is a gem of a short video explaining the importance of the mind in healing…

https://www.britannica.com/video/180082/Overview-placebo-effect

A quality therapeutic relationship.

Activating the body’s very own pharmacy.

It should be a cornerstone of every good medical treatment.

And that’s what good therapy is all about… helping a person to activate their own internal healing abilities as part of an integrated approach to recovering physical, mental and emotional health alongside the inner spark.

Looking back on my time in a wheelchair, I am grateful someone believed in me, and taught me to believe in myself. It is such a privilege to be able to hold that same space for others.

And while P.S.H. doesn’t ‘work’ or ‘fix’ anyone or any thing, it is a simple and elegant approach that can remind people how to engage with their innate abilities and contribute to their own healing.

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