TO YOUR HEALTH
You Can Heal Yourself: 7 Ways to Take Charge and Do It Your Way
BY PATRICIA BONNARD
This oversight, unfortunately, can lead to suboptimal care as well as delayed or incomplete recovery. Both are outcomes few people want to experience for themselves, although so many do. Perhaps you’ve had or are currently having this experience yourself. 7 Ways To Take Charge And Do It Your Way Consider embracing a whole new strategy. Each of the following seven points reveals an approach, rather than a specific choice of care. Taken collectively, they will increase your confidence and self-reli - ance, and prepare you to make decisions and plans based on your own personal preferences and level of tolerance. This new mindset will support you no matter whether you choose conventional or uncon- ventional care and treatments. So, take charge. By adopting these seven ways, you can heal your- self — because how you choose to participate in your own healing de- termines how you progress on your road to full recovery. 1. You Are More Than Your Physical Body – Wellness Is Ho- listic This can’t be stressed enough. You are a holistic and integrated be - ing. That is to say the emotional, mental, spiritual, and energetic are also important. In fact, all issues and complaints have multiple sides or facets. Furthermore, these facets influence your physical expres - sion, i.e., your physical health. Don’t ignore them. More concretely, this means your emotional state and your beliefs about your ability to heal are significant (the Journal of Behavioral
You can heal yourself. In fact, patient-centered self-healing is the foundation of many an - cient and modern holistic health and wellness modalities. Although shamans and traditional medicine women and men provided their assistance, people still ultimately had to heal themselves. Of course, some people bounced back, while others recuperated slowly or never fully recovered. Although the numbers are still relatively small, some conventional practitioners within the medical and broader wellness communities have observed the benefits of patient centrality as well (there is good research available from the National Institutes of Health and reported in Harvard Business Review.) So how can you help yourself heal? To start, get clear on what healing really is. According to the Mer - riam-Webster dictionary, healing is simply the process of becoming sound, healthy, and well again; or, it is additionally defined as the res - toration “to original purity or integrity”. Then, get beyond convention- al thinking. Let’s set the record straight. First of all, conventional medical and scientific literature can teach you a lot about the many factors that contribute to the rate and quali- ty of patient recovery. And, secondly, conventional practitioners (e.g. medical specialists) offer many life-saving services. However, they often ignore or downplay the importance of patient behavior, prefer- ence, and mental/emotional status. In other words, they underesti - mate the role patients play in their own process and recovery.
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