TO YOUR HEALTH
Medicine published research on the impact of emotional well-being on long-term recovery and survival in physical illness). They’re a part of your rebalancing, healing, and life moving forward. A good holistic approach will address all relevant facets or combine various healing modalities and approaches. Contrast this with conventional medicine, which is hyper-focused on the body, bodily systems, and what’s physically wrong. This Carte - sian approach is similar to auto mechanics: find the part that’s broken and fix it. When conventional medical practitioners focus on the phys - ical, they ought to integrate their advice and treatments with holistic modalities to provide important complementarities; but they typically don’t. If your healthcare provider doesn’t do this, do it yourself. Find oth - er practitioners who can provide complementary and supportive ser- vices you personally consider relevant to the type of care you want and deem essential to your recovery. The process can take time. Still, if you remain curious and engaged, you’ll learn a great deal about yourself and about a wider range of care options in general. This is an excellent investment in your future well-being. 2. You Know Yourself Better Than Your Doctor Does Standard super-quick (five-minute) consultations ignore or down - play significant parts of patients’ stories that reveal what makes them unique and how equipped they are to shepherd their own healing pro- cess. Don’t fall into this information void. Instead, fill the gap yourself. Learn more about your condition, the causes, bodily processes in- volved, signs and symptoms, and various types of treatments available. Educate yourself on and understand how conventional and alternative modalities could work for you. This deeper and broader knowledge will enable you to articulate your pertinent questions and challenge
practitioners’ views when appropriate. In addition, you’ll be able to glean more from medical diagnoses, doctor opinions, and test results. Now that medical reports are stored online, you can access them and use the internet to decipher your records and test results. Being more informed means you can make better decisions. And your caregivers and healthcare providers will undoubtedly gain great- er insight into your needs and desires. Educating yourself is worth the time investment. 3. Healing Is A Journey – There Are No Magic Bullets If you’re like so many others, you look for magic bullets. They’re quick, easy, and final. Unfortunately, there’s rarely, if ever, a magic bullet for what ails you. In reality, healing is a journey or a process that reestablishes bal - ance, a holistic balance, meaning on a physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and energetic level; and this balance is dynamic. Your job is to be personally aware so when you shift out of balance, you can quick- ly regain your equilibrium. In a practical sense, you may submit to a specific treatment to introduce change (e.g., undergo surgery or chemotherapy). Howev - er, your various systems will still be tasked to bring about significant change in order to rebalance and heal; and you have to support that process yourself. 4. By Definition, Healing Implies Change, and Typically Be - havior Change More often than not, recovery without relapse necessitates behav - ior change. Findings published in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine support this. Allergies are common issues and illustrate this
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