It is important that you learn to understand your body; learn to appreciate your own self-healing skills; learn to acknowledge your body’s miraculous range of techniques for dealing with threats and diseases; and learn to know when your body can look after itself – and when you need professional help.
The big trouble with most health care professionals – and this includes acupuncturists, osteopaths, aromatherapists and all other “alternative” practitioners, as well as orthodox doctors – is that they tend to treat their patients as battle grounds, the illness as an enemy and their own armoury of drugs or techniques as weapons with which to fight the illness.
Whether he sticks needles into you, gives you herbal tea to drink or prescribes a drug for you to swallow, the therapist has to do something to you, or give you something to take, to justify his fee.
The evidence to show that this interventionist philosophy is wrong is incontrovertible. When you fall ill, you do not necessarily need to have anything done to you. Your body is equipped with such an enormous range of subtle and sophisticated feedback mechanisms that it can look after itself very well.
Your body can heal itself, protect itself and guard itself against a thousand different types of threat.
Your body contains internal mechanisms designed to deal automatically with minor damage, improve your eyesight, keep out the cold, deal with anxiety and even help fight against diseases as threatening as cancer.
Your internal appetite control centre can ensure that you eat only the foods that your body needs – and it can help make sure that you never become overweight.
Your body’s internal pain-relieving hormones are as powerful as morphine – but you have to know how to take advantage of those pain-relieving hormones.
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