What do you do when you receive a negative diagnosis from your doctor? When that happened, I learned a difficult lesson: instead of focusing on your problem, learn to focus on your solution. Within every person is a wisdom that can provide practical solutions to much of our problems. This solution isn't found in the thinking mind, where I looked, it was found in the silence beyond thoughts and beliefs, in what I called the Wisdom of the Body. Your body knows the right food you need, the best way to eat and how to exercise. Because of this inner knowledge, when you hear it from professionals it feels right and there is a natural motivation to do the right thing. This inner wisdom makes you a perfect partner with your medical team, utilizing inner resources to compliment external resources like medicine and physical therapy. Accepting inner wisdom does not make you passive. Passivity comes from the way we have been programmed to think and accepting inner wisdom frees you from them. Once you are free from learned limitations, wisdom expresses your best qualities. Dealing with a Health Crisis When you deal with a health crisis you participate in healing with powerful inner resources instead of anxious thinking. Basically, your expressions come from a deeper wisdom than your thinking and conditioned mind. Everything that comes to you from external authorities requires inner resources to make it work for you at its potential. The Wisdom of the Body exists beyond our thinking mind. Our conditioned behavior and thoughts too often creates resistance and inhibits our healing potential. When inner and outer resources work as partners the best healing takes place. Doctors and medical professionals have gone to school for years to learn their profession, but the Wisdom of your Body has been developed over millions of years. Now it is time for your mind to learn how to best use your inner and outer resources. Don't ignore this amazing resource within your self; become an active participant in your healing process. Of course you can misread your inner wisdom and respond to your medical team from a conceptual level. The humility that brings correction is another aspect of inner wisdom and needs to be accepted without egotistical preferences. Healing is in itself a spiritual experience, for it forces you to a depth where inner wisdom responds instead of your conditioned habits and it requires the humility that allows corrections to happen. Another major mistake in being newly diagnosed is to compare one's self to other people. Your focus has to be how "I" am going to meet my challenges. Look within for those resources and don't base your response on the statistic reports of people that went before you. Every diagnosis is a personal journey into the unknown. It is a challenge for you to connect to inner resources you may have not been previously familiar with. Now with the health challenge before you, accepting new inner resources is natural. The threat of illness forces you to become more powerful than you may have ever been before. The healing process transforms you into a better person, but there is one very important thing" ?you have to be willing to change. Approach a new diagnosis with this attitude and not only will you heal better you will transform your character in the process. Copyright 2005 Marc A Lerner |
