I’m Peter Winslow, a life coach in general practice. In
our last post we discussed stress as a leading indicator for the mind-body
connection. Now, let’s use this awareness to better utilize optimal healing.
Your body is predesigned to heal itself from illness and
dis-ease. It contains a complex healing system whose purpose is to keep you in
constant balance. This healing system continually guides you toward optimal
function, proper repair and rejuvenation, no matter the circumstances in your
body.
For example, when you slice your finger, you can observe
as the wound heals itself without you having to think about it. It’s a routine
process for the healing system in the body. The incredible healing system is
always on the job, working tirelessly to mend your body regardless of whether
or not you know how it works, or undergo medical treatment.
A basic survival tool, the mechanism we think of as
“healing” is found in every life form on Earth, including plants and animals. By
understanding the healing system from a different perspective, you can grasp a
more complete image of what true and total healing really is. How?
Suspend ignorance and disbelief, expand your curiosity and
think of the healing system within your body as a type of higher consciousness.
It’s an inner awareness that operates on its own, constantly watching over you
and seeking to fulfill its function for better health and wellbeing.
This healing “inner awareness” is the spirit that commands
an incredibly complicated interaction of the physical and subtle energy systems
in your body that maintain delicate relationships with each other and must work
together for the greater good of the organism—you.
Now let’s get some real mileage out of this. Your role in
directing the mind-body connection for greater healing results is simply to
decide what outcome you choose to experience. Then commit to believing and
behaving in your chosen outcome, and watch with confidence as the inner
awareness of the body follows the mind to positive results.
Consider this quote from Norman Cousins, the celebrated
newspaper columnist who completely healed himself from a medically incurable
condition called Ankylosing Spondylitis: “The personal belief system is often
the activator for the healing system.”
You better believe it.
–Peter Winslow
