21 May Why Your Symptoms Are a Message: Moving Beyond Over-Diagnosis to True Healing
Have you fallen into the trap of endlessly searching your physical symptoms online, wondering, “What is wrong with me?”
In our modern culture, we are trained to gather our symptoms, organise them into neat little disorders or diseases, and leave them there. We climb inside a medical definition and sit there, feeling powerless to change. But what if your symptoms aren’t a life sentence? What if they are actually a call to wake up?
True healing doesn’t happen when we define ourselves by a diagnosis. It begins when we recognise that our bodies, minds, and spirits are constantly communicating with us.
The Trap of Over-Diagnosis and Labeling
It has been my experience that over-diagnosis and over-prescribing may be the single most counter-productive and disempowering paradigm we experience. It tells you, by definition, that you are something or have something, and therefore should expect an associated negative outcome.
As a culture, we have arrived at a place where we anticipate or depend on something being wrong with us. But human souls cannot be pigeon-holed.
There is no evidence that defining a person by their diagnosis or prognosis is at all helpful or aids in their healing. I see clients who have, in the past, climbed inside definitions and unhappily sat there, powerless to change. It is my view this needs to be Let Go of before any healing or movement is possible long-term.
What is Evolved Psychology?
This is the domain of Evolved Psychology, Holistic Healing, and Therapeutic Hypnosis.
Psychology defined is: the study of the personification of the soul. I suggest we do exactly that.
What if the symptoms are simply messages your body or mind are sending you in order to change something you are thinking or feeling? And, what if, when you listen to these messages, the symptom changes, subsides, or disappears?
Sometimes we need the opportunity and freedom to allow and experience our symptoms, not mask or block them with prescription drugs. Antibiotics (literally meaning “anti-life”) are a simple yet epidemic example of this masking culture.
A Secret from a Chinese Medical Doctor
Many years ago I saw a Chinese Doctor who treated only by feeling your pulses, examining your tongue, and asking a hundred questions. He only prescribed Chinese medicine in capsules he had refined. He knew of my work, and exposed a secret.
A large part of his practice was treating doctors of western medicine, heads of medical faculties, and drug research and development companies. He successfully treated and healed their arthritis, heart disease, and cancers.
When I asked why they didn’t change their own modality and medical teachings, he just laughed and said, “Then, what would they do? What would everyone do?”
Shifting Our Focus to Wellness and Energetics
Either as an individual or as a culture, if you invest in dis-ease and that’s your focus, then that is precisely what you’ll get. This is a huge industry, a way of life, and for many, their livelihood.
What if our focus were to shift to being well, feeling, reacting, and responding well? Rather than starting at what is wrong with us and working backward. What if we recognised that there are energetics at play, spirit to acknowledge, and karma to work through?
In my journey, I studied further, leading me to the transformative work of:
- Dr. Wayne Dyer – Real Magic
- Dr. Michel Odent – On Birth
- Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross – On Death and Dying
I decided all that was wrong with us was that we were looking in the wrong places, asking the wrong questions, listening to too many test results, taking too many prescription drugs, and eating the wrong foods – then trying to repair irreparable damage.
The Science of the Mind-Body Connection
One anecdote of the hundreds I can share opened my eyes and my heart twenty-five years ago.
When I lived in New York, AIDS was at its most terrifying and misunderstood. Its very idea terrorised society. There were clinics testing blood, tears, sweat, and saliva, and linking the results to the patients’ T-cell count.
The findings were astonishing. Tears of joy, pain, and grief all tested differently – and so did everything else. The physical results changed accordingly. The body was sending direct cellular messages based on emotion, yet little or no medical research was done into this.
We wait until something is wrong with us, until the immune system is in a dangerous deficit, energy ceases to circulate freely, nurture and nourishment through the digestive tract is disallowed, or the heart is broken. Then, we finally act or seek help.
Stop Waiting Until Something is Wrong
What if, moving forward, we didn’t wait until something was wrong?
Instead, what if we Tuned In to the messages our mind, body, energy, and life are sending us, every minute of every day?
Try it and see.
Take the First Step to Tuning In
If you are ready to stop managing symptoms and start listening to your body’s true wisdom, begin by calming your nervous system today with our free 7-minute hypnotic audio, available here.
If you are ready to dive deeper and completely master your internal world, explore our online course.
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