What is Self-Healing?
A Holistic Approach to Life and Freedom
Our bodies are magnificent self-healing organisms fully equipped to return to our natural state of homeostasis, when we let them. Health and harmony is our natural state of being, and our bodies are always working around the clock to create this.
In our modern culture, we are often taught to seek solutions outside ourselves to answers our problems. Western medicine has a tendency to approach health issues as inherent, unchangeable faults of the body itself, that can only be controlled or managed at best.
But in reality, physical symptoms are not the actual problem itself, only a reflection of a deeper root. They are indicators that some action we are taking in our daily life is disconnected from our bodies’ intuitive wisdom, throwing off our natural state of balance, and then manifesting as a physical symptom.
In a culture where so many are chronically ill, it can be hard to believe that health is our natural state of being. But this widespread sickness is not natural. It is a reflection of our collective disconnection from nature, in a society which tends to ignore and erase our bodies’ alignment with nature’s cycles and rhythms.
Times are changing rapidly now—we are remembering our bodies are a part of nature, not separate from her. Our health depends on her health, and vice versa. We can re-align our bodies with the cycles and rhythm of nature to come back to our true nature, our true state of health.
In this approach to healing, we address the root cause of why a physical symptom is occurring in the first place, and treat it at that level. When we remove the action which causes the imbalance, the body will often come back to a place of health and balance of on its’ own.
We also apply supportive actions from outside the body to accelerate the body’s natural process of healing itself. This including supportive foods, herbs, breathwork, movement, yoga, lifestyle, and self-care such as self-massage and practices to get a quality nights sleep.
Self-healing is a practice, a lived experience that encourages you to trust your direct experience and reconnect to your body’s intuitive power. It refers to both your bodies’ innate ability to heal itself, and the supportive rituals you can weave into your daily life that accelerate and stabilize this process toward health.
SELF REFLECTION JOURNAL PROMPTS:
What is your relationship to the innate wisdom of your body?
How do you relate to your bodies’ ability to heal itself?
What actions, routines, or rituals can you incorporate into your life to support your body in doing its’ job?
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