Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye,
while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next
year.
~ Horace


Healing:

Typically, when we think of healing our first thoughts turn to the
physical. However health and the healing process are multi-lateral.
We are all comprised of several "bodies", the mental, emotional,
spiritual, as well as the physical. Although we tend to view them as
separate, they are intimately connected affecting each other. Have
you ever noticed how when we have a headache, we tend to reach for
the aspirin bottle to "cure" it, without addressing the true cause?
The end result is that we get recurring headaches; many times they
grow progressively worse. By treating the symptom we didn't cure the
cause. This happens in other areas also. When we seek to push away
emotional pain, or comfort ourselves with entertainment or substances
at the expense of addressing the cause of our pain, the pain
continues to return.

True healing is empowering. It calls us to take responsibility for
our lives, to address the source(s) of our pain on all levels so that
we might permanently heal the cause, and not merely chase the
symptoms. Recurring symptoms are merely warning signs that there is
a larger problem for us to address. When we continually fight
symptoms without addressing the root cause, we become tired, we feel
chronically "ill", our thoughts can become cloudy, we may begin to
feel disconnected spiritually, and any number of additional symptoms
that tell us something is amiss and needs to be addressed.

The beauty of multi-lateral health is that anything you do to enhance
your health in one area, will also affect the others. This in turn
provides the incentive to keep going forward on a path to
wholeness. Every day, do at least one health-conscious activity and
notice how it affects your overall sense of well-being.