Metaphysical Healing verses Modern Medicine – Part I of III

To truly understand the ideology of Modern Medicine, you need to examine the language used by doctors and researchers. Their choice of words reveals their belief systems and the models they use to understand the way they think medicine works.  When observing the state of Modern Medicine and the unprecedented influence of pharmaceuticals, an interesting paradox arises.

The drug companies claim that pharmaceuticals can do wonders for people: lower cholesterol, end clinical depression, reverse osteoporosis, eliminate allergies, calm children and many other similar promises. If prescription drugs are so good for people, where are all the healthy medicated customers? The truth is, there aren’t any. There’s nobody taking twelve prescriptions with a clean bill of health. In fact, the more prescriptions a person takes, the worse their overall health. And if you approach the healthiest people you can find in a local fitness center and ask what prescription drugs they’re taking in order to be so healthy, they’ll give you a confused look: They don’t take prescription drugs!

This sort of language is not uncommon from researchers in Modern Medicine. They perceive the human body as a battleground on which wars are waged against invaders (viruses, bacterial infections and tumors). What they fail to realize is that diseases are not separate from the person. In fact every disease can be more accurately called an expression of the patient’s lifestyle, beliefs, and energies. Cancer is not a tumor, for example: it is a systemic disorder that can only truly be cured by helping to support the body, not by attacking it with chemical bombs or knives. The tumor is merely one physical expression of the systemic disorder, and simply removing the tumor does nothing to cure the disease. The body is designed to heal itself—given it has the proper care—nutrition, herbal supplements, spiritual and emotional well-being.

Beginning with the Victorian era, Western society has become addicted to quick fixes and results with no effort. Modern Medicine has in some instances provided this result.  When Modern Medicine doesn’t produce a ‘quick fix’ result the answer is:  “Sorry, it couldn’t be helped—the surgery was a success, the patient died.”  It is interesting to note the AMA reports a dismal success rate—approximately 250,000 people die each year due to misdiagnosis and/or the wrong treatment.  In other words these people didn’t die due to an illness they died due to the wrong treatment.

In Eastern countries—Japan, China, India, etc., Metaphysical Healing has been the primary medical practice for thousands of years.  Metaphysical Healing is becoming more recognized in the western world. However, it is primarily considered a last resort approach, whereas, in Eastern countries, ironically, Modern Medicine is considered a last resort.

To the scientific Western mind, Metaphysical Healing might seem akin to voodoo, quackery, complete fantasy or lunacy. Understanding Metaphysical Healing is shockingly simple, yet for the Western mind, it is analogues to having a death wish. The Metaphysical Healing is in keeping with all known traditional practices and what is beginning to be understood scientifically, Energy Healing or Spiritual Healing—Metaphysics combines all natural healing disciplines.

Spiritual Healing has existed since the beginning of time amid religious beliefs and practices, along with the mystery, superstition, fear, and misunderstanding.  Spiritual or Energy Healing is now becoming recognized regardless of what anyone chooses to believe or think. Ask almost anyone about their spiritual well-being and they will probably tell you, “Yeah, I am a spiritual person, I go to church frequently.” Therein, the confusion arises out of the association of healing with religion. The majority of people, including religious leaders, do not understand the difference.

Definition: “HEAL”  1. To restore to health or soundness, 2. To set right, repair, 3. To restore a person to spiritual wholeness, 4. To become whole and sound, to return to health.

Definition: “SPIRIT” 1. The vital principle or animating force within living beings, Incorporeal consciousness. There are about twelve more elaborations mostly to do with various religious implications.

Definition:  “RELIGION” 1. Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe, 2. A set of beliefs, values and practices based on the teachings of a religious doctrine.

Thus, based on these common interpretations of how things ‘ARE’, many paradoxes are created. The resultant effect is confusion and un-wellness. The Truth, as Carl Jung and others have carefully worded in their writing, is this: Every Thing in the universe is Energy and Consciousness. How anyone thinks or feels about that Fact cannot change it. The purpose of All religions is the recognition that humans have a part of themselves that is not physical and there is a need to explore and experience this aspect of oneself. Part of the intent is to discover one’s purpose and to live in the best way possible; part of that goal also includes the attainment of Truth and Spiritual Wellness. However, the result of religious teachings with regard to our Spiritual health has been an abysmal failure. If the most important aspect of our being is our Spiritual self, and it has been neglected, it is a miracle we have existed this long.

Continued…  Part II  Spirituality, an aspect of Metaphysical Healing

Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD
Genesis Consultants, Inc. http://www.gen-assist.com