Healing Comes from Within

Q: Does broken skin heal by itself?
A: Yes

Q: Does broken bone heal by itself?
A: Yes

Q: Does a cold/flu heal by itself?
A: Yes

Q: Does the body heals itself?
A: Yes. The body has the ability to heal itself. This is an inborn Healing Force or Innate Intelligent. Everyone who is alive has it.

Q: Why are there dis-ease, symptoms, sickness?
A: Our bodies are bombarded with daily stress factors such as mental stress (e.g. finance, relationship problems, etc.), chemical stress (e.g. toxins, genetic, poor nutrition, etc.) and physical stress (e.g. clogging artery, poor posture, heavy lifting, etc.). When the stress factors are too much at one time or accumulated over time, they overwhelm our body's healing system. For example, let assume that your healing potential is at a 5, and your stressors are at a 10, there will be a negative 5. Let assume your healing potential is at a 5, and you have lowered your stressors to a 3, there will be a positive 2. This is why some people in the office don't catch a cold while others do. And those who did catch a cold, some heal faster while others take much longer to heal, assuming it's the same strain of cold virus.

Q: How can we increase our healing potential?
A: Remove interferences! These mental, chemical, physical stressors interfere the body healing potential. It only makes sense to remove interferences. Let imagine your computer is downloading a big 1 gig file and you also want to surf the web, run movie clips, and video game, does your computer runs faster or slower with all these stressors? Have you notice that sometimes the computer even freeze when too many programs run at the same time. If you are to close all these programs and only surf the web, will your computer runs faster or slower? Stressors slow us down, or even shut down the healing potential. Identify and remove these stressors, allow us to function optimally.

Q: Can mental stress manifest itself into chemical or physical stresses and vice versa?
A: You bet it does. Assume you are very angry right now because someone accused you of something major wrong doing, does your blood pressure (chemical reaction) goes up or down? how about your breathing (physical)? Does your muscles tension (physical reaction) goes up or down? Assume that you have angry and upsetting thoughts everyday, does your blood pressure up everyday? muscle tense up everyday? Does increase in your muscle tension causing you pain, increase or decrease your mental stress factor? and how does that make your blood pressure change, up or down? When you notice your blood pressure went up high, does it make you more worry or less? and how does that make your muscle tension feel? better or worse? Eventually, the line is blurred between the stressors. Sometimes, if we are not careful, a vicious cycle where physical, mental, and chemical stressors feeding on each other, creating a perfect storm, overload our healing system to cope and may even shut it down.

Q: What happens when our healing system is overloaded or shut down?
A: Like your frozen computer, it's not functioning; no new program can be started. Assume that your healing system is already overloaded, and you were introduced to a new stressor (e.g. a cold virus), do you think your body will heal itself faster or slower? Have you notice that in some people it takes so slow, month and months to heal (e.g. chronic conditions)

Q: What should we do now?
A: First, try to introduce positive stressors (a fun puzzle, happy thoughts, good diet, exercise) into your life. Second, identify all negative stressors you already have and start to find tools coping skills, exercise, etc. to get rid of them. Once you are able to get rid of and unload all these stressors, your body's healing potential increases. You may feel healthier, heal faster, happier, look better too.

To find out more about wellness, you may visit my website: http://www.diepchiropracticwellness.com/ Read the Wellness vs. Medical Care for your enjoyment. Until next time, may God Bless you daily and bring you more knowledge, wisdom and health.

Dan Diep, D.C.