Language is not merely a descriptor - it is both the revealer and the creator. It shows our core beliefs when we least expect it, and it limits and defines the degree to which we can, and expect, natural healing to occur.
We have been sold a pack of lies about our bodies and the nature of healing.
- "Damaged nerve cells can't regenerate - you'll never walk again"
- "Cancer is terminal."
- "Covid-19 kills mostly older people."
- "I'm allergic to cats forever."
I started my day today, whilst drinking tea, confronted with one of these limiting statements. Someone had commented on my recent #Caturday blog post:
"But my husband is allergic to cats, so I've realized we can never stay in your beautiful home, unless god forbid, I come alone."
Missed my insightful blog 😆 about cats as not only companions, but counselors and important Beings in an increasingly touch-deprived world? You can read and support it bere. But I digress...
Allergies are a SYMPTOM of poor health, not a permanent condition (unless you want them to be) and certainly nothing that needs to be clung on to or defined by. How do I know that? I used to be Miss Allergic. Hyper medicated and dangerously allergic to peanuts and eggs as a child, and just regularly allergic for half my adult life to dust, cats, feathers, fur, pollen and dozens of foods. And yet now we live with 3.5 cats and I eat everything I was previously "dangerously allergic" to.
What changed?
At the age of 19 I went to an inspired naturopath in Melbourne, Australia - in the 1980's long before naturopaths or natural healing were a "thing". Ironically, his name was Allan Hope, and he had a practice in Flinders Lane. A flinder is a butterfly in Dutch - that being which completely regenerates and transforms. He explained to me simply, and clearly, the pathology of allergy and how it was driven by 3 things: liver toxicity, gut health and mindset. My 19 year old self "got it".
6 months of a rigorous Liver Detoxing Diet, guided meditations and probiotics later and my dietary allergies improved markedly - they dialed down to being "sensitivities". I was able to be in the house with other people's cats. Eventually I stopped defining myself as allergic.
Over time, as I have been slack with diet or re-engaged with out-dated, old paradigm thinking, sensitivities resurface sometimes, for a while. Looking back, they resurfaced when I am poorly nourished and depleted. When I don't get enough of the right kind of sleep. When I am unhappy. When I stop feeding my body well.
FFWD 20 years and I relocated to Thailand. Rigorous detoxing and stringent fasting for a so-called-life-threatening conditioning enabled a systemic reset. My new life here away from western junk foods and environmental toxins created a new platform for health. In that place I bore a healthy child at the age of 41 after western medicine proclaimed I could never have children. My daughter wanted a cat - adores cats. And now we have 3. 3.5 to be exact. Read the blog. 😉
Am I allergic? Heavens no. It makes me laugh now when people say that.
Could it really be that simple?
Regeneration is the premise of life. We are reborn not just every day, but in each moment, as millions of cells die, morph and change. It IS possible to unpick systemic conditions, change the inputs and environment you live in, and to heal. But only if you believe it's possible and release the idea of a condition being permanent.
Natural medicine is only useful if you believe a condition is a transitory symptom and not a permanent fixture. No amount of obscure remedies for eczema, allergies or gut issues will help if you choose to cling on to the belief that "your condition" is yours forever. It's merely a symptom of imbalance - a gift to help you isolate and identify that which could be better.
Were we sold a pack of lies by allopathic medicine? Yes. But if we don't return the defective goods and trade up our underlying belief structures, then the onus is on us.
New paradigm living requires new paradigm thinking.
We can choose limits and outdated definitions. Or we can choose healing and regeneration. Perhaps the greatest natural medicine of all is consuming new thoughts, daily, and creating new belief structures about all that is possible.
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I so believe we choose the health state we have.
Abuelo Rufino, as a lot of chamans and indigenous healers, smokes a lot of tobacco. We've been told it damages the lungs but that doesn't happen to him. Tobacco is a sacred plant for them; they don't see it as negative so it is NOT negative IN them. He bikes almost three hours everyday. He is strong. He is NEVER quiet until it's time for him to go to sleep. And that is one day in between because of Yopo ceremony. He is seventysomething. He eats healthy. And he is present -and I think that's his secret.
I have a friend who needed insulin three times a day and, with Caapi and Ayahuasca, she doesn't anymore. She even is a pastry chef now!!! Also a friend who healed HIMSELF from cutaneous leishmaniasis with the Wim Hoff method and Kambó.
I don't think illness are terminal. I believe there is something out there for everything we need to heal. And I also believe there is something INSIDE us. Always. A lot of diseases origin within our emotions. A other lot of them are caused by the "medicines" they prescribe us.
It's always so outrageously encouraging to meet an older person who defies all the expectations. ❤️ Mindset and belief structures are everything.
"Natural medicine is only useful if you believe a condition is a transitory symptom and not a permanent fixture."
So true, the starting point of every healing transformation can only be an intention (or believe) that something will change for the better. Closely related is to believe in one´s self-efficacy (after the psychologist Albert Bandura) which is just a fancy term for almost the same thing.
Usually, before I go to bed, I think about the things I want to do the next day, that I want to be kind, happy and productive. It doesn´t work all the time, but most often it does :)
The clear setting of intention before sleep is a wonderful thing to do - I'm often so tired I'm asleep before I get there. But I shall take this gentle thought and try to go to bed less exhausted, and feel into wellness and new possibilities and take that vibration into the dreamscape.
Thank you so much for stopping by.
What a beautiful way of expressing it! Piece.
@artemislives, We are living a False Life. In these kind of dynamic times and environment Healing is not a preference of many. But we can heal ourselves mindfully, but it's possible when Human Beings leave the path of Judgements and Hatred behind. Stay blessed always.
Many live a false life - but not all. More and more people are awakening and seeking to live in a place of integrity with themselves, Mother Earth and the Divine.
That's true. And with that i want add one more thing and that is, in my opinion there are two types of Awakening and one is Divine Awakening and other one is Deceptive Awakening. Only time will tell on which side we are standing in this Journey Of Awakening. Stay blessed always.
that was useful. Most important fact is the myths you busted.
I think in future natural medicine goes a long way.I have also seen your website it also provides useful information.
You describes beautifuly the use and importance of this medicine
Nice to see you here and not only on late-night twitter @badfinger! 😆 Nice that you liked my blog - thank you for checking it out and engaging with the community . 😀🙏
I so needed to hear this today. Thank you.
I'm glad it spoke to you in some way. 😊
I noticed from your words that allergy just for people with lack immune... Thanks so much, cz I think the symptoms will forever.
People with allergies have an OVER-active immune system which is unable to differentiate true threats from other stimulus. It has a huge amount to do with gut health, and expectation. It's only forever if you believe that and don't make the right lifestyle changes. 🙂
So beautiful natural beauty
Thanks for stopping by to say so. 🙂
@trucklife-family here, Oh I love this, yes we hold the power to heal ourselves in our hands. If only more people could see that, and any illness is an imbalance, it is our bodies way of telling us to pay attention, to focus on our well being. Thank you so much for sharing this @artemislives, this is such an empowering post.
I'm glad it spoke to you, @trucklife-family. x 🙏❤️
beautiful butterfly, you are very good at taking photos, thank you for sharing friends.
Appreciate that you like it but you can see from my source below the image that someone else took it. ;)
Yes brothers.
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