The Discovery and the Recovery
Hippocrates (460 - 370 B.C), the father of medicine, once said:
“Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food.” Take a step
further: Let food be the “only” medicine. If you have developed a degenerative
disease, start thinking of food as your medicine, in fact, the best medicine,
if not the “only” medicine. Your body is designed to digest and utilize food to
get its nutrients and energy. But only wholesome food can do just that—not even
supplements, because all supplements are just what they are called.
If
food is the “only” medicine for you, you will empower yourself with knowledge
about food, and you will then pursue a proper diet with high quality,
non-toxic, and nutritious food. That means, you will refrain from eating the
commercially-prepared and chemically-loaded food obtainable at supermarkets.
When food becomes the “only” medicine, you will also learn to trust your body;
that is, you will learn what your body is telling you, and how it responds to
real and wholesome food.
When
you do become sick, you should also learn how to use herbs as medicine. Herbs
from different parts of plants have different therapeutic values that promote
self-healing without the use of dangerous pharmaceutical drugs. As a matter of
fact, many common herbs, such as cinnamon, garlic, and ginger, have been used
as “food” medicine for thousands of years.
If
food is your “only” medicine, you will make good use of it to improve your
health and heal yourself of any disease, including myasthenia gravis.
Hippocrates had also said: “Healing is a matter
of time, but it is also a matter of opportunity.” Therefore, give your body
that opportunity for natural self-healing by going drug-free, although it may
take more time.
Your life is a journey through which you make
many choices—some good ones and also some bad ones—that contribute to your
health or illnesses. Life has a purpose with a unique destiny for each
individual. Therefore, it is important that you know yourself, and self-healing
is "knowing the self" as a part of your destiny. Sometimes and
somewhere along your life journey, you may hit rock bottom and begin to
despair. You may even ask the frequently-asked question: "Why me?" But that may also be the time
of self-awakening for you. You may then begin to question how and why you have
found yourself in that difficult and despondent situation. True self-awakening
will make you take a different path—a detour from that journey you have been
prodding along. Taking a different path creates the energy for self-healing.
Your self-awakening can be physical, such as a
change of diet or taking up an exercise regimen. Your self-wakening can be
emotional or spiritual, such as self-awakening to the power of love and
compassion. Self-awakening may give you the desire and intention to heal,
precipitating in changes that will ultimately heal not just the body but also
the mind. Your very desire to heal is the healing energy for the body and the
mind.
If you know yourself well, you will empower your
mind with knowledge to heal yourself, and that empowerment generates more
healing energy. If you know yourself more, you will make more right choices,
than wrong ones, regarding your health. In making those right choices, you are
well on the path to your own self-healing.
The bottom line: self-healing begins with
knowing yourself through self-awakening to generate internal healing energy
The
TAO
According
to the TAO, the ancient wisdom from China
“The Way is
paradoxical.
Like water, soft and
yielding,
yet it overcomes the
hard and the rigid.
Stiffness and
stubbornness cause much suffering.
We all intuitively
know
that flexibility and
tenderness
are the Way to go.
Yet our conditioned
mind
tells us to go the
other way.
We accept all that is
simple and humble.
We embrace the good
fortune and the misfortune.
Thus, we become
masters of every situation.
We overcome the
painful and the difficult in our lives.
That is why the Way
seems paradoxical.”
(Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 78)
The recovery journey is never smooth and straightforward; it
is always long and winding, with many detours and even setbacks. Healing is
invisible, inaudible, and intangible:
“Look, it is
invisible.
Listen, it is
inaudible.
Grab, it is
intangible.
These three characteristics
are indefinable:
Therefore, they are
joined as one, just like the Creator—invisible, inaudible, and intangible.”
(Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 14)
Discovery and recovery are part of your healing journey.
Stephen Lau
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