| If you're really sick, what do you do? You may | | | | probably looking for timely, helpful information. |
| feel scared. You might wonder if your long term | | | | Chronic illnesses, especially the ones that |
| health is compromised. What will happen if you | | | | compromise your lifestyle and/or others that can |
| don't receive skilled and effective help? And, as a | | | | lead to total disability or death, feel like walking |
| worst case scenario, could you become an invalid | | | | death sentences. You want to get better fast, |
| -or even- (gulp) die? | | | | yet the answers may seem elusive. |
| Don't allow yourself to give in to such negative | | | | In a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia |
| worries. Turning toward life-altering illness and | | | | Support Group that I ran for five years, we used |
| away from an attitude of health can be one of | | | | to joke about a tongue-in-cheek doctor visit |
| the biggest mistakes of your life. We all want to | | | | scenario: |
| be physically healthy and recover from whatever | | | | The patient speaks up, "Doctor, I need your help. |
| ails us. However, it's not only the physical | | | | I need answers now. What is wrong with me?" |
| dimension of illness that matters. Consider this | | | | "Ma'am, it's a good news/ bad news situation. First |
| quote from Ordered to Return: My Life After | | | | the good news. You have (blank- fill in the name |
| Dying by George G. Ritchie, Jr., MD., | | | | of either illness). You're not going to die." |
| When you get out on the frontiers of human | | | | The woman smiles, but then worry lines appear |
| suffering, it throws you (right) back into the arms | | | | on her face. "Okay, but what's the bad news?" |
| of God. | | | | The doctor replies blandly, "You have (blank) and |
| It's fair to interpret the author to mean that | | | | you're not going to die." |
| many times we must seek divine help to fully | | | | (The woman stares into space....) |
| heal. To Dr. Ritchie that place and/or act of healing | | | | This may seem a bit silly, but living with a chronic |
| originates with God. Take a moment to consider | | | | illness can be a tough row to hoe. Sometimes you |
| your body and how it is supposed to function: it | | | | may not die from an illness, but living with it is |
| heals from a simple cut, but can it heal from a | | | | pure torture. Humor helps to deflect the barbs of |
| stab wound, pneumonia or a broken bone? How | | | | those rough times until the better ones come |
| about allergies, the flu or irritable bowel | | | | along. |
| syndrome? | | | | CONCEPT #3: Explore many different routes that |
| CONCEPT #1: | | | | lead to "healing." |
| Your body may have impaired memory of | | | | Why? Isn't all healing the same? Because the |
| exactly how to proceed with a particular health | | | | body is innately intelligent, it can work with and |
| challenge. It is innately intelligent and uses its | | | | use all kinds of information. Don't be afraid to look |
| internal guidance system to call upon the best | | | | into different healing mechanisms. In the holisitic |
| healing sources. | | | | health field, there are numerous possibilities. |
| The Best Healing Resource is God. | | | | As my grandma used to say, 'There's more than |
| As we seek the best avenues for healing and call | | | | one way to skin a cat.' |
| for God's intervention, we discover that healing | | | | Long ago, I took handfuls of pills and vitamins to |
| happens on a multi-dimensional basis: mind, body | | | | keep going. Today, that isn't necessary. This |
| and spirit. (See the reference below about ELT, a | | | | concept of self-discovery and investigation can |
| new health protocol that uses spiritual and energy | | | | work for anyone. With divine guidance, good |
| concepts to heal the physical body and the mind.) | | | | research and using your gut instinct, figure out if |
| CONCEPT #2: None of us possess the ability to | | | | someone, a service or a product is the genuine |
| manifest healing by and only of ourself. | | | | article or not. Be courageous. Explore various |
| If you (the patient) heal, it is because you are a | | | | healing protocols to see which ones will help you |
| child of God and you possess the abilities that He | | | | start the process of really getting well. |
| gave you. Plus, you receive healing as a gift, as an | | | | (Note: I went through such an ordeal and I'm |
| act of mercy and sometimes after special | | | | grateful for the entire 15 year experience. I had |
| entreaty for Divine intervention. Does that mean | | | | been sick, sick, sick with Fibromyalgia, Chronic |
| that you do not participate in the healing process? | | | | Fatigue Syndrome, and autoimmune illnesses. |
| Of course not. Awareness and involvement are | | | | After receiving the ELT (Essential Life Therapy) |
| critical to 100% healing. | | | | protocol, I'm now healthy, working as an ELT |
| We're fortunate that God designed our bodies to | | | | Practitioner and loving life again. I wouldn't be |
| heal. Many times this is spontaneous and complete. | | | | where I am today if I had gone through such a |
| Yet, when we need extra help, there are people | | | | horrible illness on such a personal level.) |
| who show up in our lives and act as healing | | | | Working with the spiritual, energetic and healing |
| helpers: doctors, therapists, and others trained in | | | | components of a technique like ELT, may enable |
| the healing arts. | | | | your health to improve, too- like mine did- |
| If you are really sick from Fibromyalgia, Chronic | | | | dramatically and quickly! I left pain, exhausting |
| Fatigue Syndrome, Arthritis, Allergies, Cancer, | | | | fatigue, and other problems behind. |
| AIDS or some other terrible condition, you're | | | | |