30 Days of Self Healing – Day 0
Part III: Spiritual Self-Healing. The majority us have a fixed idea that health is mostly physical and, to an extent, emotional, but good health encompasses more than that. It is also intensely spiritual, and I believe we are all spiritual beings.
Deepening your spiritual roots through faith or other practices, or simply feeling close to nature, has profound effects on healing. Spirituality provides meaning and comfort in times of illness so that the experience of a disease is better, which can promote healing. An ill- ness may also help awaken your spirituality and help you achieve spiritual growth. And often, your spirituality can support and strengthen your capacity for self-healing in ways that border on the miraculous.
Self-healing occurs when the physical, emotional, and spiritual are aligned. When we’re working every single day to make sure we nurture those three areas, then we can truly realize and achieve our self-healing potential. The human body has evolved to live well and fight off disease, provided we give it the nurturing it needs.
The word doctor stems from the Latin word docere, meaning “to teach.” As a doctor of chiropractic, one of my most important jobs is to teach people how to keep themselves healthy and empower them to take responsibility for their own well-being. I always made sure that my patients never left my office without recognizing that they could only achieve their full potential—in their relationships, faith, life’s work, and so forth—when they tapped into, and worked toward achieving, their ultimate health.
