What to Do When You Can’t Heal Yourself

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In my upcoming book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof  You Can Heal Yourself (Hay House, 2013) and in many recent blog posts, I talk a lot about the mind’s power to heal the body. But when you or a loved one is sick, how do you know when to employ the mind’s self-healing powers versus when to get thee to an emergency room lickety split?

Knowing how to integrate the mind’s healing powers into the world of conventional medicine can be tricky, so I want to lay out some guidelines. But first, a story…

When Grendel Couldn’t Heal Herself

Grendel the Mojo Pup recently fell off the bed. Initially, she picked herself up, brushed herself off, and went about her merry business. My six-year-old daughter Siena has been intentionally brainwashed to believe she can heal herself and so can Grendel. (Those empowering positive beliefs downloaded into her subconscious mind will stay there for the rest of her life unless she consciously reprograms them, and I am very mindful that I want to make sure she knows how much power she has to heal herself, rather than programming her to believe she must always seek help outside herself.) So, because of her programmed beliefs, after Grendel fell, Siena kept saying to her, “Grendel, you can heal yourself.”

Then, four days later, after Grendel had been progressively improving, she woke up severely short of breath. As we were racing her to the vet ER, I was explaining to Siena that although I believe it’s almost always possible for the mind to heal the body, sometimes all of our best efforts to make this happen leave us still sick. And because we want to ensure that we’re doing everything we can to optimize our chances of getting well, especially when a life may be at risk, we often need to seek outside help.

The Million-Dollar Question

Siena said, “But Mama, how do you know when it’s okay to heal yourself and when you need a doctor to do it for you?”

I told her sometimes you need to do both at the same time, and only after you’ve tried both and observed the outcome, do you know the answer. It’s not worth putting Grendel’s—or anyone’s—life at risk just to test the power of the mind. Healing is not some competition to see who is more powerful—the doctor or the patient. The goal is recovery from the illness, or at least amelioration of suffering since sometimes it’s part of our spiritual journey to experience illness or even death. Sometimes to get better, employing the power of the mind just isn’t enough.

The Full Court Press

Once we were at the veterinary ER, the veterinarians started doing their thing. Order X-rays. Insert IV. Push Lasix. Rub on nitroglycerine. Stick a needle in the heart to remove fluid from the pericardium. Do what doctors do.

In the end, it wasn’t enough. The veterinarians couldn’t heal Grendel any more than Grendel could. The same sometimes holds true for humans. Sometimes we’re just supposed to stay sick; it’s part of our spiritual path here on this earth. Other times, it’s just our time to go. But as I sat on the other side of the doctor-patient relationship in that vet ER, I realized something very valuable about seeking medical attention outside the power of the mind, especially when it comes to medical emergencies.

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