on lifestyle choices — in which the body has come to be. Poor diet,
infections (yeast, viruses, bacteria, and parasites), heavy metal
toxicity, unhealthy air quality, contaminated water, electromagnetic
frequencies, lack of exercise, vaccinations, unmanaged stress, negative, fear-based thoughts, emotions and belief systems are what
bring about autoimmune and chronic disease.
Once you have been diagnosed, the battle within of what to do
begins to grate on you. Many people wrestle with the agony of decision making whether to take drugs or not. The Western viewpoint
will be to take costly drugs that supposedly stop the progression
of the disease, yet come with side effects. The choice to not take the
drugs is extremely difficult and one that only you can make. Ask
yourself this question, “If I choose not to take the medication, will
I be more fearful of what could happen?” If the answer is yes, than
take the medication because your fear-based thoughts/emotions
will create more stress in your body and weaken your immune
system. Being able to have the courage to say no to your doctor, your friends and family, who only want the best for you and
believe in the pharmaceutical drug route, can be the hardest choice
you make. There is no right or wrong. You can have a successful
combination of taking the medication and using natural remedies.
Many people do both using Western and alternative treatments,
and as they heal with time, the medications start to drop off.
Start your healing process by first becoming educated. Read
books, go on the Internet, take a class, learn about the body systems
that are being affected, and read about the possible treatments. The
more educated you become the better choices you will make from
a centered place versus fear. Take your time in making decisions.
Don’t be rushed into any protocol until you feel you are ready.
Becoming educated puts you in the driver’s seat and allows change
for the better to occur.
The psychological aspect to any disease is so important. Choosing to energize thoughts of hope and belief, and taking action
steps to help you heal are critical. Autoimmune disease is just one
of many where the psychological self is out of alignment. For most
there are old tapes playing in the background of, “I’m not good
enough,” “I must be perfect,” “I’m unlovable,” “I have to take care
of everyone else but me.” Unresolved abandonment, anger, guilt,
jealousy, and fear molded into adult life creates patterns of stress
and disease. To ignore the misalignment means your body cannot
fully heal. It doesn’t mean you have to do twenty years of therapy,
but rather, find a modality (meditation, hypnosis, journaling,
counseling, exercise, or other spiritual practices) that helps you
identify and become neutral to the past. So many of us, myself
included when overcoming MS, are looking for ways to break out
of the mental and emotional bondage that we took from child-
hood. There are ways out.
Intention to overcome your challenges is the first action step.
Second, find a therapy or modality that resonates with you to
break repetitive patterns creating your stress and disease. Third,
accept the past and present completely, forgive yourself and those
that have hurt you. Fourth, carry forward only the wisdom from
those experiences and take baby steps of eating healthy, detoxifying the body of infections and inflammation, exercise, and trust
that you have the amazing capacity to heal your body.
Most important is to give yourself permission to be healthy. Tell
your body out loud, “Thank you for what you have taught me,
and I now choose to be whole and healthy.” This is essential as we
get stuck seeing and feeling ourselves only as being sick. Seems
odd, but once you get on the other side of your disease you can feel
uncomfortable being healthy because you have been unhealthy for
so long. Reassure the fearful child and adult that you are moving
forward and that you continue to choose to be healthy. I used to
look over my shoulder the first few years after beating MS and
wonder when it would be back. Fourteen years later, MS still hasn’t
returned and I accept my reversal as truth.
Ann Boroch is a natural health and wellness expert and author of
Healing Multiple Sclerosis: Diet, Detox and Nutritional Makeover for
Total Recovery. As a certified naturopath, Ann has helped hundreds of
patients in achieving optimum health. Visit her at
www.annboroch.com.
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