There was this man who wanders around the street around the area that I stay in. His shirt was torn and dirty, hair was unkempt and he would urinate in any place that he thinks fit. He slept on the floor on the five foot way of shops and eat using his dirty hands beside the rubbish dumps. I do not know how he lose his mind. However, I observe that he doesn’t seem to fall ill despite eating dirty food, sometime sleeping under the hot sun or drench by heavy rain. Was it that he has lost his mind and do not live a stressful life that a normal modern man is undergoing? Was it because of such situation that his immune system is stronger than us? It is more than 10 years that I have seen him loitering around in the same place and yet he is still alive and healthy.
Comparing this man with my situation when I am under stress resulting in many ailments that make me weak, I felt that health is not only looking after the physical body.
My career went downhill about ten years ago. From a blue eye boy in the company I suddenly became a Nobody in the company just because I had offended my superior who incidentally is the owner of the company. Fortunately they were kind enough not to sack me. Initially, I was valued for my contribution to the company and I was respected. The sudden change in my status in the company was too big a blow and hard for me to accept.
I began to be withdrawn, depressed, listless, easily agitated. My health wasn’t good and I was suffering from the following ailments; Headache, tired, dizziness, lower back pain, skin discomfort, sensitive stomach, shoulder and neck ache, poor eyesight, crack nails, cramps, dreams, confusion, hair drop, chest pain, shortness of breath.
At that time, I told myself that it is a natural process of aging. I had tried to use vitamins, supplement, Chinese foot reflexology but it did not give me the boost that I desired. I was also too tired for exercise.
One day, while I was going through severe depression, a former colleague invited me for a drink at the pub. Feeling very frustrated with life, I decided to go and drown myself in sorrow. My friend brought along two friends who are quite humorous. They cracked jokes the whole night and I was amused by them and laughed heartily throughout the drinking session.
After the session, I drove home. While driving, I suddenly realized that despite the time being 1.00am, I was still very alert. Normally by this time of the night, I would have been so tired that I could not keep my eyes open.
I also realized that due to my predicament, I had not been laughing in such manner for the last five years. I started asking myself whether I should be living a life wallowing in depression and self-pity. My inner self tell me that it is not the life that I want and I should start letting go. Within a few days, I notice that my health improved tremendously and I become healthier.
My face becomes more vibrant, and combining with the supplement that I was taking, I start feeling more energetic. My experience made me realized that one should not only look into the physical aspect of health but also to look into the mind and spirit. I began preaching that health is mind body spirit.
Recently, I suddenly felt easily agitated and tired. Remembering my principle that health is mind body and spirit, I looked into the mirror and started telling myself that I am a compassionate person, full of love and happy person. Then I change my facial expression into a loving, compassionate and happy person. Immediately my tiredness is gone.
Upon realizing the importance of mind body and spirit, I began researching on how we can help patient to recover from the disease by advising them to alter their thoughts into a more positive mental state. I began reading up Chinese medical books on disease and emotion when I come across organs and emotion. To make sure that what had been stated is correct, I started practicing what I had learned on my patient and they confirmed that what I had indicated to them in respect of their emotion is true.
The book by Louise L Hay “Healing your body- The mental cause for physical illness and the metaphysical way to overcome them” greatly interest me and provide me with more valuable information on how westerner talk about emotion and health. I had applied her knowledge on my iridology analysis and further improve my wisdom of health and emotion. For instance Louise L Hay describe that the shoulder represent our ability to carry our experiences in life joyously. We made a burden by our attitude. I agree with her on this issue as we always use the word ‘shouldering the burden’. And when the burden is resolved, we may feel that suddenly the weight had been lifted.
I hope that one day, all healers would take serious attention onto the emotional aspect of a person in order to speed up healing. If the patient realized that he has blocked emotion and if the correct guidance is given, he may recover very much quickly as compared to medicine alone.
This is perhaps the reason why some minor disease can be healed by giving placebo in which the patient are convinced that he is given a medicine that is effective for his sickness.