All Is Well: Heal Your Body With Medicine, Affirmations, and Intuition Read Online Free PDF

your
    body may be trying to tell you before it gets to the
    point of dealing with these dramatic situations again.
    • 6 to 9 questions: Don’t worry; you have company.
    You’ve known for a while that you need help. You
    meditate, pray, and have an array of medical support
    people to help guide you through the crises. However,
    you are worn down. To have a better life, you need
    to examine how to change and grow in partnership
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    with Divine spirit. Join us for the adventure in
    Chapter 10.
    Now that you’ve evaluated your current situation, let us take
    the next steps to create health together.
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Chapter 3
a PersPectIve
    on usIng MedIcIne
    Some readers who are drawn to this book may be tempted to
    opt out of the healing options modern medicine provides. This
    could be because they see using these as proof that other options
    won’t work, or perhaps because of some level of distrust of the
    modern system. But in my experience—both with my own health
    and through my patients—I’ve found that medicine is an essential
    part of the equation.
    Around the world over a period of some years, health care
    has undergone seismic shifts. For centuries or perhaps millennia,
    when it came to healing, people focused on engaging skilled prac-
    titioners who used techniques such as dream interpretation and
    intuition. Because they didn’t have the technology we use today,
    they relied on these mystical skills to lead them toward a cause
    and a cure. For example, in ancient Greece, instead of employing
    a radiologist to get an MRI or CT scan, ancient physicians would
    go into an altered, dreamlike state and intuitively accessed infor-
    mation about their patients’ illnesses. Healing involved looking
    at the whole person and attempting to restore balance to restore
    health.
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    In recent years, science has changed this whole-person, balance-
    focused perspective on health. Diagnostic tests, drugs, specialists,
    and many technical advances have made the world a healthier
    place. Average life expectancy has gone up. The incidence of ma-
    ternal death during childbirth has plummeted. We have medi-
    cations that can eradicate horrible diseases. Think of the havoc
    wreaked on Europe during the mid-14th century. The bubonic
    plague—the Black Death—killed somewhere between 30 and 60
    percent of the entire population. Can you imagine? And the bu-
    bonic plague is still around, but its impact has been minimized
    by treatment with antibiotics. Modern medicine really has accom-
    plished amazing feats.
    As a physician and healer, I cannot stress enough the impor-
    tance medicine plays in healing. If you are ill, you should contact
    a medical practitioner. These professionals have the knowledge
    and skill to use technology to your advantage. They can prescribe
    unique practices and medicines based on the combination of
    symptoms and ailments you present.
    But it is also important to remember that medicine has its lim-
    its. That’s why we’re writing this book.
    As the field of healing has shifted, many people have moved
    away from any interaction with the mystical. The miraculous
    cures that technology has brought about seem to offer more mod-
    ern and tidy solutions. But remember that technology makes mis-
    takes, too. Blood tests and pregnancy tests frequently come back
    with faulty results. Medications have side effects. Things go wrong.
    So what’s my point? That technology without limits is folly.
    And intuition alone is equally foolish. We must use a combina-
    tion of techniques—and employ a combination of experts—to
    achieve true health. In fact, my life is a perfect demonstration of
    how medicine, intuition, and affirmations can heal your life.
    Back in 1972 when I was 12, my family had a lot of finan-
    cial stress, and we had many conversations about