Good Afternoon all,
I am a bit late in blogging today. I spent the bulk of my morning with my son in the A&E wing in the hospital (as a matter of fact I spent three hours last night there as well). He and his brother got into a bit of a row and one minute the door was being shoved back and forth between them and the next *Shlink!* Daniel was wailing hysterically at the top of his lungs missing the top piece of his little finger on the right hand (this was actually quite lucky due to the fact that Daniel is left handed).
Two x-rays, two specialists, and two hospitals later split between two different days, we found that Daniel needed no surgery and that the only long term consequence of the whole fiasco was that the nail will not grow back on that one finger.
That made me consider just how wonderfully resilient the human body is. With nothing for Dan and us to do but change a dressing when it gets dirty, his mind and body will regenerate all except the nail. This turned my mind to the complementary therapies. Often they are viewed as less effective because there is very little intervention from the therapist. But this is as it should be. The healing is all done by the client’s mind, body, and spirit.
There is definitely a time for intense intervention, but those cases are a very small percentage in relation to the suffering population. It is my position that we would see a lot more miraculous healings if we stopped expecting others to heal us and allowed our unified mind, body, and spirit to do so with some guidance from trained therapists and counselors.
Namaste,
Paul
