Posing this question to myself is enabling me to put
so of my past experiences in to context of seeing that healing is
always occuring.
In looking back on my life I am able to see some
distinct periods of time where I was involved with groups of people
who saw healing some pretty clear ways.
The first one that comes to mind is the family unit
where in order to have a undersranding of healing is there needs to be
a clear definition of what disease is. My family gave me a
perspective of healing and disease that was dependent on the a doctors
opinion as to what the pathogen or aliment is and how it is that it
can be evacuated out of the body. The perspective that I shared with
my family for the better part of the first 18 year of my life was that
I had to cope with with sickness.
This lead to many runs in with anxiety and bouts of
depression. Observing this from a distance here in the present tiem
has enabled me to see that I did not allow myself to express my
anxiety with the inability to work with what life had given me with
growing up in a small Vermont town. What is amazing was that there
was no means of becoming aware of the stress and the affects that it
had on my body and my mind.
Looking back on this portion of my life, it is almost
frightening that the opportunity to challenge the statis quo: in find
a way to deal and release stress in a personalized manner that is
geared towards understanding the perspective through which a person
sees themselves, was for the most part not a reality. In this sub-
culture(family) the opportunity to alter the way in which illness was
view for the most part did not exist and as a result the ability to
manage it was absent.
This drive to understand my self better helped to formulate
the nexts steps I would take in my life in order to live in a manner
that was closer to how I understood life to be. There will be more in
the near future for now I most go.
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