Spiritual faith and healing

Many people ask questions about spirituality when considering healing in the Western medical tradition, the various Eastern medical traditions, and also the healing practices of indigenous people-groups such as the Native Americans.

In all other healing modalities apart from the Western one, spiritual faith is at the heart of it. We might start to wonder what has happened to our culture. Along with so many other aspects of life, we seem to be the old one out.

The very interesting documentary, ‘A new Standard of Care: Alternative Cancer therapies’, which at my last check was still available on YouTube, has a very clear point to make among others: it does not seem possible to heal completely from cancer (without recurrence or metastasis) without spiritual faith of some sort.

It is possible to track the ‘science’ of this and see how hope and belief contribute to alterations in blood chemistry (Bruce Lipton is the guy for that with his book ‘The Biology of Belief’), but really it may be more helpful to look at life stories and testimony rather than data. Some wonderful stories are included in the book reviewed in my previous blog article, ‘Radical Remission’ by Kelly Turner.

I have also just started the book ‘Coyote Medicine’ by Lewis Mehl-Madrona, and I’ll be reviewing that on the blog as soon as I can.

Certainly my own healing journey has had a significant spiritual dimension.

I hope you can have a think about your own place in the spiritual world and what you think is real in the spiritual and physical realms as you take your own healing journey.

At the very least, please don’t ignore this. Your life may depend on it!