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How to Heal Your Disease Part One:
How Did I Get in This Condition?

by Jackie Kosednar

Many people think that diseases are “out there” like some Boogey Man
who gets you because you didn’t run fast enough or were unlucky to
be in the wrong place.

Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Sickness and fatigue often mean that we have no energy left for healing. When our bodies are so bound up with stress overloads and physical imbalances, many people can’t even function. Some of us have allergies, depression, mental illness, sinus conditions, diabetes, cancer, female troubles or all of the above. Even natural processes such as menopause don’t process correctly and we have unpleasant conditions to deal with.

Many people think that diseases are “out there” like some Boogey Man who gets you because you didn’t run fast enough or were unlucky to be in the wrong place. It is time to wake up and look at the real picture! Plain and simple, disease sets in when the body is so stressed and overloaded that it can’t handle that load anymore.

Why am I sick?
According to statistics, the Unites States of America is the disease capital of the world because we have so many unhealthy, sick people. One in five of us are on antidepressants. Two thirds are taking one or more prescription drugs a day to manage our health. Since we feel so bad, we purchase over-the-counter drugs in amounts that stagger the imagination. We lead the world in medical technology, drug production and research, and we are we proud of it. But it is just making us sicker.

We’re good citizens who donate to medical research to help find that magic drug or improve the ones we already have. We campaign to have all our children vaccinated with chemicals that ruin their immune systems. Drugs are the second largest industry in the world and drug companies makes billions of dollars a day. We are a chemical mad society--from cleaning products to drugs. We can’t even export our meat because it is so polluted with hormones and chemicals that other countries won’t buy it. And then we wonder why we are sick and why new diseases are appearing every day. It is definitely time to go back to nature!

What is Stress?
Anything that challenges the body is considered stress. A little stress makes the body stronger. A lot of stress can kill it slowly or rapidly, depending on the stress. When you overload the body with stress, all your energy goes into managing that stress to stay in balance. Health is always a matter of balance, and the body will always achieve some sort of balance so it can keep operating, even if that balance is tenuous. Before it can heal, however, it needs to rid itself of stress and attain a stable balance.

In my practice I specialize in getting rid of emotional stress. I find that emotional stress is the mother of all stress. If we just had to deal with the poisoning of our environments and bodies we would probably be okay. I’ve noted that all stress that isn’t physical (like an injury or chemical poisoning) comes from fear. Even allergies (over-reactions of the immune system) are created under emotional stress.

Fear (in the form of stress) hypes up the body and gets it ready to fight. Most of the time the onset of disease can be traced to an emotional hardship that happened within nine months prior to the onset of the disease. Emotional stress usually accumulates over time. The reason that most heart attacks happen on Monday is because many people hate their jobs. Just the thought of having to work at what we hate throws us out of balance. And as our cellular memory acquires more emotional garbage--trauma, divorce, death--we get sicker and sicker. When our life is a war zone, the body is constantly on guard and never gets around to repairing and rejuvenating.

The Good News
The body is a self-healing mechanism. It is an amazing and powerful machine with a mind of its own. It is designed for health, so much so in fact that we practically have to trash our bodies to make them break down. We can handle large amounts of stress before the body can’t achieve a balance and collapses. Nothing from outside our bodies can force it to heal, especially drugs (which are foreign objects to the body). To truly heal a disease the body has to do it, the doctor can’t.

Our bodies are energy systems that are fed daily by universal energies and light. We also convert foods to energy and breathe in oxygen for nourishment. A central energy keeps our heart beating from soon after conception until we die. We are plugged into the Universe like the toaster is plugged into the wall! We get a new load of energy everyday that is more than ample to handle the tasks the body needs to keep it running smoothly and then to repair and rejuvenate. Indeed, our body deals out that energy for bodily processes like cell division, digestion, fighting pathogens, balancing organs and systems so the body can work together as one cohesive whole. We can keep on trucking because everything got its energy.

If we succumb to a virus and get sick, the body will use energy to fight the infection while it keeps the rest of the body running. That’s why we will have no energy for anything else--all we want to do is go to bed and sleep. The body shuts down things it doesn’t absolutely need and uses its energy to balance the imbalance that the infection is creating and to then eliminate the infection. As we get well, more energy is freed up, and we feel energized again.

The Bad News
As the body attempts to control stress overloads, toxins, infections, parasites, and other problems, this garbage is suppressed deeply into the tissues. Denial is the process whereby emotions and traumatic memory are suppressed because they create too much stress for the body to deal with.

Drugs are foreign invaders to the body and always cause stress. If you force the body to do something, that's stress and it usually shows up somewhere else. Antibiotics suppress infection into the tissues but don’t actually kill the infection. And that’s why infections often reoccur.

A disease occurs when the body cannot clean up the stress to find balance. It then becomes impossible for the body to function without some kind of help. Medically you often end up with two choices: drugs or surgery. Both of these hurt the body and create massive imbalance. Sometimes people don’t survive the surgery or drug treatment and die from side effects.

So, unless you have really mastered positive thinking, it is time to get busy. There is a whole different way of caring for and healing our bodies that works with the body instead of hurting it to heal it. Holistic/Alternative health is the fastest growing movement in the history of the world because we feel so bad and health care has become so ineffective and expensive.

Next issue we will explore how to heal your disease holistically.