| Healing
the Whole Woman
You Are Far More Than the Sum of Your Body Parts
Your Body
Perhaps your physical concerns disturb you the most. The annoying,
incessant, or even unbearable discomfort of a chronic yeast infection.
The intermittent, and sometimes exhausting, flood of blood due to
excessive menstrual bleeding. The misery of morning sickness. The
excruciating pain of a miscarriage or labor. Or the agonizing discomfort
of recurrent bladder infections. It may seem, in such cases, that
you just want your body to feel better . . . the pain to go away
. . . the bleeding to stop . . . your baby to be born.
Whether the approach is conventional or alternative, the goal is
to relieve your pain and suffering. In your moment of intense discomfort,
you might give anything for a quick fix . . . a strong pill . .
. the big guns . . . having the problem part removed. You probably
want your suffering to be taken away as rapidly as possible and
be forever eliminated.
Your
Mind and Emotions
Physical symptoms rarely occur in a vacuum. As you will learn in
this book, illnesses seldom occur just on the physical level. “But,”
you might ask, “what if I develop a bladder infection after unusually
active or frequent sex? Isn’t that cut-and-dried? Physical cause
generating physical effect?” That may or may not be the case. If
a homeopath explores more deeply, he or she is likely to find that
some emotional stress or trauma occurred just before an illness
began. “What about a flu?” you might ask. “Or some other contagious
disease? I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Maybe,
but even in acute illnesses, and occasionally with first-aid situations,
a certain vulnerability or stress may have been present before the
sickness began.
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