Step 1 in Healing: Be Willing to Be Well

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Spiritual Wellness

Step 1 in Healing:

Be Willing to Be Well

What does this mean? It is important to understand and become aware of this because it is the foundation for all healing.

First, we must distinguish healing from curing. To cure means to provide a medicine or therapy for a disease or illness. To heal is to recover or make healthy again. This could also be understood as returning to great health, your natural state.

The difference between the two is that curing implies that there is something that needs fixing…it implies we are less than perfect in creation. Healing is simply returning to our natural state of health, our birthright.   Healing acknowledges that great health is always present, and we just need to return to that state.

Curing is at the level of the body, and will therefore, always be impermanent.  Healing is at the level of Spirit, and will always be permanent.  When we are referring to Spirit, we are not talking religion.  We are speaking of the omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniactive, Universal power that is present in us all.

We must be aware that if we attempt to cure ourselves it can only be temporary because:

1) By seeking a "cure", we are defining ourselves as imperfect. Imperfection breeds more imperfection. So, if I say that I am vulnerable to being sick once, then I must continue to be vulnerable until I change my mind about my state of wellness. So I will need a “cure” for every new form of illness I attract.

2) A cure is limiting you to being a vulnerable body that has no say in determining your state of health. A cure by definition makes you a victim to every disease that crosses your path.  Seeking “cures” makes you a magnet for disease. This is an affirmation that you are a victim of disease, and that you believe wellness lies outside of your power. With each cure something will be done to you, as another victim of disease.

This removes all your power to heal yourself because you reduce yourself to a helpless body.  As disease’s victim, you will need innumerable cures that will never lead to permanent great health.  As a victim, you will always be vulnerable to declining health.

3) A cure never addresses the cause of you experiencing poor health. Temporarily, it puts a band-aid on the presenting symptom or problem.

It may be wise to change how we look at "symptoms" and "illness". Perhaps, the symptoms are there to get our attention, and have us redirect our energy and lives. Each organ and symptom has a message to offer if we will listen. We lose the opportunity to gain that wisdom when we bandage it with a “cure”.

Oftentimes, there are many ignored opportunities to learn and redirect our energy, attitudes, behavior, and thoughts prior to developing a serious illness/disease. Advanced disease may be a louder call to heed to the Wisdom that has been awaiting us.

So a "cure" will never make you well, and it deprives you of the infinite Wisdom from within.

Unlike a cure, healing can be permanent, if you say so.

1) The body’s natural state is one of wellness and great health. As long as our thoughts, behavior, energy, nutrition and intention support this state, we will continue to be well.

Any negative thought, behavior, nutrition or other negative activity can move us away from this natural state of great health.  This is because by engaging in negativity, we change our biochemistry and allow ourselves to be vulnerable to illness.

In essence, any negative behavior is an act as defining ourselves as imperfect, and therefore vulnerable to disease.

So healing is simply returning to this natural, well state and denying any negative thoughts or behavior that says otherwise. If you can stay in this vibration, you will stay well and achieve permanent healing.

2) Healing is acknowledges that we are well by definition and creation. It simply asks that you continuously embrace thoughts, behavior, and activities that support good health.

You can see that unlike curing, healing places all the power of great health in your hands. There is no victim in the healing paradigm.

3) To maintain good health and well-being the healing power that dwells within us is always conspiring for our highest good and great health. But we must be awake to connect to this unlimited Source of guidance and health.

If for some reason, we slip out of great health, we can turn within and ask for the wisdom that our bodies are trying to share. Ask with a very attentive ear.

Find and work with a physician who can support this healing opportunity, and offer the best partnership to reach a state of great health.

Understanding the difference between curing and healing is the first key to Being Willing to Be Well. So now, you can take a step in choosing to be well by choosing whether you want a temporary “cure” that takes away all of your power to be well, or if you want to choose to heal by turning within and finding a doctor who can support this effort with other supportive modes of healing.

What do you choose?

Be well.

With Love,

Nayo Wills, M.D.

I Bar Wellness Center Physician