Why illness can be a gift–a journey for the soul
Some of the bravest and most beautiful women I know are those who have survived a life-threatening illness.
Some of the bravest and most beautiful women I know are those who have survived a life-threatening illness.
It goes without saying that the first step toward healing is forgiving. Yet we use the word so loosely that we end up saying it out of habit, just like saying, “I’m sorry.”
“An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.” The lex talionis, as this Old Testament law is called, is supposedly the oldest recorded or known principle in the world. While this may seem like a tit-for-tat law, bordering on the vengeful, it is important to go back to its roots—the context in which it was formulated and the value it wanted to uphold.
The first month of the year has been a period of reeling and healing. I missed my deadline for this column a few times because work was crazy, and I somehow couldn’t find the energy on those days to write something or share something of myself in this space.
Now that I am half a century old, my primary focus this year has shifted from extreme athletic challenges to inward beautification and self-preservation.
Those in the performing arts are doing their part to help ease the burdens of Supertyphoon “Yolanda” victims.
The human body is a miraculous healing machine. It can repair itself back to perfect balance when disease strikes. While the wonders of modern medicine can rescue the body during an emergency, whether it is through surgery or pharmaceutical intervention, there is a far greater power contained within us all.
During the last 20 years, there were many alternative methods that emerged, each with its own set of adherents, disciples and promoters. The sheer variety of such methods or modalities make it difficult for the average person to understand, much less to choose which one is best for him or her.
“The mind holds no clinical significance in today’s modern medical practice,” laments Dr. Bernie Siegel in his pioneering book “Peace, Love and Healing.” In fact the mind is completely ignored by most physicians in the treatment of disease.
At the start of the semester, there is one lesson that I try to drill into my student’s heads—the fallacy that time heals all wounds. Time doesn’t, I tell them. Rather, it is what we do with the time that heals the wounds.
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