How All of Us Are Wrong About Healing by Boyd Martin

The recent "prophylactic" double mastectomy by Angelina Jolie really got me up on my soapbox a couple of weeks ago. There was so much wrong with it:

The "genetic marker" Jolie and her horribly profit-motivated doctors were so focused on is a promotional hype of the worst kind. The BRCA1 gene has been linked to only 2% of diagnosed breast cancers in those carrying the gene.
The monumental fear-mongering Jolie's actions represent, particularly because she is a world-renown celebrity, amount to psychic terrorism of the worst kind.
There is NO, nada, zero evidence that "preventative surgery" allowed anyone to "avoid" actual cancer in the long term. The entire premise is flawed, based on on "risk assessments" that have profit motives. The BRCA1 gene has a patent on it, so any research or diagnostic procedures around it must be licensed, which is why the BRCA1 marker test is prohibitively expensive, and not covered by most insurance.
Drastic surgery like this is a major amputation. If anything, Jolie is majorly stressing her immune system and making it more possible for her to "get" cancer. Just the fear alone she must have to do such self-mutilation has all kinds of side-effects for her immune, cardiovascular and endocrine systems. It's like seeing a fly and because you are terrified of flies, you attack it with a sledge hammer, but the moment the sledge hammer strikes you see it was merely a shadow of a fly.

I further posit that we, in "modern" society, have no clue about what our bodies are telling us. We don't understand pain--other than it is something to get rid of as fast as we can. We don't understand the whole concept of "symptomology". And we certainly do not understand the concept of "disease", or "healing".

In holistic energy medicine--quantum medicine, if you will--a person is considered a spiritual being who is quantum-entangled with a body. It is sort of like having a pet. The "pet", however, is made up of complex energy patterns that it is continually attempting to balance, harmonize and bring to homeostasis. A person's thoughts, feelings and actions all affect this matrix of body energy.

We have made an agreement with this body system that whenever there is a "disturbance in the force", there is a corresponding signal to the body's command center, the brain. This signal can be in the form of everything from pain to mild discomfort. No matter what it is, it is a disturbance in the energy field of the body, and those sensations we all feel are the body's efforts to return to homeostasis.

This is where we have given up personal responsibliity, canceling our intuitive abilities, and handing everything over to "medical professionals" whose entire livelihood depends upon something being wrong with us. They perform perverse tests against mostly arbitrary "norms", have outrageously wrong ideas about nutrition, and an entire belief system that ignores the FACT that the body is a living energy system. These "experts" INSIST the body is instead a MACHINE that suffers "deficiencies" and "breakdowns" over time. We all buy into this, and like zombies, get our annual "checkups" that compare our blood, urine and hair against what is accepted as "average", "normal" values. If we're outside the lines of what is "normal", these medicos parade out the latest pharmaceutical "science" to somehow "regulate" something our bodies are already working to regulate.

This interference with the body's process of re-establishing balance leads to further "symptoms" that require more and more actions by the medicos. It's not surprising that the greatest sources of diseases and conditions are hospitals.

The questions abound: Why is preventative medicine not practiced by the majority of doctors? Why are doctors not required to be trained in nutrition? Why are spontaneous healings hardly ever seriously researched? Why are alternative methods of treatment that have been shown to work, not researched, and instead attacked as "quackery"? The simple answer is self-defense.

Doctors are in the business of disease, not health. Most "conditions" are treated in such a way that virtually guarantees failure. Even if there may be a temporary improvement, at some point down the line, the condition returns, or some other condition crops up as a result of the treatment. A perfect example is chemotherapy, with its 3% lifetime "success rate", and which has been proven to make cancers more aggressive. Yet, we keep submitting to this outrageous procedure believing it's our "best shot".

I'm a big fan of Dr. Carolyn Dean, M.D., who calls what she does "the future of medicine." On a recent conference call she was berating some of what is considered "normal" for such tests as cholesterol. She noted that 40 years ago, 220-240 was a "normal" reading. Now it's considered too high, requiring drugs to bring it down. Blood pressure is another one, which can vary greatly from person to person, environment to environment, often depending on the person's belief system. She believes in letting the body run its own processes, and support it with smart self-care.

Now I'm not saying that Western Medicine has no place in the world--that would be throwing the baby out with the bath water. What I'm referring to here is the extreme narcissism of it and its refusal to acknowledge that the body is a self-correcting energy system. Emergency medicine has an important place, as does preventative medicine. But that's just about where it should end.

What we, as body owners, must understand is that the body is in a constant state of change, re-balancing, and normalizing. It knows what to do. Too often we jump off into fear mode at the least little twinge, and go running to doctors or healers under the mistaken belief that something is really wrong. Well, something might be really wrong, it's true, but the body is already working on it, and knows what to do about it. We need to relax, breath, take a drink of water, and do our spiritual work. That is where our real job lies.

So how should we approach body pains and discomforts? Observe them, accept them, embrace them, ask what to do to help. Establish a pet/owner relationship with your body. Love it, listen to it, take care of it. It will tell you what it needs for you to do, if anything. If you have anxiety about how the body feels, do some personal inquiry on the true source of that anxiety, since the anxiety itself may be what is exacerbating the condition or preventing the body from quickly resolving it.

Again, it's all about energy, and we all have the super-ability to change our minds and change our feelings. The body is crying out for us to feel good, be happy and be in love. It makes the body's job a whole lot easier.