Re: all healing is self-healing

Great post, Zoebess. All so true.
Think about it; how many drugs do you know that REALLY heal diseases quickly, at will, purely by virtue of an outside agent?
There are hardly any--maybe Antibiotics , but they have serious side effects anyway.
But the medical and pharmaceutical profession cannot tell you that, because if they did, they would go bankrupt. So they keep turning out drugs and more drugs, creating false hopes that cannot realistically be fullfilled, just like politicians.
The fact of the matter is that most drugs are useless or harmful. By believing in miracle cures you expose yourself to repeated disapointment.
You can no more heal most diseases at will/by an outside agent that you can force a tomato to ripen or a foetus to grow into a baby quicker. These are natural processes we have little control of.
except that if you want to have to a healthy baby, you better make sure that the mother is not harmed or stressed in any way, and that she has the best possible food and rest. This being done,let nature take its course, there is no other alternative anyway.
In order to heal,you must first remove from your environment the things that led to this unbalance. Then give your body all the nutriments and conditions it needs to heal itself. As zoebess underlines, you are not going to heal unless you correct the conditions that created the problem in the first place.
''Forcing'' your body to heal is like whipping a sick horse. If healing was a matter of willpower and money, rich people would never die.;-D

I am very aware that candida or whatever it is I/we have is hell--I have no social life, no job, I live like a recluse, at some time I was at death door, thought many times about suicide--even got directions for a relatively painless death--and I can die anytime from anaphylactic shock.
But this disease forced me to relinquish the Western attitude that wants instant gratification, instant release, and believes that you deal with natural forces by bending them to one's will.

With healing, this attitude just does not work, in fact it adds to the burden created by the disease and it might perpetuate it--by creating inner tension, anger, unrealistic expectations and an endless roller coaster of hope and disapointment.
Against something that is stronger than you,don't try to fight the tide, go with the flow,like in Eastern martial arts.
There are still days when I feel bad enough that I would like to whack ;-D anybody telling me that to my face but, although it might be unpleasant to hear, deep down I know it's all true.
Take good care of yourself, scarface, my heart goes to you.