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Practical home healing: more than herbs and water PRACTICAL HOME HEALING: MORE THAN HERBS AND WATER
A good portion of the value of natural home treatments lies in the understanding of what is happening in the body. For this very reason, when the practitioner has decided upon a course of action to be followed for a problem, both the nature of the problem and the proposed course of treatment is openly discussed with the patient. This is of tremendous value because the more intelligent the patient is in this respect, the more his mind will cooperate with the treatment, making it more effective on the body.
The cooperation of the mind of the patient is very important to you, as the practitioner, and winning the patient's confidence is the first requisite in a successful course of treatment. Many scientific studies have produced evidence leading to the inescapable conclusion that the mind has a great deal of influence over leading a person into or out of illness or even death. An article from Psychology Today, November 1977, by Dr. George Engel of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry revealed interesting results from several studies done on cases of sudden death. In an outstanding percentage of the cases studied, the victims were confronted with situations in which they felt as though they had lost control. Seeming to conclude that it was no longer worthwhile to try and change the situation, they mentally resigned themselves to death, and it was not long after that this result did indeed follow the assuming of this hopeless surrender.
The mind can have an effect just as powerfully positive as negative. The wise practitioner will do everything he can to remove the skepticism and enlist the willing cooperation of his patient, knowing that the result will be a significantly speedier recovery. When this relationship between the mind and the body is understood as it should be, it will be recognized that the best and most skillfully carried out treatments will bring little success if forced upon the patient against his will.
With this in mind, discuss with your patient, if he is of an age of understanding, what laws you think have been violated. Tell him when you think there is a congestion indicated by the pain he is having, and show him how the water, or steam, or whatever you will apply will increase the power of the circulation to take away poisons and wastes from this area toward the eliminative organs. When using natural treatments, every little thing will help and you should never feel that you are losing time by attempting to bring the patient's body into a cooperative state through enlisting the support of his mind.
The effect of the influence of the health worker on the patient should not be underestimated. Each of us possesses an atmosphere around us that makes it impossible for us to live to ourselves. This personal atmosphere affects every person with whom we come into contact. And its effect is not neutral; it is either negative or positive. The successful health worker's life will be charged with faith, courage, and hope. This is the only atmosphere that will be of benefit to the sick person who will be discouraged, morose, and faithless. Much of the patient's final outcome depends on the practitioner's attitudes and frame of mind.
It is the privilege of the home healer to be an instrument through which the healing power of Christ's love may be conveyed to the sick one. As it is received, the love of Christ will be a vitalizing power that diffuses through the whole being. "Every vital part—the brain, the heart, the nerves—it touches with healing. By it the highest energies of the being are roused to activity. It frees the soul from the guilt and sorrow, the anxiety and care that crush the life forces. With it come serenity and composure. It implants in the soul joy that nothing earthly can destroy— . . . health-giving, life-giving joy." The Ministry of Healing, Ellen G. White, Pacific Press Publishing Association, Mountain View, California, 1942.
In this light it is to be seen how important love as a healing power really is. The power that Christ exercised to heal disease, cast out demons, and raise the dead was the power of faithful, never-changing love. His patients had faith in Him because they received from Him love which was so constant and unchanging that they knew His promises would always be realized. His word was sure. "The same power that Christ exercised when He walked visibly among men is in His word. It was by His word that Jesus healed disease and cast out demons. ... It is in these promises that Christ communicates to us His grace and power. . . . Nothing else can have such healing power." ibid.
However, it is a fact that a person cannot give what he does not have. The healing power of love comes from God, for God is love. Only as the health worker receives Christ's healing power into his own life will he be able to impart it to others, and the more of His love he receives, the more healing power he will have to impart.
The love that God gives is based on total freedom. Under His government compelling power is never to be found. Down through the annals of history it has been His policy to allow men to perish, if they so choose, rather than to force His will upon them, even though it would have been for their own good.
Likewise, we must in love give this freedom to our patients. If at any time the patient is hesitant or reluctant to proceed with a certain course of treatment, the practitioner should respect his wishes. He must never assert himself over a patient nor insist that the patient submit to a course against his will. It is a mistake to suppose that in doing this it would be done "for the patient's own good." The use of force is contrary to the principle of love and will inhibit rather than activate the healing powers of the body.
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