"UnKa" <monsterbrat49@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> What is the most powerful weapon you have to heal yourself?
>
> Some might say, a doctor, some medicine or herbs, while they all do
> play a part, the biggest and most important thing is your brain.
>
> Many, Many studies have shown how effective the placebo is, usually
> done in a double blind study, they have show marked improvements in as
> little as 45% of the patients and as much as 55%. Now imagine that,
> getting over an illness on sugar pills.
>
> What I am sure of is that if patient thinks something will work, it
> usually will unless they have negative beliefs lurking around below
> consciousness.
>
> Studies have also shown that patients with negative beliefs, tend to
> die much faster after a recovery, then patients with positive beliefs.
>
> So now the question should be asked of each and everyone of you, if you
> were to get sick, what will your beliefs do for you, help you or hinder
> you. It might be a good time to just sit down that think of it before
> an illness strikes.
>
> Your mind just might be the determining factor on weather your going to
> get healthy again or remain sick.
>
> It also comes down to how much faith you have in your doctor and or his
> wisdom on healing.
> Most people use tradtional doctors, who will put them on medicines and
> the patient never recovers or remains sick, bad medicine? Or do they
> have an identity belief that holds them captive and addicted to
> medicine???
>
> How much do beliefs really play a part? How much do you do to take back
> control of you health from those who would ruin it?
>
> I am eagerly awaiting your response, on what you think, but if all your
> going to do is troll, then let me tell you in advance....to go fuck
> yourself.
>
I am still working on what follows such that I can turn it into an oral
story (I very nearly premiered it last night, but on reflection felt it
needed modification: the spoken tale differs significantly from the
written).
I'll publish the final oral version here when I've done it: comments
welcome.
The two brothers brought their shaking sister to the wizard's cave. They
said she had been possessed by demons for five summers and although they
had
tried all manner of cures to heal her - leeches apothecary's potions,
lotions, the laying on of hands - all had failed.
The men quivered as they spoke, admitting they were frightened of the
wizard
and had only come to enlist his aid as a last resort.
The wizard sat the woman down and gazed deeply into her eyes.
'I want to talk to you for a while,' he began softly, 'about memories and
apples.
I know this seems to be a strange subject to discuss but I'm sure, as I
proceed, you'll see there are some similarities between the two, things
that
one can learn from.
Has it ever occurred to you that memories are like apples in that some of
them grow in parts of the tree accessible from the ground, whilst to reach
others one must use a ladder?
They are also like apples in that some memories are crisp and shiny, safe
to
hold and to eat, whilst others - the ones we normally avoid - very often
appear to be indigestible and we avoid them.
Memories can also be thought of as apples in that each one appears to be
individual, yet when one looks carefully, one sees they all emanate from
the
same tree, and as there is an apple tree, there is also a tree of
memories,
a memory tree.
Now, as there are many kinds of trees, and many kinds of apples and
memories, there are also many kinds of ladders: wooden ladders, rope
ladders, extending ladders, step ladders, but to reach the inaccessible
apples on an apple tree, one needs a very special kind of ladder.
To reach a particular memory, and not cause any damage, one needs a ladder
that can reach deep into the branches without causing any disturbance to
the
rest of the tree.
Ladders are like words in that there are many different kinds of words -
short words, long words, compound words, simple words, and ladders are
also
like arrows in that they can be pointed, and pointed in specific
directions
towards particular apples, like words can be pointed towards particular
memories in a memory tree. Imagine you have an apple tree before you, and
know that as you do this that the very act of imagining is the act of
invoking a memory - so it's a really a memory tree that you are
visualising.
You also have a ladder, a safe, sturdy ladder, and deep in the body of the
tree, up there hidden in the rich foliage, you can see a sickly apple
hiding, deep in the tree, that has been causing problems.
What I want you to do is to put your ladder against the tree - and when I
say ladder realise that is a word for an actual thing we call a ladder -
being careful not to disturb anything else, and climb up there and take a
good look at this particular apple, not just with your eyes but with your
entire body, your whole being.
Smell it, feel it, stroke it - feel the texture and listen to the sound as
you draw your hand across the surface, perhaps lick it and have a little
taste.
As you do this, be aware that although you personally may know little
about
horticulture, your body is part of the Earth, and its constituent elements
are as ancient as the Earth itself.
It feels and hears everything about you by tone and movement, it is
listening right now.
It is a holistic master gardener, a gardener that knows everything that
there is, or ever was, or will be to know about plants, shrubs and trees -
especially trees of the kind you are now examining, and it knows and works
in a subtle, non-verbal way.
Your body knows precisely what to do to cure sick fruit and trees. It also
knows precisely whether or not such a cure is indeed timely and necessary.
Even more, your body itself is like a tree: it has a trunk, branches in
the
form of arms and legs, and an intricate internal network of veins and
nerves
for the distribution of the life force.
This body of yours is more than it appears.
If you had an incredibly powerful eyeglass you would be able to see that
it
comprises a tremendously complex arrangement of minute, dancing particles
known as atoms - which themselves are made of even smaller, finer
particles,
particles as old as the universe itself. With your powerful eyeglass, you
could see that the structure, the arrangement of these particles inside
your
body, resembles that of a tree, with some groups of particles being formed
into strings just like branches, some of them growing from the branches as
wholesome fruit and perhaps a few, only a few, growing in a disordered
fashion.
Look on as the examination takes place.
Now look again at the tree and it's malaise.
Let your body consider a number of cures from the vast repertoire it has
available, and let it considr carefully what pruning and modification to
soil structure, feed and care needs attention.
When it has done so it will give you a sign - possibly in the manner of a
small twitch or a feeling, but certainly in a manner you will recognise.
Let the examination proceed until you have this signal - you can do this
at
your leisure, as you go about your daily business or even as you sleep,
for
this is the body's work and it can take its time.
Your body can then consider the entire structure of the tree and decide
whether or not it is safe to implement the specific cure whilst bearing in
mind the well-being of the whole tree.
When this is done - and this may be tomorrow, in five minutes time or next
week, your body will know - and it can begin to steadily descend the
ladder,
carefully and step by step, then put it away safely and walk calmly away
from the tree, knowing that whatever has happened to the sick fruit, for
good or ill, has happened in the context of the overall well-being of the
apple tree.'
The woman fell into a deep swoon and the wizard turned to her brothers.
'The spell is in place. Let her sleep now. If and when her body wills it,
the demons will be gone.'
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