(NaturalNews) This article continues our 15-part article series called
Heal Yourself in 15 Days. In part one, we looked at why the real secret to rapid healing is to
remove the barriers to healing (
http://www.naturalnews.com/028053_self_healing_quality_of_life.html). In part two, we look at why your healing potential is so powerful that you can't even turn it off!
When you scrape your elbow, a bit of blood oozes out to clean the wound and wash away bacteria. It then forms a protective scab that keeps out invading microorganisms while your
skin has a chance to heal underneath. There, some real magic takes place: Your skin cells innately recognize the need to divide and grow to fill the wound. A cancer-like process is unleashed at the cellular level, activating nearby cells to divide and grow. Your
DNA is replicated in the nucleus of each cell with the help of some of the most astounding
nanotechnology every witnessed in human civilization. (The best scientists in the world can't even come close to recreating it.)
As your cells multiply,
nutrients and building blocks are carried to them through a
blood supply that adapts to the particular size and shape of the wound. If a blood vessel was destroyed in your accident, the growth of new blood vessels is spontaneously initiated to take their place, and they grow into the tissues within mere hours.
As your skin cells fill in the previous wound, the replication effort is delicately turned off, one by one, so that replicating skin cells don't keep replicating beyond what they need to -- a process that would cause the creation of a skin tumor. Your body's cells know exactly when to grow and exactly when to turn off, and when it's all said and done, you're left with a perfect replacement for the skin you previously lost.
Completely automatic healing
The truly amazing part of all this is not the cancer-like processes that are delicately controlled by your
body wisdom; it's not even the fact that your body has the ability to re-grow lost cells -- it's the fact that
all this takes place without any conscious involvement on your part.
Healing yourself is
automatic, in other words. You don't have to direct blood to the wound, direct the cells to start replicating, direct the molecular waste
products to be carried away and decide when cell replication should be stopped. All this happens without your involvement -- even without your
awareness! Much of it happens while you sleep, in fact. While your conscious mind is dreaming, your innate body wisdom is working the biochemistry and energetic transformations necessary to repair your tissues.
You can't stop this process even if you wanted to. You could try to focus all your mental
power on your skin not healing, and yet your skin would heal itself anyway.
That's because
your body is a powerful self-healing organism. It heals itself automatically, innately, without your conscious awareness or involvement. Your ability to heal yourself is so powerful that
you can't stop yourself from healing!Why we don't always heal
If this is true, then why aren't you healing everything else? Why aren't you always in perfect
health? The answer, as you've seen throughout this
article series, is because we tend to erect barriers to our own healing. And we often misread the
symptoms of sickness that are asking for help, "treating" them in a way that makes the situation worse.
Fact: Many "symptoms of
disease" are actually the result of your body's attempt to heal itself.
For example, most people are chronically
dehydrated. They don't consume enough high-quality
water. Because water is so vital for proper blood composition, when your body lacks sufficient quantities of water intake, it begins to take action
to reduce water loss.
A significant portion of the water loss experienced by the body each day is lost through
respiration -- a bit of water vapor is exhaled with each breath. So to conserve water, your body attempts to reduce water loss during respiration by constricting your bronchial tubes through the creation of
histamines.
These histamines constrict
breathing, making it more physically difficult. Modern (western)
medicine misdiagnoses this as a disease called "asthma" rather than the true underlying cause which is often simply
dehydration. So instead of prescribing water, which would solve the underlying water shortage and end the body's creation of histamines,
western doctors prescribe
anti-histamine drugs that force the bronchial tubes to relax and ease air flow. This, of course, promotes further dehydration, leaving the patient in a more severe state of water loss.
So you see, the body is attempting to heal itself, and the symptom of histamine production is a
mechanism by which the body is attempting to heal, but it is misinterpreted by
western medicine and then made worse by misguided interventions.
Blood pressure
Another good example of this is
high blood pressure. High blood pressure is often caused by something I refer to as "sludge blood" -- blood that's too thick and viscous to flow freely through the body's small capillaries. So in order to make sure good
circulation is taking place, the heart has to pump harder, thereby raising
blood pressure. This is the body's way of making sure this thick blood reaches all the cells throughout the body (cells that don't receive blood will die, and that's bad).
But
healthy blood shouldn't be so viscous. It should flow more freely, with less friction. When blood is properly hydrated and nourished with the right
fatty acids (more omega-3s in particular), the heart does not need to work as hard to pump it throughout the body, so blood pressure automatically drops. (It's like the difference between sucking water through a straw versus sucking
honey through a straw... the more sticky and thick the honey, the more pressure it takes to move it.)
Western medicine completely misdiagnoses this situation and says that "high blood pressure" is itself a disease. And this high blood pressure is attacked with drugs that
artificially lower blood pressure by forcing artery walls to relax.
As you might have guessed, this then immediately
causes circulation problems because the thick sludge blood is no longer reaching all the cells it needs to reach. That's why people who take high blood pressure
medications very often end up with
circulation problems. Their underlying problem of "sludge blood" remains unresolved.
Symptoms such as high blood pressure as your body's way of communicating with you to address the underlying causes. In the majority of cases,
patients with high blood pressure simply need more water, more living nutrients (such as raw living plant juices), more
omega-3 fatty acids and a sharp reduction in the consumption of animal products. Within as little as five days after embracing such
changes, blood pressure normalizes as the blood itself becomes more hydrated and free to flow throughout the circulatory system.
Your body knows all this. Western
doctors know none of it. High Blood Pressure is treated as a disease unto itself with virtually no thought given to what underlying causes might be creating this measurable symptom.
Your body is trying to heal itself all the time
Both "asthma" and "high blood pressure" are fictional diseases. In other words, they don't really exist as self-contained, standalone diseases. They are merely
symptoms of something else that your body is attempting to balance.
In order to activate your body's innate healing potential, you must learn to
listen to what your body is really asking for and give it those things instead of intervening with chemical medications, surgeries and toxic therapies like
chemotherapy.
Western medicine misinterprets virtually all expressions of physiology. If you wish to be healthy, you must learn to reinterpret your body's messages in alignment with the true principles of health. Difficulty in breathing, for example, may simply be a sign of dehydration. High blood pressure may be a sign of dehydration or poor
diet.
Cancer is a sign of cellular miscommunication. A tumor is a sign that cells in your body aren't getting the right message of when to stop dividing. (A tumor is merely a wayward cell that keeps dividing.) Cellular
communication can be reestablished through changes in diet, environment, mental state and proper exposure to sunlight (among other things).
So keep in mind that your body is always trying to heal itself. "Symptoms" of disease are often just cries for help from your own biology. The wise patient listens to those cries for help, attempts to understand what they mean, and addresses them through self-care. The unwise patient attempts to silence symptoms through chemical intervention: Pain killers, chemical
pharmaceuticals, surgery and other interventions. Western doctors are not trained in proper symptom interpretation and rebalancing. They are only trained in symptom "management" which means reducing symptoms through artificial intervention.
Why you are such a self-healing miracle
Your body is one of Mother Nature's most miraculous accomplishments. You possess unbelievably complex nanotechnology in your
immune system. Your neurology exceeds the capabilities of the most advanced supercomputers in the world. Your sensory systems contain
technology so advanced that even the most well-funded laboratories in the world don't have machines that can match what you have right in your nose.
Your reproductive system is a miracle of
life; your bones are astounding structural engineering feats (or feets!); and your internal
organs such as your heart and liver actually store their own
memories and emotions. We know this because organ donor recipients often take on the memories and experiences of those from which the organs were originally harvested.
In other words,
you are a miracle of nature, and your body has such powerful healing potential available to itself right now that the only way you can even stop the healing is to interfere with it (with pharmaceuticals, for example).
And yet, sadly, that's what most people do: They numb their bodies with painkiller medications. They shut down their immune systems with chemotherapy. They shock their
neurology with vaccines containing inflammatory
chemicals. They interfere, override and interject all sorts of artificial chemicals, procedures and unnatural therapies.
This is what shuts off healing. This is what leaves patients unable to heal in the way they are capable of healing -- automatically, unconsciously and with zero effort.
So if you really want to heal yourself, first recognize that
you are a miraculous self-healing organism. And secondly, recognize that if healing is not happening, it may very well be because you have inadvertently interfered with the healing process by introducing artificial chemicals or other elements that hold your healing potential prisoner.
Attaining health requires allowing healing to take place
Healthy people aren't healthy just because they eat superfoods and drink living juices all day long. They are healthy because they
avoid poisoning their bodies with pharmaceuticals, artificial sweeteners, MSG and other processed
food ingredients. They avoid the chemicals in cosmetics, personal care products, household cleaning products and lawn care products. They avoid consuming meat from animals who have been pumped full of hormones and antibiotics. They keep their bodies as free from pollution as possible, and as a result,
their innate healing powers are always working for them!You have exactly the same healing potential as I do. Your body can heal itself from
cancer, from diabetes, from heart disease and from other "made-up" disease names like asthma and high blood pressure. All that's really required is for you to embrace the healing potential you already possess, and then avoid all those things that interfere with it.
If you believe in
God and Creation, then take comfort in the idea that your body is created in God's image, meaning that you are a perfect healing being as is He.
If you believe in
evolution and Darwinism, then take comfort in the idea that your body is the result of millions of years of evolution that have given you a successful, proven DNA blueprint for preventing
sickness and disease -- long before
vaccines and western medicine ever came along.
No matter what your philosophical approach, either way you still believe that your body is an amazing self-healing organism. And that's good news because it means you already have the blueprint for powerful healing.
Now simply activate it!
This article series "Heal yourself in 15 days" continues in part three, right here on
NaturalNews.
In case you missed it, here's part one:
http://www.naturalnews.com/028053_self_healing_quality_of_life.html
About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health author and award-winning journalist with a strong interest in personal health, the environment and the power of nature to help us all heal He has authored and published thousands of articles, interviews, consumers guides, and books on topics like health and the environment, impacting the lives of millions of readers around the world who are experiencing phenomenal health benefits from reading his articles. Adams is an independent journalist with strong ethics who does not get paid to write articles about any product or company. In 2010, Adams co-founded NaturalNews.TV, a natural health video sharing site that has now grown in popularity. He's also a noted technology pioneer and founded a software company in 1993 that developed the HTML email newsletter software currently powering the NaturalNews subscriptions. Adams also serves as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a non-profit consumer protection group, and pursues hobbies such as martial arts, Capoeira, nature macrophotography and organic gardening.
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