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| All clinically based healing begins with a sense that something has gone wrong and progresses as we understand and change the origins of this 'sense'. This process has several assumptions which are often ignored. Once acknowledged however, they can provide powerful healing insights. To begin to gain insight and act creatively towards restoring health, we need to accept what is happening and that our current sense of well-being or discomfort is usually the result of many factors, some under our influence and some not. It's easy to under-estimate how powerful this simple act of acceptance is in any healing. One assumption that we commonly live with is that my 'self', is somehow permanent. That who 'I am' is somehow a knowable constant that lives within me. It may have come as a shock to us when we become unwell as we usually expect life to keep going just as it has been and then our health changes. This upsets things as we adjust to how illness alters our lives. Another assumption is that this 'self' is alive in the future or the past. One of the most common health problems is a sense of anxiety or fear, that something unpleasant is going to happen soon, or something that has happened is often expected to happen again. This can be described as 'futurising' ie something is going to happen or 'past focused' where a previous learning continually causes us to anticipate something to happen again. When these expectations are at work in us, they almost always operate subconsciously and may feel that our one's life is almost out of control. The key idea here is that we are not actively living in present 'time and place'. Various writers have described this experience with great clarity and research in the last few years has shown how our bodies and brains change as a result of this experience causing such things as altered appetite, memory function and tiredness. The various approaches used in the clinic all reflect models or ways of understanding what we are made of and how it is working. Its interesting to note here that we have only one body and one consciousness and yet so many things need to work well for our life's experience, this one consciousness, to be healthy. In this materialist world, the medical model is very useful. It will describe a number of variables and reference these to 'normal' values which do not identify any one person's health. They simply are averages and are not considered against other parameters of a person's biochemistry. First Visit
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