Symptoms (WAS: I just went 100% and have some questions. Thanks Jesse!)

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Kathryn Wolfe [wolfe_kathryn] Sunday, July 10, 2005

4:27 PM

Re: [Rawschool] I just went 100% and have some questions. Thanks

Jesse!

 

Thanks Jesse. I'll try the milk thistle for my headache.

I went to the Stampede with my kids today. Talk about temptation city.

Cotton candy, corn dogs, fries, every kind of food on this planet and the

smells! I didn't eat a thing! I brought my bag of cuccumbers and some

oranges. We were there 9 hours today. My headache seems to have gone away.

Hopefully it stays away.

Thanks,

Kathryn

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Hi Kathryn and all,

Been awhile since I posted about this, so I'll share this bit of perspective

once again.

 

Take nothing to " get rid of " your headache. Instead, drink water ONLY, lie

down, close your eyes, and rest awhile. Focus on appreciating your headache,

for if you did not have that headache, you might experience far worse

symptoms indeed.

 

We have all been " educated " to attach our symptoms, those things we

experience in our bodies that make us feel discomfort, pain, etc. And we

have all been terribly misled in this regard.

 

You see, there are two vitally important things to know about symptoms;

 

1. The discomfort we experience accompanying symptoms is a brilliant

expression of our organism's divinely endowed innate intelligence. Such

discomfort, as in a headache, is actually the way the subconscious mind --

which runs our entire physiology -- communicates with our conscious mind. In

this sense, every headache presents a new opportunity to learn to listen to

your body. And with generic headaches, the general message is, as I

mentioned above, simply this: drink water, lie down, close eyes, rest. To

attack the symptom is, quite literally, to shoot the messenger.

 

2. Not only are our " feelings " arising from symptoms intended for

communication to the conscious mind, the symptoms themselves ARE the healing

process. This is very important -- symptoms do not signify or indicate a

cleansing or healing process, they ARE that process. This is why virtually

ALL forms of " treatment " ultimately fail, they attack the very process by

which the body is attempting to cleanse and heal itself.

 

So if milk thistle " gets rid of " a headache, this means only that milk

thistle is sufficiently toxic to the body, that the body must divert

resources and focus from its present cleansing (which produced the headache)

to deal with this new poison called " milk thistle. " True, the symptom may go

away -- for the moment -- but in the process you have successfully attacked

and demolished your own body's brilliant solution to something -- you may

not even know to what.

 

In the end, one of the keys to achieving health is to allow it to emerge,

rather than to " create " it. We cannot " get rid of " anything, other than for

the moment, and whatever we drive out today will return in even greater

force in the future, until eventually we either choose to listen, or we

crumble under the accumulated weight of all the times we ignored our own

system's increasingly vocal communications (i.e., increasingly severe

symptoms).

 

Please note that everything I say above presumes that the headache arises

from a substantially physical cause. In my experience, the vast majority of

" headaches " have very strong emotional roots, they are not primarily

physical in origin (though they are indeed a physical manifestation of our

emotional experience), and they continue to recur for years and years until

and unless the underlying emotional issue(s) is resolved. But that is a

topic for another time.

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

 

 

 

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