It seems I may have created more frustration and confusion than I intended. It isvery hard to capture the essence of what I am trying to say sometime in such a short formatting.

So, here is the thing, I did not include many things-that's for sure. There are more and I didn’t go into them all. Some of it I purposely did not go into because I feel that people would derive the negative and not the positive from it. I need to reflect on how to approach that in a separate post.

There is a flip side to this though. The really awesome and incredible thing about the human body is its resilience and its ability to change. Each day is a new one and an opportunity to make change. We are turning cells over in our body constantly and just as we can do things to become more unwell, the opposite is also true. And sometimes it is an unraveling of energies in the body that is in the art of this condition letting go. And, I am not speaking of low vitamin levels or high TSH or things of that sort necessarily-this is a far more complex subject I actually need to get into on a another post as well. I am speaking about the art of the unraveling.

I continue to marvel at what I see and what it sometimes takes to create movement and change in some of my patient's bodies. It is fairly incredible. But, the thing is, this is medicine-not only alternative medicine, but western medicine as well. The lay person often thinks it is all black and white, but, in fact it isn't. Western medicine is obviously much more science based, but even so, it is an art. it is in the art that the truest and greatest doctors do their best work. It is in the human interaction and the discovering and uncovering what is going on with the human being they are interacting with.

This is the beautiful and wonderful parts of these challenges. And, perhaps, this also works to the benefit of the patient as well in these cases even through the frustration. My teacher I studied from my doctorate degreee under used to say that not everyone is meant to get well at the same pace. He actually said not everyone is meant to get well. But, I beleive that everyone who wants to, is meant to. So, if you are here, I bleieve that you can be well. I think this is the first step. Then it is the beleiving that you can and the vision of who you are going to be when you do and lastly the fight to get there. That conviction will serve you well in this process. That belief that you can is what keeps your body fighting. I think the journey sometimes is difficult because a person may have more things they need to uncover and grow from that they have not yet "gotten". This is very philisophical and I apologize if I am offending anyone, but, I do beleive this, and many scientists do beleive in this same vein.

Taking the opportunity to look into the things in your own life that are making you unhappy during this process presents a wonderful opportunity to merge those two processes of physiological change and emotional change and life can become very different. And, please do not misunderstand what I am saying, I am not placing any blame on anyone who is having a hard time healing and suggesting that they are not thinking positively enough. However, I am saying that your body is this live process that is changing with every day you live and realizing that every day is a new one this makes phenomenal change possible.

Although it is an uncomforatable process having to stay in this for longer than you may want to, perhaps the reason for this is the need for more change in all parts of your life and perhaps the time it takes to sort all of that out is what is going to contribute the most to the improvement in the rest of your life.

I can say from my own experiences in life that the things that I have lost, which, if I look at it, are profound, I have gained many times over in what I have gained as a consequence of those losses. I am such a better human being for that. And, ultimately, I never would have acheived health if not for all of that-perhaps I would not even be here at all. And, I look at each day still as an opportunity for furthering my health. I do not take it for granted for even one moment. I take care of my body like a crystal glass-with great delicate care. 

Please have faith, have fight and find that strong place inside of yourself and know that there are always answers to everything. Sometimes finding one's way to those answers takes more doing than you would wish. But, there are alwyas reasons that we may not see until later when we can look back and appreciate them.

Dr.M