Can removing the obstacles to healing help in my recovery?

I guarantee you that every doctor has observed at least one patient overcome an apparently terminal illness or a seemingly hopeless condition and make a miraculously recovery. What factors cause these remarkable occurrences? My belief is that they often involve removal of obstacles to healing.

When I was a third-year medical student at Bastyr University, I observed something almost unbelievable that has stuck with me all these years. The case involved Jim, a 38-year-old man with cataracts. Now, cataracts simply do not form in someone that young unless the patient has a rare metabolic disease, uncontrolled diabetes, or damage - none of which applied to this patient Jim.

Well, when the supervising doctor came in to examine Jim and review our assessment and plan, my clinic partner and I focused on possible biochemical explanations for the cataracts and a treatment program designed to address these possible abnormalities. I was very fortunate that the supervising doctor, Farrah Swan, N.D., was so insightful. After respectfully listening to us, she asked Jim a truly remarkable question: "Are there things happening in your life that you would rather not see?"

Jim's response was a catharsis. There were several sources of pain in his life that he was dealing with - a mother on her deathbed, an alcoholic father drinking himself to death, and painful childhood memories of physical and sexual abuse.Dr. Swan went on to explain to us that there is often a link between the mind and the symptoms and illnesses that our bodies express. As physicians we can look at the body as a script that the mind is writing.

In Jim's case, we referred him to our psychology clinic and his response was truly miraculous. Within three months his well-formed cataracts were no longer present. Most doctors will tell you that this sort of response is not possible, and that is exactly my point.

The human body has an incredible ability to heal spontaneously when the obstacles to healing are removed.

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