This author has on more than one occasion had personal experience in applying the principles and ideas set forth in The Biochemicals of Emotions (see previous posts in 3 parts) through the process of “self-healing.” 

 

I recently came across a collection of drawings, which I used to assist with clearing the congestion in my upper respiratory system from years of allergies (aggravated from smoking).  The drawings had affirmations on them and crude pictures (I’m not an artist) of lungs and outlines of the upper chest with symbols to represent clear passageways; there were cells drawn with heart-shaped nuclei with accompanying words of self acceptance and self love. And perfection in Creator.

 

I was successful in getting free of medications and injections, which I had been saddled with for over 11 years! The images I held of my body in perfect health I know contributed to that transformation.  I had a similar experience in healing my body from needed supplemental thyroid medication several years after a partial thyroidectomy.

 

Ten years ago I experienced a severe knee injury.  I had studied the Medicine Path and worked with my Elder/Mentor, Grandmother Pa’Ris’Ha, in Spiritual Awareness for over ten years at that time.  When I came to her with my injury, Grandmother shared with me that the Alters had created circumstances to provide me an opportunity to come into right relationship with what I had been given as a Medicine Carrier and healer to help others, and yet had done nothing with. Through this injury I was forced to face my own weakness and disbelief and use the medicine I had learned to help myself.  Through this process and journey, I learned how to assist others.

 

The doctor insisted that arthroscopy was mandatory, yet at the same time he was somewhat intrigued by the beginnings of recovery that even he was willing to admit to by the time he saw me three weeks following the initial occurrence. I explained to him some of my experiences in working with a holistic approach to health and healing.  He was willing to give me some time to see if I could recover on my own, but still insisted that surgery would be required if I hadn’t made “satisfactory” progress by 6 months. He told me that because of my advancing age (44 years!) I was in danger of being permanently disabled.

 

I took a picture of a perfect knee from my anatomy book and made several copies. I kept in convenient locations and carried a copy with me.  Whenever I could, I would pull out that picture and focus on it, at the same time sending that picture to what I had come to identify as “cellular memory” – the body’s innate knowing of itself in the state of perfection. I believe this is the “innate intelligence” that Dr. Pert refers to in her book, Molecules of Emotion.  I spoke to that innate knowing – that intelligence – to work together with body’s natural ability to seek balance and wholeness. 

 

It took 9 months – and I credit a Tai Chi class for the final restoration of mobility and fluidity in that joint – but I returned to full utilization of my knee and leg and ten years later, at 55, I run and climb and hike and show no signs whatsoever of the traumatic injury that occurred and that was supposed to have been permanently debilitating.

 

I have been many times blessed by this event in my life, even to this day.  It has helped me to see how vital it is for each of us as Medicine Carriers to use what we have learned -to heal Creator’s children, all the beloved relations, and the Earth Mother herself.  I made a covenant with Creator that as I lift myself up, so shall I lift all others.  That means I agreed to “respond with the ability” (the definition of “responsibility”) to assist others with the application of the teachings I have received. We cannot hoard them. We can only renew them by giving them away.  -Deborah Adler

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