According to many sources in the mainstream medical literature, anywhere from 60-90% of illnesses have stress-related emotional underpinnings, which can be translated into one word—trauma. Indigenous healers, shamans, energy healers, and gurus have known this for millennia, but in spite of statistics thrown around in medical journals, the medical community’s approach to disease treatment has been slow to catch up. The good news is that things are changing, and this idea that psycho-spiritual trauma needs to be part of most disease treatment is going full blown mainstream. California surgeon general and pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris, MD even did a TED talk five million people have seen about how childhood trauma affects health across your lifetime and often results in adult-onset disease.
Shout outs by mainstream medical leaders like Dr. Harris show that the needle is moving and the mainstream is catching up. The unmistakable linkbetween unhealed trauma and disease is an inconvenient truth that people have hoped to steer clear of, indulging in the inaccurate but understandable wishful thinking that a pill, an injection, or a surgery can cure the problem without requiring people to delve into the pains of the past. Unfortunately, the science is starting to catch up to what the medicine men and women have known for millennia—that trauma predisposes you to disease, and if you wish to optimize health outcomes, you have to be willing to address the untreated traumas every single one of us has experienced.
You Are More Than Just A Machine of Biomechanical Parts
The medical community is now waking up to the errors of reductionism. More and more clinical data points to what we intuitively know, that our assumptions about what predisposes people to illness and what really cures disease are far more mysterious and the roots lie far deeper than what a reductionist’s view of a biomechanical breakdown of the body might imply. In other words, although conventional medical treatments or even energy healing treatments might appear to cure disease in the short run, blocks in the energy system caused by unhealed trauma make you vulnerable to recurrences of the original illness or the appearance of new, seemingly unrelated illnesses. Even the energy healers I have interviewed for my Sacred Medicine research admit that if you blast an illness with the “energy” that comes through a healer, for example, it often works temporarily, but diseases often recur or the patient gets a new, seemingly unrelated illness. Rarely do conventional or alternative medical treatments seem to work permanently if unhealed trauma creates blocks in what researchers call the “biofield.”
In other words, we don’t seem to be able to get away with permanently treating and curing disease without also treating the psycho-spiritual, environmental, generational, or even (dare I say it?) past life traumas that predispose us to getting sick in the first place.
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