What is self healing?

Due to the grand amount of pathogens, healing is a constant endeavor. When we cut ourselves, our skin heals through the inflammatory process. When we come down with the common cold, our bodies fight off the virus with its army of T cells.

Our bodies are fascinatingly designed to command protocols to take place in pursuit of maintaining balance aka homeostasis. Without any mental or physical labor from us, our bodies naturally defend themselves.

When we are faced with an illness that needs medical attention, the medications we take do not cure us. Instead, they help facilitate the body to do what it knows to do. As a medical professional, I appreciate that we cannot fix the problem, however, we can create a conducive environment for the body to fix itself.

This is self healing. A system well designed to fight off invaders and repair whenever necessary. 

How have you facilitated a conducive environment for your body when it’s under attack? Chicken broth? Electrolytes? Extra rest? 

I've found it is easy for most people to understand this concept about how our bodies work, physically. However, there seems to be a disconnect when we discuss our minds being under attack.

The central nervous system controls everything in our bodies. And it also automatically works hard to maintain regulation. However, counterintuitively when our nervous systems are under attack, we tend to disregard. Instead of facilitating a conducive environment for it to heal and regain balance, we push its limits. 

This commands the nervous system to go into a fight, flight, freeze or fawn phase. Instead of bringing ourselves to a parasympathetic state, also known as the rest and digest state, we keep our bodies in a sympathetic state. This state is excitatory and can exhaust our command center.

Since the nervous system is central and controls the rest of the body, it is empirically significant that we give the same conducive conditions for it to heal. For if our minds are weak, our nervous system is exhausted, and the rest of our systems can become dysregulated and vulnerable.

This is dis-ease. 

So the next time you feel a mental attack, emotional charge or nervous sensation, I encourage you to give your mind the tools it needs to find its home of self healing.