Your Body Can Heal Itself!
Yesterday at
work, I overheard my two co-workers talking about the allergy medications they
were taking.
“I take Zyrtec
day time and Benadryl at night” one of my co-workers said
I love Tavist,
it works wonder for me. I am very happy
taking it, maybe you should try too”, the other responded.
Later, I could
not help but telling one of them that she was putting poison into her body by
taking so many medications. I advised
her to strengthen her immune system instead. She did not take it so gratefully;
perhaps she thought that I should mind my own business.
The problem in
the American society now is that there are so many TV advertisements about
drugs. Every time when we have a problem
with our body, there are drugs to take, over the counter or prescription. If we overweight, take a pill, if we have a
headache, take another pill. If that
pill gives us side effects, take another pill to suppress those symptoms, just
keep taking pills. We taking pills as if
we are taking candies, it is really no big deal.
The advance medicine
and science open up all the possibilities for mankind that we, human, can manipulate
our bodies whatever way we want, even it is totally against nature. If we do not like how our face looks, we can
inject Botox. If we do not like our
belly fat, we can do a liposuction. What
harm do those “foreign substances” do to our bodies, no one really cares. So long as they can make us look and feel
better, it is all right. After all, our doctors
prescribe them, right? Occasionally, I
was a victim of those “quick fixes” as well.
Since I came
back from the backpacking trip two months ago, the pain of my neck, shoulders
and lower back linger. I took an X-ray,
MRI twice, went from doctor to doctor, visited one specialist to another, and
kept taking prescription drugs. For a
while, I took the doctors’ advice and drugged myself with high dosage of pain
killers. But when the pain returned after I stop taking them, I knew I have not
yet solved my problem. Until I find out
what causes the pain, my body will keep screaming at me with the acute
pain. So I refuse to take anymore
medicines. I go onto internet, educate
myself about my body, read books about how to reverse neck, shoulders and back
pain naturally and try to understand my bodily structure, and eventually go
visiting a Chiropractor for his advice. After
four sections, 99% of my pain is gone and I did not even take a single pill.
Today, I feel
much better about my pain. I understand what I did wrong. Taking medicine is not the answer. Pills may temporarily hide my pain, but they
do not help my body to heal. These past
two months suffering from the pain makes me understand my body more. How important it is to treat my body with
respect. How powerful it is to maintain
a positive altitude, believe in my body can and will heal itself even without
taking all the poison drugs and a neck surgery!
My age is
catching up with me. Even I do not have
to give up all the outdoors activities that I enjoy doing, but I must listen to
my body. If the activity turns out to be
too much for my body, (such as carrying 40 lbs on my back and hike 13 hours
nonstop) I need to reconsider, take precaution and not be foolish enough to
keep convincing myself that I CAN DO IT.
The fact is I CAN NOT! I have to accept it.
I can become
whole again. All the positive thinking,
acceptance, integrity and sense of humor help me to heal. I am on my way to recover, I must believe!
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