From the Newsletter: Food, Water, and…?

I don’t remember now where I first read it, but I do remember the feeling of reading it. And I’m sure that many of you do, too.

In some article or book, the author put forth the idea that spirituality was the belief in something more intelligent than myself. It was a simple idea that transcended the limitations of any religion, and it felt right to me.

These days, I find myself talking an awful lot about spirituality with my patients, so I often fall back on that statement.

That may sound kind of strange for a doctor- talking about spirituality with my patients. After all, they are not coming in complaining of any kind of existential crisis; rather my patients come to me with pain, fatigue, and many other kinds of physical complaints.

But for years, now, I have doggedly pursued the deeper causes of these physical illnesses. I have kept asking the question, “why?” when faced with a potential cause of illness; a strategy that has led me progressively deeper into the complex layers of the human body.

I have helped people with their diet, their supplements, their brain chemistry, their emotions, and their electro-magnetic fields. And at each stop, I find out that I need to go deeper because there are some patients that haven’t been helped.

And, so, I now help people with their connection to something greater than themselves. I literally help them connect their spirituality into their physical bodies to help bring resolution to their illnesses.

Three or four years ago, I heard a story from a fellow practitioner about a sociopath she had worked with who had absolutely no moral sense. This man had no concept of right or wrong, and he had no empathy for the feelings or rights of other people. Needless to say, these deficits left him a very dangerous man. The practitioner told me that this man had been a victim of horrific child abuse; specifically he had been extremely neglected. I don’t remember the exact details- whether he had been locked in a closet for hours at a time, or kept in a bag that was opened only to feed him, or some other horrible situation- but the point was that during his first couple years of life, he was nearly devoid of any human contact. He literally was not able to connect with anything or anybody. In a very real sense, this “childhood” created a kind of robot, or automaton. He was human in the way that his heart pumped blood and his five senses could decode the world around him, but he was inhuman in his inability to relate to anybody else.

I’m telling you this as an example of the importance of connection: connection to your mother, connection to your friends, connection to yourself, and most importantly, connection to spirit. The stronger your connections, and the more numerous your connections, the healthier you will be.

In fact, this idea of connection is just as important in keeping you alive as food and water. That is why I refer to this connection as “spiritual nutrition.”

When we are connected to spirit, we are also connected to each other. Not just the people that you know, and not just the people in your state or country, but to everyone. And everything.

And what I’ve found, is that enhancing this connection to spirit, and helping make sure that the spirit is connected to, and flowing through, all parts of the physical body makes people well. Improving spiritual nutrition alleviates pain, increases energy, takes away nausea and dizziness, and slows down aging.

In fact, I finally feel like I’m finally getting some real answers to my questions of “why?”. And that idea brings me great joy.

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