Evolving away from “Best Guess Medicine”: The Two-Sided Coin part 3

Consider a few examples of what can go wrong with guesses: 

-a man gets debilitating leg pain and muscle destruction after a few months on a statin drug.

-you have 12 different bottles of half-empty supplements on the shelf with no change in the original fatigue, headaches, or allergies, etc. and are resigned to going back to the drug that your doctor originally prescribed.

-your friend loves alternative medicine but doesn’t seem to be getting any better despite seeing four different practitioners for the past three years.

-a woman with a number of allergies is put on a “detox” with disasterous results:  debilitating nausea, fatigue, flu symptoms.  She is unable to follow through with the protocol and remains sick and discouraged. 

Since our society exists almost totally on the knowledge side of the coin, these examples are fairly commonplace and recognizable.  The doctor makes an educated guess, based on knowledge and experience, and it can go very wrong.  That’s why medical liability rates are so high.

However, only paying attention to the innate intelligence side of the coin can also cause trouble.  Consider two examples:

-a man says, ”I always make decisions with my gut!” But because some of those gut reactions are based on an old fear of abandonment, the decisions are limiting and small.

-you feel in touch with your emotions and have healed from some past trauma.  However, you also have physical pain, and you don’t know how to make the connection between your emotions and your body.  Are they related?  Do you need surgery?

If we only pay attention to our own subjective feelings and insights (the innate intelligence side of the coin), we are resigning ourselves to disorientation. 

In fact, ignoring the scientific knowledge about my body is equivalent to driving down a dark country road without a map or road signs.  I can follow a direction that makes sense for a while, but it is hard to know how to know how it relates to where I want to go.

For example, how do you connect a deep-seated belief that you are unworthy of love with your neck pain?  Are they connected at all?  These are questions that cannot be answered by only one side of the coin.

A enlightened doctor living in the world of knowledge might guess that his patient needs to heal his self-esteem in order to help his chronic neck pain.  But will the same be true of the next patient who walks in the door with chronic neck pain?  Using only knowledge, it is impossible for him to know.

Conversely, an enlightened patient might know that he has low self-esteem and decide to attend a personal growth seminar  to help with his feelings.  But how does he turn these emotional and spiritual gains into the physical healing of his autoimmune disease?

Wisdom-based health care, in the form of the BodyTalk System, eradicates this split between knowledge and innate intelligence and solves the problem.  It respects the incredible healing power within each person directly.  Using a gentle form of “muscle testing”, each patient’s innate intelligence is the vehicle that is used to direct and power the treatment.

Where can this vehicle take us?  We use the map of knowledge to be able to ask the right questions- to be able to give concrete form to the patient’s pain.

The BodyTalk protocol is an accumulation of all the things that we know can go wrong with the human body.  It takes into account everything from nerves to chakras, from consciousness to bones, and all that is in between.

In a BodyTalk session, we ask one question over and over:  “What is the priority?”  In other words, for this unique person lying in front of me, what is the most important thing to change in order to help his … (blood pressure, neck pain, constipation, depression…)?  These questions are asked directly of the body/unconscious mind via gentle biofeedback from the patient’s hand.

If we don’t have the knowledge to ask the right questions, we are lost.  If we don’t have the insight to answer the questions, we are just guessing.

Webster’s defines wisdom as, “the power to follow the soundest course of action, based on knowledge, experience, understanding, etc.”  Wisdom-based health care means using all available sources of information:  the knowledge and experience of the doctor, AND the innate understanding of the patient. 

Wisdom-based health care is a two-sided coin.  Anything less and you might not get your money’s worth.

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