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Medicine treats the body.
Medicine treats the body.
But only the body itself can heal.
But only the body itself can heal.
Human beings seem to identify themselves with their will.
Yet the greater part of our existence escapes it.
The heart beats, organs function, the body takes shape, grows, transforms, and ages without us having decided it. Our thoughts, and the emotions that accompany them, also emerge largely outside our deliberate will.
Illness does not appear because we want it to. Medicine can sometimes silence its manifestations. But is healing a matter of constraining the body, or of allowing the emergence of a new organization of life?
What if healing – unlike treating – were not an act of will, but an attentive presence to what is transforming within the body? A presence attentive, caring, and deep enough for an awareness to emerge – an awareness that itself participates in healing.
The immune system sustains the body's natural order.
The immune system sustains the body's natural order.
The body's ability to heal depends on it.
The body's ability to heal depends on it.
Like a living broom,
it constantly participates in:
– elimination
– repair
– regulation
Illness expresses a reduction in the vitality
Illness expresses a reduction in the vitality
of the immune system
of the immune system
where the symptom appears.
where the symptom appears.
What has diminished this vitality?
What has diminished this vitality?
We know that the vitality of the immune system is affected by age, sleep, nutrition, physical activity, and stress.
But more generally, our vitality reflects the quality of our vital relationships – those without which we cannot live:
air
water
nutrition
rest
action
environment
human relationships
the relationship with oneself
The immune system is sensitive to the way we live.
The immune system is sensitive to the way we live.
The way we live is influenced by our state of consciousness.
The way we live is influenced by our state of consciousness.
Attentive medicine explores the symptoms of fear, anxiety, psychological suffering, anger, and violence with as much attention as it explores their consequences on the body.
It seeks to bring these states of consciousness to light and explore them, considering that understanding their origin has a deeper impact than the symptomatic relief offered by medication or behavioural interventions.
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