tools for healing
When a person falls out of health, it is common to wish more than anything that someone would just tell them exactly what to do to get better, or give them a pill to quickly take away their ills. But for the vast majority of us affected by complex environmentally based illnesses caused by tick-borne bacteria, chemical injury, electromagnetic radiation, heavy metal poisoning, and toxic mold and other biotoxins, there is no magic potion to set things right.
Rather, healing is a complex and convoluted journey that takes many turns and may not always make sense. There is no way to know how long it will take to recover one’s health – for some just a few weeks, for others, many years or a lifetime can pass by. So from our perspective, the best thing one can do is embrace the road to health as a healing journey – something that holds not only pain and confusion but valuable lessons about life, yourself, the world and provides an unfolding that brings you closer to your core essence, and your core needs. When we can accept suffering as teacher, we open up to all the beauty found in the shadows of life.
Here at Planet Thrive, we believe that healing is possible. We believe that there are many roads one can take to improve their health; there is no right or wrong way. We believe in the power of whole foods. And in the power of love and hope. We believe in supporting the body in all the ways we can, because the body knows best how to self-heal. Sometimes doing nothing is the best healing we can do. We hope you find useful tools on these pages to add to your healing toolbox.
We don’t have any answers; we are still on the journey ourselves. But we’re here to share what we know and what we learn along the way. Blessings to those on a healing path.
posted by earthwalker on March 8, 2010 | 1,802 views | tags: autism recovery, healing, lyme recovery, MCS recovery, recovery, recovery basics
Sharon Casjens
April 15, 2010 at 11:50 am
I was on DR. Rea’s WEB site and came upon Planet Thrive. A Great site please continue the good work. Sharon
earthwalker
April 15, 2010 at 9:03 pm
Glad you found us Sharon. Thanks for the kind words! Blessings to you on your journey. x Julie
Helene
April 25, 2010 at 12:36 am
…”Sometimes doing nothing is the best healing we can do.”…
I love this line! And how rare it is for me to come across this concept.
I practice this (doing nothing) VERY often. I have many, many people that continue to challenge me on this. Many people who chant, you MUST do something! See a doctor, do x, do y!… (in extreme cases, perhaps… but generally, i get less far, when i “see it their way”. this often feels fear-based–running to “fix” something in a way that many others may be able to have success with. but not a way that has worked for me. and, in the end, the well-meaners have not lived in my body).
But so often, doing nothing has proved better for me, with all my, so VERY many sensitivities!
Sometimes doing nothing (for me) can also mean adding more of the following, too: More sleep, more down time, more quiet, more space… more joy and more human connection (when possible). more nature.
thanks SO much for ALL of this, Julie! xo
jeny
May 26, 2010 at 3:14 am
This is beautiful, Julie!
Very smart, Helene.
earthwalker
June 2, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Thanks Jeny! So glad it resonates with you. Appreciate you stopping by to leave a positive comment. Blessings to you on your healing path!! xx Julie