My Reflections on self-healing
I have come to realize that we are all born with the natural ability to heal ourselves. I wonder how many people are aware of that.
I remember once when I was about 6 years old I had very high fever. I felt very uncomfortable. As I came from a very traditional family where visits to the doctor were unheard of, my mother did not take me to the doctor. I grew up all my life on herbs, even till I started work. In fact, till today, I still depend very much on herbs and traditional medicine. The only western medication that my mother knew and I learnt from her was ‘Aspro’ which was a painkiller, now long withdrawn from production. It was also taken to bring down a temperature.
However, at that time, I was so ill that the Aspro could not bring my temperature down. I was having a very bad bout of flu I guess, with a continuous throw up.
As I said, I was having very high fever and somehow I wanted a pair of scissors. I wanted the coldness from the scissors and I automatically put it on my chest. I felt relieved then. I guess it might have helped to bring my fever down a little. As I grew older, I realised that I was actually trying to bring down my temperature with the cold from the scissors. I realized this when I learnt from doctors the way to bring a high fever down is with sponging.
That was my first experience of self healing though it may be minute, it’s a start of inner knowing.
