I feel a shift taking place in the world today.  Its happening as we speak, and I feel it happening within me, on this site and others, before the world.  Slowly, more and more people are realizing the power of their minds.  The power to be at peace with life and whatever happens in it, the power of the ability to watch our thoughts and to not be affected by them completely.  I watched another documentary recently called, “The New Medicine”.  It touches on this very point.  More and more, people who fall ill to various things are finding the healing benefits of their own thoughts and states of consciousness while enduring the sicknesses their experiencing. 

This transformation I speak of is actually not all that new; apparently (according to this video and to history books) it dates back thousands of years.  I’m currently not all that educated on the subject, so I want to be careful about what I suggest or say.  However, we all probably know about the many alternatives to taking care of oneself during sick time.  Many people nowadays are reluctant to ingest any medication at all.  Various things I’ve heard suggest that people want to continue to live a “clean” and an “untainted-by-medicine-if-at-all-possible” lifestyle.  I for one, live this way.  Something in me feels “unnatural” about just popping a pill for a head-ache or common condition.  This video, and many things I’ve read and the people that I’ve talked with about this, talk about “going inside” and searching themselves for deeper rooted causes of whatever it is their experiencing. 

I think what I am referring to is called “holistic healing”, or “holistic medicine”. 

Ever since my journey began as a person with diabetes, I’ve been on the search, both consciously and unconsciously, about different things that would aid in my caring for this disease.  I’ve heard probably a thousand different remedies for “curing” diabetes, both types 1 and 2.  These magic cures range from mushrooms grown in the wild, to magic herbs and pills that you can buy on the internet.  Whatever the case may be, it continues to be interesting and stimulating to me. 

Who knows, maybe in a short amount of time, we’ll find that a piece of bark on a rare tree grown on a tropical island in the middle of nowhere holds the key to our cure.  Whatever happens, I find a lot of benefit and personal enjoyment out of being as “pure” and as “clean” of any additional medicines - as possible.  No matter what, ill continue to be curious, and at peace with what is learned and discovered.  And I will be fascinated by what continues to come about on the holistic healing front and the power of “going inside” during ill times.

Thanks for reading, as always, and continuing to live with an open and peaceful, healthy mind.

Namaste, -Andy.