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You CanNOT “Arrive” at Self Healing
In his 2009 release,
Deep Medicine: Harnessing the Source of Your Healing Power 
(co-published with the Institute of Noetic Sciences), surgeon William B. Stewart, MD, notes:
"Health does not mean being completely free of illness or defying death indefinitely. It isabout human values as well as lab values. It is more than the absence of symptoms; it means a wholeness and 
alignment 
 
in living
our lives--
a dynamic and constantly changing balance
that acknowledges the soundness of our physical state, thewholesomeness of our lifestyle, the values and virtues that define our behavior, our intimate and collective relationships, the meaning and purpose of our work in the world,and the cyclical and spiritual dimensions of our existence" 
[emphases mine].In short, “health” is not an end-state to accomplish, but is a manner of living. That iswhy I use the verb “healing” (rather than the noun “health”) in my
Coaching Your Self Healing
work with those living through chronic illness.It is this “healing” activity – aligning how we live each moment, constantly balancing –which is skill-based and can be learned, practiced and applied in daily living. We do not “arrive” at some point called “health”, but we repeatedly, moment-to-precious-moment,step toward, grow toward, evolve and cultivate a Self Healing attitude toward being andliving.Over the years, most people with whom I have counseled and coached, have entered theprocess determined to “arrive” at some new place in life. Such endpoints may be to passa particular test, to graduate, to land a particular job, to make a certain amount of money, to end an addiction, to overcome an illness, to master dis-ease, to develop ahealthy love relationship. In each case, in that person's mind, it involves “arriving” atsome distant and seemingly unattainable “goal”. And, they are right, to arrive at suchan end-point IS unattainable.Indeed, the root of the problem with
each
such “goal” is that there is no such “place” forus to arrive; rather, the
 journey
involves a new manner of perceiving, a refined way of being, a re-formed way of living, and an endlessly evolving process of stepwise actions,repeated over and over again each day. As Mythologist Joseph Campbell avowed: “
Wemust be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waitingfor us.” 
It is in this
 process-of-goaling
 ,
that
 
you develop an entirely modified manner of relating with Self and illness – much like how your relating with the earth and sun andshade and insects evolves as you cultivate a garden. We do not “arrive” – we cultivatestepwise-actions-toward.The zen proverb puts forth: “Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. Afterenlightenment, chop wood, carry water.” And yet, we are somehow
transformed
in theprocess of chopping and carrying – such that we experience an energy, an enthusiasm, azest for chopping and carrying, for the wood and the water! Again, Campbell's view canbe enlightening: “
Sri Ramakrishna said: Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as aman whose hair is on fire seeks a pond!
” 
THAT
is “goaling” in your Self Healing journey!As we embark on such “goaling” journeys (aflame and seeking the pond), we arechallenged to invoke the experience of wonder available to us in each moment, thismoment: In other words, we allow the mundane to become exotic, the ordinary tobecome inspiring, pain to become bliss, awful becomes “awefull” – and it all happens (as
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