The Difference Between Healing and Curing

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The bigger meaning of healing is a

'wholing,' a filling out of the missing pieces of a person’s life. Sometimes

this may even mean facing death in a more fully realized way. Certainly it is an

opportunity to come more deeply and fully into life. -Patricia Reis

 

 

From " Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom, " by Christiane Northrup, M.D.:

 

There is a difference between healing and curing. Healing is a natural process

and is within the power of everyone. Curing, which is what doctors are called

upon to do, usually consists of an external treatment; medication or surgery is

used to mask or eliminate symptoms. This external treatment doesn’t necessarily

address the factors that contributed to the factors in the first place. Healing

goes deeper than curing and must always come from within. It addresses the

imbalance that underlies the symptoms. Healing brings together the often hidden

aspects of a person’s life as they relate to her illness. Healing is different

from curing, though curing and the restoration of physical function may

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This is a key understanding that is

often missing from treatises on holistic medicine: Healing and death are not

mutually exclusive. As a physician, I’ve been trained to improve and preserve

life. But sometimes we need to let go of that training and accept death as a

natural part of a process that is much bigger and more mysterious than we

realize.

 

 

 

 

Angie (ontario canada zone 5)

" No one can make you feel inferior without your consent "

quoted Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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