How Long Does It Take To Heal?

When I hear, “How long will it take to heal?” from clients and students, it’s often spoken with a sense of dread.

Many folks begin incorporating an improved diet and lifestyle and expect healing to happen instantaneously or overnight.

And, when it doesn’t happen ASAP, they get stressed out.

BTW… Stress is one of the leading causes of disease.

Most people forget, or have never been taught, that healing takes time.

Unfortunately, the unnaturally speedy pace we’ve created in modern society does not allow any time for healing.

We want illness to resolve quickly.

Every body is unique and heals at its own pace.

Once we take on the healing process and alter our diet, lifestyle, and consciousness, we need to trust that our body is doing what it needs to do, at the speed that it can do it.

Trust in the ability of the human body to self-heal the way it’s designed.

I always suggest clients, first and foremost, begin trusting themselves and their instincts – but most don’t. They push away their intuition and instead listen to the fear-mongering propaganda created by the medical and pharmaceutical industries.

Once the fear factor takes hold, people don’t know how to relax and go with the flow.

Many years ago I read a book called Healing Ourselves, by Naboru Muramoto. It had a profound effect on my thoughts about healing. It was based on Japanese medicine and ancient healing techniques.

In his book, Muramoto stated, “According to biologists, it takes 120 days for the red blood globules to change completely. This means there is a 10% difference in the quality of blood within 10-12 days, which is the time it takes for the symptoms of an existing disease to disappear. In other words, although it takes 120 days for the blood to become clean, 12 days of proper eating (no chemicalized industrial food, no overeating or excess drinking) are sufficient to remove the symptoms and, in most cases, put us out of danger. It takes approximately three years to reconstruct the muscle fibers; the same applies to certain organs. But, it takes seven years to change the entire bodily constitution.”

With that ancient wisdom in mind, please understand that healing takes time. Symptoms may begin lessening within the first twelve days, but healing the entire bodily system may take up to seven years. My own personal healing took two years.

If we are struggling with a disease, we need to understand that it certainly did NOT develop overnight. No one goes to sleep and wakes up the next morning with cancer, diabetes, heart disease, thyroid disease, or any other debilitating condition.

The disease takes time to develop, and it takes time to resolve.

Through diet, lifestyle, and consciousness we can create the best environment for our cells to either manifest disease or manifest health.

In Bruce Lipton’s, Biology of Belief, he divulges scientific research about genes. He shares that our environment determines whether or not genes will express themselves. I LOVE Bruce’s pioneering work in the field of epi-genetics.

Our internal environment (our cells and blood) is created by our food choices, physical environment (where we live and what we are exposed to), and our emotions, including what we think, how we react, and what we believe.

Our internal environment changes as we change.

It’s not rocket science.

But, that simple thinking goes against everything we’ve been taught about disease.

Today, many people believe that disease is inevitable, especially if we have the “genes” for it. I have a different perspective because I’ve been on both sides of this process (disease and disease-free) and I can see how healing takes place.

I encourage you to have a little faith in your body.

Take the best possible care of yourself; eat great quality food, think good thoughts, de-stress, and relax.

Give your body the ingredients it needs to create the best environment for healing, and then let go of the details about when it’s going to happen.

You won’t know how long it takes to heal, just know that it takes as long as it takes.

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