Healing Story Number One:
Years ago I worked with a woman who fell asleep reading in bed. She fell asleep with her head propped forward. After several hours, she awoke in pain. She could hardly move one of her arms. Over the next month, she came into work only two half days. You could see the pain in her face. She had to go home.
She had been to a chiropractor and a neurologist, but neither could help her.
One day, her daughter came over and said, Mom, could you watch the new baby for just a few minutes while I go down the street?
Well, the new baby started crying, and the woman tried to reach down to lift the baby from its seat on the floor with her good arm. As she did that, her neck popped, and her pain went away. She was back to work the next day.
Healing Story Number Two:
A few years ago, a woman had shoulder pain. She went to a physical medicine doctor who sent her to physical therapy, and her shoulder got better.
When her other shoulder started to hurt, she had deep muscle massage and it helped, but still her shoulder hurt. So she went for physical therapy again. By the fourth session, she realized that it was making the shoulder pain worse, so she stopped going.
That weekend, she helped her husband lift a six-foot long counter top. Her pain stopped and her shoulder has not hurt since.
Healing Story Number Three:
A construction worker came home in pain. He had hurt his shoulder. His boss said to go to physical therapy. He went for four sessions, but didn’t think it was helping.
Then he came home one day with a big smile. His pain was 90 percent gone! He had lifted something heavy at work, and his shoulder popped and the pain left. Now it is almost completely well.
Healing Story Number Four
A woman tripped on her doorstep. She fell face first into the room. It was a jarring fall, and it hurt. For the next several days, her back hurt and she could barely get comfortable in bed.
One night, she couldn’t sleep, so she got up. Her husband came out and said, come back to bed and I will rub your back.
When he pressed on her back, it popped loudly! He jumped back, afraid that he had hurt her. “What was that? Did you hear that?” His wife said, “Yes, I did. I felt it, too. In fact, I think I’m better now.” And, she was.
What Do These Stories Mean?
Well, let’s see. They could mean that sometimes we get a dislocation in a joint. That sometimes we just need a little movement to correct a problem.
That bodies want to heal themselves and be well. That sometimes we need to allow our body to heal in its own time. That sometimes the correct counter-movement or counter-pressure can get things back to where they were.
They could mean that bodies want to be well, and that sometimes we need a little assistance or a little time to heal.
Physician, heal thyself. You can be your own best physician.
