The lost art of recovery for healing
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The lost art of recovery for healing
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Re: The lost art of recovery for healing
#2> Every illness is unique, which means that all recoveries must also be in some sense unique. There is no one-size-fits-all to getting better.
Brilliant!
Re: The lost art of recovery for healing
#3This is very true. I feel that the modern medicine disregards the connection between mind and body. Especially for chronic conditions, improving the patient's quality of life helps better manage the condition.
I've been experimenting with aromatherapy, music therapy and massage lately and I find that the overall quality of my life greatly improved.
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#4>Drugs can be the least of healing, and the idea that therapies must be something that you swallow or inject...
This quite resonates with the current zeitgeist, there's no patience and "we" want always instant relief. If I have a cold of fill ill I just rest and recover (which happens seldom luckily). I'm also lucky as my workplace understands this quite good, some days recovery and rest are always better than gonging to work, have a sub par performance and risk infecting others (in an office setting)
disclaimer: I work in switzerland, so I have theoretically plenty of paid sick leave
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#5> Every illness is unique, which means that all recoveries must also be in some sense unique. There is no one-size-fits-all to getting better. Brilliant!
It is very old wisdom, though. In the traditional art of healing with herbs, there were no strict formulas either. Like this plant for this sickness and this for that. It was usually a mixture always mixed for that one patients unique condition.
I am pretty sure modern medicine knows that, too. That fine graining therapy to the individual provides better results. But that approach is simply too expensive as it requires much more time for every patient.
Re: The lost art of recovery for healing
#6> Every illness is unique, which means that all recoveries must also be in some sense unique. There is no one-size-fits-all to getting better. Brilliant!
It is very old wisdom, though. In the traditional art of healing with herbs, there were no strict formulas either. Like this plant for this sickness and this for that. It was usually a mixture always mixed for that one patients unique condition. I am pretty sure modern medicine knows that, too. That fine graining therapy to the individual provides better results. But that approach is simply too expensive as it requir…
Checkout the documentary 'Ayurveda: the art of being' by Pan Nalin. Very much speaks about this ancient tradition, how everything is energy and healing with herbs. Recommended.
Re: The lost art of recovery for healing
#7>Drugs can be the least of healing, and the idea that therapies must be something that you swallow or inject... This quite resonates with the current zeitgeist, there's no patience and "we" want always instant relief. If I have a cold of fill ill I just rest and recover (which happens seldom luckily). I'm also lucky as my workplace understands this quite good, some days recovery and rest are always better than gongin…
The thing is that in the US and increasingly in the UK, if you're sick it's considered your own fault, responsibility, and expense. Employers do not care about you, if you do not work they do not want you.
From a purely utilitarian / capitalist viewpoint it makes sense, why pay for a service (an employee) if they do not provide? But there's a difference between an employee and a contractor. And it's not a human way to deal with things.
So in the US, since people lose their income and possibly their job, they can't afford to take rest, they'll take some medication to power through it.
In my own country, thankfully, we get paid time off if we're sick. If we're sick long-term (I don't know what the cutoff is), the employer has to pay us 70% of wages for a year, after which the government takes over (this used to be two years). It really blows for the employer, but in a lot of cases, it's the job that makes you long-term sick in the first place - workplace accidents, overwork, etc. Overwork / stress was the one for my previous employer, the department managers had multiple roles (people management, account management, hiring, finances, etc) they had to juggle simultaneously and for quite a few, it became too much within 6-12 months. To manage it, the employer offered a subscription to some meditation app, instead of reducing workload or making it OK to go offline outside of working hours.
I mean I remember getting a text message at 3 in the morning from a manager telling everyone to not forget to bring some post-its and sharpies to the all-hands meeting the next day. That guy ended up sick for 6+ months after which he quit and became a manager somewhere else.
Re: The lost art of recovery for healing
#8>Drugs can be the least of healing, and the idea that therapies must be something that you swallow or inject... This quite resonates with the current zeitgeist, there's no patience and "we" want always instant relief. If I have a cold of fill ill I just rest and recover (which happens seldom luckily). I'm also lucky as my workplace understands this quite good, some days recovery and rest are always better than gongin…
The thing is that in the US and increasingly in the UK, if you're sick it's considered your own fault, responsibility, and expense. Employers do not care about you, if you do not work they do not want you. From a purely utilitarian / capitalist viewpoint it makes sense, why pay for a service (an employee) if they do not provide? But there's a difference between an employee and a contractor. And it's not a human way t…
> The thing is that in the US and increasingly in the UK, if you're sick it's considered your own fault, responsibility, and expense. Employers do not care about you, if you do not work they do not want you.
Totally, I used to work for a UK stock market listed company, would always get ill due to their physically toxic working environment, and because it was such a toxic criminal environment to work in I had to leave!
The organised crime operating within the company and outside of it follows you around for the rest of your life because smart criminals are relentless, its like a parallel universe with more money than you can imagine.
The accounts on www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/ are so typical of what goes on, but people are in fear of their jobs so they dont speak out, only now I think we have reached a tipping point in history.
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#9> Every illness is unique, which means that all recoveries must also be in some sense unique. There is no one-size-fits-all to getting better. Brilliant!
I am hoping this is sarcasm - the quoted phrase is trite and meaningless.
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#10> Every illness is unique, which means that all recoveries must also be in some sense unique. There is no one-size-fits-all to getting better. Brilliant!
It is very old wisdom, though. In the traditional art of healing with herbs, there were no strict formulas either. Like this plant for this sickness and this for that. It was usually a mixture always mixed for that one patients unique condition. I am pretty sure modern medicine knows that, too. That fine graining therapy to the individual provides better results. But that approach is simply too expensive as it requir…
> Like this plant for this sickness and this for that. It was usually a mixture always mixed for that one patients unique condition.
Sure, and that's because they mostly had no idea what they were doing. If you have a bacterial infection today, you can take an antibiotic. If you have a dangerous viral infection, an anti-viral may help (though there are few of those). If you have a parasite, you get a very specific anti-parasite.
And on and on: there are many many diseases for which we have specific, targeted remedies that work with very high accuracy - well over 99%.
No woo woo plant energy "healing" achieves anything close to that.