Are You to Blame for Your Ill Health?
Blaming yourself for getting sick is like stabbing yourself in the back. Especially when you realize how you got sick in the first place and what you need to do to heal.
Are you to blame for your ill health?
It’s a question I hear often, and one I’ve thought about deeply: Are we to blame for when we get sick?
When we experience poor health, it’s easy to feel like we’ve failed somehow, or that something we did—or didn’t do—led to our condition. But the truth is more nuanced.
As an energy healer, I see firsthand that many people aren’t ready to take full responsibility for their health, and that’s okay. Healing is a journey, and it’s not always about immediate acceptance. Sometimes, people are simply not in the right space to acknowledge the power they have over their healing. This can be due to emotional trauma, lack of education, or the timing just not being right.
That said, I find that very few of my clients feel blamed for their illness. Part of this is due to the gentleness of the approach I take. Instead of focusing on what went wrong, I show how the mind and emotions impact our bodies. Medicine, too, recognizes that stress can harm us. But the real question is, what causes the stress, and how do we respond to it?
The key idea is this:
It’s not the stress itself that causes harm—it’s our response to it.
And once we start to explore how our emotional habits were formed—where they came from and how we’re wired to respond—we realize that we have choice. That awareness is powerful.
I often use the work of Dr. Masaru Emoto to illustrate how our intentions affect us.. Dr. Emoto’s experiments with water crystals showed that words, thoughts, and emotions could dramatically change the structure of the crystals. This mirrors how our bodies respond to positive and negative energy. And why not? Up to seventy percent of our bodies contain water!
So, are we to blame for our health? The short answer is: No. It’s not about blaming ourselves.
It’s about awareness, choice, and empowerment.
Once we understand how emotions and stress affect us, we realize that we have the power to shift how we respond—and that’s when healing can truly begin.
