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.
Am I to blame for my ill health?
It’s a question I hear often, and one I’ve thought about deeply: Are we to blame when we get sick?
When we experience poor health, it’s easy to feel like we’ve failed in some way, or that something we did—or didn’t do—led to our condition.
Sure, we know a lot more about nutrition these days. The bad effects of highly processed foods. The overuse of salt. The chemicals in soda and energy drinks.
All that is true. 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, ancestral issues…or maybe the timing just isn’t right.
That said, I find that very few of my clients feel blamed (by me, at least) for their illness. Part of this is due to the gentleness and multidmensional perspective 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 caused the stress, and how did we respond to it?
And how do we keep responding 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 do have a choice.
Awareness is your super power.
I often use the work of Dr. Masaru Emoto to illustrate how our intentions —both conscious and subconscious—affect us.. Dr. Emoto’s experiments with frozen 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.
But most of us need help in developing a body-mind-spirit awareness. That’s where my healing work comes in. Because of my intuitive insight, I can help illuminate your personal body-mind configuration and then support you in activating your own spirit to carve the path back to wholeness.
This is what we mean by body-mind-spirit work.
Once we understand how emotions and stress affect us, we realize that we do have the power to shift how we respond.
And that’s when healing can truly begin.
