The Chronic aspect of both Dis-ease and Healing
Healing is not just something that “happens” and now you are well. It is very often, perhaps usually, a journey, a process. Just as Dis-ease is a process, a result, an effect of some cause, not usually just something that “happens.” Both Healing and Dis-ease really reflect Life, which is also a process, a Journey, a Learning.
Of the two, Healing and Dis-ease, it seems that Dis-ease is the “default” mode, that which comes most easily and is most likely to occur. I am sure there are lots of reasons: sin, the Creation groaning until the Son of Man is revealed (Romans, in the Bible), selfishness, self-seeking of pleasure at multiple levels (another cookie, anyone?), genetics, toxins, trauma, etc.
Healing is, by definition, the “Recovery” Mode, usually arrived at via a reactionary process to the Dis-ease state when it is recognized.
Both Healing and Dis-ease have Acute (sudden, unexpected) phases, times when they do just seem to show up or “happen” without any obvious cause. On the Dis-ease side maybe it is the allergic response to the cat that you never knew about, or the broken arm from playing pickup football on an afternoon. On the Healing side we would call the sudden episode a “Miracle” or “spontaneous remission”. When thinking about Healing, this latter is perhaps what is most often hoped for, aimed at, defined as “Healing.”
However, it is the Chronic aspect of both Dis-ease and Healing that offer the most interesting points of discussion, and growth. Chronicity implies continued, regular activity or behavior over an extended time, producing a particular result.
Read more about this at Jon’s blog: http://goodheartgroup.blogspot.com
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