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For me, the problem with being ill, depressed, having back pain, or even headaches, is that it becomes acutely embarrassing if you are a so-called expert who ought to know better. About 25 years ago, when I was a complete novice to alternative / complementary / natural healthcare approaches, I suffered from pelvic inflammatory disease, which is acutely painful. At that period of my life, I was working for a multi-national corporation as a highly paid agricultural molecular biology / microbiology scientist. [Oh, how my pay scale has declined since then.] Working in the USA and being covered by expensive health insurance, I was subjected to and succumbed to a multiplicity of tests, x-rays, procedures and eventually a laparoscopy in order to come to the diagnosis that I had been suffering from pelvic infections. The laparoscopy itself caused the most pain I have ever experienced, as I guess that inserting the laparoscope inflamed things even more so. However the acute pain enabled me to ask for help from strangers, which, in a circuitous route, led to my introduction to Macrobiotics, NLP, Chiropractic, and Nutritional Supplements. I even took cooking classes from the renowned Macrobiotic author Annemarie Colbin. Several months following embracing Macrobiotics cold-turkey, practising self-help NLP techniques and a Bodywork and Nutritional supplements regime, the constant pains lessened and I was able to stop taking antibiotics. For a person who had run the medical gamut of diagnostic testing, this was impressive. Now, all these years on, when I have become highly knowledgeable and perhaps even an expert in the entire spectrum of alternative / complementary disciplines, it is difficult, because I "know" what I am supposed to do and what is supposed to work. I, like so many professionals have suffered financially during the present financial crisis and find it difficult to embrace the techniques for healing of expressing gratitude, love, living in the present and so on. So it is evident that so-called Experts are just as human and fallible as the rest. I don't however rush off to other Experts, as I already know what the options are. Just living through the experience and seeing what the end results in. |
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