The Quick Medical Fix
What we wish from any healing tradition is a quick way out of our problem whatever it is The magic pill, the magic operation, the magic whatever So it is with any formidable chronic disease And intuitively we know there is no such thing but we can still hope that there is something that is going to deal with it But as a recent visit with a patient who is a gastroenterologist said, "I would have thought you were a crank if you would have promised me a quick solution"
The Quick Fix
So even though we yearn for the quick fix we know it realistically doesn't exist We know this intuitively So if this is the case then what are we actually looking for?
I believe any sufferer of the IC bladder pain syndrome is waiting for "a trusted way" that will get them to where they want to go...that is, feeling better And they feel that the "system" has not been that trusted way anymore
But as we have already said there is no quick fix but there is a fix....maybe not a fix but nonetheless a fix It's just that this trusted way, this path requires TIME When time is put into the equation, impatience can become a problem While we rationalize with the mind, it still wants whatever that's supposed to happen, to happen quickly
Three Solutions for the Impatient Mind
Journal Probably from a practical point of view the best way to show the impatient mind that progress is being achieved is to review our journal entries and see for ourselves that things are better Even the mind's memory is distrustful of itself but if we can see for ourselves in black and white what has been going on in the past and compare it to what's happening now the impatient mind will shut up
Realize the ups and downs of healing As an energy field the mindbody expresses itself as waves and so do the diseases that it experiences So any disease has its good days and bad days, good weeks and bad weeks, flare periods and no flare periods of the disease process Name any disease process and it will express itself in waves The point here is "no discouragement" because of a particularly "bad period" Keep up the good pursuit toward our goal of ever improving health Real healing takes time...the correction of an energetic imbalance requires repetitive perseverative effort
Get reliable help in achieving our goal If we are in a forest and hear the sound of waves crashing on the beach we know we are near But we have no path to follow We search but no one has gone there We can forge our own path and cut our way through the forest, guided by the sounds of the ocean But we can search for a path that other people have taken and use their experience to show us the way This is the value of Ayurvedic consultations They give us a path to follow rather than trying to make our own path
