Thanks for sharing your wisdom as a person professionally trained in the art of health, Chris. thumbup

krank I have always had allergies and asthma. I spent lots of time in my childhood getting allergy tests, shots, and emergency hospital visits for asthma attacks. As an adult, I had a very enlightening experience when I first read Louise Hay's "You Can Heal Your Life" book in the 80's and realized how thoughts create and can heal illnesses. When I read about the consciousness behind my own afflictions, it fit for me.

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ASTHMA we call "smother love". There is a feeling that you do not have the right to breathe for yourself. Asthmatic children often have "overdeveloped consciences". They take on guilt feelings for whatever seems wrong in their environment. They feel "unworthy," therefore guilty, and in need of self-punishment.

Geographic cures sometimes work with asthma, especially if the family does not go along.

Usually, asthmatic children will "outgrow" their disease. This really means they go away to school, get married, or leave home somehow, and the disease dissolves. Oftentimes, later in life, an experience will happened that pushes an old button within them, and they have another attack. When that happens they are not really responding to the current circumstance, but rather to what used to go on in their childhood.

[The new thought pattern she gives:] It is safe now for me to take charge of my own life. I chose to be free.

ALLERGIES: Who are you allergic to? Denying your own power.

[The new thought pattern she gives:] The world is safe and friendly. I am safe. I am at peace with life.


Actually, my asthma and allergies did clear up for several years when I first left home, but eventually worked their way back into my life. mellow

I also want to mention that I did partake in Chinese medicine a few years ago. I went to see a practitioner after getting so many colds and flus. It was strange at first to have the practitioner merely looking at my tongue, taking my pulse, and asking a few odd questions. A new flu had just started and I was worn out from it all. She assured me she could stop it in its tracks. I was amazed at such a claim, but I was quite hopeful. To get me used to acupuncture on my first appointment, she used only one thin needle on me (on my shin I think) and she gave me three paper bags full of mixed herbs with instructions to put them in water, boil, steep, and then drink the liquid. It was incredibly pungent and not exactly pleasant to drink, but quite amazingly, it did stop my flu in its tracks and with a few more months of weekly visits and an increasing number of needles and continued herbs, I remained healthy the whole time and for months afterward.

I still usually struggle with one illness or another it seems. But I remain amazed at the power of thought and balance and I personally believe these are the most potent aspects of health.