“Attending to Head, Heart and Gut”

In the course of healing, especially from chronic, serious illness, we have to deal not only with the with the physical manifestations of disease, but with the energies related to our thinking and feeling as well as. Those energies produce the disease and, if not attended to, may make healing impossible. There is a tendency to consider illness a bodily thing and thus to treat illness on only the physical level. However, ignoring the underlying energy related to thoughts and feelings may make healing slow or unobtainable. Of course, a physical illness may benefit from physical approaches to healing, and often treating a life-threatening disease on the physical level affords us time to explore the underlying energies, which may not be readily accessible. In my practice, we attend to every level: body, mind (beliefs and attitudes), feelings (heart and gut) and spirit (consciousness, sense…