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Rearranging the Deck Chairs |
Dr. Lauren Cohen | 6/24/09
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Dr. Lauren Cohen |
Have you ever had the experience of solving a problem, trying a variety of solutions and each time coming out with the same unsuccessful result? The next statement is typically “I’ve tried everything” or “There must not be a solution, so I will just have to live with it.”
Unfortunately, this is a scenario I hear all too often. People will go from one health care provider to the next trying one treatment after another only to end up with the same health issue as when they started. So, why is it so difficult to find answers to our health concerns from a system that is supposed to be about helping us regain our health?
The answer lies in the fact that our healthcare system is not meant to create health. You may find that surprising. The name “healthcare” is misleading. First, think about when you enter the system. Do you enter when you are healthy or do you enter only after you have become sick? Second, think about what the intention of the treatment is. Is it to reestablish a true healthy state or is it to manage the existing symptom? Lastly, think about how health is defined. Is it defined as feeling vital, alive and energetic or is it defined as not feeling bad?
The paradigm within which our healthcare system functions is founded in symptom management. This doesn’t make this a bad system. It’s just important for our conversation to understand what this system is intended to do. The reason that finding answers to regaining our health is so difficult is that regaining our health is not its purpose or intention. So when we look for health in a system that focuses on symptoms, we will always be disappointed with the result.
Why? Because you cannot get what you do want by focusing on what you don’t want. If your intention is establishing a true state of health but your focus is on managing your symptoms, then managing your symptoms is what you are going to get. Approaching health from this perspective is akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Each practitioner you see and each treatment you try may look different, but you are still going down with the ship.
 It isn’t what we are doing that is the problem; it is how we are thinking. Albert Einstein said it best “You cannot solve a problem from the same level of thinking that existed when the problem was created.” In order to establish health and solve the problem you must first change your level of thinking. Recognize that your body is intended to be in a state of health and balance and has a tremendous ability to heal. Shift your focus from fixing what is broken to enhancing what already works. Ask questions like “why is this occurring?” and “At an earlier point in my life, this was working — and now it is not."
"So what happened between then and now?”
Align yourself with practitioners whose paradigm and methodology is aligned with what you truly want to accomplish. Then and only then will you begin to see solutions to those seemingly unsolvable problems.
To learn more about shifting paradigms and establishing true states of health contact Dr. Lauren at (970) 731-9494 or click on my link at pagosacam.com for a complete schedule of upcoming workshops and events. |
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