Life & Well Being Understanding the Right Mindset of a Healing Body
By Patil Pallavi
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The healing of the body comes with the healing of the mind. Many of the world’s wonderful medicinal treatments come with extreme sacrifices of both the physical body and the mind. For example, the most effective and current treatment for cancer is chemotherapy. While chemotherapy is effective in killing rogue cancer cells, it is also known for killing healthy cells.

While chemotherapy methods and radioactive treatments have improved over the decades, it is still known for breaking down the physical body. Consequently, patients undergoing treatment for cancers often lead to depression, anxiety, and panic attacks. Some even become suicidal over the process.

The sacrifice it takes to heal a broken body is huge. Most of the time, the healing process not only affects your mind. It also affects the people around you. According to research, patients with terminal illnesses like cancer, Alzheimer’s Disease, or dementia experience a reversal of the roles within the family. Because one family member is weak and cannot perform tasks or roles within a nuclear family, everyone in the family has to step back and reevaluate their goals. The occurrence of such a life-changing event abruptly forces everyone’s perspective out of its path.

To heal one’s body, one must have a mindset of both sacrifice and steadfastness. What is the mindset of a healing body?

An Accepting Mindset

The first thing you need to do is accept that you are in the condition you are right now and that you need help. You should be able to objectively study what you are dealing with right now. A lot of people become in denial, initially, after receiving their diagnoses. While the reaction is normal, your pathway to healing your body will take longer if you don’t accept your situation.

The quickest way to healing is accepting your illness and fighting it head-on. Studying your disease objectively and researching how other people successfully dealt with it might give you a hint or two on how you can defeat it as well.

A Practical Mindset

The mindset of a healing body is a practical one. The costs may be worth the try for therapy. However, one must be practical when vying for the treatment one might need. There are a lot of treatments offered for both the mind and the body.

However, to get better quicker, one must weigh the effectiveness of a treatment vis-à-vis its cost. Treatment can become expensive and out of the field, especially in the United States. Being practical about one’s therapy or treatment is the way to go. There are some ways you can even earn while getting yourself treated. Some enroll in paid market research studies specifically catered for patients to lessen the expenses. If you are having a hard time, you might as well make some money out of your hardship.

Trusting that you will eventually feel better is the ultimate key to becoming fully healed. A positive attitude goes a long way when it comes to treating patients, in general. In the movie Patch Adams, he treated his terminally ill patients through kindness and expertise. While he assisted in the treatment of his different patients, he focused on the mental and quality of life aspects of treatment.

A positive mindset enables one to accept help from your immediate family members. When your body and mind are being treated, you might need all the help you can get. Getting your loving family members on board with your journey is key to getting better eventually.

A Trusting Mindset

It would be best if you trust the fact that you will get better eventually. A trusting mindset is significant in getting your body healed. There are many available treatments for almost all kinds of illnesses there are. You will not be able to research or know all the details about the methods to be used on your body. You must not act as an expert yourself.

Trust that your doctors know what they are doing with your body. They are the experts when it comes to treating the human body. While it may sound too objective, it is the truth. Opening yourself up to professional help is the only way you can wiggle yourself out of your illness.

Healing the human body is difficult. Sometimes, the treatments cost the human body too much. Many healing methods require great sacrifice out of the patients it is treating. By having the right mindset entering treatment, your chances of healing your body go exponentially higher.

About the author

Pallavi Patil is an educator in India. Any views expressed are personal.