The Intelligence that directs the healing journey

The Vis - the power of nature to heal itself. 

The very intelligence that is keeping you alive today, maintaining the beat of your heart and the movement of your breath. The Power that directs the entire process of the creation of a HUMAN BEING inside your body with ZERO conscious effort required. The Intelligence that signals changes in the structure, function and output of your heart when there is an atherosclerotic plaque in your arteries, keeping you alive for DECADES despite the physiologic insult. The Force whose sole purpose is to keep the Force of Life moving through YOU (thats how much you matter). It is not random, not computerized or mechanical. It is fluid and flexible, yet meticulously organized, sensitive and SUPREMELY, effortlessly INTELLIGENT.


But when we get sick and need to find out where exactly in the body there is a dysfunction, and why, and how we can fix it, somehow we all of a sudden FORGET about the power that kept us alive and healthy until that moment. We separate the parts from the hole and dissect and analyze. But that Vis is still the MOST IMPORTANT aspect of your healing journey. 

Of course if you have infective endocarditis from a streptococcal bacteria -- life-threatening inflammation of the heart caused by a severe bacterial infection - you are going to take antibiotics. Of course when you break a bone you will take an xray to confirm the diagnosis, do surgery or put a cast on. Of course if you are in late stages of cancer you will consider doing chemo therapy to kill cancer cells. And of course if you are severely anemic you think about taking iron supplements. But even in these cases, the Vis is the MOST IMPORTANT aspect of your healing journey.

Synthetic drugs work at the chemical level. To a large degree plants (food+herbal) do this as well. However plants, as natural members of life, also hold the intelligence of the Vis. For example, some plants are immune stimulants - they directly stimulate the immune system helping us better respond to bacterial and viral infections. However, some plants are immune MODULATORS. That means in some cases they stimulate the immune system (such as in the case of a cold) and in other cases they balance an excessive immune response (such as in the case of inflammation due to hyperactivity to allergens). Where does this KNOWING of the plant come from? Plants contain the same intelligence that animates us, and is therefore able to respond and mold our healing process as well. So plant medicine has a combination of chemical and energetic effects (though these can be views as the same thing -- just cause and effect).

Hydrotherapy -- using the properties of water to heal, does ONLY THIS - it primarily uses the body's response to water temperatures to stimulate the vis. So I dip in a hot tub my blood vessels dilate, blood rushes to the surface (to release heat and cool the body). Then I jump in a tub if cold water blood rushes back inside the body, blood vessels constrict. When I end the cycle in cold, by body has a secondary response of stimulating blood flow and metabolism to continue heating the body. This creates a pumping action of the blood creating movement and flow and defense and detoxification and excretion and regeneration -- literally stimulating the healing force within us. Hydrotherapy can therefore be an adjunct to almost ALL disease states or as a preventive measure against disease (very few contraindications). 

To the Patient (all of us)...

We all experience body and mind dis-ease at some point -- it is part of the human experience. But let us remember in times of illness that we must attend to our VIS. In the backdrop of all the things we do and take -- that herbal tea or supplement, that pill, that doctor's advice -- remember the Vis. Remembering this Vis simply means honoring the movement and the intelligence of the force that is trying to keep you alive. Stimulating it in the simplest form means taking care of yourself. The Beauty is that there are A MILLION ways to stimulate the Vis -- herbal medicine, hydrotherapy, but also laughter, massage, energetics, yoga, dance, art, spiritual healing, love, thai chi, food, nature, meditation, music, water, counseling, visualization. 

To the Healer (all of us)...

As we enter the age of the archetypal healer we must be aware that we are called in unique directions, all to help support this force trying to maintain its existence through us. Once you enter the natural health world the amount of traditions, interpretations, approaches, perspectives, products, advice etc out there can be overwhelming! You either feel like you need to know it all to be an effective healer OR you feel completely overwhelmed and confused as someone seeking the healing! BUT the beauty is that you WILL feel especially moved by one or more of the modalities and there WILL be people that NEED to hear and heal from your perspective on health! There is no shortage or suffering and disease and there is an infinite spectrum of the human experience which means THERE IS A PLACE FOR YOU AS A HEALER! Find your niche and run with it. 

The journey continues...

Love,
Kimani