Recovery

Quan. To be cured, recovery from illness. When illness is overcome, recovery is complete.

Can we see illness as an opportunity?

Is it the medicine and the treatment that cure us, or do we cure ourselves? It’s like the old joke about the cure for a cold. If you take medicine, you’ll recover in a week, but if you simply rest, you’ll recover in seven days.

Whenever we’re sick, our bodies have to find the means to destroy the illness and recover health. There is a learning process and a creative process. No one has evr invented a medicine that duplicates the body’s talents. A vaccine alone doesn’t make you immune to a disease. It gives your body the impetus to create its own antibodies.

Therefore, minor illnesses are not occasions of malaise, but the necessary time to create our own care. It is not a moribund sign, but a wonderful sign of health.

Deng Ming Dao, Everyday Tao

________

Tags:

No Responses

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *