What is Healing and How is it Distinct from Curing?

Pain strikes everyone eventually and will infringe upon your life from time to time. It's not something you're likely to appreciate. If it's only mild your natural tendency will be to ignore it and hope it goes away on it's own. If severe, your immediate urge will be to do anything to make it disappear.

Healing is a return to optimal health or wholeness of body, mind, and spirit.

Curing is a return to no symptoms or obvious signs of disease, or something we do to bacon.

They are far from synonymous ideas. It's possible to have both, but it's common to have curing without healing as discussed last month in the story about my dad.

Who needs healing and why? I believe everyone breathing and walking this Earth for any length of time, because this is an injurious and distressing planet to live on.

We often depart from wholeness soon after birth evidenced by 70%of American children having been on at least one round of antibiotics by 6 months of age as only one of many examples. Once kids have been injected with multiple vaccines containing mercury, formaldehyde, aluminum, and antifreeze in addition to the live or killed virus, I would say that the toxic load precludes wholeness.

These are only the beginning of the physical, chemical, and emotional challenges of our lives that overwhelm our balance. We will discuss this more in upcoming months.

Do you have goals for the elimination of specific pains or indications of illness? These can be fine at times but do they aim high enough? Are you settling for basic comfort or do you likewise have the loftier target of restoring more of your original potential for passion, intelligent creativity, and vitality?

The following is a true story shared by one of my patients whom we will call Alexander:

"Dr. Matthew Norton gave me life and health after a long period of pain and frustration. Today, my whole family sees Dr. Norton on a regular basis.