Tuesday, April 11, 2023

The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté

The normal discussed in this book is what should be considered normal in healing. Does the advance medicine turned the people in a mere subject which can be treated for the ailments it suffers? Or can we look at the human life, and its ailments as a whole, and focus on a process which focuses on improving human life ad not on just giving medications for symptoms.

Are diseases an indicator of past sufferings that a patient has gone through? Does a medical practitioner needs to get to the bottom of the cause what is causing this disease?

Writer gives a lot of accounts where the patients denied the modern medicine, and rather worked on their own life to start the healing. This did get the due support from the modern medicine in some cases but for a lot of them the cure was not in medicine but in identifying the cause of it.

It is a well established fact that thoughts do alter the response of our bodies. Different mental conditions cause or cure the sick. There is a whole new field of faith healers who are trained in alternative procedures apart from their own speciality. And one of the appealing feature is that it changes the whole being rather than just the body. And the road to recovery starts from the thoughts. The positive thoughts of forgiving, letting go, accepting and welcoming new are the building blocks of it.

Peace

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