Are Healing and Curing at Odds with One Another?

For centuries we've heard about the debate espousing the differences between healing an curing. I don't know that there will ever be absolute agreement on this matter, but for our purposes we will assume there is a difference between the two.

We'll give curing the power of eradicating disease from the body. Restoring the body to it's pre-diagnosis state of health. We all know that there are very few illnesses where that is actually the case, so how do we keep hope flowing? Hope continues because individuals and families are banking on healing.

Jeanne Achterberg shares a quote from the World Health Organization which states, "Healing is a rupture in life harmony and then the reweaving of that rupture". That's pretty strong language but really makes a bold statement for those facing chronic and life-threatening illnesses.

There are as many ways to achieve healing as there are people diagnosed with illness. There is no template for healing because it's truly personal. It relies on your beliefs and values. It incorporates your world view and distills all the information down into digestible bits that spark your interest and curiosity in wellness beyond the medical model.

Consider how you might "reweave the rupture" or ways you've already done so and share it with us. There can ever be a shortage of ways for people to achieve healing in their own lives.