I don't know where this came from, except that a patient sent it to me as if it was a quote from somewhere else. I really liked it, it encompasses many thoughts I have always upheld.

I believe in the cliche-there are reasons for everything. And that we find strength and power in our obstacles by learning to overcome them, by not believing in them. These thoughts have guided me in my own life.

Dr.M

A CASE OF SYMBOLIC HEALING

"Every illness...is an onslaught upon the person as he

or she is. Things have become so bad, and he or she is so alienated

from the whole of life, that a very extreme invasion is necessary to

break so loosened and liquified that, finally, the LIFE spirit

can flow into him or her. To be sick is to be shut off, to be

isolated. Every disease is like an invading force trying to destroy

our rigid forms and make us whole. With every invading illness comes a

symbolic content, and it is the task of the soul to expand itself so

that is can encompass the invading images and symbols. This may be a

struggle, though ultimately it is not a struggle but an expansive,

releasing process as one grows beyond his or her former

boundaries."

"The disease won't let us live the old ways. It actually comes to

destroy the way we are. The blockages in your respiratory tract, the

stiffness in your movements-these exist because of the way you have

held yourself. They emerge from the guarded, fearful, cautious

posture and a carefulness to control tears, and blushing, and anger and

free spontaneous movements. The symptoms are the body crying out, telling

you it has had enough. The symptoms will tear you apart at the very

places where you have held too tightly."

"When you become ill, it is as if you have been chosen or elected,

not as one to be limited and crippled, but as one to be healed. The

disease  always carries its own cure and also the cure for your whole

personality." -