What if illness was a reflection, a calling card let’s say, of deeper healing resources within us that had been ignored too long.
What if the symptoms that we’re accustomed to resisting and judging harshly were in truth a meaningful and necessary part of a deeper healing and return to wholeness?
The suggestion that illness of any sort might be ‘helpful’ only makes sense if we can manage to see ourselves and who we really are from a new and larger perspective. Without that broader vantage point any pain or suffering is a meaningless and unnecessary intrusion that just gets in the way of me being me.
What if ‘me’ was more than my body, mind and emotions? What if beyond our habitual modes of perception were complex fields of information exchange and energy flow that were fundamental to our true identity and necessary for regulating our biochemistry and defining our health and well-being?
While biophysicists have their technical instruments for detecting many of these bio-energetic information systems and interactive fields, including photons, our bodies come equipped with their own sensory apparatus that allows us to experience these fields directly … in the form of feelings and sensations … as distinguished from ‘thinking’.
My experience in working with myself and with others is that most of us are more identified with and limited by our thinking minds than with these deeper currents of life within us. Those fields of circulating information and energy are part of an intelligent biofeedback system that forms the foundation of our deeper sense of self and of our self-healing and self-regulating capacities.
To live in a state where we’re disconnected from this innate, yet invisible guidance system puts us at a serious disadvantage in terms of maintaining physical, emotional, mental and spiritual balance. It’s as if we’ve become unplugged from our very own inner healing capacity.
My suggestion here is that the symptoms of illness are often a wake-up call or an invitation to both acknowledge and connect with this hidden wisdom in our bodies. The key to connecting with these fields and activating our inner biofeedback circuitry to restore healing and wholeness … is to get out of our heads and into our bodies where we can sense this inner dimension directly.
Thinking only blocks the experience of this deeper connection while reinforcing our more familiar and limited conceptual sense of self. The willingness to feel whatever it is that we’re experiencing in this moment … any sensation, or feeling, or more specifically a ‘felt sense’ … without judgment … begins to loosen the hold that the limited thinking mind has over our sense of who we really are.
The relevant point here is to gently and patiently come back to ourselves, to your deeper more authentic energetic self. Mindfulness and meditation practices can be effective ways of inviting this deeper connection.
Dr. Templin offers a mind-body program for addressing the 
underlying inflammation, toxicities, and stress-induced causes of much pain and illness. He places special emphasis on Self-Regulation training as a foundation for self-healing.
He translates emerging research in the fields of Epigenetics, Energy Psychology, and Functional Nutrition into effective practices that you can perform at home for self-healing and personal transformation.
You can work with Dr. Templin online. or in his Lakeland, Florida office. He can be reached at 863-838-2779. You can visit his website at www.stevetemplin.com and contact him via email at drtemplin@gmail.com.
Steve is a retired Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Acupuncture Physician, and HeartMath Trauma-Sensitive Certified Practitioner with over 35 years of clinical experience in Energy Medicine, Energy Psychology, and Biofeedback.