Center4 Health and Healing©

Ken Hamilton, MD

Health and Healing:

Health, heal, whole, holistic, and holy all come from the same old Germanic word root, hael, so they all have something special in common, namely a sense of wholeness that relates to the perfection of the universe. There is more than just body here; more than mind and body…there is something spiritual to all of this. Health has a sense of soundness about it, as in sound of body and mind. It is more than just the absence of disease. Indeed, it can't be defined in terms of any disease. We should never define it in terms of disease; that would be like saying that love is the absence of fear. Rather, if we look at it from the opposite way and say that disease is the absence of health, we can say that healing is the process of moving toward health. (Just as we can say that love is letting go of fear.)

The Center4 Health and Healing© asks us to change the way we look at ourselves from generally trying to find "What's Wrong" to always looking for "What's Right". When we do, "What's Wrong" simply becomes an impasse, a roadblock, to our process of healing. If "What's Wrong" is in our face, we can treat it as if it were a person. We can ask "What's Wrong" to show us the way to "What's Right". Successful people throughout time have known that "What's Wrong" always gives up and shows us how to get around it to "What's Right". Indeed, this is one of the best ways to understand success.

The spiritual aspect of this process is that "What's Wrong" doesn't exist in the universe. If it did, there would be no universe at all, and that would include you and me. No, friends, the universe is "What's Right" and always is. It's our little self, our egos, that create "What's Wrong". Our larger, spiritual self, known by many names the world over, is "What's Right". A huge piece of healing happens when "What's Wrong," starts listening to "What's Right".

When this happens, we start feeling better. We find out that our bodies are connected to our minds through more than just our actions and our physical feelings…through our emotions, too. Feelings of all kinds are essential to health and life. There's a very rare genetic condition of being born without pain fibers…of being unable to feel physical pain. It is a fatal condition with very few of those born with it living to their thirties! Similarly, having no emotional feelings dooms most to early, usually violent, death. We are aware of the impacts that emotions have on our health. Anger and fear are very useful for keeping us alive in the face of danger. (It's called the "fight or flight response".) Excitement stimulates our brains to increased creativity. Happiness eases pain. Joy stimulates the immune system. They are all healthy emotions. Overuse of anger and fear can have harmful effects on the heart and immune systems, respectively. The Center4 Health and Healing teaches us how to transform anger and fear before they do harm. It teaches us how to choose between our emotions.

The Center4 Health and Healing also helps us with a vitally important part of our healing process, discovering our core passion. A quarter-century of working in medicine and surgery with human development tools has shown me that finding one's core passion starts a chain of events that affects the body-mind in a vitally healthy way. I've seen people with all kinds of serious and even life-threatening disease put their problem behind them by finding and developing that core passion. It is in everybody, and unique to everyone, making the difference between identical twins, for instance.

The way we've been living, driven by our "What's Wrong," suppresses the core passion because it makes other "What's Wrongs" jealous, and they act cruelly out of their fear of each other. When we can discover our "What's Right" self, we can let go of our fear and separation and acknowledge our core passion. "What's Right" is the essence of who we are. It knows its universal nature, and that knowledge leads us to our spirituality. It is our soul, and nurturing our core passion nurtures our soul.

So, friends, we have a physical body, a mind that directs it through action and emotions, a soul that carried our core passion, and a spirit that is the connection to the entire universe. Health is being a whole of the four and healing is the process of moving toward and maintaining health. The purpose of The Center4 Health and Healing is to bring people into that process and to move toward its ultimate goal. To that end, it uses the four services of its parent organization, H.O.P.E., Healing Of Persons Exceptional and the Grail Quest Counseling coaching skills of the founder of H.O.P.E., Ken Hamilton, MD.

 

To learn more about Health and Healing, contact Dr. Hamilton.