At GracefulHealing.org, the path to recovery of good health is based on an unconditional surrender of our scientific knowledge to the native intelligence and wisdom of our bodies. This, of course, is easier said than done! We are so entrenched in our belief that science offers us the way out of all our problems that we miss two important facts. First, science is an ongoing process of discovery. The most eminent scientists know and acknowledge that the "facts" uncovered by science are of this moment, and transient. What is more, even these so-called "facts" are based on theory, the intellectual basis of scientific inquiry. Our scientific "findings" are constantly being replaced by new empirical and theoretical research. While the intellectual challenge of the game of science is thoroughly enjoyable, we should shudder at the thought of betting our lives on the findings of the medical and health sciences.

The second fact that we overlook when we turn to medical science is that it encourages us to retain our bad habits that caused our disease in the first place. The medical model (which, incidentally, is also the basis of other "treatment" based "alternative" healing modalities) not only ignores the importance of diet and spiritual cleansing in the healing process, but by definition presupposes a state of knowledge about the way our bodies work that we simply do not possess. The result is that we "battle" disease with our scientific weapons. While we may have the illusion of winning at times, not only do we pay a heavy price, we often lose in the end. Even more importantly, we sacrifice much of our lives to an ungainly battle with our Creator--for our bodies are nothing less than temples of the Universal Soul.

In the program adopted at GracefulHealing.org, we take a deeply spiritual approach that recognizes the superior intelligence of our bodies as divine temples. We learn to honor our bodies. We achieve this by first unlearning some habits of thinking and acting that are fostered in us by modern society. We are so used to telling our bodies what to do that we are barely conscious that we are doing so. We transition from such a way of life to one in which we let our bodies tell us what to do. And we learn to listen to our bodies so that we may know what we should do. In our program there is emphasis on being gentle with our bodies, and achieving good heatlh with love and understanding rather than the negative emotions brought on my a battling strategy. It is the way to heal gracefully.

To be sure, we are in a situation where we have altered so much of our natural environment that we are trapped in our science. While science can provide us with some useful information, we use the findings of science with great discretion, being careful to take only what we can reasonably rely on. This is easily the most unque and significant contribution of our program of healing, for you will find that we reject much of so-called scientific research that is widely accepted by the medical and healing professions as well as the general public.

The path, in summary, entails an affirmative answer on your part to a fundamental question; your recognition of a basic principle; and finally, your subscription to a guiding belief. These three are displayed below in red, amber and green (you can guess why!)