What could I say to help?
This week I watched Celine Dion's new documentary film 'I am Celine'.
It was a riveting watch, and harrowing at times to see the suffering she is going through with her diagnosis of 'stiff person's syndrome' (SPS).
After watching, I so wanted to reach out and offer help, but obviously have no idea how to make contact with a celebrity such as herself.
So here is my message anyway, of what I would like to share...
Dear Celine
My name is Kim, I’m a root cause and chronic illness recovery coach, and I've spent 20 years helping people overcome all sorts of weird and strangely named syndromes which most doctors say have no known cause and are impossible to treat.
After watching your film, I felt compelled to reach out in some way, in the hope it could help find more answers for your rare health syndrome, solutions which quite likely up until now you have been unaware even exist.
Before I go on, firstly, I wish to say how deeply sorry I am you are experiencing so much pain and suffering. I understand first-hand what it is like to have a long-term so-called ‘incurable’ diagnosis, and the time, energy, effort and frustration of what is required to resolve it.
However, I don't believe anything happens randomly in this universe, and ultimately the greatest burdens often turn into a gift. Your public sharing of what is going on for you has the potential to help millions of people in unexpected ways, as well as hopefully help you find the answers and relief you are looking for.
Secondly I wish to honour the immense courage I can only imagine it must have taken to be so open, honest and vulnerable with the entire world, through showing the reality of what you are going through in your daily life.
So I’m writing this message, which somehow by some miracle, if it is meant to be, may reach you.
For the record, I wrestled long and hard over whether to do this, as it takes me massively out of my comfort zone. But if you can be brave enough to share what you are going through with the whole world, I can be brave enough to potentially be criticized for making bold claims of being able to offer help, due to the conventional medical system usually maintaining that as a natural therapist I'm not adequately qualified to do so.
However, I am doing it firstly for you, and secondly for the myriad of other people it could also help. I am also aware there are quite likely other practitioners like myself reaching out, so hopefully at least one of us may get through.
So, here we go. Here is my message.
What was missing?
As I was watching the film, and the types of medical approaches being used to help you, it seems from what was shown on film, they are mainly a ‘conventional medical approach’. Ie, medication, doctors, massage, sports physio. In my experience, this type of approach often tends to focus on managing or dealing with symptoms, ie, the end result of the problem, and is referred to as ‘the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff’.
What I didn’t see in the film was a discussion or understanding of what is causing the problem, and the relevant solutions to address these root causes. And this may be potentially why (as of the time of the making of the film) severe symptoms were still persisting?
For the past 20 years I have helped people self-heal from a myriad of hard-to-treat illnesses which have usually been labelled ‘incurable’ or ‘untreatable’ by medical doctors. Often these illnesses are labelled a 'syndrome' - a group of symptoms which have no exact cause or solution. However, in my experience, nothing could be further from the truth. The body never creates symptoms randomly, they almost always serve a purpose, and it's our job as the symptom-experiencer to find out what that is.
In my experience, in 30 years of exploration into this subject of chronic illness recovery, unless and until the root cause is identified and understood, it can be very difficult, even impossible, to find and apply the right or best solutions. Unfortunately many doctors are unable to supply many of said required solutions, simply because they have not been trained to do so, and therefore do not know such solutions even exist. It's simply a case of missing information and inadvertent misinformation.
Please know, I am not saying that conventional approaches are not necessary or helpful. I am saying they are not the full picture of what is possible or available.
For the past 20 years, many of my like-minded and similarly qualified colleagues have expended much effort to help the general public and the conventional medical system understand there are other routes to healing apart from drugs and surgery. It’s been a long, hard road (for many political reasons which I will not go into now), but the fact of the matter is, there ARE often solutions to seemingly complex problems, although these solutions are often unlikely to come via the conventional medical system.
Having the right tools for the job
I often like to use the following analogy of solving a problem at its core:
If your car breaks down, and you have no idea why, how can you fix it? If you open the bonnet and take a wild guess, and decide to just try anything, it may or may not work. On the other hand, if the car is towed to a garage, and inspected by an experienced mechanic who is able to isolate the precise problem, they will know exactly what tool to use and what spare parts will be needed to fix it. In this case, the fixing of the problem is much more likely to be simple and quick.
In the first 20 years of trying to heal my own set of syndromes and symptoms, no-one ever told me this. It took me years to piece together the many moving pieces of the puzzle to getting well, and the absolute key is to understand a few essential concepts:
Firstly:
‘You don’t heal symptoms – you heal a person. You don’t heal illness – you heal a person’s life’.
I was taught this by my first Qigong teacher, and it changed my whole understanding of illness and health.
What does it mean? It means that whilst symptoms are useful clues as to the cause of the problem, they are only the end result, the out-manifestation of something else. The causes will be wrapped up in the whole person’s life; quite literally what has happened to them from birth until now. This is why in an in depth root cause analysis, we look at someone's whole life in intricate detail, to find the clues to the illness, which are spread through one's life like pearls which have fallen off a necklace. One needs to gather up the pearls and remake the necklace in its entirety to see the full picture of a person’s life.
Secondly:
‘Symptoms are necessary and intelligent communication. The body is far too intelligent to make mistakes’.
Symptoms are a cry for help from some part of our being which is calling for attention. Symptoms are the physical outcry of a deeper metaphysical (beyond physical) pain. We cannot separate what happens physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually or energetically inside a human body. We are a totality, and each part will affect every other part simultaneously.
As we string together the pearls on the necklace, we will discover what it is that truly needs healing, and as this healing is effected, the body responds by sending less and less symptoms, until eventually, hopefully, they are gone altogether. Once we have learned the lesson, we no longer need the symptoms to get our attention.
Thirdly:
‘We have to learn the laws of health, and how to stop breaking them'.
So said my second Qigong teacher when I first met him.
There are many different laws in the universe, including universal laws, personal laws of life, laws of health and more.
When laws are broken, there are consequences. In order to heal, we need to learn the ‘laws of health’ and how we have often (through no obvious fault of our own) inadvertently broken them. When we stop breaking the laws of health, this brings the body back into its natural state of harmony and balance, aka health.
Fourth:
‘Healing is transformation: you change and are never the same again’.
Often when people are sick they will say ‘I just want to get back to my old life’. Well, it was the old life which led us to get sick! Instead of trying to go backwards, we have to learn to go forwards, and this requires learning, applying and change. Ultimately this brings transformation on the deepest level. Just like when a computer operating system is upgraded, we become a new version of ourselves. This involves, metaphorically speaking, a type of death and rebirth.
Fifth:
We don’t fight illness – we come on side with it, we treat it as our friend.
One of the biggest lessons I learned on my own journey back to health, is that wanting to be well without doing the deep inner work just prolongs the illness. Putting deadlines on getting well is a surefire way to extend and delay healing.
I learned that instead of asking ‘when will I be well’ to change the question to ‘what is it need to learn and change so that my body can restore health and no longer need to send symptoms?.
Once we have learned the lessons, and applied change, the body will stop sending symptoms.
Six:
What we resist persists. Accepting what is is the first step in change.
Often we can fight hard against what is happening, against reality. Paradoxically, accepting 'what is' is an important and necessary step in healing.
Eventually, on my own journey, I learned I had to let go of attachment to getting well whilst still holding an intention to do so. I learned that I need to see symptoms as my friend rather than my enemy, a friend trying to guide me in a new and better direction.
It took me 20 years to understand my own set of complex symptoms and how to heal them, which then inadvertently led me to help others.
Is it time for something different?
As I have said many times before, the mainstream medical system has much needed solutions for certain problems, especially in ‘acute’ care, with life-saving surgeries and drugs. However, this legacy system has not been set up or trained to help with the myriad of long-term chronic health problems which are ever-growing on the planet today. For this a new breed of healthcare practitioner are needed, and the good news is, thousands of practitioners have been training and working in a radically different way for some decades now, waiting on the sidelines to be discovered by the general public.
Sadly, it is often not easy for practitioners such as myself to be taken seriously, due to the significant and deep conditioning of the masses since the late 19th century that 'doctors know best'. It was only during the covid years that I finally understood why it is we have been side-lined and shunned for so long: big pharma does not want people to know that they can heal themselves without drugs. There is an alternative agenda, which has been secretly running for over a century, to hide the truth from people; that their body has far more ability to heal than they have ever been told. You can find out more about this in the ‘true history of medicine’ compilation of videos below.
It has been my passion to learn about the topic of healing for many years now, because it’s time people understood the incredible self-healing abilities of their body-mind.
It’s time people understood that we do not have to rely on medication, which can often harm more than do good.
It’s time people understood that our body is built to heal itself, as long as we have the operating manual, which unfortunately most have not been told about.
It’s time for the healthcare system to be upgraded, and fortunately much preparation has already been done, it is already happening, and it's time.
Sharing your story so publicly Celine brings to light yet again the absolute urgency and importance that these natural healthcare approaches are brought into the spotlight.
It's their time to be on stage.
I wish you all the best in your recovery. I truly hope you find what you need to heal.
Kim
The Kiwi Health Detective.
ps - If the universe so wishes, this message will miraculously wend its way to her. If it doesn't, maybe someone else experiencing something similar may find my sharing useful. If it is not meant to be noticed, this message will quickly fade into oblivion, but at least in my heart I know I did my bit to help.
References
SPS - Stiff Person's Syndrome - The Conventional Perspective:
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/stiff-person-syndrome-sps
https://www.osmosis.org/answers/stiff-person-syndrome
Art of Health Resources
The Secrets to Health - An understanding of root cause analysis and why it's the first step in authentic healing
The 5 Levels of Consciousness, Health and You - How your healthcare choices are a direct reflection of your beliefs and self-awareness.
The True History of Medicine - what you were never taught in school about how the medical system came to be
A Better Way for a Better World - Presentations for the World Council for Health and other forward-thinking health organizations
Stories of Recovery - Just to prove I'm not blowing hot air
Credits for Images used
Medical Disclaimer
As a non-doctor, I am bound to give the following disclaimer:
Neither Kim Knight nor the Art of Health diagnoses, cures, treats or heals any illness. Please seek the appropriate medical advice for your situation. The information in this blog does not constitute any medical advice, and all readers agree to take full responsibility for how they may use any of the information in this article.
