Spiritual Counselling

The traditional way of viewing disease is that is is something to be cured.  Some even go so far as to say that disease needs to be eradicated from the body, driven out.  Some therapists believe in healing disease, a softer, more integrative approach to making the body well. 

In contemporary therapy circles, a common expoused belief is that we manifest disease in the body because of something we are doing wrong, that we then of course need to do right in order for the body to heal.  I like to believe that our soul expresses important messages to us through disease.  Disease, when seen in this way, is the body’s means of self-healing.  The personal metaphorical message that lie beneath disease is the key to what the person needs.  Symptoms then turn into the medicine.  What is the soul trying to achieve?

To access this deeper knowledge, residing within, we can use metaphor and story, process and amplification, until the message becomes clear.  Once the message is in our conscious awareness, the body can often heal.  Although of course, the soul’s aim is not to heal the body, but to use the body as a means of messenger to the person within.