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Powerful mechanisms of self-regulation of
this highly sophisticated system, if functioning properly, can overcome
almost any dysfunction. However, when these mechanisms fail and
disease develops, it seems more natural to direct efforts
towards restoration and support of natural healing rather than fighting
the disease. In most cases, this approach leads to more complete
and harmonic recovery.
Unfortunately, conventional medicine in its traditional
form mostly ignores the work of the body’s natural healing systems
and fights the disease instead of working together
with the body. This approach inevitably leads to the use of powerful
means of influence on disease, which, however, are not natural to
the body (strong medicine, strong physiotherapy etc.). These influences
interfere with the body’s self-recovery programs and often corrupt
or block them. Our body accumulates the unfinished programs and
with time, we develop body dysfunctions, allergies, and "a
bouquet" of chronic diseases, that can even influence the next
generations. People say, if you are over the age of 50, you wake
up in the morning and nothing hurts, you must be dead.
That is why healthcare recently turned towards
more "peaceful" approach in solving physical problems
of human beings and puts more attention to the body’s own potential
reserves and capacities. In this way, we work not in spite
of the body but together with it, making the body active
in a healing process and increasing our chances to overcome disease.
Effectiveness can be achieved by small means, where the danger of
complications and side effects is minimal.
This is the approach shared by most of complementary/alternative
healthcare practices, which are recently becoming progressively
popular.
Core
Principles of SI Medicine
Systemic Interactive Medicine’s three main principles,
completely shares the holistic approach towards health and disease.
PRINCIPLE 1 -
As long as a human being is alive, it is capable of healing any
malady.
PRINCIPLE 2
- In the healing process,
the human body should not be interfered with.
PRINCIPLE 3
- In
order to speed up the healing process, we must help support the
body.
In other words, let us help the human being
help itself – it knows better what is wrong, it knows better
what to do, it just needs some assistance.
View on health in SI Medicine
Conventional medicine generally sees health as
"the absence of disease" or major physical
dysfunction. However, the definition of the World Health Organization
states, that "Health is a state of complete physical, mental,
and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."
According to Dr.
Andrew Weil, "optimum health is a state of balance in which
the innate healing system of a human organism is operating at the
best possible efficiency… an inner resilience that allows you to
meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed".
This balance is dynamic
and necessarily involves the entire human being, as a unity of body,
mind and spirit. "Optimum health should also bring with
it a sense of strength and joy, so that you experience it as more
than just the absence of disease." 4
Indeed, ‘health’ is more ‘presence’ than ‘absence’.
In SI Medicine not only is health is a
state of dynamic balance of physical, mental and spiritual well-being
it is a lifetime journey, an intentional and proactive orientation
to life that values personal growth and development. In this
way, a central figure in the healing process becomes the individual
himself, taking primary responsibility for maintaining of his
own health.
As Dr. Marc Micozzi
points out, "Health is not something you grant someone. A doctor
cannot grant a patient health. Health is something that must
be pursued. It’s a path that people have to choose to get on.
They can’t be given health with a pill or an operation. It goes
even beyond lifestyle. It’s an issue of philosophy, and every person
really has to be responsible to stay healthy, and get well when
they are sick, and has to focus on their ability to care for themselves…
That’s the only solution, in the end. No one can give you health."
The active role of the individual in the process
of evoking and keeping health is in the very core of SI Medicine.
It is mainly client-oriented, as distinguished from physician-oriented
as in conventional medicine. Even the word "patient" is
not in its vocabulary as no longer conforming to the essence of
the issue.
The concept of health as a state of dynamic
balance in human well being also implies that the human organism
has a healing system, which naturally keeps this balance.
Accordingly, the main objective of medicine would be to keep this
system in optimum working condition, in top shape, and let
it do its job of keeping us healthy.
Medicine thus acquires a largely preventive
aspect. But even if disease occurs and treatment is required, efforts
are concentrated not on fighting disease but on supporting the
activity of the healing system. And an optimum treatment is
the one that tunes up and strengthens the healing system with minimal
impact on the physical body. This approach is not aggressive, and
such an influence on the body can hardly be called "intervention".
The way of medicine should not be the way of war.
View on disease in SI Medicine
Following the famous expression "Love your
disease, it’s keeping you healthy", SI Medicine sees the
pathologic process in a human body as an inadequate adaptive reaction
rather than an enemy that should be killed.
Any living system responds (adapts) to the
outside changes striving to keep the constancy of its internal environment
– homeostasis, in the ever-changing world. In a well-tuned healthy
system adaptive reactions happen instantly and unnoticeably. However,
if adaptive reactions, due to a disorder in self-regulation, do
not have an adequate measure of reaction, we experience dis-ease.
Inadequacy of adaptive reactions (too strong a
response) is caused in most cases by improper work of the body programs.
If there is a delay in the transmission of information within
the body, the adaptive (i.e. natural healing) reaction will be difficult
and, therefore, slow. Each step of the program will require
a lot of efforts and a lot of energy, thus becoming quite perceivable.
We call it "symptoms". As a rule, the slower is the
adaptive reaction, the stronger the symptoms are. Sometimes,
if natural healing programs are corrupted or blocked too much, the
adaptive reaction cannot be completed at all. The body is stuck
somewhere on a healing cycle at the ‘dead point’, which the body
cannot pass, no matter how often and how hard it tries (the chronic
disease and its relapses).
How to regain health
Conventional approach towards any health problem
is as follows: we label the disease according to the symptoms and,
as per diagnosis, start fighting it to relieve unpleasant sensations.
But what is that we are actually fighting? Just the body’s natural
healing reaction, thus falling into danger of leaving the system
in disharmony with the outside world.
Simple logic tells that it would be more natural
to help the body complete healing by speeding up the
adaptive reactions. In other words, we have to develop the dynamics
of disease.
SI Medicine technologies accelerate the speed of
informational processes in the body, optimizing the activity of
self-regulative mechanisms and adaptive reactions. A SI Medicine
therapist assists a client through the entire circle of his dis-ease,
trying to make this way faster and easier – however, the natural
healing program should not be interfered with. Disease has to
live its life through.
Client rules
The
idea of helping the living system heal itself in the way it was
designed to is shared by all holistic medical practices.
It is in the core of the ancient medical systems, such as Traditional
Chinese Medicine (TCM), Ayurvedic, and Indigenous Medicine etc.
It is also undergoing its revival now, on a new turn of the evolutionary
spiral, on a new quality level. This turn requires radical reconsidering
the accepted role distribution between a practitioner and a client,
returning to the client the decision making power in a treatment
process.
We still think that it should be health care professionals,
who decide what is best for their clients; that with the help of
hi-tech diagnostic equipment they will always know better what is
wrong with the unimaginably complex systems they are called upon
to treat. However, the level of complexity of the functional system
of a human organism far exceeds the diagnostic capabilities
of any piece of equipment known to-date. Therefore, relying on diagnosis
always carries the probability of a mistake with unpredictable
consequences.
The only way to avoid such a mistake is to trust
the human being in its ability to heal and let it lead the process
of therapy, supporting in any way possible. The system itself is
the only entity, which really knows what is going on, and the only
one, which has a comprehensive way of dealing with a problem. Eliminating
the diagnostic stage and letting the client’s own body lead treatments
simplifies the entire process of therapy and makes it much more
efficient and safe.
Body talks
The only problem, how to establish communication
with the body in order to assist it in healing? So far this communication
was only possible through the censorship of consciousness, which
is gradually losing the ability to receive, interpret, and transfer
information from the body because of continuing alienation from
it.
Cry of our bodies for help remains unheard and
incomprehensive, unless the way is found to directly communicate
with the body.
That is where high technologies enter the scene.
At the end of the 20th century they brought a solution
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Using the body’s own language of chemistry and
electricity, these devices work on energetic and informational
levels and supply the body with a feedback and extra resources
of energy, necessary to complete the healing process. They also
give the body a chance to establish direct interactive communication
with other systems capable of supporting the body in its healing
efforts.
Helping hands
When a living system
cannot cope with a problem on its own, it looks for help from outside.
It receives help in interaction with other systems, which
readily supply the system in need with extra resources of substance,
energy and information. This simple principle underpins
the concept of
Systemic Interactive Medicine,
a new integrative approach to health and healing, which explores
the ways of helping a human being enhance its natural healing capacity
through interaction with other systems.
SI Medicine works for us as spiritual and
intellectual beings, when we discuss our problems with a
friend, or a psychologist, or a priest and gain a greater understanding
of ourselves. In the same way it works on physical level,
when interactive medical devices establish a line of communication
between our out-of-tune bodies and surrounding supporting systems,
whether it is another human being, an animal, or our own phantom
image. Interactive device can be a supporting system itself, like
the SCENAR, when it connects to the body at the place of small asymmetry,
feeding it with information and energy.
In the world of systems you are never alone. Eternal
beauty of the living Universe is a reflection of its intrinsic harmony,
and the Universe keeps this harmony taking care of each of its parts,
you included. Your health contributes to the health of the Universe,
so its resources are open for you. There are helping hands everywhere,
all you need to do is ask – and you shall receive.
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