Searching for Stress Relief
Like the Scarecrow, Lion, and Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz I sought an expert to provide me with what I already held.
Over a decade in corporate America led this Type A into physical distress. I was fatigued and irritable. My muscles were tight and painful. My digestion and reproductive systems were broken causing intense issues and discomfort.
I was a wreck.
Visiting doctor after doctor I was told there was nothing wrong. No illness. No disease. Prescriptions of all sorts were recommended -- none of them really worked. After more than three years, I was frustrated, tired and desperate.
Turning to alternative practices like acupuncture, Reiki and hypnotherapy I would experience temporary relief during the treatment, but nothing would last. Like Western medicine, these practitioners could not tell me what was wrong. They had no answers as to why I was feeling like I did.
In desperation, I headed to Peru to work with a shaman.
A friend told me of a shaman or local healer who had cured a man of cancer. "If he could do that," I thought, "he can certainly cure me." My experience in Peru was amazing and I left there pain and symptom free. But then I returned to the States.
As I collected my luggage, proceeded through customs, navigated the airport, and worried about making my connecting flight, one by one the symptoms came back. I realized it might have taken a month of cleansing, two shaman, and ten magical days in Peru to make me feel better.
But I was more powerful th...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news