The Limerick Healing Centre  

We all want to believe that we can just cope with whatever and ignore it. 

But note this:  Five years ago the stats said that 1 in 10 of us will be diagnosed with a chronic condition sometime in our lives.  The stats now state that 1 in 3 of us will be diagnosed with a chronic condition.  Many of the clients making appointments are in their late teens and early twenties indicating that our general health is declining fast.  I was hoping to be one of the lucky ones cause I have always been what people would consider healthy only to find out  I already have four chronic conditions but I am catching them at least 10 years before they would usually be found (if they were found at all).  My odds of them becoming degenerative are much less which is much less frightening to deal with.  When we are diagnosed with a condition most of us go into panic mode for we are fearful of what the future holds.  Fear can be a disease in itself.  That fear can further inhance that condition leaving us more stress to deal with.

When we open the door to finding out about our health instead of ignoring it, we have made a huge step.  Many choose to believe there is only one path that can help with all of our health concerns and that we would never need to open up some other doors to see what is behind them.  There is much out there to help us if we choose to help ourselves. 

It is our choice. 

Some need the time to make their decisions for it is all very new to them.  Loved ones will require patience to make up their minds and see that that fear is only holding them back. 

There are alot of different paths to do down on the road to wellness.  It never ends for when we stop going forward and searching, we begin to go backwards.

Each and every person is responsible for their own health.  We need to take ownership of it.  We need to make the choices that we are prepared to live with and not just keep complaining about them.    Many of us go around expecting others such as the health care system, the drug store or the health store to make our decisions for us.  We need to do our own decision making and make our own commitments of how committed we are to actually feeling better.  Some just want a quick fix and are not prepared to put out any effort at all.  Some have the belief that there will always be another pill or procedure (usually surgical) that will be able to help us instead of just helping ourselves and not having to get ourselves into those situations.  It takes commitment plain and simple!