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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire
There are many definitions for the word “medicine” but in our culture it generally refers to a drug that is used to treat disease or injury. I tend to think medicine is anything that supports me when I’m in this uncomfortable state of post-breakup dis-ease. My medicines are all the things that get me comfortable with being in my body, they help loosen places where my energy gets tight, they help open up my mind in the places where I feel constricted.
My Breakup Medicine Chest is brimming with all the things that support me. These include:
1. My friends and family and my new running partner who I play with, exercise with, and laugh with (Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine - Lord Byron)
2. Exercise for my body - running, yoga, walking (A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world- Paul Dudley White)
3. The garden that I’m creating (Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul - Luther Burbank).
4. A Chinese herbalist and naturopath to support my body
5. A massage therapist to rub my shoulders and release some of the physical tension
6. My writing - marbles of therapy sessions
7. Bottles of Rescue Remedy (a remedy composed of the essences of five flowers) that I use whenever I’m feeling stressed (If you don’t have some, I highly recommend it - it either works or is the best placebo I’ve ever experienced)
I’m not sure if the medicinal techniques are part of the process of working through the dis-ease or if they are, as Voltaire suggests, distractions that allow nature to cure the unease through the balm of time. What I know for sure is that they allow for more flow in the now. They are good medicine.
Examine the medicine that you have in your life. Do they have side-effects? Are there healthier medicines that you could use to help you through the breakup?
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire
There are many definitions for the word “medicine” but in our culture it generally refers to a drug that is used to treat disease or injury. I tend to think medicine is anything that supports me when I’m in this uncomfortable state of post-breakup dis-ease. My medicines are all the things that get me comfortable with being in my body, they help loosen places where my energy gets tight, they help open up my mind in the places where I feel constricted.
My Breakup Medicine Chest is brimming with all the things that support me. These include:
1. My friends and family and my new running partner who I play with, exercise with, and laugh with (Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine - Lord Byron)
2. Exercise for my body - running, yoga, walking (A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world- Paul Dudley White)
3. The garden that I’m creating (Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul - Luther Burbank).
4. A Chinese herbalist and naturopath to support my body
5. A massage therapist to rub my shoulders and release some of the physical tension
6. My writing - marbles of therapy sessions
7. Bottles of Rescue Remedy (a remedy composed of the essences of five flowers) that I use whenever I’m feeling stressed (If you don’t have some, I highly recommend it - it either works or is the best placebo I’ve ever experienced)
I’m not sure if the medicinal techniques are part of the process of working through the dis-ease or if they are, as Voltaire suggests, distractions that allow nature to cure the unease through the balm of time. What I know for sure is that they allow for more flow in the now. They are good medicine.
Examine the medicine that you have in your life. Do they have side-effects? Are there healthier medicines that you could use to help you through the breakup?
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