Generally, people don’t distinguish between cure and healing. For example, when you injure your finger, you apply a medication, so your finger is cured. You can also say that it healed. Does not look like there is much difference between curing and healing, right?
Well, in the mindbody world, the difference is significantly more pronounced. Your chronic pain is generated not by a physical injury, but by an emotional trauma to your brain. Often chronic pain remains in the body after the physical trauma is already cured and there is no reason for the injured organ to remain in pain. The emotional trauma that caused chronic pain can be new or very old, it can be associated with the physical injury or can be completely unrelated or be lurking in your brain until it cannot cope anymore. It can be a single event or accumulation of multiple events. Human beings are resilient creatures, they have many evolutionary mechanisms to cope with emotional and physical traumas, so to penetrate that coping mechanism and cause physical pain, your emotional trauma must be deep.
And this is where the difference between cure and healing becomes clear. Cure comes from outside, through a pill, a surgery, an organ transplant. Unfortunately, there is no magic pill to cure deep emotional traumas, the only way out of such pain is to embark on a difficult journey of healing. And mindbody healing must come from inside, through the emotional work that often challenges your habits and your beliefs but helps to re-wire your brain and cause a different response to those once unbearable emotional burdens.
There are many methods that are designed to help you with that. Check out our Resources page to learn about those.
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