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Recovery stories not only bring hope that we too, can get better despite the doom-and-gloom of "you can only become worse" nocebo effects of diagnosis, but also show us the way of how to do it...

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I just wrote on another comment page , how MEMORIES are so important , but there are two kinds , memories of the Battle , and Memories of the Battlefield . It is important to recount the battle, but to really understand it with the gift of history , looking at the battlefield is more valuable - In your essay here , you speak about how her Parkinsons would get worse when afraid about the future . This is a big clue to the nature of the battle field . Because that dopamine drop happens when we can see clearly , even into the near future , and feel safe enough to move INTO it . When I was breastfeeding my children , I belonged to La Leche League , a group of mothers who shared information and guidance to successfully nursing their infants and toddlers . When someone had a baby , there was this thing that we naturally did which was listen to her birth story . This was group think , and also preparation for the women about to give birth . Telling the stories is so so important to do . This is an excellent article , keep up the good work and steady focus . I believe that some people are experiencing Parkinsons physically , but somehow , this paralysis seems to also have arrived in the general collective - fear based paralysis , that people experiencing it biologically may come on the answer for people experiencing it ... well , ha ha , experientially . Blessings on our day .

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Shared recoveries? What about shared cures? In our current medical paradigm, "prevention is better than cure" so much better that sharing cures is almost totally forbidden. Patients quickly develop fear is sharing their cures because peer pressure and pressure from medical systems actively suppress cure sharing. Doctors naturally fear sharing cures, often for fear of lawdlsuits. Publisher's of books generally require cure disclaimers in all medical books about cures. We might be allowed to talk about RECOVERY because recovery isn't cured. Over 600 million people have RECOVERED from COVID. Not one CURED. http://healthicine.org/wordpress/curanoias-fear-of-cures-curing-and-cured/

To your health, Tracy

Author: A New Theory of Cure

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I wrote an article about art , how art - un necessary expression of dance , visual image , or sounds , what we call music , is VITAL and totally necessary to connecting the inner world and the outer world which is what it means to be alive . I sometimes wonder if getting an illness is actually a serious art form , where the body is trying to explain something within this difficulty . What I wrote below , which is that we are experiencing a social form of Parkinsons , is really important , because it will allow people who are "dancing " -- physcially experiencing this problem , can see their story as a reflection of a bigger situation . And that they know that their experience is an important expression . And that their healing can arrive , when the external problems are understood and guarded from . If you walk out of your door and there is a hole in the sidewalk that you fall into , hurt your legs , and this happens over and over again , finally you learn to step over the hole , make a big sign that says " There is a hole , watch out " and suddenly , the town comes , fills in the hole and repairs the sidewalk . Well , inside of our life experiences , alot of things outside of ourselves are tripping us up . And then, we are the ones with the injury . But the strong ones say - "No , I am not going to stay inside my house and stop trying to walk outside - I am going to understand what is going on out there -- " and then , the hole is made visible , signalled , repaired , and future hole precautions are taken . Seeing managing our illnesses as a sort of an art form , as Gary Sharpe is doing , is really helpful to the collective . Ask me a question if you need me to try to explain more simply . During my care of Ellie , we had a one inch high border between the hall carpet and the tiled bathroom floor . We called it " Mt Everest " - it was that much of a problem . But , we made it over every time -- likewise , that hole in the sidewalk can get repaired . Its not always the "Fault " of the body of the patient . Sometimes, the problem is happening outside of our own self , which is why we can be blind to it .

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