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Very interesting topic. In my situation, my awakening to spirituality began due to undiagnosed mysterious physical symptoms and being sensitive to energy. I turned to exploring my spiritual side because of this and have been for four years. It took me on quite a wild ride, but I still didn't have any major breakthroughs in improving my physical health despite my efforts at self healing and working out emotional issues. In fact, my physical health got worse, which in turn made my mental state worse (depression from never feeling physically well). I was insistent that there must be something on the spiritual level that I haven't yet uncovered, or a deep emotional block that had yet to surface, and so I continued to explore possible spiritual causes and different energy healing methods, desperate for answers. I was hitting brick walls wherever I turned and became so frustrated.
It wasn't until this past week that I visited a chiropractor (who is also a functional medicine Doctor) and after analyzing my structure and blood work he wondered how I was walking around this way for so long! My vestibular system and adrenal function were shot and had been overlooked by every doctor and specialist I had been to over the past 15 years. After the doctor adjusted me I felt instant relief and better than I have since I can't even remember when.
I was so relieved to have finally gotten some answers as to my physical health, but then it made me question a lot of things reflecting back on the spiritual journey I'd been on the past four years.
Before I continue to ramble on about myself, I will say I believe physical, mental, and emotional health does affect spiritual health as well as the other way around. I believe the path to find balance in all of the above levels looks different for everyone, meaning there's no one way to approach over all healing.
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