Touching Spirituality

by June Greier

Someone once told me that “us westerns” have an inadequate perception of spirituality and healing. Coming back from the Far East, he mentioned how no one there ever speaks of chakras, or auras; how our approach to alternative and complementary medicine is commercial, and borders on pop.The fact of the matter is, that it doesn’t make any difference whether he was correct or not, because human beings, wherever they origin, are allowed to discuss and debate any subject they see fit. This is what we call “freedom of thought”, and for the time being we still have hold of that precious commodity.Defining spirituality as something unattainable, as the ungraspable, is, in some manner, a thought limiting decision. It’s as if someone had told Albert Einstein that we are not to understand atoms at this point in history, and we should just sit back and enjoy the view while we can.The human investigative and curios nature will never enable us to sit back – it’s not within us. For that matter, every science and theory in this world are to be approachable to each and every one of us. A child in his 3rd year should be able to find all the information he desires, just as an old-school 70 year old should be. Even since eastern philosophies have entered our conscious, our everyday lives, we have all done our best to integrate them into our perception. If that means investigating spiritual, almost-religious matters, so be it. In fact, our interest in the subject of natural alternative and complementary medicine has done wonders in the field, as we brought Swedish Massage, Bach Remedy Flowers and Reflexology to this world, and improved many eastern healing methods, by applying our knowledge to them. If nothing else, we should continue investigating. Not only because of the benefits produced from this behavior, but also because eastern philosophies condone this conduct. There is nothing in eastern philosophies to imply that a person should resist his or her nature, or that they should avoid development.Not only is alternative and complementary medicine for the people, but it is also of the people; we are the core of these methods – they take care of people? They are applied by people? We have good news! We are people!Eastern philosophies are just that – philosophies, life perceptions; they are not an elite form of medicine, they are the everyday behavior your can choose to adopt or leave behind. For instance, some of us will boil tea for an ill loved one, some of us will hand them a pill; either way, we all use our natural methods of dealing with situations without even noticing, and are never criticized for that. The eastern world offers us a whole new approach we can add to our lives.Eliminating these options from our lifestyle only because we do not understand them fully yet means we should stop serving tea to the discomforted as well, as both are vaguely connected to science for the time being. And for that matter, of course, psychological therapy is off limits; until we have the final equation that sums a person up in numbers, that is. For these reasons basic eastern healing and curing methods should be in the hands of all of us, and the choice of using them should be ours.

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