When we get sick, it’s easy to focus on the ‘effect’ that is happening to us right now. In fact, western medicine tends to treat the ‘effect’ in most cases. You have a pain, they treat location of the pain. You have an infection, they treat the infection only. But, what caused the illness to happen? What was happening in the body, with the immune system, with the gut, with the patient’s stress level and emotions before the ‘effect’ happened?
This is the CAUSE.
This is what also needs to be treated.
And while it seems like you should be putting out the fire right in front of you, the ‘effect’ that is happening currently, that is not all that needs to get looked at and treated.
The cause, the SOURCE, needs to be identified and addressed as well. This is what Functional Medicine does. You treat the symptoms while determining and treating the root cause of the issue. This is how true healing happens.
This concept can be applied to so many things in our lives…
When the child is having a meltdown, you deal with the behavior (the effect) but are you looking at what caused it. It could be a food intolerance, an emotional upset that occurred at school, a lack of sleep, not enough water, etc.
Our partner continues to do things that frustrate us but what is the cause of that. Do they not feel heard, are we just overly stressed and tired or did we not communicate our needs well.
Our business isn’t thriving. Is it really the algorithms or is it because we aren’t really solving the right problem for people or articulating it properly or maybe it’s priced wrong or we aren’t talking about it enough or reaching the right people.
We tend to focus TOO MUCH on the effect and try to heal things from there when we actually need to heal the ROOT CAUSE of the issue.
And when we do that in our health, our relationships and our work, we actually heal the problem.
So, where in your life right now are you treating the effect and not the cause? It’s time to shift your focus.
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xoxo,
Jill