I have a confession; I’m a recovering ‘expert’ in health and wellness. For years now I’ve positioned myself as someone who has the power of health and vitality over others. Here’s the truth; you and only you have that power.
I’ve been working in the field of complimentary medicine going on 20 years now. Seven of those years I spent studying at university. First medical biosciences, then Chinese medicine and acupuncture. I left there with a willingness to take on difficult cases and a desire to help people with complex, chronic illness. Careful what you wish for right?! 😅
Fast forward a couple of years and even though I had a successful practice, if I’m being brutally honest, it was pretty hit and miss. And there was always the question in the background of ‘is this it?’ ‘Is this all there is?’ The medical model or the alternative medicine model? Or a strange (ultimately forced) blend of the two..
In 2020 the stars aligned and I was ready, on a deeper level to integrate this: you are the expert you’ve been waiting for. Basically, you heal you.
I was finally ready to exit the well worn path of fear-of-the-body. It was around this time that an oddly named biological science came into my awareness; German New Medicine.
Ok! So what is GNM anyway? The name would be a good place to start. Why is it called German New Medicine?
Well, the discoveries were made in the late 70’s by a German medical doctor; Dr Ryke Geerd Hamer. Dr Hamer lost his son in a tragic accident. A couple of months later, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Now the next bit is rare, it doesn’t happen often. There must have been some divine intervention here.. Dr Hamer realised that there may be a link between his illness and his son’s untimely passing. In other words, it occurred to him that the disease he’d recently been diagnosed with could actually be related to his son’s recent passing! He then set to work inquiring of all the men and women in the Munich cancer hospital in which he worked, whether they had experienced tragedy before falling ill.
What he discovered will not come as a surprise to most reading this article. Every single person, without exception, had a significant traumatic or overwhelming event take place in their lives prior to their diagnosis.
Joh! What’s up with that? So, there may be a direct link between difficult life experience and significant disease? (Perhaps even life experiences and all disease 😉).
Could this mean that disease as we understand it is not actually a bad thing? It doesn’t need to be gotten rid of? Just understood? What?!! Maybe what happens in the body is by us for us? Maybe symptoms can be used as a compass to guide us back to connection with ourselves and the flow of life.
Mmm.. Food for thought.
New Medicine
The ‘new medicine’ part of the name indicates that this is a new model for understanding health. The old model of germs and genes and random things causing ‘disease’ is outdated and outmoded, it no longer applies. It doesn’t work for us in understanding how our bodies work and why we develop ‘disease.’ It is also a model for understanding why I’m always putting ‘disease’ in quotation marks 😉.
On top of ‘disease’ is bad and must be gotten rid of, here are a couple of other myths we can bust using the lens of GNM:
- Germs cause disease
- Viruses exist as discrete disease causing entities
- Foods cause disease
- Environmental toxins cause disease (chemicals, pollen, dust, electromagnetic pollution etc.)
- Your defective genes cause disease
- And one of my personal favourites; your body attacks itself and that causes disease (autoimmune disease).
If you’re not foaming at the mouth right now at how far I’ve digressed from the well worn path of fear-of-the-body and all the random things that can randomly go wrong with it, and if you have questions like ‘why do I get this kind of illness?’ ‘Why this illness at this time?’ ‘Why can’t I recover no matter how hard I try?’ ‘Even when I’m super ‘good’ and do all the ‘right’ things?’ Then get in touch, and we can explore this further. Using your body and life experience plus the healing knowledge of GNM as the most excellent compass in guiding you back to true self and robust health.
Why GNM?
GNM teaches us why we never have to fear disease again. We look to nature and go with it instead of resisting it. With knowledge, understanding and wisdom you can overcome fear of the body, which literally eats away at us, causing the very diseases we fear! So this understanding will help you relax, and find the peace of mind you crave. Because you now know how the body works, and you don’t have to be afraid of what’s happening in your body.
Stay tuned for the next article on the 1st biological law of nature. There are 5 biological laws which make up the foundation of GNM. I’ll be unpacking them one-for-one in subsequent articles in the GNM series.
Thanks for reading!
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