by Dr.Harald Wiesendanger– Klartext
By far, not all patients who attend a therapy camp run by the Auswege Foundation get rid of their symptoms there, and some do not even experience symptom relief. The following three cases illustrate why most say goodbye to us satisfied, sometimes enthusiastically, after nine days.
Can one heal without being cured – much healthier without the symptoms easing significantly? Then you should ask Markus, Klaus, and Walter (pseudonyms), three participants of an “Auswege” therapy camp at the end of 2013 in Schwarzenborn near Kassel. Although their initial expectations were somewhat dashed there, they have recovered in a critical, broader sense.
“One of the best things I’ve done so far”
According to Markus* (55), he owes no significant relief of symptoms to his participation in the camp, but he does have a significantly “better general condition.” For over thirty years, the carpenter and restorer have been suffering from ulcerative colitis and chronic inflammation of the rectum and large intestine, with “intestinal bleeding, ulcers, and diarrhea,” as he previously wrote to us. No surgery has been performed so far, and Markus takes cortisone daily. Around 1990 he was also diagnosed with Bechterew’s disease: a chronic inflammatory rheumatic disease with pain and stiffening of the joints. In both cases, several conventional medicine and alternative therapies have so far brought “no success,” he reported.
And this did not change during the camp days either: “Diarrhea: the same, rather a little worse, due to the changed diet,” he noted at the end of his patient questionnaire. Only “with the back” it “got better,” he reported to us towards the end of the year. On the other hand, a skin rash on the face worsened during and after the camp week.
According to the camp doctor, however, he benefited significantly psychologically: “His main problem is self-doubt. As these improved and resolved, his overall condition became very stable. Now he dares to make a new start both professionally and family-wise. He had already taken new steps before the camp but didn’t know if he could do it. Now he’s going home much braver and more confident” – and two emails from Markus shortly before New Year’s Eve 2013 confirm this: “The week at ‘Auswege’ is undoubtedly one of the best I’ve done so far. The tremendous strength and energy of this week, its reverberations, and my access to it remain lasting – thank you very much for that!” What helped him, in particular, was “understanding the meaning of the illness, understanding it as a ‘gift,'” with the request to “with to treat myself and others with love.”
“Woo-hoo!!!!”
Another participant who gained much more from Schwarzenborn than symptom relief is Klaus* (59). In the spring of 2012, the graduate engineer suffered a severe stroke; This was preceded by a sudden hearing loss, which resulted in a temporary loss of balance. “Now, in June, he suffered a heart attack,” his perplexed wife wrote to us in advance. “A few days later, he had a fever, upper abdominal pain, constant headaches, memory problems, and neurological deficits, again of unclear origin. As if by a miracle, we met an excellent holistic doctor and cardiologist who also practiced energy and environmental medicine when we were in great need. In the past few weeks, he has been ‘feeding’ my husband back up with pranic healing, electroacupuncture, and infusions, among other things. Since he still developed anemia, tests followed.” The endoscopy showed an intestinal polyp removed at the end of August. Shortly after that, another heart attack occurred. “The vessels were found to be severely constricted. Since he doesn’t smoke or use any other risk factors, it’s difficult for us to understand.”
His symptoms had “reduced significantly,” Klaus summed up the end of Camp: “No more shortness of breath, calmer pulse (below 60), blood pressure completely normal (110/70). I feel healthy.” What he also took away from our camp is the “significantly increased motivation to change something in my life,” he noted in the patient questionnaire at the end. Five days later, he emailed us: “This one week has moved me so much; I’ve learned so much that I usually can’t believe it. It wasn’t just the treatments or the encounters with people I didn’t know – it was the whole package that affected me. I heard my wife say in a phone call to her sister that I came back as a new person.” In a dozen healing sessions, Klaus had realized that “my work is not good for me, stress and pressure are bad for my health. It was important to me not to fall back into old patterns at home but to take part in life still. During the week of therapy, I made an appointment to meet my boss over the phone for dinner on the evening of the last day of the camp. To do this, I drove straight from the camp to Holland – and I HAVE QUIT!!!!” (Four exclamation marks.) “Thanks to all of your help, I made this decision right down to the point of action! Yay!!!!” (Four more exclamation marks.) “I’M FINE!!!” (Three exclamation marks.)
“Incomparably more energy”
The camp balance of Walter* is similarly mixed, with 79, the second-oldest patient in the same Auswege camp. For more than 15 years, the pensioner has been suffering from chronic bronchitis, which over the years, has been accompanied by recurring inflammation of the paranasal sinuses – recurrent sinusitis. Both led to “purulent sputum and shortness of breath, to weakness and lack of energy,” as he complained to us. Since the spring of 2000, he has also had polyneuropathy, a disease of the peripheral nervous system which, among other things, caused the pensioner to become “increasingly numb in his legs.”
In both cases, the complaints “remained essentially the same,” he noted at the end of the Camp. Much more important to him, however, was what taking part in the camp set in motion in his psyche: “I have incomparably more energy and got practicable starting points for self-healing. The mental and emotional gain was extraordinarily high, in part indescribable.” To the senior camp doctor, Walter appeared “in the end much more relaxed, goal-oriented, dynamic, confident, visibly enthusiastic about everything he experienced in the camp – he was depressed and rather came to us discouraged.” With us, he encountered a kind of medicine that perceives symptom bearers as whole persons and takes them seriously. Walter’s vision was discussed in several intensive therapy sessions: In South America, he wanted to “build something up” for unemployed young people to give them a school education and thus better life chances. “We showed him that we in Germany still need help and that he doesn’t have to struggle with immense bureaucratic obstacles in his old age,” reports our camp doctor. “This form of thinking motivated him, gave him courage and joy – and made his problems insignificant, no longer ‘important.'”
(Harald Wiesendanger)
This post comes from the book by Harald Wiesendanger: Auswege – helping the sick differently (2015).
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