In self-defense we speak of healing often. Just today I was coaching a friend of mine on how to keep his hands up when someone comes after him fists violently launched at his head.

My friend is special. Although he’s an adult he is socially different. This has him in a program with other adults with similar conditions.

As he looked up at me timidly, through very thick glasses, I could still see the yellow, brown and black hematomas surrounding both eyes. He was healing from an attack just 2 weeks earlier.

We see a lot of healing from the physical and emotional attacks our participants go through, some decades prior to us knowing us. The one thing that I have noticed that PREVENTS healing, is us. 

To be more specific, it’s our faith, or lack thereof that gets in the way. Whether you have religious faith, faith in humanity, or some other belief, faith is a real thing.

In the Bible Jesus heals people and almost always qualifies that because of their faith they are healed. Science actually proves this concept again and again. Each time they do a study of a new life saving wonder drug they have a control group that receives a placebo. Time and time again a very measurable portion of this control group is healed. 

Although this phenomenon may frustrate some scientists, and pharmaceutical companies , the real science is that faith heals. However, faith is a two way street, and the belief side is up to us.

Test subjects must believe that they got the wonder drug, and when they do,  many are healed. I would call this faith. 

If this is true, then the inverse is also true. If we don’t believe, or have faith, we PREVENT our healing. 

To take it one step further, without faith we PREVENT more than healing, we PREVENT life and living. If we do not have faith that we can defend ourselves the next time we are violently attacked, we won’t. If we lack faith about getting and keeping that next job, we won’t even try. If asking someone out is done without faith…well I wouldn’t bet on it!

In life and Life Defense faith could be the key to healing, opportunity, and creating our life day to day. Why are video games, role playing, and movies so entrancing and addictive? 

Consider that these popular forms of entertainment are based on weak faith. Meaning just enough faith to believe that a fantasy world exists out there, and we can live vicariously in it. There is a chance at failure, however, the failure is momentary in games, and non-existent in movies. 

Faith is as real as anything you can imagine. I have a favorite saying, “Placebo is the ultimate reality.” In fact the measure of all accomplishment from our first step, to our final breath is a exercise in faith.  

Looking into my special friends eyes as his sidewards glances, hopeful smile and nodding head conveyed his faith in an alternate reality, I reflected that he was healing. Faith will heal him.

Fact, faith heals. Whether it’s your belief in God, humanity, the universe, science, or just Life Defense, consider that you may be the only obstacle to your healing, and if so perhaps it is just you that is PREVENTING your healing, and ultimately everything in your life…

#allenhughes #prevent #lifedefense

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