My True Guide to Healing Type 1 Diabetes
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This article explores the intersection of intuition and health, challenging the dominance of rationality in medical discourse. It delves into personal experiences where intuition guided health decisions, contrasting scientific objectivity with intuitive wisdom, emphasising its role in holistic healing approaches for conditions like Type 1 Diabetes.
I have been struggling to put this article together for quite some time. For me, this article marks the line between the more academic, rational (respectable…?!) perspective and the more spiritual elements.
I could dive off at this point and talk about all the cognitive psychology research I’ve found that supports the idea of the non-conscious mind in order to try to defend my position. After all, research highlights how the mind only focuses on 5% of the data it processes from its environment, leaving 95% to be processed outside of conscious awareness [1]. But taking that approach and dedicating my blog post to it is not something I feel would not truly honour intuition.
Intuition is not factual and scientific. It is not quantifiable, analysable or even necessarily easy to define. I am doing intuition a disservice if I try to understand it through that lens. Instead, I am going to look inwards and try to reflect on what it means to me. In this post, I want to look internally, into my own mind’s eye, rather than externally, onto data, results and statistics that may hint at what lies within.
What Is Intuition?
Have you ever had the experience of sitting in a doctor’s office when they give you a diagnosis and you immediately know it isn’t right? Or a time when you have met someone for the first time but immediately know that they are not trustworthy? Or the feeling that you must phone a friend, only to find out that, when you do, a hardship has come into their life? That feeling is what I call ‘intuition’. Some people might also refer to it as a ‘gut instinct’, ‘sixth sense’ or ‘God speaking’.
Mateo Sol, on his blog Loner Wolf, discusses how we have three types of inner intelligence: instinct, intellect and intuition:
- ‘Instinct’ is the base level through which we satisfy our needs, such as our need for nourishment or safety.
- ‘Intellect’ is our mind, our thought processes. This is the level of inner intelligence from which the majority of people in the Western world function.
- ‘Intuition’ is the highest of the three levels. It is connected to our souls, our inner wisdom. It is inherently linked to the spiritual and the divine, that which exists outside of ourselves.
Reading Mateo Sol’s post reminded me of the work of the neuroscientist Candace Pert. For me, her concept of a psychosomatic network parallels Mateo Sol’s level of ‘Intuition’. The psychosomatic network connects the mind and body in a holistic, reciprocal way. Indeed, Pert [2] discusses how tapping into this psychosomatic network yields awareness of, and insight into, our internal (emotional) and external (social) environments in a way that our mind cannot come close to understanding on its own.
Why Focus On Intuition?
Kelly Turner identifies ‘Intuition’ as one of the nine key factors that enable people to spontaneously heal from cancer. She discusses how the cancer survivors she interviewed believed that the body has an innate knowledge, its intuition, that can guide the person towards healing.
Intuition And My Health… So Far!
I have witnessed the influence of my own intuition on my health. For example, during my teenage years, I had been doing a lot of running and ended up with pain in my leg. I was diagnosed with a blood clot and put on treatment for three months. However, I was in pain and I intuitively knew that this was not due to the blood clot in my calf. I continued to go back to the doctor and, after much insistence on my part that there was definitely something else wrong, I was eventually diagnosed with a broken leg too!
With my diabetes, I use my intuition on a daily basis. I will sit and calculate my insulin dose for the meal but then intuitively know that the number I have derived is too high or too low. In most cases, my intuition gives me better blood sugar readings than my insulin-to-carbohydrate ratio calculations do!
Using Intuition To Heal My Type 1 Diabetes
My intuition is my guide on this journey to healing. It is guiding me on what to focus on and what to disregard in the multitude of options that promise healing. I know that, if I am going to be able to figure out what I need to do to heal my Type 1 Diabetes, I need to use everything I can… That includes my whole mind! So I am aiming to tap into the 95% of my mind that is non-conscious and therefore indicated by intuition.
So far, my intuition has guided me to start trying to heal my Type 1 Diabetes after having understood years ago that it is incurable. It has since guided me to use Kelly Turner’s [3] nine key factors for healing cancer as a basis for healing my Type 1 Diabetes. I anticipate that my intuition will continue to guide me through this path to healing.
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Natalie is a blogger with Type 1 Diabetes. Natalie's special gifts are questioning the status quo and being a rebel. She is using these gifts to question medical 'knowledge' and find a true cure for Type 1 Diabetes.
