Okay, so now I’m heading into choppier waters.  This section is looking at how the patient may have contributed to their illness.  I want to make clear at this point that I am in no way blaming myself, or any other Type 1 Diabetic, for creating their own illness.  I don’t think any one of us, having any choice in this disease, would have chosen to have this.  This is not about objective choice.  But I am starting to come around to the idea that maybe, somehow, my body developed the diabetes in me as a way to process the ‘small daily sins against Nature’ that Hippocrates refers to.  And I do believe that these ‘daily sins’ are not necessarily just physical in nature, not just what we eat and drink or how much we exercise or rest or sleep.  I think they also fall into the mental, emotional and spiritual fields – the ‘thoughts’ that Hippocrates refers to in the second quotation here. So, again, Hippocrates is supporting those small whispers of intuition I have that say that who I am, how I turn up in the world, and how I respond emotionally and mentally and spiritually, are also important in this healing journey.  Healing involves all aspects on myself, not just a selected few.