This is a patient who comes in for a recheck after surgery. She does not want to be examined.

When she is asked her age, she states: “I am forty. Old!!!”

I reply: “Forty is young!”

The woman then states: “When I was a child I always thought that I would commit suicide so that I would not be fat, have wrinkles or be old. Now I am old and fat!”

I reply: “What makes you fat is not what you eat, but, how you think about what you eat. You may notice that some eat all they want without getting fat, while others eat little and get fat.”

“Why? Because the body is like a computer receiving input from your thoughts, feelings and the image you have of yourself as well as the effect you think the food will have on you. It generates the person to match the image you have of yourself. In order to change it, you have to give different information to the body.”

As the woman responds, I hear wheezing in her lungs.

She says that she has smoked from the time she was eight years old. She then says that she knows she needs to quit.

With that, I state that it is not my place to tell her if she needs to quit or not. This must be something she has to discern on her own, i.e. what is right or not right for her to do to benefit her health. In other words, she has to determine her exact challenge.

I explained to the patient that each challenge we encounter in life presents us with an opportunity to hold the highest vision of ourselves. If the challenge is in the knee, then you’re being given multiple opportunities in different ways to use the knees in an effective way to heal other conditions in your life.

Metaphorically, the knees may represent ways in which the individual may support himself, or be flexible in various situations. If one fails at this, then the knees fail. However, if the challenge is truly the knees, and the person also smokes, then that person essentially could smoke a carton a day and live to be 100 years old without ever experiencing emphysema or other lung problems. But if the challenge is about smoking, then even 10 cigarettes a day for a few years is enough to create emphysema or even lung cancer. Only that person knows, if he or she has a challenge with smoking, or with the knees, or something else for that matter.

I explained that everything that happens in the form of a challenge establishes perspective, thus allowing us to reach that higher perspective of the challenge. All the rest is “baggage” and does not need to be addressed.  I told the patient that this is true, even if the challenge were rape, as it is possible that even in that situation we’re being called to have a higher perspective.

That’s when the patient held up her fingers and showed me: she had been raped six times. She then began to cry, stating that she did see the higher perspective. It was then that I reminded her that the rest, then, was indeed, “baggage”.

I then reiterated that challenges come in many forms. For some people, the challenge may manifest as a problem with eating, in others it may be showing up in sexual activities. Always, the first thing to do is to discern what is and what is not for you.  The patient agreed, stating that in the past she did have addictive sexual behavior.

In closing, I perform a brief examination of the patient’s abdomen and find that there is tenderness in the lower quadrants bilaterally. In fact, this correlates well with the spotting that she has been having since the surgery. I ask if she has painful intercourse, and she states she does. I state that she probably has an inflammatory response in her pelvis and ask her if she knows what this is about. The patient tears up again and tells me “yes.” I then tell her she knows what she has to do to solve this problem and to heal. She replies “yes.” I give her a prescription for antibiotics to use in the interim and instructions about side effects of yeast infection.

The Quantum Mechanics insight here is that consciousness creates a reality through the epigenetic expression of DNA and through the physiology to manifest a state of the human organism. Because the reality of the human is in conjunction with the collective mind, there is frequently metaphor in the relationship between the human organism and the environment, including other humans. This creates a reality within the human organism dependent on the environmental relationship, again, including even other humans. The answer often lies in a change in the interactions in these relationships.