Healing
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I believe that our bodies are designed to heal - that our bodies have all of the built-in mechanisms to keep us in perfect health. Normally, our thoughts, beliefs and lifestyles just get in the way.
Here is an excerpt from my book, "What If You Could Skip the Cancer?":
Spontaneous Healing Happens All of the Time
"Most of us consider spontaneous healing to be a miracle, a fluke, or an oddity. For someone who is 
facing a medical diagnosis of cancer, they generally figure that the best they can do is pray for a spontaneous healing. Often they hold little real hope.
We assume that the occurrence of such spontaneous healings is a rare thing.
But is it really?
What is it that happens when we cut our finger? What happens when we burn our mouth on hot soup? What happens when we stay out in the sun too long and get burnt to a crisp? When we exercise too long and strain our muscles? When everyone around us is getting "that flu that's going around," but we just have the sniffles for a day?
Our body is designed to heal itself. Spontaneous healing happens every day to every one of us.
In fact, when we say that a healing or regression was "spontaneous", it has nothing to do with unexpectedness or being miraculous. "Spontaneous" actually means that the healing came from the inside. It simply means that the process was generated from inside the body.
According to Collins Dictionary, spontaneous is defined as "occurring, produced, or performed through natural processes without external influence," or "arising from an unforced personal impulse; voluntary; unpremeditated."
This has nothing to do with strangeness, suddenness, or quickness, as we so often think when hearing the word "spontaneous". In fact, remissions are seldom sudden. They happen gradually over time. spontaneous healings happen "through natural processes" and through "personal impulses." They are not all that miraculous, but actually quite natural.
And we already know this. Every time we put a bandage on a child's cut, our expectation is that the body will heal the wound and knit the skin back together. The bandage plays no real role in the healing, except for perhaps keeping the wound clean and making the child feel better.
Consider what happens if we break a leg. Why do we put a cast on it? Are there magical ointments under the cast that cause healing? Does the cast itself heal the break? No. The cast simply immobilizes the leg so that the body can do exactly what it is designed to do. Doctors fully expect and count on the fact that the bone will knit itself back together. They expect the muscles to heal and the skin to heal as well. The body's natural ability to heal is absolutely expected and counted on.
In fact, it is abnormal for the body not to heal. It is brilliant at healing. It is made for healing. Its goal is survival."
Paradigm shift
To embrace this concept of healing requires a paradigm shift. The old paradigm says that we are unintelligent flesh & bones animated by a brain. We contract disease that have to be treated by removing the organs, or using chemicals, radiation and any means necessary to kill the intruding pathogen.
The new paradigm says that everything in our lives is connected. Yes, our mind, body, and spirit are connected. But so are our emotions, our relationships, our jobs, our dreams, etc. All of these things play a role in our overall wellness - our physical bodies included.
So, when we have issues, we must look at the whole picture. It isn't enough to look at the vascular restrictions in the heart patient or the insulin levels in the diabetic. There's more going on in their lives that are throwing them off balance. Figuring out the whole picture is the more interesting and effective path.