With illness, while no one searches for that or wants it, there can often be a transformative quality about it. We don't look for suffering, but it's there. How we deal with it is something that we have much more control over than we might realize. The same is true for healing and curing. Curing is the physiological process of getting better.
Healing is the process of becoming more whole.
They often go together. My colleagues and I at the non-profit Preventive Medical Research Institute have shown over the years that you can often reverse the progression of heart disease much more quickly than what we once realized. We can show that there is actually an improvement in the underlying disease process. If you talk to the patients who go through our study, they'll say they first got interested because they wanted to get cured, but they stayed interested because of the healing end of it. In other words, my relationships are better, my capacity to love myself and others is greatly improved.