It s one or the other. Again in as practical a voice as I could muster, I asked Dr. Ballentine where we could find practitioners and physicians who had this kind of overview of healing and health. Although he said that they were difficult to find, he felt that we were making progress. His question to me was whether we should provide practitioners who are able to integrate everything or provide referrals so that people can go to practitioners with a certain kind of skill. As he answered his own question, I found his response comforting.
People find their own way.
Their healing journey is their own creation, and they will put pieces together. Yes, it s good to have people who have an overview, for there will be times when those who are ill will gravitate toward this kind of person who will act as a guide or touchstone. There are other times, however, that they will know they need to work with Chinese medicine or chiropractic. They will go out and work with that and then come back. The healing journey is their creation, and it s a very beautiful thing that they re creating.