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I came across a tarot card interpretation for health that said you& #39;re probably & #39;overindulging& #39; in medications, are self-creating your health issues, and need to break the belief that you are sick. This is a good example of how to be irresponsible as a metaphysical practitioner.
There& #39;s a certain strain of esotericism that has an overly idealized ideology around health & bodies, which is a New Thought inheritance, which posits that all health is under the control of the mind. It& #39;s important to know this is a historical ideology and not inherent truth.
Unfortunately, there& #39;s also a weird tendency in the medical field itself to label anything not currently medically understood as psychological. There& #39;s a long list of illnesses, understood in current times as physical problems, that were previously declared mental pathology.
This is generally propagated by those lucky enough to be free of long-term health issues, or who had one that went away, which can then be explained via personal merit or thinking correctly. Anyway, if you& #39;re a metaphysical practitioner, please don& #39;t say things like this -
In medical settings, women are even more on the receiving end of this, and BIPOC often end up w/worse health outcomes due to disbelief about self-reported symptoms. So metaphysical practitioners dismissing physical health problems runs a real risk of doubly gaslighting people.
Health is a multifaceted and complex subject, usually best understood by those who have had to learn due to their own health issues or good health practitioners. If you are neither, it& #39;s best to refrain from health advice, especially the kind that says it& #39;s all in the mind.
This thread is a longtime soapbox of mine, but most recently courtesy of discovering that just a couple decades before I was born, they were still performing brain lobotomies for one of the very physical autoimmune conditions I have.
