Do you fully realise what I have just described? When given all the alternatives, many people realise that the best treatment for them is not the standard one recommended by their practitioner. Why is this so? It is simply because the person with exclusive and unique knowledge is not the practitioner but the patient. Never forget this. You know much more about yourself than your practitioner could ever know. You know how you feel inside: how it feels to be in pain, or to be free of pain; to feel nauseated or to feel ravenous; to feel listless or to feel energetic; to sleep poorly or to sleep well; to feel black and depressed or to feel hopeful. You know what you value in life, nobody else does.
Respect the fact that your exclusive inside knowledge makes you, without a doubt, the best judge of what is best for you. Your practitioner’s knowledge is important, but not of this kind. It consists of facts that can be shared. Provided these are explained properly, there is no reason why you should not understand the facts that are important to your case, as I have already told you.
So—find out all the alternatives, and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Don’t just let your practitioner tell you what to do. You make the best decision you can at the time. Always be prepared to revise it later in the light of new knowledge, experience or feelings. Summed up like that it sounds easy. You and I know it isn’t: it’s very, very difficult. Try anyway— remem-I he raft?
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