A wound is the disruption of the normal structure and function of a tissue. The only way to understand how we heal - physically, emotionally, and spiritually -- is to understand the science behind the physical wound. Wounds are universal. We all experience wounds - to our bodies, our psyches, our spirits, and our relationships. According to David Knighton, M.D., wounding is nothing to fear, in fact wounding is as essential to life as healing - the two work together in an intricate biological dance that permeates all of nature. In THE WISDOM OF THE HEALING WOUND, Dr. Knighton comforts those who are suffering from chronic, mysterious, detrimental ailments - whether physical, emotional, or spiritual -- with his explanation of the processes of evolution and natural selection and that they are all based upon wounding and healing. We even wound ourselves for our own benefit. We do this every time we exercise. Wounds are also a form of memory. They enable your body to store information about where danger lies and when you need to be careful.
Further, Dr. Knighton contends that our wounds thus make us wiser and better able to survive and thrive. Wounds are our greatest teachers, our most important survival tools, and our best instruments of growth and change. Paradoxically, wounding is probably our greatest stimulus for health. Armed with this new positive outlook on wounding, readers will enjoy profound healing - even in wounds that have been diagnosed as chronic or incurable!
In this completely unique guidebook on healing from mysterious, chronic, and detrimental physical, emotional, and spiritual wounds, Dr. Knighton uses the science behind how the physical wound heals and uses it as a metaphor for how to heal oneself physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
In his integrative book, Dr. Knighton not only discusses medical research that most doctors don't want patients to know, but sheds a new light on deep psychological wounds, explaining why they must heal in stages, just like physical wounds, with the end result is psychological scarring. If the healing is quick and thorough, the psychological scar becomes supple and almost insignificant. But if the same area is wounded over and over, a large and painful scar-typically some form of neurosis or dysfunction-often results. Similarly, spiritual wounding causes another type of pain: the pain of disconnection and atrophy.
