This article is about psychological life changes.  It’s the first necessary step before sustainable lifestyle changes.  Life changes refer to the psychological non-physical changes.  Lifestyle changes refer to the physical changes like changing diet, exercise, detox, and all things related to the physical whole body.  Real life changes must happen first because without it, lifestyle changes would be unsustainable, and just a mechanical exercise in coping.

Real life changes begin with honestly assessing your psychological self.  What is your attitude about your health?  Do you look at your PN as some punishment, some horrible disease to scorn?  Or a disease you can learn lessons? Do you want to optimize your health?  Or do you just want to do the minimum to get rid of PN symptoms?  Do you look at PN symptoms as warning signs to be heeded? Or do you look at PN symptoms as something to suppress and forget?  Do you feel any responsibility for your PN?  Or do you feel it happened for no particular reason like it was just a spontaneous flare-up?  Are you glad you have warning symptoms that allow you a precious second chance to make a difference?  Or do you feel you have plenty more chances to make a difference?  If you decide to make some lifestyle changes, do you TRULY AND WILLFULLY WANT to do it?  Or will you do it reluctantly and halfheartedly?  Be honest with yourself because your answers to these questions will give you an idea where you are psychologically, and whether you are truly ready for lifestyle changes.

All of us know there are some things we should do, need to do, and or like to do.  But somehow it never gets done, or we procrastinate, or it’s done only in a halfhearted way.  Why is that?  It’s because real life changes have not occurred, at least not enough to change your psychology to the point where you TRULY have the right attitude, the right belief, the commitment and discipline necessary to sustain the lifestyle changes ahead.

How do you get to that point of real life changes with real psychological transformation?  I don’t know what it will take for you to make your psychological life changing transformation.  But I can tell you what it took for me to make the psychological life changes, necessary to sustain my lifestyle changes.  My most important reason to make the psychological life changes was I TRULY AND WILLFULLY WANTED to get well, so I got rid of any excuses, and did not allow anything to stop me.  My will to heal is the difference.  I believe all of us have the ability to do the same things or similar things I did, and continue to do.  But not all of us have the same will to truly heal.  It’s easy to say you really want to get well.  But do you really have the will to actually do it with commitment and discipline?  Your attitude and actions hereafter, will answer that.  These were the ten main points I felt at different times in my healing journey.  Some points were more pivotal and important to help me make my psychological transformation.
 

1) I was not afraid to fail since I knew failure is the mother of success.  
My first choice was Allopathic medicine because I naively assumed they had all the answers.  I figured they must have a magic pill or cream, a quick easy fix for me, and they would not require too much out of me.  What a big MISTAKE for me!!  But, it was nonetheless a very important lesson.  I needed to try enough Allopathic medicine, and fail, before I was satisfied that current Allopathic medicine would not cure me.  I needed to psychologically let go of Allopathic medicine before I could fully embrace Non-Allopathic medicine.  The practical side in me guided me towards Natural Healing because all I needed to ask myself was, “Do I have a better option to deliver safer positive results?”  My answer was and is no, so there was nothing more to think about but to go forward with my best option.  That’s simply practical.
 

2) I was sick and tired of being sick and tired.  
I felt very vulnerable because my doc or derm was controlling my health decisions and I had no idea whether they knew what they were doing or not.  That’s a very sad state of powerlessness.  There was also a point in my life when I considered suicide, and those thoughts really scared me.  I started thinking about my family, my friends, and my employees who work in my companies.  Suicide would be the easy way out, but what a selfish thing to do since many of these people depend on me.  I knew I must snap out of it, if not for me, then for the people in my life.  I’ve always been successful in most of the major things I’ve done in my life.  Yet this challenge with PN was very humbling.  I could not think or control my way out of PN, because it controlled me.  At one point, I was even desperate enough to consider some dangerous drugs like Thalidomide, Prednisone, Protopic, Cyclosporine, etc.  But after researching these drugs and realizing how potentially dangerous it can be, I knew if I took these drugs, it would be psychological suicide for me because it meant I gave in to my desperation.  For me, suicide is a physical death and taking these dangerous drugs is a psychological death.  But in this depressing picture, there was a ray of hope.

You see, after experiencing these emotions, I never wanted to feel so vulnerable, so powerless, so scared, and so desperate ever again. Therefore, I decided to learn as much as I could about PN and surround myself with knowledgeable and experienced people to help me with research.  Armed with research information, I felt empowered with confidence to take control of my health and healing.  Reading and understand the research information was not enough.  The difference was actually using the information and taking action. This challenge motivated me to make the psychological transformation because I didn’t want to return to this depressing state again.  Frankly, I don’t think I could psychologically or physically survive a return trip to this depressing state.  The practical solution was to use these negative emotions as motivation for positive change, which is what I did.
 

3) I found more important reasons to get well other than just for me.  
Parents will relate to this point.  There are parents out there who would do just about anything for the good of their children.  They would sooner do something for their children before they do it for themselves.  What are your important reasons that go beyond just you?  I challenge you to find these more important reasons because it can help you to make psychological life changes so you can truly have the right attitude, belief, commitment and discipline aplenty to sustain the lifestyle changes ahead.
 

4) What we believe is very important psychologically.  
There are plenty of studies about the positive belief from the placebo effect.  In an ICU, when a person truly believes they will recover, they have a better chance of recovering because their belief is not only psychological, but biological too. When they don’t believe, they lose a very important allied in their healing in terms of the placebo effect.
 

5) Closely related to belief is your attitude.  
I realized that having the right attitude is my MOST IMPORTANT psychological allied.  Your attitude shapes your beliefs, which determines your actions, which leads to your results. Start off with the wrong attitude and it will cascade you towards the wrong results, just like starting off with the wrong question will lead you towards the wrong answer.  Regardless of our circumstances, we all have control of two things, our attitude and actions.  You choose what attitude and actions, and your results will follow.  If you look at the people who have made significant improvements, unquestionably, their attitude and actions played a very important role!
 

6) I also found a strong enough reason WHY to make these lifestyle changes.
Call it a promise to myself.  I promised myself that if I could get back my health, I would never take it for granted ever again.  If I were given a precious second chance to get my health back, no matter how much work and effort it took, I would do it and nothing would stop me.  There would be no more unhealthy lifestyle for me.  My WHY was just simply keeping my promise!
 

7) Sometimes in life, we look for guarantees, or an assurance that the work, the effort, and our commitment will pay off.  
Some people want 20/20 hindsight so they could know the outcome before they decide whether they will do something or not.  Perhaps you can say I took my first step towards Natural Healing only by faith, since I did not know I would be where I am today. That’s fair and I would agree with that assessment!  But don’t you realize we all live by faith every single day of our life.  When you get into your car to start it in the morning, how do you know it will start for sure?  When you drive on that road, that freeway, that bridge, how do you know it’s safe and will not collapse?   The answer is we don’t know.  During a typical day, there are plenty of examples of things we do, where we don’t know exactly what the outcome will be, but we do it anyway.  Since you demonstrate you can have faith everyday of your life with your daily activities, then just extend that faith towards your health and healing.
 

8) I also changed my perspective to focus on whole body healing, instead of just the PN symptoms.  
Since you are what you focus on most frequently, I didn’t want it to be just about PN symptoms anymore.  My perspective needed to expand, since my previous narrow focus on just PN symptoms with Allopathic medicine failed me.  A man complains about not have shoes, until he meets the man who does not have feet.  I’m not saying that you should find joy comparing yourself to someone less fortunate than you.  But, the man was able to change his perspective once he changed his focus.  I think about all those people who died of heart attacks, and other diseases with little or no symptoms, and wonder how many of them would have gladly welcomed some warning symptoms to give them a precious second chance to make meaningful changes? 

One man’s curse is another man’s blessing.  The difference is their relative perspective.  Once we can step back and expand our perspective on our disease, it’s amazing how many more things we can see differently, and in many cases, more clearly.  My perspective also changed because I realized the paradox where Allopathic medicine was still treating PN like an external skin rash, when all along, it originated internally.  Dr. Wayne Dyer clearly illustrated this paradox with a funny story.  During a power outage, a man lost his keys inside his home. He tried to find his keys but the darkness inside his home made it difficult. Later, he saw one streetlight still on across the street.  He decided to go outside, across the street, to search for his keys.  He thought it would be easier to find his keys under the streetlight.  A person with common sense would realize this paradox and ask, “Why would he search outside under the streetlight, when he lost his keys inside his home?”  Isn’t this paradox similar to what some people are trying to do with Allopathic medicine, by search for a external solution to a problem that started internally?  Once I saw the paradox, changing my perspective was the common sense thing to do. Remember, you cannot solve a problem if you don’t even see the problem.
 

9) I also needed to develop enough patience to do Natural Healing.  
When we grow up with microwaves, drive thru restaurants, ATM, etc., many of us just don’t have much patience.  One reason Allopathic medicine is a preferred first choice for many people is because it appeals to their impatience.  It’s attractive and appeasing for some to think there must be a magic pill that allows us to take a short cut and provide a quick fix.  Some people think why bother to work so hard to heal diseased organs when you could have a quick fix with surgery to remove the organ?  And why bother to address the root causes of a disease when you could pop a pill to suppress symptoms?  We really cannot put all the blame on Allopathic medicine because in many cases, they’re just giving the patients what they want.  I have enough common sense to realize that I got myself into this PN mess with years and years of unhealthy lifestyle habits.

It’s unrealistic for me to expect to heal overnight, or in a relatively short period of time compared to the amount of time it took to create this problem. Therefore, I knew I needed to have enough patience if I wanted to successfully do this safely, properly, and comprehensively.  Alkalizing, Detoxing, Balancing, Optimizing all takes time.  Just like one cannot hurry love, one cannot hurry healing.  All of us have our own unique healing timetable.  Once I psychologically prepared myself to be more patient, and had a more realistic expectation for my healing timetable, I had more enjoyment with my healing journey.
 

10) My last point is purely practical.  After the Allopathic failures, I needed to find healing methods I could use safely and sustain indefinitely.  
With Allopathic medicine, there was always this lingering question about safety, about the advisability for long term uses, about dangerous side effects, etc. I didn’t want the next method to carry such lingering questions, so it was just a practical decision for me to choose Natural Healing.

I cannot say that if you do what I did and continue to do, that you will have the same results.  You have enough common sense to know that we are all different people, with different associated health problems, different healing responses and different healing timetable.  I made a practical decision to go with my best option.

The remainder of my website have many articles covering lifestyle changes in details.  When you are ready, these articles will give you the guidance you need to continue your healing journey.  Good Luck!  I hope you read, understand, and apply the lessons I shared here to your own situation, so you too, may experience your psychological transformation, necessary to sustain the lifestyle changes ahead.