I was in a restaurant with a business acquaintance and overheard the person at the next table question the person they were with, exasperatedly, "how long will it take for things to improve?" I had no idea what they were talking about and although my attention returned to my own meeting; I could not help but wonder what was going on. The same question comes up a lot for us as we work with our clients. Everyone wants to know how long it will take for them to recover from something they are dealing with. My inner response to that age old question is "I forgot to bring my magic 8 ball with me so I haven't the foggiest." Out loud, I simply inform them I cannot predict the recovery or speed of success, it is entirely up to the body and the mind doing the healing.
Every one's journey is different. Some people it's like speed lightning and some it takes a bit longer. Mostly, healing is greatly dependent on multiple factors and although we cover as many facets of healing as we are skilled to attend to, the body and the mind hold the key to how quickly one's healing manifests. We have learned that daily effort compound into massive healing shifts that appear to be sudden although the progress has been incremental. For example, one client had a large growth that he was considering having surgically removed because it was unsightly. We decided to use some natural products and at first, it looked like nothing was improving. He kept using the products and then two months later, the growth was completely gone. There are other instances when a condition impacting health for over a decade resolved in less than 1 year.
We believe that is how healing occurs when diligently applied as a daily salvo. We also encourage our clients to be relentless in their decision and actions of healing. There is an adage from the Yoruba tribe of Africa that loosely translates thus, "it only appears to be a long time, when it really is not." In all of our years helping clients heal, we find that the time it took to recover is drastically shorter in comparison to the time it took to accumulate the disease or imbalances. Supported with this truth, we teach ways to healing as a daily journey and help to retrain and retool the mind and body for healing as a daily journey. When we take daily steps towards the path of healing, we can look back and see that we are not where we were twelve months or twelve years ago.
I also feel that, were I to be the one to answer that question I overheard during my lunch meeting with my business acquaintance, I would have said this, "Given that it took xyz months to earn the deterioration, I would estimate that it would take daily efforts of different action(s) to earn the improvement."