{"id":598,"date":"2010-12-26T15:27:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T20:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/?p=598"},"modified":"2011-01-07T12:19:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T17:19:02","slug":"why-was-this-my-karma-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"Why was This my Karma? Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Wellness + Spirituality=<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cMedicine\u201d=Nuwati<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cTurn your wounds into wisdom.\u201d Maya Angelou<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">My father was a \u201cbaby doctor,\u201d a pediatrician in a large medical center. But when I went to college, he went through a phase of grand disillusionment with the profession, and once told me that \u201cThere are more and more sick people all the time.\u201d Later, when I became a mother, I was not inclined to take my sons to see a doctor. \u00a0And in regard to my own health, I also avoided traditional medical treatments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I grew up as a competitive swimmer and all-round athlete, playing field hockey, basketball and softball in high school. I took some pride in my fitness. But in my early twenties, I started having symptoms of arthritis in my left hip. I saw an orthopedic surgeon but aspirin was the one and only treatment he had to offer. Oh\u2026my pain came on only occasionally in those days and I\u2019d gone to the doctor mostly out of curiosity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The years rolled by. I lived a physically rigorous life on my homestead, keeping up with my strong, six foot tall husband. (I\u2019m 5\u2032 4\u2033) One time, while I was asleep, my left hip fell out of joint! Can you imagine? \u00a0It slipped back by accident\u2013after about a half hour of agony wondering what to do and what had happened\u2013when I swatted at a fly on my leg! Very, very slowly the hip deteriorated. In 1990 I was told I was a candidate for a hip replacement. I resisted and put it off. I wanted to heal with non-traditional, \u201cnatural\u201d healing modalities. But in 1997, after giving birth to sons in 1986 and 1988 \u00a0and desperate to be rid of the stiffness and pain, I had a hip replacement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I used to wrack my brain, wondering WHY ? \u00a0WHY couldn\u2019t I heal myself? \u00a0WHY couldn\u2019t I BE healed by some higher power? Or WHY couldn\u2019t I find a natural treatment that healed me? WHY was I experiencing this problem? WHY was THIS MY KARMA???<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In 1994, I met my teacher, Grandmother Pa\u2019Ris\u2019Ha. \u00a0She\u2019s part of this story too\u2026..<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Stay tuned until tomorrow when you\u2019ll find out\u2026..WHY this WAS MY KARMA!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Elizabeth Richie\/Du\u2019Tsu<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wellness + Spirituality=\u201cMedicine\u201d=Nuwati \u201cTurn your wounds into wisdom.\u201d Maya Angelou My father was a \u201cbaby doctor,\u201d a pediatrician in a large medical center. But when I went to college, he went through a phase of grand disillusionment with the profession, and once told me that \u201cThere are more and more sick people all the time.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[57,8,69,53,42,140],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-wellness-and-spirituality","tag-dutsu","tag-grandmother-parisha","tag-karma","tag-maya-angelou","tag-parisha","tag-wellness-and-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}