Dr. Frank Lipman, in his recent article at Huffington Post, says we (and our healers) need to ask/answer two questions:

1) What is harming you and needs to be removed to permit the body to heal?

and

2) What is lacking or what does your body need to promote healing?

Here's an excerpt and link to the article:

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After 30 years of practicing Medicine, I have learned that for any chronic illness or ailment, treating underlying imbalances and dysfunctions is more important than making a diagnosis and naming the disease. Ultimately, asking the right questions is more important than giving a label to a set of observations.

This is because most if not all chronic problems, from heart disease to arthritis, migraines to irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), depression to fatigue, usually have multiple factors that need to be addressed - this is called the total load.

The total load is the sum of the factors that influence a person's life and health, including diet, exercise, job stress, relationships, state of mind etc. Individually, each of these elements might not cause a problem, but their cumulative effect can overload our normal functioning and cause harm. Everyone's tipping point is different and each of us manifests or experiences overload in our own unique way.

Read Rest of Article at Huffington Post