In this episode of our Mind Body Connection Series, I look at the simple way you can understand the speed of your process of recovery. As always, the speed of your recovery is going to be affected by the level of understanding and peace you have with each of the three columns, as well as your sense of your action steps. I review the basics of each element so you can see how it might affect your getting better more quickly or vice versa.

But I also use a term that I discovered in working with a patient of mine and then extend it to a new one of my own. In working with a couples’ therapist, this patient was introduced to the idea that they would get better at ‘the speed of trust’. I found this to be a fascinating and accurate view that quickly pinpoints how and why people get better quickly. In this video, I review the various aspects of trust that can slow down your process, when trust is not there, or speed it up when it is. There is trust in your body, in your mind, in the process, in me, in yourselves, and more. Each element can change the speed of your getting better.

But it isn’t only trust and the columns that determine the speed, but my adaptation on this trust idea, which is that you will also get better at the speed of doubt. Apart from the doubt column itself, which determines a part of whether or not you can get better (you can!), the level of doubt you have determines the speed at which you get better. The more doubt, the slower the speed of recovery. But this is not to make you worried about doubt, so much as to show you yet another way that moment to moment thinking can give you hope: if doubt determines the speed of recovery, then that means you can always speed things up very rapidly once doubt is pinned to the ground.