NATURAL HEALTH TOPICS
Natural Health
I have really given much thought to what I believe Natural Health to be. Natural to me means attempting to understand the way that a system works, and we human beings are actually a natural biological system. The human body is a system that works and has simple laws that govern it, just as the universe has natural laws that govern it. You might ask what provokes me to look at how our natural system works and in truth it is my personal quest to find health in a more simple and complete ways, that are more attuned to the natural flow of our system.
I have seen so many people in my practice who have been on a variety of drugs, and by this I mean prescription drugs. This observation has caused me to give great thought to, how the body actually does work. It seems to me that my greatest question has been how do we heal a body with an unnatural substance, and expect it to come to natural outcome. This dilemma has made me look for answers through books and seminars and through my studies. I have learned that the body has a natural capacity to heal itself under most circumstances.
I am not condemning a medical profession that is attempting to help people with the medications they prescribe, but I am certainly asking the question of what has caused people to have so many other health challenges from taking many of these medications. If you look on any television screen today, you will see scads of commercials about prescription medications and if you listen closely you will hear a lot of the side affects that come along with taking these medications. How do the companies who sell the medications afford all of the advertising they put in front of the general population, without driving the cost of medication even higher? How can they afford to talk us into thinking we are sick? This question should occur regularly to older Americans who, by and large take a great many of these medications. Our country pays a high cost for our buying into the mentality of drugs making us well, but that is another topic.
We are already a society who lives by what the media puts in front of us, and many live by the ideas that are presented by advertisers who can afford to inundate us with some pretty odd ways of thinking. We now have children subjected to the same kind of mentality, and if you really listen to commercials, we are all being systematically told that we are ill and that a drug will fix the problem. Is this a fair thing to teach our children, or should there be more information available that give our children and us better ideas on how to become more holistically well?
This mentality of promoting illness is disturbing to me as a therapist, because I believe that we live what we think. If, indeed the body is made to heal itself and to do so naturally, how can this taking of unnatural synthetic substances create an environment for health? How can being bombarded by commercials that make us think we are sick, make us well. This kind of thinking promotes the kind of thoughts that make us think we are unwell.
With these thoughts in mind, understand me when I say, that if I should fall down and break a leg, I will be the first one to search out good medical help with a professional who knows their stuff. I will also be one of those people who will look for ways to create an internal environment that will help my leg to heal, i.e.: supplementation, plenty of good clean water, good food, rest and most probably some down time, meditation on health, energy work as well self nurturing. I want what is best for my body and I do believe that it is up to me to be a questioning consumer, because after all, this is my life and my body. If I don’t have the intelligence to ask the right questions how will I find the right answers?
This “State of Natural Health” is found by being aware and informed and looking for simpler more natural means of becoming and maintaining our own health. It does not seem to me that we can afford to be less than questioning about this process called “Health”.
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