Changing your “Health” perspective

    So, when did health become about being sick, instead of being healthy.  As a society, it is amazing how we have been conditioned about going to doctors, taking medicine and how we see ourselves and others in terms of health.  The definition of health in the Webster’s dictionary is “The condition of being sound in body, mind, or spirit; especially: freedom from physical disease or pain.”  Wow if that is the case, how many truly healthy people do you know?  It seems that everyone has some sort of illness in their body and/or mind and that most are taking a variety of prescription and over the counter medications.  How is that healthy?

    This is a hard concept to break free from. We are so conditioned by the media and society that we have to go to the doctor; we have to take something to “get better”.  We are so disconnected from our bodies that we aren’t really paying attention when they try to talk to us.  We just keep telling our body to shut up over and over again with more drugs and bad food; and with the media and the doctors giving us what really amounts to marketing about why we need to listen to them instead of our own bodies.  When was the last time you actually listened to what your body was telling you?  And when was the last time you actually did what it asked you to do, ie; rest, take a bath, take a walk, drink more water, etc.?

    Lately I have seen so many articles about how over prescribed anti-biotics are.  People feel sick, so they go to the doctor (since their insurance pays for it) and they insist that they take a pill to get better.  When did all this start? Allopathic medicine has been around for less than 200 years.  And since that time the programming of our population, is amazing.  What did people do before that?  Before that, people didn’t have the tools that we have today to help them get better from the inside out, healing not only their illness, but the underlying emotions and negative energy patterns that are holding them back from optimum health.  How did we go downhill so fast and let our power be taken away as individuals?  Unfortunately in addition to the pharmaceutical companies and the doctors – the media is good as making us feel powerless and programmed to fall into what is considered the “norm”.

    Getting deprogrammed from this concept is difficult.  I remember when I was sick many years ago, and I got over many of my illnesses with natural food, supplements and emotional work.  Then several years later I broke my foot, and then got a bone spur.  I fell right back into the helpless mode and had surgery on my foot to remove the bone spurs. Now I didn’t go under anesthesia, they gave me a local anesthesia in my foot,(yes it hurt) and I didn’t take any pain killers afterwards as it healed quickly with supplements I was taking.  However, after I had it done I called my herbalist and she said “Why did you have surgery when you could have dissolved the bone spurs with supplements?”  It shocked me back to reality and I was appalled that I fell into this old pattern of being powerless.  For me, this isn’t something I want to happen again.  This doesn’t mean that I won’t get some sort of illness in the future of course, and it doesn’t mean that I won’t let others help me if I am hurt. It does mean that I don’t want to create illness, and that I can most likely fix the majority of issues with natural techniques and health products, and only use allopathic tools when absolutely necessary.  There is almost always a natural option that will work just as well if not better – and if you aren’t aware of this – I recommend that you do something about it.

     We aren’t aspirin or drug deficient, so why then do we take all these drugs. And why do give all of our personal health power to the doctor and place them in a “God-like” position. Now don’t get me wrong –– I think if a drug is used as a tool to help solve a problem, then great.  But they are so over abused now; they become such a crutch in people’s lives preventing them from getting to the real core of their health issue. Unfortunately that doesn’t just effect their daily health, but it affects others health around them as well.  In Stephen Harrod Buhner’s book The Lost Language of Plants, he talks about “how we are polluting our environment with the pharmaceuticals that Western medicine has developed to heal us.  We are ingesting Prozac, Premarin, and antibiotics whether we want to or not.”  His book looks at the deep ecological interactions of plant chemicals as one specific language of plant communication and how the drugs are now affecting this communication.  For people that do take medicine, and even for those that think they don’t take medicines, I highly recommend this book.

     Often I am asked “should I Never use allopathic medicine?”  And the answer is of course NO. For example, I had a friend that went sky diving and broke her back.  In the ambulance on the way to the hospital she called to see if she should take the pain killers.  YES, take the pain killers. That is what they are for, later we can work on detoxing them out of your system.  She recovered in record time with several energy healings, proper nutrition, exercise and appropriate supplements to help heal her body.  Use the medicine as a tool, just as you should use the supplements as a tool.  Don’t take too much, or too little, find out what your body needs via blood work, hair analysis, muscle testing or whatever other modality you prefer to find where your body is deficient.  Take the proper amount for your body at that time, and then when the deficiency is met, you can take less and then eventually stop taking the items.  Take what your body needs when it needs it. 

     If your plant was sick, you might take it to a plant doctor and find out what is deficient in the soil to help it.  Once you know what you need to put in the soil, the plant gets better, once the deficiency is met, your plant can now thrive.  You don’t want to give too much to the plant, or too little.  Give just the right amount, and once the deficiency is met, you no longer need to give it to the plant. Think of taking supplements and foods the same way.