Good Health and the Purpose of Disease

Good Health and the Purpose of Disease
Wisdom in Food Choices
Thought of the Week
Gift Ideas

Good health is all about your immune system. If that’s in good order, then you will be able to resist any health disorder, or have only a mild form of whatever is around and be able to bounce baxk from this quickly and easily.

If this seems to be a long way from where you are, then you can rely on the fact that your immunity is low.

We have arrived in an age where we think that every condition must IMMEDIATELY be dealt with medically. But the body, even with a slightly compromised immune system, can handle many things considered impossible. All it needs is time and some peace and quiet.

Let me give you a couple of examples.

War Casualties Fare Better Without Medical Attention
A film (sorry I don’t know the name) has been made about war casualty experiences. Apparently casualties were classed by the medicos into 'saveable' and 'unsaveable'. The 'unsaveable' patients were bandaged and put to one side, while the 'saveable' patients underwent all sorts of surgical procedures.

Now for the interesting bit. The 'unsaveable' patients fared better - the resting-time enabled the body to set about the business of repairing itself, without exposing it to further shock that it wasn't able to handle (such as medication or surgery).

Mangled Bones Heal Themselves
A child in Russia had a badly mangled ankle and the Russian doctors had loosely wired the mess of bones together. The mother was instructed to screw the bones a little more closely together each day. She wound the screws the wrong way by mistake and the bones were separated a little further apart each day. The result was that the bones healed perfectly.

The Russians now use this 'mistake' as standard procedure.


Some people regard their health as good if they don’t get any health problems. But that’s not necessarily the case. If your immune system is so low, you couldn’t survive a challenge, then you won’t get it.

The reason for disease and physical ailments is not properly understood in mainstream circles. It has a role to play. A mild disease can prevent a more serious one. For example, if people get colds, then they are more likely to be resistant the flu. There’s a natural order, a purpose in the natural ecology.

This bears out the homeopathic philosophy of The Law of Similars.

Homeopathy works by improving your immune system. A bit like good nutrition and good practices. But it acts much deeper. It can go much further. It can undo those blockages that prevent your immune systems from working efficiently.

Blockages that were set up in childhood or resulted from a fright, a shock, a vaccine, an accident, to name just a few.

So every single homoeopatic medicine which works for you is working by improving your immune system.

I suggest to you, that you try to look upon your health challenges as just that, a challenge to improve your health overall, not just look for a quick fix. Here are a few suggestions:

• Don’t be too hasty to get it sorted. Instead allow your body some space and time to heal itself. Get help if it goes for a while with no sign of improvement.
• Blame your nutrition for ailments that don’t have an obvious cause (see below).
• Use homeopathy to treat your ailments as this is supportive of what your body it trying to do. See a professional homeopath and/or treat yourself, whichever suits you. Expect life changing results over time.
• Don’t give up. Don’t fall for what others are doing, if it doesn’t resonate with you. Don’t buckle under the peer pressure of conforming, if it’s not you. Follow what you believe. If you’re different, it makes others uncomfortable, so they want to convert you. Just accept that.

Set your own example, then apply it to your animals.

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Thought of the Week
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Unknown

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Wisdom in Food Choice

I came across this wisdom some time ago. The creator was Michael Pollan. My favourites were:

• Don’t eat anything that took more energy to ship than to grow.
• If you are not hungry enough to eat an apple, then you’re not hungry.
• Eat foods in inverse proportion to how much its lobby spends to push it.
• It’s better to pay the grocer than the doctor.
• You may not leave the table until you finish your fruit.
• Never eat something that is pretending to be something else (artificial sweeteners, margarine, etc.)
• Make and take your own lunch to work.
• One of my top rules for eating comes from economics. The law of diminishing marginal utility reminds me that each additional bite is generally less satisfying than the previous bite. This helps me slow down, savour the first bites, stop eating sooner.
• Don’t eat anything you aren’t willing to kill yourself.
• When drinking tea, just drink tea. I find this Zen teaching useful, given my inclination toward information absorption in the morning, when I’m also trying to eat breakfast, get the dog out, start the fire and organise my day.

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Gift Ideas

One of the nicest presents you can give someone is one which will retain it’s newness forever. An ebook is a downloadable book. You can print off any page you want, whenever you want. It doesn’t matter if it gets messy. You just print off another one.

With nutrition, Christmas and the aftermath of dieting in mind, I have selected some great, but also functional ebooks for you, which you may find useful as gifts.

And your friends with four legged companions, may find the ebooks detailed in the right column useful.

Don’t forget, good nutrition is the key to good health.

Don’t underestimate it.

The following four blog posts detail each of the ebooks, with links back to the supplier. They can be downloaded immediately.

Their currency is in US$. The conversion to your currency is normally detailed when you get to the Paypal invoice. You are still not committed to buy at this stage.

And if you prefer real books, I still have copies of “Raw in Ten Minutes”. Please click on the title of this blog post, which will take you to my website. Click on “Real Catalogue” if you are in Australia, or “Virtual Catalogue” if you aren’t. The book is listed in both categories.