Motivation and Your Education

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Motivation and Your Education

" It's not what we don't know that harms us;

it's what we do know that ain't so. "

(Attributed to Eubie Blake)

Sooner or later, successful practice of the healing arts comes down to two

components: EDUCATION and MOTIVATION. We need both the singer and the song. A

highly educated person is not necessarily a good patient and a highly trained

physician is not necessarily a good healer. Either may lack the knowledge to

really heal, or lack the motivation to want to search for and apply that

knowledge.

 

There is a whole body of knowledge only a library away from you. The trick of

course, is knowing what to read, as in a supermarket the trick is in knowing

what to buy. (You can start by reading How to Live Longer and Feel Better, by

Linus Pauling.) Natural healing practice and research is neither sketchy nor

new. There is a vast, virtually forgotten mass of medical and nutritional

research that supports aggressive use of foods, minerals, vitamins and other

natural methods as cures for real diseases. It is a bit like the continent of

Antarctica; it's there all right, but you probably haven't seen it yet.

 

There is someone you know, perhaps in your family, who might very well benefit

from healing knowledge that is out there now. If a person has been told they

are incurable, they have little to lose by learning of specific alternatives to

hopelessness. If medicines continue to be ineffective, maybe one's illness is

not due to medicine deficiency after all. If you have been told to " Learn to

live with it, " why not learn to live WITHOUT illness?

 

Motivation, that's why. If you, or your sick relative, have decided to only do

what doctors say and insurance companies pay, you are limited by what they KNOW

to say and pay for. So who knows it all? I would question the motives of

anyone who believes only in pharmaceutical or surgical solutions. No doctor

would admit to being this limited, but when nutritional therapies with large

amounts of vitamins are ignored, or even put down, it is time to question the

open-mindness of the doctor and our health care system itself.

 

It wouldn't be so bad if extensive nutritional education were a requirement for

being a doctor, insurance executive, or Congressman. Of course it isn't. The

obvious truth is that the very people with the power to decide what therapies

will be " approved " (and reimbursed) lack both education and the motivation to

correct their deficiency. Surprisingly, a lot of people choose to remain

passive " patients " and stay contentedly ignorant of real alternatives to drugs,

surgery and wimpy " just eat a balanced diet " nutritional advice.

 

In the end, it is your own education and your own motivation that decide more of

your health than any other factors. If we continue to call out for more and

more medical care, be careful: we may just get it. But do you want it?

 

There is a library near you.

 

Copyright C 1999 and prior years Andrew W. Saul. From the books QUACK DOCTOR

and PAPERBACK CLINIC, available from Dr. Andrew Saul, Number 8 Van Buren

Street, Holley, New York 14470.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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