what can be done about all of this?

[Guest guest]

and what do we do about this?

Michelle

 

This is the type of question that most physicians dread – because

they do not have a facile or easily expressed answer.

But this question gives me an opportunity to give some of my

observations about healing and recovery.

 

I believe in healing – I have seen many people recover from long

standing, dangerous disease processes – some of these people not

only discovered improved health but a new life and an even higher

level of health than the average person. Healing is our natural

inclination and every cell in our body is trying to achieve the

highest level of homeostasis that it can at every given moment.

Healthy functioning is our nature just as disease can be our nature –

and this is an important point – we are not healthy (forget

genetics and external influences for the moment) because we do not

live according to the laws of health – we are living according to

the laws of disease and we naturally have achieved it. So the

simple answer to Michelle's question is stop doing that which is

making you sick and start doing those things which will make you

healthy.

 

Of course this is simplistic and has no applicable information. What

has happened is that because of our weakened condition we have lost

our natural instincts to live properly. Without these at least

partially working how is it possible to make good choices in life.

This loss of natural instincts has allowed us to make choices that

have severely harmed us. We humans should intuitively know what is

good for us and what is not – after all most `higher' animals if

given the choices necessary – will keep relatively good health. We

do not live natural lives and the process of physiologically trying

to keep up with these `errors' has exhausted us and we have broken

down and are suffering multiple malfunctions. We pollute our

environment with substances that sane people are appalled by - we

pollute our food and water supply - we create disease in the animals

that we have brought into our field of influence – including the

ones we eat if we are meat eaters – we have created unnatural lives

for ourselves that do not meet our needs and indeed which put all

life forms on the planet in jeopardy – the ways and patterns of how

we eat – the foods we eat – the unnatural diurnal patterns of

eating – the ways we prepare foods – the quality of foods – not to

mention unnatural behavior patterns with toxic cravings for all

sorts of poisonous substances from sugar – to cigarettes – alcohol –

analgesics – not to mention perversity of our relationships –

including our sexual lives - etc. - etc. – all of this make life

challenging for all and more so for others.

 

My father says of all of this – " we have forgotten how to live. "

 

Without the reasonable functioning of ones instincts – and will

power (I say will power because many know what they should do but do

not have the will to achieve it) - I say the next best thing is a

good `advisor' – one that has achieved that which they are

advocating for others. One who understands how to live (who still

has their instincts intact) and has a clear vision of health and

disease `might' be able to help us – but we must be clear that there

is no magic in medicine – medicine at it's best is a bridge to

helping us recover enough functioning so that we can participate in

our own healing- which means we can begin the process of eliminating

that which is harming and taking up that which is healing –

intuitive natural living.

 

But what in the heck is `natural' living? There are a million

answers to such questions but the fact is that for us to recover we

must learn these things for ourselves – not through others. Not even

the `enlightened' ones can save us – after all there have been

millions of `enlightened ` beings yet most everyone else goes on

suffering – there are hundreds of thousands of physicians and

healers – yet only a small percentage of people really recover their

health. The fact is that no matter what resources we might have

still it is our own self who must walk every step of our path.

Dependence on external factors for our success in life is simply

naive.

 

This may seem negative and pessimistic – but actually I am a very

optimistic person – not because of wishful thinking – but because I

have seen successful human beings in this life. The reason why I

write and teach is so as to encourage those healers and aspiring

healers as well as health seekers – to keep going in their struggle

to understand life and it's vagaries. There is no reason to assume

that anyone can not recover – because few do recover from chronic

disease does not negate the fact that health and healing are our

nature and we will be trying to achieve it up to our last breath –

it is in the very DNA of each of our cells.