Mind over matter (WAS: Cancer, children & NH Philosophy - a bit OT)

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Nora Lenz Wednesday, July 13, 2005 10:42 AM Re:

[Rawschool] Cancer, children & NH Philosophy - a bit OT

 

The enormous amount of physical evidence that exists which explains disease

and leaves virtually no questions unanswered (at least not the questions

that we need answered in order to know what we need to do to stay healthy)

means we needn't look to unprovable, speculative explanations such as that

people are subconsciously 'choosing' to die. There are perfectly

observable, sensible, and reality-based explanations that account for why

some people get sick and others do not, even in children. And there are

also explanations for why 'energy and emotional work' sometimes effects

disease and its symptoms which don't conflict with the simple, obvious

truths of health and disease, and which do not necessitate fanciful or

supernatural concepts.

Nora

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Sorry, Nora, but I must respectfully and vigorously disagree. What you

express above is, in my view, THE great failing of almost all " natural

hygiene " practitioners. They TALK of holism, of a need to incorporate diet,

poise, and many other factors in order to achieve optimal health. But in

reality, when the conversation turns toward emotional content, toward

matters of the mind, they dive back into the physical. I suspect the reason

is that they have no solutions to offer, so they simply sweep away the

issue. It's a great shortcoming.

 

From my own observations, almost 100% of those who try RF eventually fail,

they just give up. So there is something radically, radically wrong with our

approach, something fundamentally missing.

 

Further, that SO many people KNOW what to do (cognitively) yet don't DO what

they know makes it abundantly obvious, at least to me, that the road to

health, well-being, vitality, etc. lies primarily through the mind, not

through the stomach.

 

It is absolutely well documented, on multiple occasions, in multiple

sources, and in multiple places, that people CAN exert amazing control over

the body, even to the extent of manipulating their own physiology, or of

drinking an " obviously " fatal quantity of some poison and remaining entirely

unaffected. It is also well documented that MANY cases of dysfunction and

" disease, " ranging from simple pains to metastasizing cancer, quite

literally vanish in the face of certain " energy work, " all of which involves

some refocusing of the mind. I have personally achieved some such results

with myself and others. Further, there are many, many cases of people who

eat a TERRIBLE diet and yet live disease-free to a ripe old age, at least by

mainstream standards. (By this I mean, we can all probably live MUCH longer

than we believe.)

 

I will have much more to say about this in the future. For now, if we truly

wish to practice and teach holism, then let's face straight-on that which

most people experience as the most challenging area of all...the mystery of

the mind.

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

 

 

 

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