For years I have said that people take better care of their cars than their bodies. That is a very disturbing observation; I would risk saying that all of modern life is bad for our health.
Our lives consist of driving to work in a carpool or getting there on a crowded subway, train or bus. We have social pressures and demands at work that become excessive for us.
We eat our meals in a hurried fashion from fast food places, which make it worse. The food is over refined and processed. We breathe polluted air and drink water that is comparable to a toxic waste dump. I have not even got started yet! This is the tip of the iceburg.
After years of this kind of treatment on our bodies we begin to break down and wonder why$%: Yet we would not leave our car in the driveway and feed it toxic salt for dinner day after day and watch it rust and break down but we do that very same thing to our bodies, and expect to maintain a strong healthy body.
When we begin to break down from the pressures and the food we tolerate as long as possible but then most of us end up going to the doctor.
We expect a quick fix and want to return to our fast paced life with no thought of ever changing anything.
So we get prescriptions for calming us down, to rev us up, to put us to sleep, pain killers, and a wide selection of vitamins. We may even be told to just take it easy for a while but is that any kind of answer$%:
We should be concerned with our health, as a positive state of mental and spiritual and physical well-being. Not just with health being the absence of dis-ease.
Over the years we have heard much about the terms conventional and unconventional medicine. Most conventional means deals with the understanding of man as a machine not taking into consideration the spiritual aspects of his nature.
Unconventional means that they take into consideration the whole of man, not just his body but his mind and spirit as well.
The term holistic therapy means it encompasses all of man, not just his physical nature. Holistic therapy has very ancient origins in both the Eastern and Western philosophy.
Samuel Hahnemann first revived it in modern times as the founder of Homeopathy, and then by Dr. Bach when he said, "treat the person not the disease"
Alternative therapies are concerned with stress reduction a healthy body is less prone to psychological and physical stress, so you begin by doing breathing exercises and getting some walking in along with some exercises to feeding our mind intelligently.
If we listen to our body it will tell us what we should do, there is a constant stream of information that flows in and out of us and we need to learn to respond to it.
We know that health is a state of harmony that is between our physical, mental and spiritual states, and if our energy channels get blocked we get "sick". Our bodies have the power to heal ourselves both at the down to earth level and the intuitive level, at times we need help. This is where meditation and relaxation and healing come as allies for us.
It has also been said that we are beings of energy and we do not relate to each other as piles of protein but energetically from one spiritual being to another.
Conventional medicine has its place in our life, such as broken bones and angioplasty I believe the two can work together very well as complementary to each other. Conventional and Alternative working side by side for the good of the individual, the whole being, mental, physical, spiritual.
Our goal is to have a body in total harmony.
We can achieve this goal; we just need to educate ourselves.
I will be writing a series of articles about many modes of healing.
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