Ok, hold tight. I’m about to say something heretical…
Medicine cannot cure you, and a doctor cannot heal you.
Let me repeat: Medicine cannot cure you, and a doctor cannot
heal you.
Only your body can heal you.
At best, your doctor can give advice or prescribe a product, and his medicine may suppress your symptoms (usually how
conventional medicine works) or kick-start your body’s own healing reactions
(often how naturopathic medicines work), but at the end of the day, your body has to do the work.
If you have a broken bone, the doctor or surgeon might put it back into place, but only your body can knit the bone back together again. If you have a wound, the nurse might dress it to stop infection, but it's your body that grows new skin and closes over the wound. Your body is the true healer.
If you take the latest, greatest vitamin formula and all your aches and pains disappear, does that mean it has cured you? No. It means your body finally has what it needs to heal itself and function properly.
If you undergo chemotherapy and it shrinks your tumor, does that mean it has healed you? No. It means the chemotherapy has suppressed (one of) your symptoms. Cancer is one symptom of a toxic, acidic system. Chemotherapy, radiation and surgery might take out or reduce your cancer, but it cannot heal your toxic, acidic system. Your body can, though, if you give it the right diet and support.
I'm not saying doctors and medicine and herbal remedies don't have their place. Unfortunately, they have become all too necessary! But the real aim of a healthcare system shouldn't necessarily be to supply more doctors or better medicine, it should be to create a society that needs less doctors and less medicine! Anything else is just a band-aid solution...However, the economic reality is that band-aid solutions keep people in jobs and in business, so we are stuck with them (Pardon the pun).
I believe that if people really understood how awesomely their bodies were
designed and what they are capable of, they would treat them a whole lot better.
When you get a “cold”, the runny nose, the sore
throat and the cough are not symptoms of an
illness. They are symptoms of your body fighting off the illness. When your
body is alerted to a foreign invader (such as a nasty germ), it immediately sets off a chain reaction
of defenses. It starts sending in its troops, like white blood cells, but you probably
just know them as “snot”, “mucus” or “gunk”.
Your body raises its temperature to try and kill off the
invading pathogen – so you get a fever.
Your body attempts to prevent the
pathogen from penetrating further than the throat, which causes localized inflammation and heat
in the throat, hence you get a “sore throat”.
Your body is doing exactly what it’s meant to do! It’s
protecting you…and what do you do in return? You pop some cold and flu pills to
avoid feeling the sore throat and the sniffles. That’s right, you block the
body from doing its work.
Just because something makes us feel better, doesn’t mean it
has healed us. In fact, with many modern medications, it has succeeded only in
tampering with the bodies natural processes. If you take a painkiller because you
have a headache, the painkiller doesn’t take your pain away, it simply turns
off your pain sensors so your brain can’t register the sensation anymore.
Doesn't it make more sense to find out what your body is trying to tell you? In the case of a headache, it's probably trying to tell you to drink more water, or get away from your computer, or that you're lacking magnesium, or eating/using something that irritates the body. Listen! Your body is always talking to you!
And while we’re here, let’s have a little conversation about
germs. All through the winter months, people cough and sniffle and blame their
problems on “germs”. Unfortunately, germs are everywhere and life on earth is
not possible without them. Germs are not the problem. Your immune system is the
problem!
Most likely, the immune system has become bogged down due to
stress, nutritional deficiency, toxic overload, lack of exercise/fresh
air/sunlight and can no longer cope.
The answer is not to try and control germs (you can’t), the
answer is to build up an immune system that does what it’s meant to do – resist
anything that’s potentially harmful to the body.
I haven’t been sick in years, and it’s certainly NOT because
I’m paranoid about germs (I don’t even own a disinfectant, unless you mean
vinegar).
It’s certainly NOT because I wash my hands fifty times a day with
antibacterial stuff (I wash my hands at the appropriate places with good old-fashioned
soap and water).
It’s definitely NOT because I vaccinate (Sorry to be
heretical yet again, but I do not see the sense in becoming immune to certain
strains of one virus, while at the same time being injected with the likes of
aluminium, monosodium glutamate, and polysorbate 80, which just adds to my
toxic load and makes it harder for my body to fight off other strains of other
viruses. I'd much prefer a strong, healthy immune system that can resist any strain of any virus. But that's just me...)
And it’s definitely NOT because I take loads of
multi-vitamins (I don’t take any).
I have, however, discovered (through research/trial and
error/experimentation), how to support my immune system to do its job properly
- that is, protect me from illness and disease. If you want to know more about
the 7 habits I follow for excellent health, you can find them in my e-book
“
100% Alive”, available on Amazon.
The human body is beautifully, exquisitely designed to heal
itself, renew itself, cleanse itself and regulate itself. If we nurture it
properly, that is exactly what it does! But when we don’t? It doesn’t repair
itself, it degenerates and ages, it fills up with toxins and gunk and fails to
regulate itself properly. Sadly, you don’t have to look very far to find living
(just!), breathing evidence in our families and communities and workplaces.
There is actually no physiological reason why the body
should “age”! The body is constantly renewing itself, shedding old cells and
replacing with new ones. The reason that people get old and stiff and arthritic
is not due to the passage of time. It’s because:
1. Their body is not getting enough nutrients to do its work
properly. You need plenty fruit (preferably raw), plenty vegetables (preferably raw) and lots of leafy greens (preferably raw, again) if you want any hope of supplying your body with what it needs nutritionally. If the majority of your diet is cooked or processed foods, your body is going to wear out prematurely. Just saying..
2. They are overloading their bodies with toxins (chemicals
on their food, in their personal care products, in the air they breathe, in
their water) at a rate faster than the body can excrete them. Eventually, the
body begins to clog up with toxic waste, the joints grow stiff and everything begins
to slow down.
3. Lack of use! People sit at their desk all day, drive the
car home, sit in front of the TV, and then lay down to sleep…and wonder why
their beautiful bodies, which were designed to dance, and run and jump, start
to seize up from lack of use.
4. People accept aging as inevitable. After I turned 30, I
began to notice more and more people my own age imply they were “getting
old”. In their early 30’s, for goodness sake! All around us, people are
perpetuating the belief that after the age of 30 - 40, our physical health starts
to go downhill. People just love to talk about their ailments and what bothers
them! Take notice, and you’ll realize you’re constantly being reminded that
after a certain age, your body gets fatter, it slows down, it starts to ache,
your memory and eyesight start to fade.
Well, I say bollocks!!
What you believe is what you receive. If you expect to get old,
crotchety and wrinkly, that’s likely what you’ll get. But I say no thanks. I
say that my body is the earthly temple of my soul, I respect it and nurture it,
and it returns the favor a hundred-fold.
You see, I have this stubborn streak, and I don't necessarily accept that if someone else experienced it (or even if lots of other people experienced it), then it's inevitably going to be my experience too. We create our own experiences and outcomes, based on what we put in...
For example, when I had my first son, people said I couldn’t expect to go
back to the same size as before. After a while, the weight came off and I went
back to wearing my pre-pregnancy clothes. Then, they said, it won’t be that
easy after the second one. But a few months after the birth of my second son, I
was right back into all my old clothes. Then the next lot of well-meaning
advice, was that after turning 30, I’d have to work
harder to stay slim.
Meanwhile, I just smiled politely, and ignored their "advice".
In fact, I can state with absolute certainty that I am more
energetic, more flexible, more toned, healthier and fitter than I was a decade
ago. And I fully expect to be even more so, in another decade.
You get to choose how you age, by choosing what you put in
your mouth, what you put on your skin, what you allow in your mind, and
embracing love in all it’s forms. These daily little choices have an
accumulative effect over the years.
The most youthful-looking people I know are not the ones who
buy expensive anti-aging creams or employ personal trainers. They are the ones
who have lived simply and honestly, loved wholeheartedly, gave generously,
appreciated nature, and nurtured their bodies with wholesome foods.
Your body is just exquisite. Every process, every system, every cell, every action and reaction, is perfectly designed to keep you healthy and in a state of homeostasis (balance). Nurture it, love it, support it...it's the true healer.
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