Health and Healing
"Some remedies are worse than the disease."
— Syrus
Half of all Americans are on daily prescribed medicines. Is getting the drugs you need, daily, what "health" has come to mean today? Prevention, or maintaining health, is a lot more important than treatment afterdisease sets in, but that is not the philosophy of the medical establishment or the multi-billion-dollar major drug companies that govern Western medicine. Alternative health treatments are totally ignored, although they are often effective in both maintaining health and curing disease. The drug companies and federal government will not allow such natural treatments to be promoted, because it might cut into drug profits, and because doctors are totally ignorant of and resistant to the correct approach to health.
Western medicine is basically at war with the body. It knows very little about cultivating a state of health, and instead attacks the body to try to overpower disease symptoms — without killing you or doing even worse damage (although that happens quite often). This is not a cure or a road to health. Whatever happened to the Hippocratic Oath that all doctors swear, "First do no harm"? Why has the meaning of that been reversed?" Medical treatments, including chemo-therapy and surgery — cutting out parts of the body to restore "health" or "wholeness" — often cause a lot more suffering. When doctors generally speak of "survival rates" from cancer treatment, they are merely saying people may live a few years; they are not cured, and they do not really "survive." For many chronically ill people, the longer they live, the more they suffer. How many people have been kept alive (if it can be called that) in hospitals, hooked up to all sorts of machinery, in a totally vegetative state, waiting to die — or waiting for the insurance to run out? It is a sad situation indeed.
When people think about "health" they almost never think that they are in fact dealing with a belief system, rather than any ultimate truth. In other words, your thoughts about health are simply beliefs. There are billions of other, rational, intelligent, people around the world who have entirely different beliefs about health. And, as is the case with any programming or indoctrination which you accept, it closes your mind, reduces your awareness, limits your options, and ultimately allows greater suffering. This applies whether we are talking about health, religion, politics, or otherwise.
We need a broader definition of health. After all, if health means "wholeness," then it should be inclusive of all areas of our lives. We live lives that are unhealthy financially, physically, sexually, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually — and wonder why our "health" suffers. All of this is detrimental to our overall health, including the effects of our unhealthy society and ecology. Life is very much out of balance, stress wears us down, and as a result we become less healthy as a society. Sure we have more and more drugs to treat the symptoms of our overall dis-ease and imbalance and suffering, but the fundamental causes are not being addressed, nor is the problem being solved by treating the symptoms or one part of our lives. A financially unhealthy life causes tens of millions of Americans to turn to bankruptcy for relief. The toxicity in our lives — in what we eat, drink, breathe, and otherwise ingest — causes toxic reactions and diseases in our bodies; the effects of dis-ease are not localized to our physical bodies. Our trained sedentary lifestyles and addiction to junk food compounds the problem. An entire generation of American children was raised in front of the television, and countless hours of programming by corporate America to consume junk foods high in sugar and fat. It has been proven that this advertising worked. They are now overweight and suffering a high incidence of diabetes and other illnesses that inevitably follow a wrong diet and lifestyle — no matter how common it is. That is the problem: as a nation, we grow more and more ill, annually, and it becomes "normal."
The problem is, we seldom if ever learn how to have a true state of health. Instead we are sold the means of our own self-destruction followed by the artificial self-medication of drugs to relieve the symptoms — not cure the disease or solve the underlying problem. With endless ads for drugs on television, featuring smiling people who have obviously solved all their problems in life, people are now trained to "go to your doctor and ask for our drug." And, they do. Programming works. In fact, the goal of corporate America — and the major pharmaceutical companies — is to have everyone on their drugs, daily, from children taking Ritalin from the earliest ages, to adults taking Prozac and Vioxx, to seniors taking an endless array of drugs for all of their debilitating diseases. The truth is, drug manufacturers in their limitless greed, and their multi-billion dollar profits, lie, cheat, and steal our lives from us, and only sell us false "cures." They are invested in our disease, not our health. You need to understand that. read more ...
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