"On the basis of what is known about the roles of the electrical, magnetic, elastic, acoustic, thermal, gravitational and photonic energies in living systems, it appears that there are many energetic systems in the living body and many ways of influencing them. What we refer to as the "living state" and as "health" are all of these systems, both known and unknown, functioning collectively, cooperatively and synergistically. The debate about whether there is such a thing as "Healing Energy" or life force is being replaced with the study of the interactions between the biological energy fields, structures and functions.'' - James Oschman, PHD  

"We are a multidimensional creation with coexisting 'bodies'...Our physical body is composed of matter; our subtle body is energy, thought and emotions; and our causal body is a spiritual source of energy. Health is the integration of all aspects of our being." -Mirka Knaster

 ""It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.'"- Thomas More, Utopia 

"The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated." -Plato 

"Treatment originates outside you; healing comes from within." -Andrew Weil, M.D. 

"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease." - William Osler

I have long wanted to write on this subject, but knowing what controversy it might cause, I hesitated and avoided it. But...finally.. here it is. My view on medicine. 

First of all let me say that I greatly respect the science that is at the base of modern medicine. It was an incredible leap between the medicine of say, the Renaissance era, to where we are now. With our superb technologies and understanding of how things work. It's improved people's lives greatly, and extended them by many years. People can now travel or just go to public places without the risk of catching some lethal disease. Now that I got that out of the way...

Modern Medicine has lost its way. In theory, it is a practice that serves to use science to understand the human body, find causes of illnesses and cure them, or eliminate the possibility of catching them altogether.

Great idea.. But practically what do we have?

Chaos. Absolute chaos. And capitalism. It's all about money. And as much as I hate to support the ''global conspiracy'' theory of how the government is against us, in this case, I have to say, they have a point:

Pills are replaced with placebos. Doctors advertise medication. New medications are developed that are similar in properties as heroin, to get people addicted to it. And when a resistance is built up by the immune system, they reach for stronger, more expensive drugs. Medicine is advertised and colored to be consumer-friendly. There are pills for happiness. For any little twitch your body makes, there is a pill to stop it. WE ARE SEDATING OUR BODIES INTO STUPIDITY. 

Through illnesses our body communicates with us. It's the only way it has!! So when your head hurts, as yourself WHY, not just pop a pill and wait for it to go away.

One of the biggest problems in Modern Medicine is that it is mostly targeted at treating the consequences of illnesses, but not the causes.

And many people disagree with me here. ''Of course it treats causes!"
Let me give a bit of an extreme example: 
Extreme headache --> Tumor. 
aka 
Result --> Cause
Solution: cut it out. 

NO. I want to ask you WHY the tumor formed. WHY. It could have formed, it could have not. What factors influenced it? And how do we eliminate these factors in the future? That is the real cause. 

I do not only blame doctors for this. If people demanded real treatment, they would provide it I'm sure. But people don't want it. They want a quick fix. They want to pop a pill and go on watching TV and eating their french fries.

I believe in alternative medicine, as it is labeled. By definition it is anything that does not fall within the realm of ''conventional medicine''. It's something different. BUT DIFFERENT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S WRONG.

The Body is such a complex system. It is not a piece of living meat. 

"each and every cell in the body is not only intelligent, but conscious too, in the sense that it can independently make decisions on the communications it sends to other cells. There are approximately 10 trillion cells in the body. Yet each of those cells signals, on average, to at least 10,000 other cells every day." (http://reversethinking.typepad.com/weblog/2010/07/how-the-body-thinks.html) 

I believe in the System of Unity of Mind, Body and Spirit. 

And before you give me that cynical look, let me explain what I mean.

This is not some African voodoo, ok? 

It's so shocking to me to hear that people, when asked about religion and God, are so passionate and full of faith, but when asked about healing energies, auras, spirits or karma, look at me like I come from a different planet. 

SPIRITUALITY SHOULD NOT BE SEPARATED FROM EVERYDAY LIFE.

If I got anything from conventional religious teachings, its this: God is everywhere. God is in each of us.

So why is medicine so separate from it? There is nothing spiritual in conventional medicine. Simply, it's afraid of spirituality. Because when it has it's facts and experiments, it's safe and protected. It's in control. But when it comes to spirituality, it's walking on ice. 

But its impossible to separate the two! The Body is not a piece of meat, again. It has a physical, intellectual AND spiritual side. 

We are conscious beings. We have souls. Does anyone doubt that? (If any of you do, please, then, tell me what separates us from animals?)

Our Bodies have energy. They give off energy. They use energy.. And this is not hippie bullshit, this is real. ENERGY IS A TERM FROM PHYSICS. There are sooooo many PHDs from physics that, at a certain point in their research, came to accept God and Energy.

HUMANS ARE NOT ALL KNOWING. Just because there are things that we cannot explain, or do not understand, or do not see physically, THAT DOESNT MEAN THAT THEY DONT EXIST. 

For me, the most logical thing of all is to say, that the unknown aspect of ''science'' is, actually, what we call God. It's the unknown forces.

After all, centuries ago, people didn't understand how weather worked, so they invented Gods to represent forces of nature. Now they seem stupid to us, and primitive. So WHY, please tell me, isn't it possible that we are primitive in our understandings as well?

When Galileo said that the Earth wasn't the center of our galaxy, people called him insane. Why is ''different'' necessarily ''wrong'''?

Just because it's not ''conventional''? It hasn't been accepted by the masses so it doesn't deserve to be considered? THINK.

My system is very simple. 

The body is strong and intelligent enough to withstand any illness.

To sustain it in this state, it must be healthy, both physically (eating organic, pure, healthy food, drinking clean water, exercising regularly), intellectually (the mind must be kept busy, and given enough rest) and spiritually (there must be harmony in our souls.)

Any illness that arises is a result of the failure of one of these systems.

Physical: 

All the chemical, genetic modifications, the dyes, the excess saturated fats have an EXTREMELY bad effect on your body. How could they not? THINK. (Examples: Certain types of crops in the US are sprayed with a special chemical to keep bugs away. And this chemical is absorbed into the crop, and then eaten by us. IF BUGS DONT EAT THE CROPS, WHY WOULD YOU? They are spraying them, literally, with POISON.)

The processing of food is also a very important aspect to mention..

Do you honestly think the 0.3% fruit juice concentrate that you find in Fanta for example is the same as drinking fresh orange juice?? Your body needs LIVE vitamins. Natural ones, so it can use them. You're giving it dead, painted vitamins, that have been chocked, beaten, then filled with bubbles and put into a plastic container. Visual enough?

And as to cooking food.. should I even mention frying, or is it self-explanatory? Cooking a vegetable in boiling oil kills any minerals or vitamins that it had in it. It goes from being a vegetable... to something like a piece of plastic covered in crunchy oil, in terms of health value at least.

Intellectual:

If the mind isn't working, it is rotting away. Violent video games, most television shows, most of the time- social networking sites, porn, even sometimes magazines. They stupidify the mind, focusing it on consumerist values, sex, or money. 

As for sleep: Not getting enough rest makes your mind exhausted so it cannot function properly. pretty straightforward.

Spiritual: 

Now this is the most fun one: Simply put: every person has an aura, a sphere of energy around them, and this energy is not stable, it is connected to the higher energies. Any time something goes wrong with the harmony of energy, it corresponds to a certain point in our aura, and so, on our body. It is very much connected to the asian system of chakras and the flow of energy.

Every illness, pain, etc. can be read and understood. 

The right side of our body represents the female side, the left- the male.

The throat corresponds to the fifth chakra, Vishuddha, the chakra of communication.The feet – to material possessions and concepts, such as money. The nose corresponds to pride. The head- to our outlook on life and thoughts. And so on. (Research this in more detail or ask me for references. A famous researcher on this subject was Luule Viilma, an Estonian doctor)  

All blockages in the flow of energy causes problems.

Any disturbance of energy, such as anger, jealously, hatred, etc. creates problems and eventually illnesses in the corresponding areas. 

If your pride was hurt, you will get a runny nose, or catch the flu. If you didn’t speak your mind – a sore throat. If you were angry with your father about financial issues, you will accidentally drop a heavy object on your left foot. Or it might spasm up and start hurting without a physical factor like dropping something on it. IT WORKS.

It may sound silly, but it truly works. And doctors something shrug their shoulders at such things, because such problems are not always deep enough to be seen on a materialistic level. 

For example, have you ever had pains, and went to the doctor and they couldn’t tell you anything? They made scans, but they were clean. “There is nothing there,” the doctor may have told you. “But what hurts then?” You ask in response.

In high school I would have terrible, sharp pains in my lower stomach, on the left side. Similar to pains of an infection in the appendix, but it was never that. Such pains, they would come suddenly, and so sharply, that I wouldn’t be able to move, and would sometimes loose consciousness. I went to all the doctors I could find. But in the place where the pains were concentrated, THERE WAS NOTHING THERE. No organ, nothing. Nothing could hurt there, because there was nothing there to hurt. Doctors shrugged at me.

So, if I tell you it was a block in my flow of energy, you may or may not believe me.

But as we follow this system in my entire family, when I finished high school I took the initiation into the system of Reiki healers. I am a first level Reiki healer. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiki) And since then I’ve never had the pains come back.

Also let me comment on something else: The idea that such illnesses as colds and the flu come from cold weather. Ok, this is just bullshit. What does the cold weather do to your body? Ok, it MAY challenge your immune system. So it's your bad immune system that gets you sick, not a little cold weather. Silly people! Why don't we have a similar sickness connected to very hot weather then? What's the difference, theyre both extremes? Think!!

And about the appendix-removing craze people have developed (to add to the wisdom teeth removal craze). It's so funny how medicine decided that some things in the body are just ''extra'' and should be cut out. ONLY LATER... they found out that the appendix isn't actually completely useless and generates some kind of hormone. HAHA! and I thought God was just silly and gave us an extra body part.. silly me..
When our hand hurts, is the first thing we think of that we have to cut it off???

Another aspect: The most terrible illness of our century is AIDS. 

acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. 

Acquired: not something we are born with

Immunodeficiency: having a weak immune system

Syndrome.

The worst illness of our time is a illness that kills the immune system. Ironic isn't it? Since our society is so good at doing that on it's own. With it's dead, plastic, colored food, drinks made of liquid sugar and food dye, cigarettes and alcohol (last two are self-explanatory), machines that do all the thinking and working instead of us, a system of financial slavery that makes everything too expensive, and makes us borrow money from the system in a way that it's physically impossible to return back, psychological stress, dirty, polluted air and water. What is the world coming to? And why do we allow this?

T.h.i.n.k.

  

Of course, to each their own. 

Ultimately, WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN WORKS FOR YOU. It’s true.

But I urge you to be open to things, and consider this system. At least consider it.

At least the part of it that says that health is not about pills and doctors, its about living life in a healthy way, in touch with nature, and taking care of your body. 

Your body is the temple of your soul. It’s the only one you get in this life, so take care of it.

Think. Be healthy.

"We are born into a system. The world is already formed beforehand. It seems that your life is just beginning, but you are never given a blank page. You are given a script." - Unknown

''Create the world you dream with every choice you make.'' -Stephen C. Paul 

When we are born, we are given a script called ''This is what your life should be like"

And we don't really have much of a choice in the matter.
And we start playing:
The first chapter, childhood.
Pre-school, playing with toys, learning to ride a bike, running around screaming in happiness, eating ice cream and candy until your stomach hurts.
Then, teenage years.
School, being moody, doing crazy things, not listening to your parents, experimenting, being messy, loving, crying, piercing your tongue.
Young adult
University, relationships, sex, car, parties, alcohol.
Adult
Marriage, children, big house, job, money.
Senior
Retirement


My question is, ''is that all?''
Really, is that all life has to offer? Don't we have any choice?

Of course we do. But when we people try to get away from the script, they are judged. Severely. They are labeled. ''weird'', ''rebellious'', ''anti-____''.
but all they try to do is do something different.
Different isn't wrong. That's a stereotype I really think that people should be aware of and try to let go. Its not wrong, weird or anti-anything. It's just different. We are all unique beings. We have the right to choose our path in life. Who says we all have to choose the same one?
Does everybody really need to get 16+ years of education? Does everyone have to hate their parents when they are teenagers? Does everyone have to drink until passing out every weekend as college students?

Rhetorical questions, really. But why do we still give in to the stereotype? Even the most modern and open of us give in to it. ''Different is wrong. Discourage them. Make them come back to the mass of sameness''
Its sad, really.

An example: I have plenty of experience in living in historically Muslim countries. And what surprises me is that ''modern'' Muslim people drink alcohol, even though officially it's forbidden. But moreover, they judge Muslims who don't drink alcohol because of religious beliefs. They ask ''what's wrong with you?'', label them as conservative, or old fashioned. But who said that getting drunk is something everyone has to do?

Personally I prefer these things to be not forced by religion or cultural beliefs, but by your personal decisions. For example, I'm a vegetarian. Not because my parents, my church, God, animal protection organizations, dieting specialists, doctors, etc, told me so. Because I decided. That's it.
People ask me the reason, and they expect me to say one of these things. It's so much easier to use those things, to use an excuse, than to stand by your beliefs. Because without the support of the church, God, family behind you, you're alone. And you get judged for being different. Because it was your initiative to change something about your life. No one told you to. That's the hard way.

The example that inspired me to write this article is the story of Elizabeth Scharpf, that was published in the NY Times. She had everything going for her in her script. A top university and good-paying career ahead of her. But she decided to move to Nepal and teach underprivileged children.
( read about her story at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/magazine/24volunteerism-t.html )

Crazy? Weird? or Heroic? 
What's the difference? It's in your attitude.

YOUR ATTITUDE DETERMINES YOUR REALITY.

What my point is, don't judge people. And choose for yourself. Don't accept things blindly. And be open for people's decisions. So what if it's a little far from what you're use to?

-----It has been lately pointed out to me that the tone of my writings is somewhat feministic. Not that I don't like that, but I do want to try to make my blog a bit less womanizing, broaden the target audience a bit. So let me just switch that around a bit to just being somewhat rebellious or radical. So hang in with me here.-----

There has long been controversy and discussion between whether a person controls his or her own life or whether it has already been predicted.

The latter bases itself mostly on religion: if our destiny is predetermined, then who determines it? Surely some higher power. And that's where God comes in.

Whereas the first bases itself on the modern notions of human superiority and domination. It's the belief that we are God(s). We are the prevalent race on Earth, everything else was made to serve us. We control our own destiny.

Right ?

It seems to me that the nature of truth is that it is always in the middle of two radical opposites. In the Ukrainian language referred to as the ''golden center''.  Nothing that is absolute is really true, there are always different aspects. And both must be taken into consideration.

So what if it's a bit of both?

 Honestly, to think that people are able to fully control their lives is silly. We know too little, we understand too little. We cannot know what will happen to us, or to the world, not the next day, not the next year, not even the next second. We have no control over certain things. And these things directly, or indirectly influence our little world. We cannot deny that.

So ultimately the notion that people control their own destiny is just something that we believe, because we refuse to give into the fear of the unknown factors that actually shape our destiny. We are afraid to let go and let things flow. What if they flow the ''wrong'' way? What if something was just not meant to be? How can we just give in to that? It's hard.

Now, of course this is not the absolute. I am not saying we should lay back and let life take us where we need to go. What's the point then? I believe that there are divine factors that influence our path, but we are still the ones that have to walk it. Now, maybe not EVERYTHING is predetermined. Little things are probably not. Unless they influence the big picture. Those decisions are probably monitored closely and influenced, if needed, by, let's say God, or maybe Angels. Spirits. Whatever label you prefer. Higher forces that we cannot explain or understand.

Seems like there are two aspects to this that always get me confused:

Testing and pushing away. Let me explain:

Sometimes it seems like if you really want something, you have to prove exactly how much you want it. You have to fight, through the pain, misery, maybe sacrifice, to prove that you ''deserve'' it. And there are success stories like that. Against all odds and boundaries, people do get what they want.

In other cases, it seems like the higher spirits are pushing you away from making a bad decision, from going in a direction that you shouldn't go.

My question is, how can you know the difference?

Maybe I'm taking this too far into religion and philosophy, but seriously, how can God expect us to understand His signs if He didn't send us a manual of how to interpret them?

If something goes wrong, is it a warning or is it a test?

I guess we can never really know for sure. Unless we can listen to our intuition and act on it. People have forgotten how to listen. And don't look at me like I'm crazy, it's been proven scientifically and mathematically. (read my article "Coincidence?" from 3/31/10 )

It does exist. And it could make our lives a lot easier if we knew how to listen. There are signs and answers everywhere. We just have either forgotten, or maybe we didn't really ever know how to interpret them.

Anyway, my point is, yes, we make decisions, but there is a part of our lives that we don't control. Some things have to happen, and we have to let them happen.

There was a story on the news a while back: A couple, man and woman, were late for their flight, that later crashed and everyone died. They got a car and rode to whatever place they needed to get to. And they got into a car accident. And both died. (A bit of a depressing example, but you get my point?)

I think its time that people stopped being so afraid to let go and tried to "relax into the unknown." Let go of all the fear that is holding us back.

It's okay to trust in fate, in the hope that everything will turn out perfectly. Really.

Credits: http://rebekahsimpson.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/trust-and-let-go/, http://www.sloclick.co.uk/images/20050921091213_footsteps_sm.jpg

"No matter how much I prove and prod,
I cannot quite believe in God;
But oh, I hope to God that He
Unswervingly believes in me."

~E.Y. Harburg, attributed

"Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God."  ~Diana Robinson

"For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections."  ~Peace Pilgrim

 

	God: - A supernatural, typically immortal being with superior powers.
	Angel - a benevolent celestial being           -divine and supernatural messenger from a deity, or other divine entity. Fairy-  a mythical being who has magical powers Spirit- a supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form People have forgotten how to believe. Where has our childhood innocence gone? When and why did we start limiting our minds to just the 'normal' and so called 'real'? Q: Do you believe in fairies? spirits? guardian angels? A: I only believe in real things. Q: But you believe in God don't you? A: Yes Q: So what do you think God is, a guy sitting on a cloud? A: No. Q: So then He is some sort of spirit, a concentration of energy, a supernatural being without physical form? A: Yes Q: So you are willing to believe in that, but you're not willing to believe in other supernatural beings, fairies, spirits, angels? A: Those are mythical beings, they are not real. Real (wiktionary) : Having physical existence or evidence. People. THINK. BY DEFINITION, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THERE TO BE PROOF OF GOD. Because any type of proof is a physical thing. And He is not and cannot leave physical evidence. I've been around a bit and seen and heard some strange stuff that people find and make them places for worship. "Footprint of the Virgin Mary", "House of Virgin Mary", "Cross of Jesus", "Holy grail aka Cup of Jesus", etc etc. This reminds me of our modern celebrity obsession. Like "wow, we found the sandals of Jesus Christ, how much do you think they'll sell for on Ebay.com?" ITS ALL MISSING THE WHOLE POINT. Jesus was a very wise person. There is almost no doubt that such a person existed. He said some smart stuff, so instead of worshiping the cup he drank from and kissing the ground he walked on how about actually, simply, following his ideas? Love one another. That's all. He did not come and say "im the son of God, worship everything I ever touched." That's not the point. He came to bring us some ideas. Good ones too. So instead of bombing each other with hatred and then going to Church on Sunday to make us feel better how about simply accepting his ideas and sharing a little love with the world each day? The only reason why our minds are so limited, why we accept some ideas and others we push aside automatically, is because are lazy. We accept things when they are accepted by society. We have forgotten how to think for ourselves. God is an widely accepted idea. It's actually expected to believe in some kind of deity, in our world mostly its unusual not to. There is a whole system that revolves around it, institutions, holidays, rules, symbols, jobs, places, limitations, prizes and punishments. We accept it because simply it has always been so, its something normal. Something we've been taught since we were little. And then we were forbidden to question things. Why? Because it made life easier for our parents, it made us easier to control by the system. (By the way, a note about symbols: hasn't any other Christian every realized that  we wear the symbol of the thing that killed our prophet?  Sometimes its even shown with the actual body. The symbol of our religion is a killing device and a corpse. If you believe in the whole Jesus returning thing, do you think the first thing Jesus would love to see on this loyal followers is the image of the thing on which he was killed (physically)?) When we try to think outside the box we can start to realize that everything that pertains to this system has nothing to do with God at all. The Holy Books were not sent by fax or e-mail from heaven. They were written by men. Edited and changed. And not even available to read freely until recent times. They are an instrument of control over society. And there is nothing wrong with that. Every society needs order and rules. But honestly, let's differentiate between the Church and spirituality. If God is such a divine being, do you really think he cares what day you go to church? If you wear pants or a skirt? Whether or not you have your hair covered? Whether you drank water during fasting periods? All the rules and limitations are simply that. Rules and limitations. Set by the Church, not by GOD, but by the institution that took the most powerful weapon - peoples fear of the unknown, and made a system of how to use it to control people. Now, if this sounds cynical or atheistic at all I apologize, that was not my intention. Let me explain. Belief and religion is different. I believe in God. I believe in the idea of Love. Of divine energy. I do not believe that sleeping through Mass every Sunday and telling your priest that you cheated on exams, and not eating or drinking for a few months a year makes you a good person, or that it makes God happy. What is he, your mother? If He is a Divine Being, then treat him as such. He doesn't need you to suffer for Him. He loves his Children, that's kind of the whole point- LOVE. Not pain or suffering, or abstinence, or limiting yourself. Love one another, respect each other. Of course, the Church's system is much easier, its modernized. People can't stick to the principles so they worked out a confession-punishment-forgiveness strategy. That helps people clear their conscience and helps them keep their institutions running and society under control. That's cheating. So, back to what I started with. As children we knew nothing of rules and limitations. We were simply love. Pure love. No wonder people say that children can see angels, talk with them. Their minds and hearts are open. But then we grow up, find out that we evolved from monkeys and that everything else is b.s. and we loose our innocence. We reject anything that may make us seem stupid, childish or strange. We forget how to See. We close our minds and hearts. And then, ironically, we start to search for God. When He was there from the beginning..! It's like fishing for a fish in a bucket. It's already caught, just look at the bigger picture..! Sometimes maybe things really are that simple. You don't need to sacrifice yourself to deserve His love. You have it, simply from birth. Of course, this is just my view of things. To each their own. I am always, always open to discussion. But let me just say, if you believe in Love, then you believe in God, in Angels, in Spirits, in Energies. Just don't be afraid to step out  of your comfort zone and open yourself up to the possibility of these things existing. Really. It's scary as hell I know, but honestly, do you really think our world is the only thing out there? “We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other” -Luciano de Crescenzo