On Medicine and other disasters
"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.
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???
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.
Most of the time when something like
alternative medication is mentioned, people think of acupuncture, iridology,
yoga, herbs, etc. I could go into details about each of these and what amazing
techniques they are, but I will leave that researching to you, my readers. I
will let you take initiative and find some details on your own.. I will say
this:
The past 5 years I have cured all of my winter-related illnesses from
runny nose, to a severe flu in which I was in bed, too weak to stand up for 4
days straight and unable to eat, I cured them all with herbal teas. That is all
I will say.
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.
Your love is my drug
"There's a lot of research showing that laughter has an impact on illness. It releases endorphins and relieves pain." ~Janice Hein
"As to you, your scent – it's like a drug to me. You're like my own personal brand of heroin." ~Edward Cullen, Twilight"Romantic love is an addiction," said Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist. "My guess is that our modern addictions -- nicotine, drugs, sex, gambling -- are simply hijacking this ancient brain pathway that evolved millions of years ago, that evolved for romantic love. ... The brain system evolved to focus your energy on an individual and start the mating process."
What are endorphins and what do they do?
They
chemicals that are released in your brain under certain conditions.
Endorphins are an opiate, and effect your brain in the same way that
morphine
does. It is the chemical
responsible for "natural high".
More
commonly it is known as the ''feel-good'' chemical, the reason we feel
happy. But there are many different ways of influencing the level of
endorphins in our bodies, some healthy, and some not so much. You might
be surprised...
Healthy ones: Exercise, sex, playing with pets, favorite colors, activities, sunlight, spending time with friends and family, repetitive motions
(such as knitting or sewing), singing, dancing, bath, eating spicy food, nature, laughing, crying, tickling, vibrations.
Unhealthy: Arguing, reliving
confrontations over and
over in your head, picking at hangnails,
pimples, scabs, excessive exercise, repetitive obsessive
compulsive behavior, sugar,
caffeine,
alcohol, causing yourself
physical pain, being late, rushing to meet a deadline.
Sound
familiar? If you are engaging in any of these, it is
because the endorphin chemicals in your brain are low,
and
you are subconsciously trying to increase it. Our bodies
know what they need, but they do not always know the right way to get
it.
The term endorphin rush
has been adopted in popular speech to refer to feelings of exhilaration
brought on by pain, danger, or stress. Immediately after injury,
endorphins allow animals to feel a sense of power and control over
themselves that allows them to persist with activity for an extended
time.
Now that we got that part out of the way, let's think.
If
endorphins are a natural drug in our bodies, why is the fact that we
can get addicted to it so surprising? Almost any of the activities I
mentioned above is open to addiction. Anything overdone, even the most
healthiest thing ever, can become harmful. Love, sex, exercise, coffee
to name a few obvious ones.
As for exercise, intense workouts cause an increase in endorphin levels. Our bodies make endorphins whenever we exert ourselves, and the higher levels probably help us better tolerate physical pain and discomfort, perhaps they help with emotional pain, too?
What about love addictions?
From looking at the brain scans of the broken-hearted, researchers found
that recovering from a break-up is like a kicking an addiction to a
drug.
"Nobody gets out of love alive," Fisher said. "You turn into a menace or
a pest when you've been rejected. That's when people stalk or commit
suicide. ... There's a very powerful brain system that has a dramatic
effect on your entire life."
It
seems quite interesting that such opposite emotions such as love and
anger, generate the same chemical response in our body? Curious.
So
which emotion do we seek? Love is complicated. It carries
responsibilities, fears, expectations. But its opposite? Fast, easy. And
has the same effect. Curious. It is always easier to go for the lower
emotion. Always easier to kneel down than to reach up.
Let's
not confuse between what is right and what is easy. Let's not be lazy
and always reach for the top. And learn how to find happiness in its
most natural and pure ways.
http://www.recoverfromdepression.com/endorphins.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/addicted-love-brain/story?id=11110866&page=2
http://www.sexual-addiction.net/what_is_sexual_addiction.php
http://www.womenfitness.net/exercise_addiction.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/addicted-love-brain/story?id=11110866
Addicted to Artificial Happinesss
Each
and every one of us, at a certain point in our lives has faced a
problem that we were unable to easily deal with. These things catch us
unexpectedly sometimes and throw us completely off balance. At this
point we have to choose a way of dealing with the problem. There are
many choices, but, usually, it's much easier to go for the easy
solutions: to avoid it, to cover up problems with artificial happiness.
Now,
let me be more clear. I want to discuss the generally accepted idea
that certain substances, for the lack of a better word, “addictions,”
can help us solve our problems.
First
of all, I do not wish to criticize people, nor am I trying to say these
things are bad or good. I would just like to ask, why is it, exactly,
that so many young people nowadays rely on substances as a source of
happiness? Is it purely psychological? Most of these substances come
with warnings of being harmful or fatal. But people continue to indulge
in them. Why? What draws young people to these things, like a moth to
the flame?
Let's
first look at the obvious reasons, the benefits: these “addictions”
provide us with relief. They help us relax, focus, forget about our
problems, lose control. We become more sociable, more fun, more
confident. Now these excuses I can understand: our lives are full of
stress, and people psychologically associate happiness with these
stimulants. So, yes, they work. But the mind is such a powerful weapon!
If you associate anything else with happiness, it will work for you. And
it doesn't necessarily have to be an investment or be harmful. But,
perhaps we just like the danger and feeling of rebellion?
There
are many theories that explain such consciously destructive behavior.
Some are created by scientists and some by psychologists. (Somehow the
two never seem to agree.) Scientific theories say that some people are
genetically prone to addictions.
“It is not I who become addicted,” said J.Cocteau. “It is my body.”
It's
my personal opinion that the body and mind have to be in harmony. They
are a part of one system, and cannot be separated. So this theory is
irrelevant: The problem is not why people continue, but why they
started. Find the source of the problem, not the consequences.
So…why?
Always the same answers: enjoyment, boredom, social pressure. But
people will never really tell you the deeper reasons, perhaps because
they are not aware of them themselves. We have become lazy, forgotten
how to find happiness naturally, we are afraid of confronting our inner
problems. Unhappy? Low self-esteem? Loneliness? Feeling the need to be
accepted? Work through your problems. Change your perception of the
world. Evolve. Yes, lighting up a cigarette will make you feel better,
but only for the moment. Life is precious, and we are in it for the long
run.
Now,
I would like to mention that, of course, we are not angels. And being
young is mostly all about enjoying and experiencing life to the fullest.
But, whatever you do, make sure it is your own conscious decision, not
something you were pressured into socially or culturally. Stay safe.
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