health
Poor health brings down mood and tolerance of stress and pain.
It is easy to side-step avoidable diseases and the poverty, incapacity and misery that follow them. The sooner they are sorted out the less the damage. Western lifestyle diseases are usually preceded by low vitality, susceptibility to infections and minor ailments that show up first in the weakest part of the body.
The location of disease is not random. Illness or injury is often in a part of the body that is a focus of a personal problem and has been overstimulated or shut down during a stressful episode and becomes the weak link that is first to go. I notice that resolving traumatic memories usually cures or improves these diseases as well as increasing fitness and performance.
Patients are sometimes very distressed by an illness or injury and desperate to heal and yet avoid obvious and effective remedies to pursue ineffective ones or are slow to recover because the changes in self image, feelings or lifestyle that recovery brings may be difficult to face. Particularly the emergence of suppressed feelings that are even more uncomfortable than the illness itself. Personal problems often have to resolve before ambivalent confusion dissipates and healing is complete.
Many medical treatments bring us down as well. Often the risks outweigh the benefits. For instance drugs can be toxic or disruptive. When antibiotics disrupt our internal ecosystem they often interfere with feelings and performance because there are more bugs than cells in the body and some aid digestion or interact with the brain and hormonal systems.
Medical specialists bring marvelous diagnostic and treatment innovations. But they tend to view the world through the lens of their specialty and can miss other details or the broader picture. Relying on them exclusively can be dangerous if they dis-empower you from listening to your body or doing your own research. You can't buy a cure. The body and mind do the healing. You just buy help. Help that is incomplete, wrong or comes with professional pop-wisdom or disinformation has to be used carefully.
Despite the expansion of western medicine avoidable lifestyle diseases including heart and vascular disease, diabetes, and cancer are increasing. Also autoimmune diseases which begin when an overloaded or weakened immune system mistakes its own body proteins for foreign ones. The trigger is often stress or a physical insult like food, vaccination, chemicals, mould or injury. Sufferers typically experience more than one including arthritis, Lou Gehrig's Disease(ALS), Crohn's, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, fibromyalgia, systemic lupus, scleroderma, diabetes, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome(CFS) and endometriosis.
The diseases and cures of western degenerative lifestyle diseases are complex and varied. Prevention is simple. The lifestyle suggestions in johnbrasted.com include ways to listen to ourselves, keep a clear heart and mind, maintain our self-regulatory mechanisms and avoid destructive environmental and dietary hazards.
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updated 11/06/11
