Live Younger, Live Wiser
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CHAPTER 1
What exactly is disease?
How many of us worry about our health when we are young? Unless we have major health concerns of our own in our childhood years, or of someone dear to us, then we tend to think that we are invincible………
But, as the years advance, if we are challenged with health problems, whether those problems are big or small, our attitudes begin to change and we realise that ignoring them is not an option.
So, the question is, if you had known that you would live this long, would you have looked after yourself better?
How true is this for all of us? In modern day Western society in general, we don’t want inconvenience, we don’t want to have to make effort; we live in ‘the disposable society’. We don’t repair things; we throw them away. We expect everything to be instant and easy. We have computers, HD television, mobile phones and Wi-Fi.
We also expect our bodies to conform to this no-effort rule that we seem to have adopted. We know and accept that we have to maintain and service our car and put the appropriate fuel in the tank for it to work properly, but somehow we seem to have the idea that the same does not apply to our body, this vehicle that we live in during our earthly life.
We eat denatured and processed ‘foods’ that barely resemble real food. We eat and drink toxic chemicals and buy genetically modified foods. We live under huge mental and emotional stresses, such as those from family pressures, the need to pay the bills and meeting deadlines at work to keep our jobs. We often ‘prop up’ our lives with prescription or over-the-counter medications to keep us going. We need dental work from time to time, we are subject to scans, medical tests and procedures, vaccinations, the radiation from long-haul flights and airport security machines, the toxic air that we breathe, the impure water that we drink. And on and on…..
The brain is a bio-computer managing every function of the body via millions of electrical signals to and from every part of the body every second of our lives. These signals can be affected by other electrical fields around us. Thus, sitting in front of a computer all day, or using a mobile phone, for instance, can mean that “the captain is not properly in charge of the ship”, by which I mean that the brain is not able to manage body processes effectively because its communications system is not able to function correctly in the presence of these fields in its environment. And, as more and more wireless technology is installed in our cities and workplaces, it is becoming impossible to avoid what Is sometimes termed “electrosmog”, even if we choose not to install it within our own homes. As a result, we need to find a way of making our bodies more resilient to the sea of electromagnetic pollution that surrounds us but which we cannot see.
There is certainly a multitude of factors to consider in trying to find answers to chronic health issues. And how much can each one of us change things? Is it possible to reduce this electromagnetic pollution without affecting the lives that we have now grown used to? Have we thought about whether there could be a price tag on our health in order to maintain the modern-day life of instant results and ultra-convenience with our mobile phones and their internet capabilities available wherever we are and “smart” equipment in our homes?
Have you actually considered what your life may be like as you grow older? Or don’t you want to think about it? Do you look at the older people in your community who have no control over their own lives because they can no longer cope on their own in any practical way -- and think that it won’t happen to you? Do you think your body should be able to keep going no matter how lax you are in looking after it? Do you put orange juice in your car tank instead of petrol or diesel and expect it to still operate as normal?
So where do we start with all this? Well, let’s look at it pictorially. Imagine heaping all the well-known and acknowledged factors or stressors that can negatively affect your health and well-being into a pile. This pile would comprise items such as:
• processed foods;
• toxic chemicals such as formaldehyde and petrol fumes;
• toxic metals such as cadmium (from cigarette smoke or some paints) or mercury, nickel and silver (from amalgam fillings in your teeth);
• impure water;
• food additives such as aspartame (used as a sweetener);
• chemical sprays used in non-organic farming;
• bacteria and viruses;
• fungus and parasites;
• emotional trauma acquired in the school of life;
• and more and more..…
The size of this pile increases on a daily basis as more of these toxins pour into, and compromise, our systems.
Now imagine a wire fixed horizontally above the pile. While the top of the pile is way below the wire, the body is compensating adequately for the disruption that the toxins are causing and you will be thinking how lucky you are to be in good health. Your body will be finding ‘work-arounds’ for energy circuits that are not functioning correctly (by taking energy from other circuits, for example) to “keep the show on the road”. The body is of such a phenomenal design that we are unaware of the compensations that it is constantly making every second of every day of our lives.
But, for all of us… when we fail to halt the advancing threats and onslaughts of the various stressors in our daily lives, and the day comes when the size of the pile has increased to the point where it now reaches the wire, we are in deep trouble as symptoms start to appear. It may be that we develop a skin problem, or symptoms of a bowel problem, or our thyroid function starts to wane or we start to develop the signs of a mental health problem or find a tumour somewhere or have a heart attack or stroke. Whatever the situation, the body cannot compensate adequately any longer and we need help.
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English
Publication Date :
6/11/2017
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Softcover
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Page Count :
126
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9781504380034
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About the Book
The human body is a complex system that is designed to repair and renew itself. But it needs to be given the opportunity! This world in which we live is increasingly a difficult environment for such a system to thrive. The body experiences a daily onslaught of challenges on physical, mental and emotional levels, all of which contribute to ageing and reducing our quality of life. How do they do that? Is it possible to reverse ageing into healing? This book sheds light on the road to disease and the path to recovery. If you want to understand why you have health problems, and how you can help your healing, then this is the book for you!
About the Author
The author is a naturopath, kinesiologist and nutrition adviser. Born into a family with chronic health issues, she has been on a lifelong search to understand the meaning of disease in our lives and the learning that it brings through opening us to the wisdom innate in all of us.