This is my first post on this blog. Spent the whole day trying to figure this all out. I will be posting a larger article once a week and some pertinent quotes a from time to time. Feel free to ask questions.

Traditional Western medicine would say that good health is the absence of disease. But being healthy really is having adequate vital energy every day to do the things you want to do with no limitations.

Even before birth, we begin to be touched by the world around us. There is evidence that a human fetus “hears” at four months. So, pregnant moms, remember to keep your environment clean and peaceful. And, dads, be respectful, quiet, and courteous to both the woman with whom you are creating this child and the baby within her.
After birth, toxic exposures, infections, physical trauma, surgery, and emotional shocks all begin to exert their influence on our constitution. We either recover fully or we only partially recover from the effects of these external factors.

As we go through the years, these constant impacts create a gradual reduction in our level of health. If our recovery and self-healing potentials are greater than the insults to our body, mind, and spirit, then we will retain a reasonably good level of health. If the insults (often self-inflicted) are greater than our self-healing ability, we will begin to experience acute and then chronic illness, which could eventually become degenerative beyond the point of repair. These conditions are then named as diseases (in modern holistic language “dis-ease” or the “absence of ease”) and become known as pathological conditions.
As parents, we do our best to maintain a good fetal environment for our child. Then, as the child grows from infancy to adulthood, we do our best to reduce toxins, provide good water, food, and so on. Sometimes we can reduce physical and emotional shocks. We encourage the growing child to avoid tobacco, alcohol, caffeine, sweets, and things that are known to be detrimental.

Caring for ourselves as parents, we can do periodic cleanses to remove accumulated toxins. We can use prayer and meditation to remove the emotional shocks affecting our mind and spirit. By finding the correct homeopathic medicine and Bach Flower Remedy, we can remove the bad effects of physical and emotional trauma. Foods, herbs, and natural methods are our best method of building the self-healing and recovery mechanisms that reside within us.

So, as we progress through our lives, things happen to us. Physical and emotional traumas happen that reduce our level of health. If we totally recover to our constitutional level of health, that is great. But often we do not totally recover to the same level we were before the event, and, gradually, as more events occur, we see continuing reduction in our over-all level of health.

In addition to this ongoing reduction in our level of health, we might also engage in activities and habits that become obstacles to our recovery. These are things we do physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually that keep us stuck in illness and disease. Natural health is about removing those obstacles to recovery so the body and mind can return to its previously healthy state, which it knows how to do very well. We just need to get out of the way.

Finally, we could get to a point where tissue damage begins to occur during an event. This physical damage is called pathology and it refers to diseases and diagnoses. Natural treatments can assist to some degree to reverse the damage or make it easier to live with these aches and pains. Our mission is to find the answer before the pathology occurs and to build or cleanse the body back to its naturally healthy state.

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