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GOOD HEALTH

Most people are about as healthy as they want to be.

By and large, most of us start off life healthy; most, not all. What happens after that determines whether we will stay healthy or become dysfunctional.

The hand we're dealt doesn't count as much as how we play it.

The body is an ecosystem in which all parts are intimately connected.

What happens in one part may affect the functioning in another part. To illustrate this, we're familiar with the concept of psycho-somatic illness, where dysfunction somewhere in the mind leads to dysfunction elsewhere in the body - elevated blood pressure, itchiness, headaches, crook guts, ...

What is less well appreciated is that it works back the other way. Improving the health of other body systems will have an impact on the health of the mind.

A similar relationship exists between other body systems and the rest of the body. ie, dysfunction of the liver may affect other body systems. Dysfunction of the bowel may affect other body systems. Generally speaking, Chinese and other traditional medical practitioners have a better understanding of these inter-relationships than Western doctors, whose collective amnesia about these relationships has perverted the course of health as we know it.

FROM DISEASE TO DYSFUNCTION

Most of the things that happen to us are dysfunctions of particular body systems.

On his death bed Pasteur said, ‘Not the germ, the host’. Look after the host.

When things go wrong with your body there is a cause(s). Finding the cause(s) will then determine what you need to do to restore your body to good health.

Solve small problems before they become big problems.

It's a big ask expecting to stay healthy if you don't keep yourself fit.

It's a big ask expecting to get better by having someone do something to you. Sooner or later you have to do something to yourself.

STIMULATE RECUPERATIVE POWER

The body has wonderful innate recuperative powers. When we're not healthy our job is to stimulate those powers. Under optimal conditions the body can be restored to good health.

Choose to seek out treatment which heals the body and doesn’t just mask the symptoms.

THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE

You don't have to be a genius, rocket scientist or medical practitioner to work out what you need to do to stay fit and healthy.

Contrary to popular opinion, the general causes of poor health and fitness are most likely to be;

•   laziness

•   ignorance

•   stupidity

•   attachment

The specific causes

•   lack of physical fitness

•   poor diet

•   inability to successfully manage the stress of life and work.

Most people who are healthy exhibit a strong enough desire to be healthy. They have the discipline, determination or persistence to achieve it.

They choose to do the things that keep them fit and healthy.

THE LAW OF TOO MUCH AND TOO LITTLE

The law of too much and too little suggests that our bodies becomes dysfunctional due to

•   What you eat too much of

•   What you do too much of

•   What you eat too little of

•   What do you do too little of.

On top of that there is too much exposure to a toxic environment, the invasion of the body of parasites and pathogens, particularly viruses and fungi. Then there are foods to which we are intolerant and allergic.

A large proportion of people are suffering from malnutrition. What they eat fills up their stomachs but doesn't nourish th4e cells of their body.

It's a big ask expecting to stay healthy while stuffing yourself full of garbohydrates - eating a diet of highly refined cereals and sugar, and taking in large quantities of socially acceptable drugs.

IMMUNE SYSTEM

Most of the auto-immune dysfunctions are the result of weakened immune systems. Do what ever it takes to maintain the strength of your immune system.

MUSCULO-SKELETAL DYSFUNCTION

By and large most musculo-skeletal dysfunctions are caused by poor alignment of bones, which in turn comes from dysfunction of muscles. By getting stronger and more flexible and retraining the muscles to do the job they are designed to do there’s a good chance you’ll get your body back into alignment and pain will disappear.

OPEN THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION

The original meaning of the word 'doctor' was 'teacher'. Ask your doctor for advice and information on what you can do to yourself to improve your health. But don't limit yourself to advice from your doctor. They don't know everything. Seek out other people who might know something. Fit people are a good starting point. They usually know what to do to keep themselves in good shape.

Don't go to doctors for things doctors can't fix. Particularly don't go to doctors for things they usually treat the flourish of a pen and the prescription of a junk pharmaceutical. Go elsewhere.

Don’t waste your doctor’s and therapists’ time on trivial complaints that you can deal with yourself.

Go looking for good health advice, particularly about natural healing methods and what you need to do to restore your body to good health.

Read books and surf the internet for advice about what you can do to look after yourself. Never in the history of the world has so much advice been freely available to so many people.

Expecting your doctor to be the font of all wisdom about healing is to expect too much.

Open the doors of perception about what you can do to restore your body to good health and keep it that way. Open the door of perception to the treatments in a wide range of therapeutic modalities that you can avail yourself of.

Use a wide range of resources, go to a wide range of people. In particular find yourself a good

•   physical fitness advisor

•   a good nutrition advisor - I'd suggest a naturopath.

•   a good stress management advisor.

DON'T BE STINGY

Be prepared to pay you’re your healers the fair cost of their hiring. To do otherwise is to short change yourself.  If you want something good, for nothing, you'll get something good for nothing.

THE SEVEN HABITS OF FIT AND HEALTHY PEOPLE

1.   They keep themselves aerobically fit

2.   They keep themselves strong and flexible

3.   They keep themselves flexible.

4.   They eat from the top of the Hourglass

5.   They manage the stress of life

6.   They manage the stress of work.

7.   The meditate.

That's the serious stuff. As well as that they can relax, have a good laugh, make love; they're generous of spirit and time. They've got interests. They're great mates.

John Miller