A few years ago, a
study was done at
Harvard. The
purpose of the study was to determine how much it would cost to create a
human from scratch, if we had the
technology.
They came up with a figure of $8 billion. Just imagine that. Every one of us is a
walking,
eating,
sleeping and
self-reproducing $8 billion
machine. The quetion is,
how would we take care of something that was worth $8 billion? It is actually not all that complicated. Once we understand how this machine
operates and what it's
design offers us.
Genetically, we have the potential to live to be 120 years. And not confined to a
wheelchair, or in a
hospital bed or tied to any kind of
life support system. These days, 96% of people die of
disease and 4% die of
old age. In reality, it should be the other way around; 4% dying of disease and 96% of old age. The cause of this reversal of pattern of
mortality and disease is the life style that we have only recently inherited in the history of humankind.
Industrial Revolution has become the most formidable adversary of
nature and human
life.
But, we can still live relatively
healthy lives with maximal
self-expression, if we adhere to fundamental
facts.
Firstly, the design of human life is such that if it is
embraced in proper
physical and
emotional nuturing
environments, it can only result in
optimal health and a high quality living state.
Secondly, if we
provide ourselves with proper
nutrition, high quality
rest and frequent
excercise and
play,
both physically and emotionally, then life will
sustain itself automatically, withstand high degree of stress and insult, and naturally heal itself.
There are basically two states of
imbalance;
1) Excess and
2) Deficiency of basic functions and/or
biological necessities. An imbalanced state of health consists of excess of certain things in certains
systems or
regions and deficiency of certain things in other areas and systems of a person. For example, excessive
consumption of
acidic food will result in
diarrhea and insufficient
fiber in diet leads to
constipation. Thus, the concept of
yin and
yang in
Chinese tradition of
healthcare or the concept of the bodily systems getting
cold or
hot in some
middle eastern,
Indian or other
far eastern traditions.
It is not difficult to stay well and
optimally healthy, once
balance is restored to the whole being of a person. It is always more difficult to let things go to the
extremes and then trying to get well.
Pain should not be the gauge for asessing health. Pain often occurs at later stages of a condition; pain is not a
sign of the beginning of a condition unless it is due to
trauma.
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