Hello! Welcome to Health 101! Let's get right to the bottom line on what health really is. We know that health is (According to Webster): "physical and mental well-being, freedom from disease...normality of physical and mental functions, soundness...vitality."  Of course health is also "balance" and "fulfillment".  Health is all of these and more, but why do so few people enjoy the pleasures of optimum health?  Perhaps you've noticed that many, many opinions abound and confusion reigns.  That's the reality, but really that's quite odd and unnecessary!

Take home construction for example. No intelligent, sane person would dream of building a house without first having a good plan and the necessary knowledge.  The building of an excellent house requires, excellent plans, excellent building materials, excellent sources of energy, and excellent craftsmen.  If we apply this model to the building of an excellent body and excellent health, we can absolutely have what we desire.  I know this to be true because I have done it with myself and  helped many others to begin the process of achieving this goal of optimum health.  I was a "basket-case" and I now enjoy fantastic health and vitality.  In fact I'm getting younger as each month and year passes.  You can too!  If you really want to!  But that is the first "catch", the first "sticking point".  It's also the first question that I ask my clients. You might be amazed by the large portion of our population who do not really want to be well, let alone really healthy and vital.  This is true for at least two reasons: the first is "attention" and the other is lack of self-love.

Many people learn as little children that a stomach-ache or a some-other-ache will quickly bring them the "attention" they crave, and then substitute for real love.  Many people never grow up, and out of this self-defeating behavior.  Consequently, many people go through their entire lives settling for: some level of poor health, the "attention" (substitute for love), and never really being truly fulfilled and happy.  True love may never be fully defined in human language.  One definition that I value is by Scott Peck in The Road Less Traveled,  "the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth."  The same principle can be applied to one's total growth including the physical-biochemical.  It is this lack of  "will to extend one's self" that is critical.  We can call it apathy, laziness, stupidity, or whatever "label".  It makes no difference, the result of natural law is the same.  "Whatever a man sows that will also he reap." (The Bible)  It can also be said that if we do not sow, then we also do not reap.  It's "wake-up" time.  We must learn to love ourselves enough to do the right things.

Ah, but what are the right things?  That's where the opinions and confusion enter.  I tried a lot of things and spent painful amounts of money for twenty years before I understood how to take care of this body, and am still learning everyday.  I learned to question everything, believe nothing, try reasonable things, experience all things, and know some things.  It is only by tracking things down to their fundamental origins or causes that we can solve life's problems.  I learned not to treat the "symptoms", but to correct the "causes".  Even the "causes" must be examined for clues to even more basic and underlying "causes".  -  So much to say - so little space, today. -
The causes of all disease and ill health are many.  However, lack of love is probably foremost.  Second, anything that reduces our efficiency as an organic chemical factory results in degeneration and eventual symptoms.  During the lag time between the first reduction in efficiency and the manifestation of symptoms our bodies merely compensate, but do so, so magnificently that we fail to recognize the process.  Any lack of building materials, energy, or workers on this "construction site" will take its toll.  The precise process of obtaining and delivering the building materials, creating the energy, and supplying the workers is of utmost importance and the topic of future articles and seminars.  However, I can say that accomplishing that process so that we can build healthy cells that are efficient and not toxic is the foundation of optimum health.  Every cell in our bodies is programmed for perfect health.  Even genetic defects have causes and are preventable.  How much easier it is to pay the ounces of prevention than it is the pounds of cure.  With the right knowledge, materials and love, perfect health is a wonderful option for those who choose.  The status quo is that 85% of people dying in 1996 will die of an unnecessary, preventable degenerative disease.  What will your choice be?  How wonderful would you like to be?  Yeshua said, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."
More  next time.     Peace and Love,   Darrell