Wednesday, February 25, 2009

An Uplifting story- there are no incurable diseases

I love the Herbal Legacy newsletter I get every 2 weeks. This week had a very lengthy story about a boy who is healing with natural remedies- starting with Slippery Elm. This story is written by one of the students at the School of Natural Healing. Please, take a moment and read it.
Elijah's Story

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

There are no Incurable Diseases, only Incurable People

Dr. Christopher always said that there are no incurable diseases- there are only incurable people. I believe this whole-heartedly. I must say that when I first heard it, though, I was a little taken aback. We are brainwashed most of our lives that there are all these incurable diseases. If we are constantly funding research for the cure for a disease, it must be incurable right!? I have come to learn that Dr. Christopher was right though. There really is only one disease. That disease is constipation. Most people think that means constipation of the bowels, but it really means a blockage of some kind. Think about it. If you work on the problem- the constipation of the area, then the condition will clear. Sometimes this requires a lot of work and other times it requires less work. In the end, though, it always requires cleansing the body and healing the systems. It requires making changes to what we are doing- changing the what we did that caused the condition.

We live in a society that is rather fast paced and expects instant gratification. One reason the standard allopathic methods are so popular is because they generally give a big bang fast. However, this bang is either driving the condition deeper, creating side effects, or just covering the symptoms so the person doesn't realize that they are still suffering. Take, for example high blood pressure. There is an obvious constipation of the circulatory system. If we give the person high blood pressure medicine, it doesn't truly lower the blood pressure but instead blocks the signal the brain sends to up the blood pressure because parts of the body are not getting enough blood. As the brain's signal is not recognized, the brain sends a bigger signal and the high blood pressure returns. Ooops. Then the medicine is increased. Is it any wonder that the most common side effect of high blood pressure medicine is.... drum roll please.... high blood pressure! The cause was never addressed. Yes, we got an initial bang fast but did it last? Is the person any healthier? Did they learn to be responsible for their health or did the drug allow them to continue their life as it always was? In other words, allopathic medicine appears to be convenient. We don't have to make any changes, we just need to let someone else take care of our bodies and be responsible.

So back to incurable people. Sometimes a person has a condition which will require quite a bit of work. Generally the person didn't get to that degree of dis-ease overnight and the condition won't be fixed overnight either. It will require work. It will require lifestyles changes- diet changes, exercise, thought processes, etc. Many people are unwilling to change their lives. What they have been doing has been working, "just fine," so why change!? I have had so many people come to me and ask, I am on drug x and I would rather use something natural. What can I take instead? When I explain to them what will be required to fix their condition, which causes the daily dependence on the drugs they don't want, they would rather stick with the drug. The fact that eventually they will be drug free and healthy escapes them.
The saying, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink!" definitely holds true.

Here is to being curable people!