A Renaissance of Health
The major feature of the human body is that it adapts to almost every situation. This adaptation takes time and is not always pleasant; in fact, some of these adaptations are diagnosed as a disease and effort is made to stop the adaptation.
The major factors in life constantly being adapted to are: Environment, Inner Feeling, Activity, and Nutrition. When these factors of everyday living are somewhere near optimum the adaptation results in a desireable state of well-being. However, in the unconscious effort to achieve the common purpose in living, that of being non-disturbed, these factors of Environment, Inner Feeling, Activity, and Nutrition are usually far from optimum.
“The major feature of the human body is that it adapts to almost every situation. The adaptation takes time and is not always pleasant...”
For instance, in the effort to be distracted or entertained very loud sound is frequently kept going much of the time. Loud sound, while relatively non-stressful in short intervals, when kept up for longer periods of time is very stressful to the body, however. A person can be addicted to having loud sound much of the time. (Addiction the stressful stimulus that Life is making a semi-successful attempt to neutralize.) The addiction is to the feeling that is produced by Life in this effort. For instance, one consumes a certain drug. Life quickly creates an antidote to the drug. This required a larger dose of the drug to obtain the desired reaction. In the meantime the organism has become addicted to the antidote. Any effort to leave off the drug results in a powerful craving, which is very difficult to resist by a person trying to be non-disturbed.
This same activity occurs in a person that indulges in the frequent use of the same foods, drinks, emotions such as anger, guilt, fear, anxiety, worry, etc. Adaptation to any of these results in the many adaptations to the stress thus produced that are called symptoms of disease and when taken as a group are given a name or a diagnosis. Treatment is then instituted, usually in the form of stimulants or sedative, which also are adapted to by the living organism and many side effects arise, which is a sign that adaptation to the treatment is taking place by creating more signs or symptoms of non-well-being.
This creates a vicious cycle of degeneration of the organism that does not have to be.
Way back in the 19th century a famous physician gave a bit of valuable but mostly unheeded information. This was: “Always remove the interferences to cure before prescribing.” This of course required that the physician inquire into the patient’s lifestyle at great length. Such as environmental details, such as noise factors, congested areas, necessary travel, companions, moods, etc. This also required much inquiry and observation of the patient’s inner feeling, about the person’s activity or lack thereof, of nutritional habits, not only in calories and type of food but whether the same food, or nearly so, is consumed daily; what are the circumstances of taking nutrition, dining or taking food on the run, or in an unpleasant situation, etc., etc.
When one is ill the first thing necessary is to take an honest evaluation of the present lifestyle or situation. You cannot expect the doctor to — he or she is much too busy and besides, running all the tests and coming to a diagnosis is his task today, not find the obstruction to cure. So it is the individual’s responsibility to find and recognize the obstruction of well-being.
After this will come a change of lifestyle to take all factors of living into consideration, Environment, Inner Feeling, Activity, and Nutrition, and to change one’s lifestyle so that all are at least in the direction of optimum.
If the Environment is optimum, if the Inner Feeling is optimum, if the Activity is optimum, if Nutrition is optimum, then the State of Being is optimum. The obstruction to cure has been removed and cure has already taken place, or is well on its way.
Consider the lifestyle in detail. It’s very worthwhile as it is all that needs to be changed. This is a personal responsibility. The physician cannot, he is paid by an insurance carrier or other third party to make a physical examination, have the proper tests performed, make a diagnosis, and prescribe the accepted treatment for that diagnosis. He is not paid by the third party (the one that pays the fees) for investigating your lifestyle.
