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Created on: November 20, 2008 Last Updated: January 21, 2009
The Cause of Illness
Humans are amazing self-replicating and self repairing machines. We have survived extreme earth changes, enemies from microscopic viruses to massive wild beasts far more suited to survival than we. To a great extent we owe our resilience to the ability to visualize alternate outcomes and to plan for our victory consciously and subconsciously. Every cell has a memory. When a bone is broken or flesh is torn our body knows on a subatomic level how to repair itself.
To be this successful in a world where we are constantly under attack there must be a system of balance in place at all times. When the body becomes imbalanced it is subject not only to illness caused by outside forces but in some cases the body attacks itself. The cause of imbalance or illness occurs when our immune system is low. What does this mean? What would cause our immune system to go off line? It is not a lack of food or that we are too cold or too hot. If it were that easy to take us out none of us would be here today.
There is something else responsible for the breakdown. It is the loss of focus on the bodies requirements and a lack of attention or what we might even call love. If we continually stress a particular organ, maintain a mentality that we must constantly fill an empty space with food or cigarettes or drink we are telling our body that it cannot work hard enough to keep us balanced. The body responds by counter reacting to the situation. When we eat something acidic it causes an alkaline reaction in the body. In the case of anorexia the treatment is not only a matter of getting the patient to eat more.
It is a mental illness, a hypnotic state of sorts where twisting their perceptions and causing them to deprive themselves of adequate amounts of nutrients from foods. The mind insists that the body is not good enough leading to rapid deterioration. We need love and attention to survive. In some cases people have gone months without eating and remained healthy through meditation and positive focus on the body. This has been well documented. Humans need very little food to survive. This concept is no longer considered the stuff that fairy tales are made of but provable through quantum physics. Our minds and our connection with the world around us, our acceptance and love for our selves and others, are very powerful and necessary tools for survival. This new way of thinking calls for openness to alternative methods of healing.
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