What Price Health?

and
What IS Health, Really?
--- the Low-Tech Concept ---
(part of the Truth about Natural Healing)

Let's face it--- We cannot BUY health anymore than we can buy "smarts". They're not COMMODITIES to BE bought and sold. They're QUALITIES to be CULTIVATED. And no one else --- no matter how "professional", persuasive, or psychologically intimidating --- can do that for you --- or even "sell" you a GENUINE shortcut. (There are many offered, but none that actually "deliver".) When we can fully accept this basic "fact of life" (not just intellectually, but deeply, emotionally) and determine to actually do something about it (in a calm, rational, informed manner) we will have taken a giant step toward taking possession and control of one of the most potentially rewarding aspects of our life.

The English words "health" and "whole" share a common root word that implies unbroken unity; not diminished in any way. To "heal", therefore, is to RESTORE that "unity" of undiminished health; the "wholeness" or fullness of the biological processes that constitute life.

It is similar to the repair and restoration of your home after serious damage; which COULD be from a storm or other disaster, but, in the case of our bodies, is more often like the gradual deterioration of a house or other building --- from (for example) water damage that goes unnoticed for years until much of the structure has rotted away or the foundation has settled unevenly and the building is literally "pulling apart at the seams". When suddenly one day we become aware of the damage and start realizing its extent, is our first thought to install new carpet, wallpaper or siding to cover it up? Of course not. We want the STRUCTURE to be sound --- not collapse with us in it!

In typical storm-damage, much of the underlying roof structure will most likely need replacing/rebuilding. But in normal home MAINTENANCE only the roof COVERING (the waterproofing) will need replacing. IF it has been done regularly, WHEN and HOW it NEEDS to be, the roof STRUCTURE will still be sound, not water-damaged, decayed/rotted, or falling apart.

Is a sick/damaged human body any different? Only in some ways. We can't do it's repair/rebuilding (healing) FOR IT (not even with surgery; it's basically a "patch" --- for true healing, the living organism must do its OWN repairing/rebuilding on the cellular level). Nor can we "force" it to heal with a drug; even though either intervention at a crucial moment COULD "save a life" ---or, more accurately, postpone death a bit longer. (Usually, by the time we reach that "crucial moment" our body has already been on a STEEP decline toward death for SOME TIME --- unless, of course, it's the result of a sudden, catastrophic accident --- the difference would normally be obvious.)

But, whether it's the "family home" or your very, very personal biological "home" (your body) you don't want the damage just covered up, do you? You want it cleaned up ---- and repaired/replaced/rebuilt. Those functions require "building materials" ---lumber, roofing, siding, bricks, etc. in the case of a house--- as well as "cleaning equipment and supplies". Medicine provides the biological equivalent of NEITHER. Essentially, in the long-range scheme of things, it's a blue poly tarp.

[ The most astute and caring medical professionals in "Western civilization" are indicating that, essentially, most of our illnesses are being treated roughly equivalent to fastening a temporary waterproof covering over a damaged roof and, as long as the rain doesn't drip inside the living areas of the house, we think no more about it. ---Of course, their warnings are being largely ignored, covered up, and even hidden (archived away from public view) because that is not what the majority really want to hear; so, of course, it is "not good for business".]

The purpose of THIS website is to share with you completely free educational information that will help YOU to CULTIVATE the priceless qualities of health and wellness DAILY (rather than trying unsuccessfully, after they're gone, to "purchase replacements") --- as a simple, uncomplicated, enjoyable way of life --- not "effortless" but neither difficult nor boring.

---AND to defend the reasonableness of taking charge of this aspect of one's life, rather than merely existing --- passively captivated by a broken system of commercially controlled food "science" (that is not really food) and health-care "science" that is largely only sickness-care. This is not some sinister "conspiracy" by any part of the system --- just business as usual --- you have to "sell what sells" to stay in business. And most of us in the "modern world" are too busy chasing our undefined (and probably undefinable) "dream of success" to realize there IS anything else besides what the system "hands" us --- which typically is what is most commercially profitable; not what is mentally, emotionally or biologically profitable or beneficial for us. No conspiracy there either; just more human-nature-as-we-know-it.

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In the free e-book "The Truth About Natural Healing" offered as a public service on this website --- (see right-hand column)---> you'll read about a sickly kid who, early on, recognized BEING one of those specimens that according to Darwin was not supposed to survive, (but now that is has, we have to figure out what to do with it, right?) and has learned to live actively and well for WAY over half a century with absolutely no medicine --- ever.

About a young lady who was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and told she would suffer with pain and fatigue for the rest of her life; but started reading the ingredient labels on every food she purchased; simply stopped eating things that could NOT be clearly identified "as having come from a plant or animal in nature"; and within just a few months all of her symptoms disappeared!

For most people who have not yet done completely irreversible damage to themselves, a healthy life can be just that simple --- not "effortless"; but not difficult --- even if we were not "geneticly" (according to Darwin) "supposed" to have one.

Find out here why and how this is so --- and enjoy the journey!

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